If you’re still on stock Android…
Google silently installs SafetyCore (on-device sensitive content scanning)
and it reinstalls itself every time you try to remove it.
The community’s solution is simple and effective:
a placeholder APK with an absurdly high version number (2,000,000,000).
Once installed, Google can no longer overwrite it.
1. Uninstall SafetyCore
2. Install the placeholder
3. Keep control of your device
GitHub: https://t.co/enSZbjA2Ho
Even blocking a Google component requires workarounds on stock Android.
Have you tried it? Does it hold up over time for you?
#Privacy #DeGoogle #Android #SafetyCore #DigitalSovereignty
Even though nobody guessed it, I'm sharing it anyway:
Sell one SPX put credit spread per week at the Multi-Day Saty ATR -1 level. That's the whole strategy.
326 backtested trades since May 2020
95.4% win rate
Profit factor 2.48
+$53,328 on a single contract
Max drawdown $4,605
Zero losing years, 2026 is 32 for 32
Everything below, free.
Some news. Today, for the first time in Opendoor's history, we bought back our own stock.
Our share count is down 5%. We paid for this buyback with money borrowed at a 0% coupon and we still have hundreds of millions of dollars left to grow faster.
There are plenty of helpful details, along with a lot of legalese, in our press release and 8-K (linked below). But there are a few things I want to say directly and in plain English.
First, I *despise* dilution. On my first earnings call at Opendoor, I told you that if we issue a share, it has only one job: to make every other share worth more for our existing shareholders, not to extend runway for management. The flip side is just as simple: when our own stock is one of the best uses of capital, we should buy it back. Today, we did just that - by 5%.
Second, I run a publicly traded company. I don’t get to have feelings about the macro or the way Wall Street works. My job is to understand the rules of the game and use them to find an edge and build a better company.
One of those realities is that our stock price has lots of volatility.
People disagree - A LOT - about what Opendoor could be worth one day. Some think we're worth less. Some think we're worth dramatically more. I obviously have a view…
That disagreement isn’t just noise - it has economic value that Wall Street monetizes every single day.
Most companies would treat this as a headache, but we see it as an asset. If people are going to speculate about our future, I'd rather our shareholders get paid than anyone else. So instead of complaining about volatility, we used those dynamics to borrow $650M at a 0% coupon.
Then we turned around and used part of those proceeds to buy back our own stock. At today's prices, buying back our stock and call options was one of the best trades on the board. The rest stays on our balance sheet so we can buy more homes and grow faster.
As for dilution, we bought our stock where we thought it was cheap and pushed any future dilution far above today’s price. Not one net new Opendoor share will exist below $10.38. And if we buy back stock in the future, that floor goes higher.
But why raise now? Because the best time to raise capital is when you don’t need it. We’ve proven the business can reach ANI profitability, but profitability is just the starting point, not the finish line. And waiting could make the shares we are buying back today more expensive, and homes we could be buying don’t get bought. I’d rather move now.
Some people will call what we did today aggressive. They’re right. But being aggressive is how we fixed a company that spent years being careful. I’d make that trade again.
To our shareholders: You trusted us with your capital. Today, for the first time, Opendoor used its own capital to buy more of itself. The company is putting its money where its mouth is. Tomorrow, I will too.
After our lawyers allow, I’m personally buying $100K worth of shares. I'm all in, and I plan to keep buying.
I gave ChatGPT Real-time Voice a face, a body, and a personality.
A 3D persona that talks to you and lives right on your desktop.
OpenAI, this is what Codex Pets could become.
A DANISH SCIENTIST GOT TIRED OF SENDING CVS SO HE PROGRAMMED CLAUDE TO JOB-HUNT FOR HIM
Mads Lorentzen, a PhD geophysicist, built an open-source framework on Claude Code that can run the entire job search from the CLI.
.. and it actually landed him the job!
Instead of just generating generic text, the pipeline does the heavy lifting:
→ Reads postings and scores how well you fit
→ Tailors a CV in LaTeX, keeping only relevant experience
→ Drafts a cover letter framed around the specific role
→ Runs a second AI agent to critique and revise the first draft
→ Compiles a clean, ready-to-send PDF
Free and open-source.
He released it under an MIT license, and it just passed 6,600 stars on GitHub.
Repo below ↓