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disegni picrossici con miku, fuori dal telefono escono sorprese (asset rip giochino Mikulogi)
Prima (cioè, l’altro ieri, ormai si sa come va la roba qui) ho voluto estrarre gli asset da un giochino che ho sul telefono (forse il più gustoso che ho lì, a dire il vero), Hatsune Miku Logic Paint… cioè la fusione delle mie due più grandi passioni — almeno, dopo il rotting, l’avere segreti, […]
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disegni picrossici con miku, fuori dal telefono escono sorprese (asset rip giochino Mikulogi)
Prima (cioè, l’altro ieri, ormai si sa come va la roba qui) ho voluto estrarre gli asset da un giochino che ho sul telefono (forse il più gustoso che ho lì, a dire il vero), Hatsune Miku Logic Paint… cioè la fusione delle mie due più grandi passioni — almeno, dopo il rotting, l’avere segreti, ed un’altra che non dirò. Difatti, il Picross con Miku è alquanto sfizioso, ma prenderne i file per altri usi lo è ancora di più, e nel farlo si scoprono svariate cose. 🤗Innanzitutto, il gioco è fatto in Unity; chi mai lo avrebbe potuto immaginare? È buono però, perché è bastato dare in pasto ad AssetRipper la cartella estratta dall’APK per ottenere tutti i bei PNG, la musica, e… tutte le griglie dei puzzle in formato TXT (con 0 per indicare caselle vuote, 1 quelle piene, e virgole per fare da padding), evviva!!! (Oltre ad altri metadati in CSV, come i nomi dei puzzle e stringhe varie.) Questi torneranno sicuramente utili per fare una cosa che per motivi octosi non voglio spoilerare (e che per motivi legali non potrei fare, ma dalle cose octose non deriva mai lucro, quindi me ne sbatto il mikuleek). 🤪
Poi, però, ho visto una cosa meno divertente… tutti, e dico tutti, gli asset grafici, proprio gli elementi UI, sono rovinati dalla compressione, almeno in qualche misura! Ci sono ovunque piccoli artefatti di compressione che, a dire il vero, giocando sul telefono non si notano, ma che sono così evidenti anche solo ficcando il naso tra i file, senza zommare chissà quanto per alcuni, che sono pronta a scommettere che giocando sul mio tablet da 10 pollici li vedrei. (Attenzione, sono pronta a scommettere ma non a provare, mi secco ampiamente.) La cosa bella è che sono tutti PNG, non JPEG o WEBP o VFFNCL, quindi… a meno che non sia AssetRipper ad averli forzati in PNG, chi ha lavorato al gioco non è proprio del mestiere. Persino in una manciata di file che nel nome hanno “Uncompressed” (come questo) trovo artefatti, anche se non di tipo JPEG classico. 😪
Insomma, lo hanno fatto un pochino sciatto questo coso… e a dire il vero forse torna tutto, vedendo le altre sviste di design che ci sono, come la musica che si ripete ad appena qualche secondo, cosa che da alquanto sui nervi, o che completando i picross si sbloccano delle immaginine dei vocaloid (con nessun tasto per condividere o boh, impostare come sfondo) anch’esse molto compresse (e per queste si, lo si nota anche dal telefono). Lato codice francamente penso sia ben fatto, perché bug non ne ho trovati e la UX è ben rifinita… anche se una svista pure lì c’è, e cioè che lo stato in corso di un livello non è salvato se non premendo indietro; in altre parole, se blocco lo schermo del telefono per qualche minuto, e quindi la MIUI di merda uccide la app, quando vado per continuare devo puntualmente ricominciare da capo, perché ho scordato di chiudere per bene. 😶Boh, veramente boh, però comunque è un giochino okei. Ha 25 puzzle 5×5, 25 10×10, 100 15×15, e 4 compositi di 25 puzzle 25×25, quindi per chi ha 2,79€ in punti premio Google da spendere (“oggi offre Alphabet“) consiglio di provarlo… altrimenti, per i pirati c’è l’APK… o, ancora altrimenti, per gli octosi c’è—NO SPOILER! (E per chi vuole semplicemente frugare tra gli asset, come si nota in foto li ho caricati su Pignio, su pignio.octt.eu.org/item/mikulo…… e si, dovrei sia aggiungere un tasto per scaricare un’intera cartella come ZIP, che in generale migliorare la vista delle cartelle supportando le sottocartelle, ma per ora godetevi il miscuglio disordinato e pace.) 👾
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Trump shooting and Biden exit flipped social media from hostility to solidarity: how political crises cause a shift in the force behind viral online content ‘from outgroup hate to ingroup love’.
The University of Cambridge’s Social Decision-Making Lab collected over 62,000 public posts from the Facebook accounts of hundreds of US politicians, commentators and media outlets before and after these events to see how they affected online behaviour.*“We wanted to understand the kinds of content that went viral among Republicans and Democrats during this period of high tension for both groups,” said Malia Marks, PhD candidate in Cambridge’s Department of Psychology and lead author of the study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
“Negative emotions such as anger and outrage along with hostility towards opposing political groups are usually rocket fuel for social media engagement. You might expect this to go into hyperdrive during times of crisis and external threat.”
“However, we found the opposite. It appears that political crises evoke not so much outgroup hate but rather ingroup love,” said Marks.
Just after the Trump assassination attempt, Republican-aligned posts signalling unity and shared identity received 53% more engagement than those that did not – an increase of 17 percentage points compared to just before the shooting.
These included posts such as evangelist Franklin Graham thanking God that Donald Trump is alive, and Fox News commentator Laura Ingraham posting: “Bleeding and unbowed, Trump faces relentless attacks yet stands strong for America. This is why his followers remain passionately loyal.”
At the same time, engagement levels for Republican posts attacking the Democrats saw a decrease of 23 percentage points from just a few days earlier.
After Biden suspended his re-election campaign, Democrat-aligned posts expressing solidarity received 91% more engagement than those that did not – a major increase of 71 percentage points over the period shortly before his withdrawal.
Posts included former US Secretary of Labor Robert Reich calling Biden “one of our most pro-worker presidents”, and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi posting that Biden’s “legacy of vision, values and leadership make him one of the most consequential Presidents in American history.”
Biden’s withdrawal saw the continuation of a gradual rise in engagement for Democrat posts attacking Republicans – although over the 25 July days covered by the analysis almost a quarter of all conservative posts displayed “outgroup hostility” compared to just 5% of liberal posts.
Trump shooting and Biden exit flipped social media from hostility to solidarity
Research reveals how political crises cause a shift in the force behind viral online content ‘from outgroup hate to ingroup love’.University of Cambridge
One long sentence is all it takes to make LLMs misbehave
Logit-Gap Steering: A New Frontier in Understanding and Probing LLM Safety
New research from Unit 42 on logit-gap steering reveals how internal alignment measures can be bypassed, making external AI security vital.Tony Li (Unit 42)
DM me on Spotify: Spotify launches a messaging feature.
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DM me on Spotify: Spotify launches a messaging feature.
Introducing Messages, A New Way To Share What You Love on Spotify with Friends and Family — Spotify
Recommendations have always been at the heart of the Spotify experience. Friends and family share their favorite music, podcasts, audiobooks, and more from Spotify millions of times each month.Lauren.Peterson@groupsjr.com (Spotify)
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which I hate.... especially the "shorts"....
tween daughter has adhd, easily falls into tiktok brainrot hellholes. Has trouble with self-regulation and self-control.... I still want her to have music to listen to and do things (some lofi to study/chill to, etc)... but now, Spotify is yet another vector for distraction that consumes her.
People be like "parent's should take responsibility for their kids"... I'm like "mf, I'm trying, but every app in the world is trying to be social media" And the parental controls they offer are shiiiiiiiit. Because it's not in a companies best interest to provide parents with tools to limit features.
Such as?
I’ll start:
Tidal, SoundCloud, Deezer (has ties to Russian oligarchs so gotta be careful)
Bring back the ruthless top 8 friends.
I just had my 8 variations of parodied Jesus.
...the websites that host stuff and do it free and efficiently.
It's never free. The instance you're using isn't free; it's paid for by donations. ISPs and server hosts don't just give bandwidth out of charity or for the public good. One way or another, these for-profit companies are getting their pound of flesh, typically by selling targeted ad space.
The fact that these companies are adding chat features means they're now going to try mining conversations for additional consumer profile data points, which they can then sell to advertisers.
This new change is gross, and I hope nobody uses it.
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Which they can sell to ~~advertisers~~ LLM and AI companies.
It's not talked about too much, because it is not in the best interest of the stockholders. But AI as it was popularized by openAI and both images and text generators already reached a boundary of data availability. There's no more human made data. They are now resorting to synthetic data, which is to make one first generation LLM model create tons of data to train newer or more tailored weighs models. With the issue that this new models develop problems from inbreeding of the data. Training models on other genAI products poisons the models and corrupts their generative power in just a few generations. This is why genAI images are increasingly turning yellow, the same reason newer models are more fragile and hallucinate or go psychotic more easily than old models. So, the AI companies need new sources of human made data to mix in with the synthetic data.
The main problem is that we ran out, there's no more data made by humans to train AI with. Humans don't create new data fast enough to train all the new models with the new doodads and features the AI companies want to sell. So now these companies will pay anything just to get their hands on new fresh stuff. These is why any app in the planet will now pivot to do anything they can to get chats going. It's a new source of data to sell to data brokers.
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what alternative did you end up going with?
I had a script to convert my main Spotify playlist (5000+ songs) to download from soulseek but...yeah that would take a VERY long time and I really didn't feel like being a soulseek asshole going that route.
If there was something out there where I can take my spotify playlist and just convert it and use it on another/better platform I'd switch right now.
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I switched to Qobuz. They use soundiiz.com/ to migrate, I think it was free transfering to them?
I think it reported a 90% success rate + a few that it picked, but got wrong. It mostly failed on my instrumental stuff, standard stuff was fine.
Soundiiz - Transfer playlists and favorites between streaming services
Convert playlists and favorites between different music platforms. Import your playlists and favorites from Apple Music to Spotify, TIDAL, YouTube Music, Deezer and many more!Soundiiz
I've been a happy Tidal user for years fwiw. The app is great as is music availability and discovery. I went back to Spotify for a while because I was missing its discovery features like discover weekly, but Tidal has greatly improved since then, and now features a daily discovery playlist (10 tracks, which I greatly prefer to Spotify's weekly 30), plus 8 custom mixes based on genres you listen to. Track radio is also solid.
Also, it's maybe the only subscription service that instead of creating new tiers, merged the two it had before into one, keeping the upper tier's features at the lower one's cost
The last loop I'm trying to close is notifications for new releases from artists I subscribe to.
I found this, but it has no documentation so I haven't tried it yet: github.com/provokateurin/music…
Edit: Nevermind, I somehow missed the Explore page in ListenBrainz that does this automatically (and has its own RSS feed).
Apple music. High bitrate and aptx on android. And they pay artists more than Spotify. I moved over a while ago but I used some website to transfer over all my music.
Edit: looks like apple music might have the ability to transfer your music built into it now?macrumors.com/2025/08/26/apple…
Apple Music Transfer Tool for Switching From Spotify Now Available in US and 8 Other Countries
Apple has quietly expanded availability of its music transfer tool to seven additional countries, allowing users to import playlists and libraries...Tim Hardwick (MacRumors.com)
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Zawinski's law: Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot expand are replaced by ones which can.
This is just the modern equivalent: Intra-site messaging.
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No.
On another note: Apple Music migration tool will finally help Spotify users switch
Not saying it’s the best alternative, but at least there’s one escape route being built.
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That's absolutely insane that there's 3B+ people on Facebook. I honestly don't believe that number is accurate at all.
Am I underestimating how many people have phones/internet access at this point?
Everyone. Damn near everyone has a phone at this point, Facebook even handed them out to keep the user numbers growing at one point
People who live in dirt floor huts walk to churches or other gathering places to charge them. The cheapest smart phones are essentially worthless, so there's no point stealing or selling them.
And cell service isn't all that expensive to run, so it's priced to what people will pay
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All I wanted was cd quality audio (which I’m willing to pay for)…
You know you’ve screwed up when the lazy people (me) actually get off their butts to switch.
I've been telling people for years to buy 1-2 albums a month, and then after a couple years you have a sizable library. Spotify is renting.
But spotify is easy and fast, and some people think they listen to way more music than they do. I wonder how many people are paying spotify $10/month to listen to the same 4 albums for years.
There’s something to be said for curated “auto” playlists, both for background and discovering stuff.
That being said, Pandora is waaaay better at this. So are free broadcasts/channels like Radio Paradise.
I don't trust spotify not to fill those playlists with AI slop, now. I also personally prefer to go deeper on a band, rather than thoughtlessly drift through a bunch of stuff I'll never hear again.
I do like bandcamp's "people who bought this also bought this" recommendations, though.
But spotify is easy and fast,
So you mean it's convenient. That's a valid reason. Evil shit aside, that's literally why music streaming exploded the way it did.
Unfortunately, the evil shit is pushing me away. Why can't we just have a regular music streaming service that doesn't inevitably suffer from feature creep and enshittification? Why does everything have to constantly increase profits?
Why does everything have to constantly increase profits?
I think that's the nature of publicly traded for profit companies. The shareholders don't care about the product. They just want their portfolio's value to go up.
The leadership doesn't care much about the product. Not in the long term. They get paid a big salary, and the higher-ups have equity they want to go up in value. So long as they cash out before the product dies, they're golden.
The actual labor building the product might care. Some are just working for a paycheck. (I knew a guy who worked at spotify, actually. He didn't personally care much about music. He was just a database guy). But the ones who do care don't have any power.
So most of the forces that would push the company towards being long term good don't have power. The forces that want more profits, now, do.
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There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.
At least tidal pays the artists more
There was a short time period, during which Spotify would automatically start playing reel-like demos of song releases with audio, when you open the app.
Imagine following artists with explicit lyrics, and it starts blasting in the public, because you just wanted to show an album to your friends. Maybe I am wrong, but I think it also included artists that are popular in your area, which makes even worse, as a lot of people here listen drill music.
Luckily, they reverted the stupid change.
When you see things like this remember that you're paying for this. Stuff like this is why the price has gone up again.
They had a good thing near perfect but they kept adding useless features and bloating the app and price. I need to cancel this shit but my grandma loves it.
Once they brought on Podcasts and wouldn’t stop shoving Joe Rogan on every screen I absolutely cancelled. I never listened to a single podcast on there yet they were the overwhelming majority of my recommendations. I was also getting annoyed with the random pop-ups of ‘hey wanna try this band that sounds absolutely nothing like anything you’ve ever listened to on our platform before?’…nope! Didn’t need Audible either. The price just kept going up…like guys, I want a music app. That’s it. Nothing else.
Uninstalled Spotify over a year(or 2 or 3?) ago…don’t really miss it.
My post was not supposed to be that TikTok specifically is bad.
my point was every platform (that uses attention as money generator) would eventually be some kind of short videos which emulates pov of user (vertical interface instead of TV horizontal interface) that encourage "engagements"
Apple vs. Facebook is Kayfabe
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Apple vs. Facebook is Kayfabe
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:::Apple vs. Facebook is Kayfabe
Apple vs. Facebook is, and always was, kayfabe. In reality, Apple is Facebook's chauffeur; holding Zuck's coat while Facebook wantonly surveils iPhones owners. How can we be sure? Because Apple continues to allow wide-scale abuse of In-App Browsers.Alex Russell
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someone asked me how it's going...
LINDA MCMAHON IS THE SECRETARY OF EDUCATION.
NOT FUCKING GOING WELL.
Google is ending sideloading on Android
Fuck this shit, Fuck Big Tech and fuck the rich.
The global elite have finally gone fully mask off.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1mzw7sc/google_wants_to_make_sideloading_android_apps/
The PR Machine Powering Big Tech’s AI Energy Story
The PR Machine Powering Big Tech’s AI Energy Story
Google doesn't want you to think AI uses up much energyWilliam Fitzgerald (Hard Reset)
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The PR Machine Powering Big Tech’s AI Energy Story
Google doesn't want you to think AI uses up much energyWilliam Fitzgerald (Hard Reset)
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“Google says it has calculated the energy required for its Gemini AI service: Sending a single text prompt consumes as much energy as watching television for nine seconds.”
That's pretty staggering when you consider that it's no longer possible to do a Google search without generating an AI summary. Google processes something like 8 billion searches per day, so if each one of those triggers a prompt equivalent to watching 9 seconds of television, every day the total power cost is equivalent to about 2200 years of TV watching. Per day. And that's just search, for just one tech company.
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The PR Machine Powering Big Tech’s AI Energy Story
The PR Machine Powering Big Tech’s AI Energy Story
Google doesn't want you to think AI uses up much energyWilliam Fitzgerald (Hard Reset)
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The PR Machine Powering Big Tech’s AI Energy Story
Google doesn't want you to think AI uses up much energyWilliam Fitzgerald (Hard Reset)
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80% chance AI bot.
Kick faces possible $49 M fine after French streamer Jean Pormanove dies on air
Kick faces possible $49M fine after French streamer Jean Pormanove dies on air
Kick could be hit with a $49M penalty after the death of French streamer Jean Pormanove, who died following “ten days and nights of torture.”Michael Gwilliam (Dexerto)
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A fine isnt enough. This platform needs to be permanently shutdown.
This place is breeding grounds for morons, bigots, predators, and other social rejects, and it lets all of them continue thriving. By no comprehensible measure should that be normal, but somehow it is.
But I don't understand why don't they go after the abusers, instead of imposing a fine to the platform. This looks like a criminal case, it's not just a matter that should be left in the hands of the platform to begin with.. so why focus on blaming the platform?
Someone got bullied so hard they died, and the response is to simply ban them and then punish the platform? It sounds like an approach designed by lawyers who just want to make money, instead of actually an attempt to fix/correct the problem.
It's like blaming the email provider for allowing the exchange of messages and video files in a mailing group that was organizing crime.. instead of actually investigating the people who committed the crime and enacting laws / setting precedent that could act as deterrent, independently of which channel was used while committing the crime. Then punish the platform if they are not collaborating or if they are found to be complicit (while investigating the criminals).
Kick faces possible $49 M fine after French streamer Jean Pormanove dies on air
Kick faces possible $49M fine after French streamer Jean Pormanove dies on air
Kick could be hit with a $49M penalty after the death of French streamer Jean Pormanove, who died following “ten days and nights of torture.”Michael Gwilliam (Dexerto)
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They kinda did. The dudes were taken in as part of an ongoing investigation but were then released. I can see why it’s fared for the cops when even the victims are saying it’s by their own choice. But it’s no excuse for kick.
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The investigation, opened in December, is looking into “deliberate violence against vulnerable persons” and “spreading recordings of images related to offences involving deliberate violations of physical integrity,” Martinelli’s statement said. It did not specify why Pormanove could be considered vulnerable.The statement said two co-streamers allegedly involved in the case were briefly taken into custody in January but were released pending further investigation.
In parallel, the Nice prosecutor said, investigators interviewed Pormanove and one of his co-streamers who both appeared to be victims of violence and humiliation. They “strongly denied being victims of violence, stating that the events were staged in order to `generate a buzz’ and make money.”
French streamer’s on-air death provokes outcry as authorities probe allegations of abuse
The death of a French streamer during an extended broadcast prompted soul-searching and controversy, as a government minister said he had been “humiliated and mistreated for months” on air and a judicial investigation delves into alleged abuse.The Associated Press (CTVNews)
execution of the law is always more complicated than we want it to be. They could have been let off as the investigation continued if the victim told the cops "i did everything with full consent and it was all an act for the entertainment of the stream.". Cops/W/e the french version of DA is would possibly need to continue the investigation to show that either he was unable to consent to the actions or it was a lie that there was consent.
I'm just a layperson and maybe it was more cut and dry and the cops really dropped the ball. It just doesn't seem so cut and dry legally to me. Will be interesting to see the outcome of the investigation from this.
- Algorithm shows a preview of a chaotic scene where the content isn't easily identified.
- You open / interact / linger on it to figure out what is happening before identifying it as something you don't want to look at.
- Algorithm detects increased interaction and happily serves up more.
I play a little game with Instagram sometimes. I click on one (1) thirst trap bikini girl post in the search reel. Then I see how many times I have to press the little 3 dot menu and pick "not interested" on allllll the other thirst trap bikini girl posts that immediately appear.
I generally have to press "not interested" about 15 times before my feed reverts to only having bikini girl thirst traps once every 20 or so posts.
Facebook goes wild if you don't really interact with it other than to browse.
Pause for a microsecond over something, welp I guess that's your hobby now. For some reason mine always shows me chess. I have never played chess. Hate it. A family member on my Facebook friends list likes chess. FB just goes "chess? how about chess?" like it's got nothing else to really offer other than flag waving racism.
It’s similar to fear factor—you can authorize quite a lot of things in a contract.
The medical examiner has said that they don’t think his death was caused directly by the treatment during the stream.
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“Salut maman, Comment tu vas ? Coincé pour un moment avec son jeu de mort, avait-il déclaré. Ça va trop loin. J’ai l’impression d’être séquestré avec leur concept de merde. J’en ai marre, je veux me barrer, l’autre il veut pas, il me séquestre”. (“Hey Mom, how are you? Stuck for a while with his death game,” he said. “This is going too far. I feel like I’m being held captive with their shitty concept. I’m fed up, I want to get out, the other guy doesn’t want me, he’s holding me captive.”)
"J’en ai marre je veux me barrer, il me séquestre" : les derniers mots glaçants de Jean Pormanove avant sa mort - Closer
Lundi 18 août 2025, le streamer Jean Pormanove est mort à 46 ans alors qu’il était en live sur une plateforme de streaming. Avant sa mort, il avait envoyé un message glaçant à sa mère.GR (Closer)
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He actively wanted out as seen by the desperate text sent to his mother saying how he "felt like a hostage" that was read aloud by one of his abusers on stream, but due to coersion both financially and socially. In one of the streams his abusers openly brag about how if he doesnt participate in their "game" they'll take the keys for his car and his apartment until he does.
There's generally a lot of factors that add up to staying in an abusive situation. From his point of view its likely that there didn't seem much of an option for him outside of this.
Can somebody explain to me why, emotions aside, the French guy is not responsible for his own choices? Unless it comes to light that he was coerced into staying on the show, why are other parties being held responsible instead of himself?
I'm not looking to be controversial, I'm honestly curious if there's some rational logic to it that I can understand, or this is all emotional.
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Because they profited from his torture and subsequent death?
To your point though, they aren't responsible in the moral sense that you're implying. However, they committed a crime when they platformed, promoted and profited from it.
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some stuff against said terms
Like mastercard and their ban of all purchases of items that could reflect negatively on their brand. Like porn.
I’d argue the main difference is that it involves a crime.
I’m not completely sure that torture itself constitutes a crime (though I’d be surprised if it wasn’t), but manslaughter/murder is. With few exceptions for medically assisted death, killing someone is a major crime. Presumably, we don’t want to promote people profiting from extreme suffering and death.
I also think there is a time and place for censorship (ex CSAM).
“Objectionable” is a subjective term, but “illegal“ is not.
There's 2 different parties under discussion here, the other streamers and the platform.
Regarding the streamers, I agree there might be room for a manslaughter charge. IANAL, much less in French law. Personally though, I don't see how it differs substantially from any other high risk group activity. If you're free-climbing (or maybe some other activity that involves more chance and less skill), and you're doing it voluntarily, knowing the risks, is it really fair to blame the survivors if somebody dies?
Regarding the platform, up until the point where a death actually occurred, what could they have reasonably done that would not have constituted some form of censorship? At that point, aren't we back to the censorship discussion of how much power platforms should have over the content we have access to?
I can kind of see what you are trying to say, but I don’t really agree with your conclusion.
I’d make the distinction that free climbing, while dangerous, is a recreational activity. I can reasonably conceive of people watching that for entertainment. There also isn’t anything morally questionable about it.
On the face of it, I don’t think you could reasonably argue that torture is a pastime.
All of that aside, torture is against international law. It is illegal in all circumstances.
From the United Nation Convention Against Torture:
“No exceptional circumstances whatsoever may be invoked as a justification for torture.”
For that reason, I would say the platform did have an obligation to de-platform it.
Arguably, the police should probably have put a stop to it as well.
They aren't deciding, they're being held to laws that they didn't create nor necessarily agree with.
I'd assume that, given the option, they'd like this kind of thing to be legal so they can continue making money from it legitimately
What? I think you've misread something.
The argument against them, as I understand it, is that they should not have allowed the streaming to happen. As this was pre-death, that would have required them to make a decision about what content they allowed that most people would consider censorship.
Yes, that is the law. You are required not to broadcast death and to create circumstances in which the likelihood of this is minimised.
That's not calling for censorship because it doesn't preclude a level of consensual harm that doesn't lead to high risk of death.
As I said earlier, your point stands: it is not for these platforms to act as moral compasses for viewers of consensual but provocative content.
However, that's irrelevant to the law which wants to avoid incentivising people dying / being killed on broadcast streams for a profit.
I think this is ratified by the fact that there will be less of a burden of blame on the service provider if this proves not to be the case
In those cases broadcasters take one of two roads:
- Don't broadcast it - many extreme sports are simply not broadcast by many, many broadcasters.
- Properly mitigate the risk to an acceptable level - this is done frequently for sports and other media. This is the reason you can watch Jackass and Dirty Sanchez even though the risk of death for many stunts is non-zero.
Once the death occurs though, they can only rely on their demonstration of #2 here to offset legal culpability. They are also then generally bound to remove the material and not re-air (in this case, Kick did make the content available again for whatever reason)
It seems like this is the road the defense will take in this particular case is to prove the death (illegal to air if preventable) was not caused by the preceding consensual torture (legal to air, seemingly).
Okay, you asked why others are held responsible and not the dead guy and what is the logic behind it.
I don't get what's not to get about that.
The platform didn't put a stop to torture on their platform. They are responsible for that.
The others streamers tortured a guy to death. They are responsible for that.
What exactly do you think the the dead guy is responsible for?
I don't get what's not to get about that.
No need to be a condescending jerk.
The platform didn't put a stop to torture on their platform. They are responsible for that.
Why are they responsible for a grown adult making his own choices? What about an audience who directly funded the activity? Are they not even more directly responsible for the event that occurred?
The others streamers tortured a guy to death. They are responsible for that.
Yes, there's probably some question about whether manslaughter laws might apply.
Given it was a voluntary participation, how is this different from any other activity that involves potential self-harm? If a bunch of people freeclimb a deadly mountain with a 20% chance of death and stream it, and one of them dies, is that illegal? Assuming not, what's the difference here?
What exactly do you think the the dead guy is responsible for?
His choice to participate in an activity that killed him.
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No need to be a condescending jerk.
I was serious. Sorry, didn't meant to come of this way.
Why are they responsible for a grown adult making his own choices? What about an audience who directly funded the activity? Are they not even more directly responsible for the event that occurred?
They aren't but they are responsible in the sense that they shouldn't give that shit a platform.
Yes the audience is responsible too.
Given it was a voluntary participation, how is this different from any other activity that involves potential self-harm? If a bunch of people freeclimb a deadly mountain with a 20% chance of death and stream it, and one of them dies, is that illegal? Assuming not, what's the difference here?
The question falls apart with the word self-harm. Other people did that to him.
And freeclimb metaphor doesn't work as well as harm is not the goal of free climbing. The goal is to reach the top. Dying is a risk you take. Besides if you would stream free climbing and egg the other person on to do stupid shit or make it more difficult to climb for the other person, and that person dies because of that, you would be partly responsible for that death.
His choice to participate in an activity that killed him.
Yes he is responsible for that.
But I think this is not a this-one-person-is-responsible-situation. Everybody in the chain of events that lead to this mans death is responsible in some way. Everybody who knew and did nothing.
There is a gradient of responsibility, of course. The person just watching isn't as responsible as the person who is acting, but everybody is guilty to some degree. And to that degree people should be punished.
They aren't but they are responsible in the sense that they shouldn't give that shit a platform.
This statement could be used about literally any topic that certain groups of people find objectionable. The US is currently providing a very clear example of what happens when you use that argument.
Other people did that to him.
Seeing as he was an active participant in it, this is the core of my questioning. Why is it considered 'something others did to him', and not 'something he did to himself'? He could have left at any time, but he chose to stay and remain in the activity.
freeclimb metaphor doesn't work as well as harm is not the goal of free climbing. The goal is to reach the top. Dying is a risk you take.
Harm was not the direct goal of this stream either. The goal was to see how long they could stay awake. Heck, take boxing. Boxers still die every year, and that's a much more obvious example of harm being the direct goal of the activity. Nobody is seriously suggesting that boxing should be criminalised, or that participants should be prosecuted.
But I think this is not a this-one-person-is-responsible-situation. Everybody in the chain of events that lead to this mans death is responsible in some way. Everybody who knew and did nothing.There is a gradient of responsibility, of course. The person just watching isn't as responsible as the person who is acting, but everybody is guilty to some degree. And to that degree people should be punished.
I agree that everybody involved is in some way indirectly responsible. However I'm unclear that it's actually illegal. Morally reprehensible, but morality is a very subjective opinion and one I'm very hesitant to let platforms start deciding on my behalf.
This statement could be used about literally any topic that certain groups of people find objectionable. The US is currently providing a very clear example of what happens when you use that argument.
Maybe but in what way my statement could be used has nothing todo with the conversation we are having.
I used it specifically in the context of torture.
Seeing as he was an active participant in it, this is the core of my questioning. Why is it considered 'something others did to him', and not 'something he did to himself'? He could have left at any time, but he chose to stay and remain in the activity.
Quoting the article:
On August 18, 46-year-old Raphaël Graven, better known as Jean Pormanove, died in his sleep while live on Kick. In the days and even months prior, he had reportedly endured extreme violence, sleep deprivation, and forced ingestion of toxic products at the hands of two fellow streamers known as Naruto and Safine.
Because letting someone do something to you is still another person doing something to you.
As long as we don't know why he stayed we can't be sure if it was because of trauma or greed.
Harm was not the direct goal of this stream either. The goal was to see how long they could stay awake. Heck, take boxing. Boxers still die every year, and that's a much more obvious example of harm being the direct goal of the activity. Nobody is seriously suggesting that boxing should be criminalised, or that participants should be prosecuted.
That's the stated goal but from context/article it is reasonable to assume that fucking with the guy was a goal too.
Well I don't think saying because one fucked up thing exists that makes it okay that we tolerate other fucked up things is a good point. There is certainly a discussion to be had about the morality of boxing. In my opinion at least.
I agree that everybody involved is in some way indirectly responsible. However I'm unclear that it's actually illegal. Morally reprehensible, but morality is a very subjective opinion and one I'm very hesitant to let platforms start deciding on my behalf.
Well I think there are some things we can all agree on are not okay. Torture for example.
Maybe but in what way my statement could be used has nothing todo with the conversation we are having.I used it specifically in the context of torture.
Yes, but was it illegal? The point being that our opinions of morality don't, and shouldn't, matter. The only thing that should matter is whether it breaks the law, and any ramifications of that.
Because letting someone do something to you is still another person doing something to you.
Consent is a thing. If you agree to something, and physical harm happens as a reasonably unexpected outcome, the other party is usually not held responsible.
That said, depending on circumstance I can see the other streamers having some responsibility for his death.
What I don't see is how the platform is reasonably expected to make judgement calls about this sort of content without descending into censorship. Prior to death, none of what had been done was illegal. Expecting them to cut off the stream would have been no different from other corps removing material they find morally objectionable.
There is certainly a discussion to be had about the morality of boxing. In my opinion at least.Well I think there are some things we can all agree on are not okay. Torture for example.
I agree with you about the morality. That's not the point. Censorship is a major problem in the world today, and encouraging more of it is something we need to be wary of. Self-censorship is especially insidious, and expecting companies to self-censor leads to all sort of undesirable outcomes. That's why we have laws, so that it's (mostly) clear and unambiguous where the line is.
In the EU platforms can be found guilty for what they publish though. It is the platform's responsibility and duty to check whether their content is violating the law or not.
If a German newspaper were to publish an ad advocating for the murder of an ethnic group, both the creator of the ad and the newspaper would face charges.
I can't say much more about the rest but there are certainly legal standards for boxing that need to be abided for a boxing event to be legal. This includes having medical staff on site, a referee which manages the match, gloves being mandated for the boxers etc. If these standards aren't held, you can charge a boxer for participating in an illegal fight and manslaughter should the other boxer die.
there are certainly legal standards for boxing that need to be abided for a boxing event to be legal. This includes having medical staff on site, a referee which manages the match, gloves being mandated for the boxers etc. If these standards aren't held, you can charge a boxer for participating in an illegal fight and manslaughter should the other boxer die.
Fair point. Given how quickly these trends can pop out of nowhere, countries probably need to start creating laws covering general physical stupidity.
Because they by running a business are responsible to ensure that they don't promote or willfully ignore harm brought about wholly or in part by their actions or negligence.
For actually moral folks the minimum the law requires is a starting point not the last word.
Eg moral folks ask is there anything I am doing that causes harm or anything I'm not doing that I reasonably ought to do to prevent it.
Smart people too as many governments take a dim view of dodging responsibly and will invent new laws to regulate you.
For actually moral folks the minimum the law requires is a starting point not the last word.Eg moral folks ask is there anything I am doing that causes harm or anything I'm not doing that I reasonably ought to do to prevent it.
So... Like the payment processors banning all immoral transactions from their network? Is that what we're supporting?
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It's a difficult situation to explain, and it will be even harder to judge.
What seems to be true is that they had a hold on him. They seemed to abuse his mental weaknesses, and regularly made themselves look like benefactor for "saving him from himself" and making him earn a lot of money.
Sure he could have technically walked out any day, but when you're under the influence of manipulative "friends", I'm not sure it's that easy.
Bear in mind that I'm not stating 100% proven facts.
Yeah, depending on circumstance I can definitely see a case being made for the streamers having some responsibility.
I don't see how the platform should be responsible without opening up a can of worms involving censorship. Mastercard has proven we do not want fucking corps having that power.
It depends. Do you consider Twitch's moderation to be to extreme? They definitely wouldn't have let this slide. I'm pretty sure they used to stream on twitch and got banned there.
Kick is currently very lax when it comes to moderation (it's their niche, their way of existing even with Twitch's dominance), and I don't think banning channels promoting group punching a dude would be a bad thing to censor.
Idk, I don't watch videos so I'm unfamiliar with it.
don't think banning channels promoting group punching a dude would be a bad thing to censor.
I don't think so either, but experience has taught me not to give companies any more power than necessary. If it needs to be done, pass a law for it.
Whenever you do something that results in the death of another human there needs to be an investigation. From what I can tell no culpability has been found yet, but there is at least some evidence that this person was being held against their will.
However, lots of European countries treat violence like the US treats porn so this could easily be something similar to the pearl clutching that would happen here if somebody was asphyxiated during a BDSM livestream.
From libé article:
Raphaël Graven, 46, known under the pseudonym Jean Pormanove, died near Nice during a live broadcast on August 18 on the Australian video platform Kick after more than 12 days of live streaming showing him and another man being assaulted and humiliated by two people. Followed by nearly 200,000 viewers, the “Jeanpormanove” channel had for months shown Raphaël Graven being insulted, beaten, having his hair pulled, threatened, and even being shot at without protection with paintball projectiles. According to the channel’s promoters, the content was staged.Deputy Minister for Digital Affairs Clara Chappaz on Tuesday announced her intention to sue the Kick platform for “breach.” She made the announcement after a meeting convened at Bercy with officials from several ministries (Justice, Interior, Economy) and two independent authorities, accusing Kick of violating the 2004 Digital Trust law.
I feel completely out of the loop when stuff like this happens.
I went looking around and found an article that expanded a lot on this topic, maxread.substack.com/p/who-kil…
Story of my life. Major story drops, article provides little to no context, and everyone in the comments already seems to know what's going on.
This happens constantly in my life, both online and offline; why does it seem like I'm always being left out? I've missed out on so many parties and events because of this issue.
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Now I feel a little better Eustace he scared me as a kid
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What changed between the 'months of torture' and Naruto and Safine being arrested, and the '10 days ' leading up to his death?
It sounds sick that the French government would decide a man is being tortured yet they're not obligated to intervene... while at the same time they fine a company for not stepping in.
If this man was negligently killed, authorities and kick are to blame, but it's the authorities that should've been the failsafe, not the company. I guess it makes sense that French politicians are Very Mad™ and Seriously Considering Bigger Punishments™.
Exactly. Law enforcement investigated and found no wrongdoing. They’re the ones who dropped the ball here. Was there something else Kick was legally obligated to do? I agree that there was a moral fuck up here resulting in somebody dying. But torture between competent consenting adults is legal. Just like we’re saying BDSM is okay
Also someone else mentioned the TV show Jackass and I just wanna know how some are drawing the line here. So are some of the dangerous stunts on Jackass ok or not? Why?
Boxing ,MMA.etc ?
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Two Japanese boxers die from brain injuries suffered on same fight card - ESPN
Japanese boxers Shigetoshi Kotari and Hiromasa Urakawa have died following brain injuries sustained while competing on the same card, although in different fights, at Korakuen Hall in Tokyo on Aug. 2.Andreas Hale (ESPN)
Can someone point out the part where this wasn't voluntary or the guy was held captive & not free to leave or end the voluntary abuse at any time?
It looks like idiots kink-playing too hard with extra fines to some platform while the morons try to escape accountability.
Viral compilation threads have shown Pormanove being hit, strangled, and fired at with paintball guns while streaming with Naruto and Safine, whose lawyers claim they hold “no responsibility.”
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Violence is fine. What's not fine is the permanent disfigurement or death of participants and the lack of preventative controls against that.
In a cage match, a participant would never be ignored long enough to stop breathing, like they did here.
This comment might provide some insights:
lemmy.zip/comment/21080783
Also, IMO, voluntary or not, this goes over the edge, especially on the streaming part. If someone genuinely enjoys this, they can do it in private, and exactly as they like.
When money and popularity get involved, this prompts more extreme behavior, turning a willing masochist into a victim, and a game into a trap.
Besides, authorities could have at least checked up on him.
If I understood properly the guy was a kinda homeless person that the two fuckers "hosted" in their house in exchange for participating (being tortured) in their streams. He was disabled or mentally challenged too, and there was another victim of theirs that was handicapped in the flat too.The alarm has been raised for at least 8 months but neither the police nor the national agencies nor the minister contacted either did or decided to do anything. Every time the police came the victims were saying that all was good and they gave their consent to anything, but on stream they were often asking to call the cops, an ambulance or trying to leave and the two fuckers barred them the exit and threatened to beat them or throw them back to the streets. So they were basically held hostage.
The whole thing is a disgrace. It was the most viewed French language stream on Kick for months, two vulnerable people being tortured on stream and nobody did anything.
Kink playing is ultimately the responsibility of the top, if this was that.
It's not, because they disregarded that person's state of well-being in a continued way.
His streams were about self deprecation, humiliation and abuse. He let those two guys abuse him to the limit and apparently they went over the limit.
It was with consent but they still be charged with murder and probably get convicted too.
This went on for weeks, months, and nobody interfered. They just gave a platform for the abuse.
If I understood properly the guy was a kinda homeless person that the two fuckers "hosted" in their house in exchange for participating (being tortured) in their streams. He was disabled or mentally challenged too, and there was another victim of theirs that was handicapped in the flat too.
The alarm has been raised for at least 8 months but neither the police nor the national agencies nor the minister contacted either did or decided to do anything. Every time the police came the victims were saying that all was good and they gave their consent to anything, but on stream they were often asking to call the cops, an ambulance or trying to leave and the two fuckers barred them the exit and threatened to beat them or throw them back to the streets. So they were basically held hostage.
The whole thing is a disgrace. It was the most viewed French language stream on Kick for months, two vulnerable people being tortured on stream and nobody did anything.
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From what I understood the two fuckers will probably get a 25 to 30 years of jail sentence, and some of the people who donated money to them to encourage them in the torture also risk prison time. Which I fucking hope they get.
Someone took upon himself to save all the worst clips and try to raise the alarm, they have more than 300 hours of stream capture with evidence of torture and other wrongdoings.
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There is even a sequence where the two fuckers try to force him to say that "if he dies on stream, it won't be their fault" but the fault of his "shitty health situation". He flat out refused.
They perfectly knew they were in the process of killing him.
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Kinda homeless? The victim is the largest french gaming streamer and definitely not homeless. There's indications of mental health problems but it's only visible on camera. There are no documents verifying it unfortunately (though it seems evident). The two killers are people he's known and hung out with for years.
Edit: The apartment was rented specifically for this stream.
It's sort of an extension of lolcow culture. This is a vid I recommend to watch to understand it.
Revenue != profit
Depending on margins, it can make a company unprofitable pretty quick if they're hit by a fine of nearly 30% of their revenue.
I mean, Kick probably could be suspending people who stream for an unhealthily long time, maybe suspend his abusive friends, but they didn't force him to take any actions resulting in his death imo.
What exactly is the crime?
Yes. I saw a video on getting around Flock's AI cameras and he mentions the numerous million dollar lawsuits that regularly result from misuse of their data and the glitches that cause people to have guns pointed at their heads by police.
It is a cost of doing business. Saying 'I'll sue you!' To them is as threatening as charging someone a little extra for that order of coffee they made.
Sci-Hub Blocked in India, Founder Tells Plaintiffs to Expect Disappointment
Sci-Hub Blocked in India, Founder Tells Plaintiffs to Expect Disappointment * TorrentFreak
The High Court in Delhi has ordered the country's ISPs to block Sci-Hub as part of a copyright case filed in 2020 by major publishers.Andy Maxwell (TF Publishing)
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She was played. Now it's time to say "fuck it" and continue as normal. The system was rigged from the start.
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Perplexity's AI-powered Comet browser leaves users vulnerable to phishing scams and malicious code injection — Brave and Guardio's security audits call out paid AI browser
Perplexity's AI-powered Comet browser leaves users vulnerable to phishing scams and malicious code injection — Brave and Guardio's security audits call out paid AI browser
Brave and Guardio have revealed serious vulnerabilities in the AI-powered Comet browser.Nathaniel Mott (Tom's Hardware)
How are you "supposed" to download your treasures? Download managers? Or just let the 100GB file sit in firefox download list and potentially get cut off mid-download?
I can never seem to get a download manger to work. I remember I used to be able to do that on windows, but SteamOS is giving me a headache, I'm a noob in linux.
But then again, idk if pausing would even be possible with these 🏴☠️ sites.
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This thread seems to heavily recommend wget.
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A download manager for linux that actually works?
It’s the Java UI, and maybe you heard that it has ads in it. The AUR package has stripped out the popup style ads. Now it just has ONE unobtrusive ad that I forgot about until I started writing this. Very negligible.EndeavourOS
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How to resume interrupted download automatically in curl?
I'm working with curl in Linux. I'm downloading a part of a file in ftp server (using the -r option), but my connection is not good, it always interrupts. I want to write a script which resume down...Stack Overflow
Downlaod managers can work with most downloads. If a site is really badly coded it still wont work. Bittorrent is good for this. I recomend qbittorrent on linux/windows, or flud on android.
With bittorrent you want to configure your settings. Set you max upload to half of what your connections upload speed is, or lower, you might have to experiment with this to see what your router and connection can handle. Activate "exit on finish" limit your max connections to 50-100 if you dont have a router with a strong CPU. Enable "require encryption" or use encryption and dont allow non encrypted connections. (Keeps your isp from throttling and helps keep you safer) Disable automatic start when you device boots up (very important)
Then you are all set. Just remember to make sure you dont run it all the time, bittorrent is hard on your router, not that it will mess it up but it will load up the CPU, honestly not much worse then windows built in spyware these days, and try to place the files where you actually want them when creating a download, so that you can reupload to the world. If you move the files after downloading them, then the client cant reupload to other users. You could even consider setting your max upload slots to something reasonable like 24 with a max upload rate of 200 KB/s, and let it run all the time. Be careful when hosting copyrighted content unless you have a VPN always active. You really should these days, they are cheap. I think i payed $80 for a year of proton VPN, a swiss company that isnt as beholden to the giant global intelligence network. You should also support artists so dont pirate unless you dont have a good option for getting your content. Pirated content also has a risk of containing malware and getting you sued.
As someone who lives in the U.S and is always on the road for work, i constantly have to deal with terrible and 3rd world internet infastructure. I am very familiar. Half of my state has about a 40% packet loss rate or something. Idk. Its bad. It drops out completly multiple times per day, cell towers, ISPs, credit card machines, etc. Sometimes you might just need to download from a better connection in another part of your state or something.
I dont have any recomendations for a download manager for PC, but for android ADM, advanced download manager seems to work well. On PC i usually just use torrents. Using a VPN in exclusivly TCP mode can also help, UDP is a lower latency lossy connection, TCP will resend packets until all of them get through. Using a vpn with TCP can help if you have a crappy connection. It wont help much if you are getting multi second drop outs. For that you really need bittorrent, or a download manager. If the zite doesnt work with download managers, and you cant get a torrent, you can try to find a mirror of the download somewhere else. Tey searching for the file name in quotes, like "filename.zip" and then use -website name to remove results from spammy sites. A search might be like, ( "filename.zip" -website1.com -website2.com )
Enable “require encryption” or use encryption and dont allow non encrypted connections.
In my experience, that would just stop all traffic. I guess the other clients on the swarm don't support encryption.
I use Varia as my graphical download manager. It has download acceleration built in thanks to aria2. I get often double or triple the download speed (depending on the website). For example, when I downloaded the Fedora Workstation ISO from fedoraproject I got download speeds from 18mbs normal to 60mbs with Varia. Free and open source of course, available on Windows and Linux.
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There's also a link on the official website without all the crapware but it's very well hidden... I found JDownloader really bad and the UX/UI not very user friendly and looks shady...
Too bad there isn't any IDM alternative for linux, and that's also why I stopped DDL and wen't back to torrenting on private trackers... There isn't any simple download manager that looks sleek, feels good and doesn't put your system at risk !
ASRock's $40 16-pin power cable has overheating protection designed to prevent meltdowns — company claims a 90-degree design ensures worry-free installation
ASRock's $40 16-pin power cable has overheating protection designed to prevent meltdowns — company claims a 90-degree design ensures worry-free installation
Only compatible with ASRock Taichi and Phantom Gaming power supplies, thoughZhiye Liu (Tom's Hardware)
Emilio Estevez, Martin Sheen – „Dein Weg“ (2010)
Der einzige Grund für mich, diesen Film zu sehen, war die Konstellation: Martin Sheen vor der Kamera, Emilio Estevez dahinter. Vater und Sohn, die gemeinsam einen Film schaffen, so direkt und sichtbar, ist eine Seltenheit in Hollywood. Der Jakobsweg dagegen wirkte eher wie eine Zumutung. Überstrapaziert von Selbsterfahrungsberichten, überhöht von Kirchenfolklore, in Deutschland endgültig re-popularisiert durch Hape Kerkelings Bestseller. Ein Trend, der mich eher abschreckt. Zumal mir meine ziemlich katholische Kindheit ohnehin wenig Lust auf Pilgerwege hinterlassen hat. (ARD)
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Scrivere a mano nell'epoca dell'algoritmo: un ritorno al passato o una proiezione al futuro?
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Bibliometrie: Wie sie uns alle unterstützen kann
Was ist Bibliometrie überhaupt? Das klingt erstmal nach etwas, das nur Spezialist:innen interessiert, aber das stimmt nicht. In diesem Blogbeitrag geben wir Einblick, Orientierung und Unterstützung durch die TIB zu diesem Thema und zeigen, welche Unterstützungsangebote es von der TIB gibt. Denn Bibliometrie begegnet uns in der Wissenschaft fast überall:
- Wie oft wird ein Artikel zitiert?
- Welche Journals sind besonders einflussreich?
- Wer forscht weltweit zu einem bestimmten Thema?
Bibliometrie umfasst das Forschungs- und Anwendungsfeld, das sich mit der quantitativen Analyse wissenschaftlichen Outputs und dessen Einfluss auseinandersetzt.
Bibliometrische Analysen wenden statistische Methoden auf die Ergebnisse der Forschung an. Sie ermöglichen damit nicht nur Analysen der Publikations- und Forschungsleistung (zum Beispiel Benchmarking und Rankings), sondern schaffen damit Einblicke in Forschungstrends, Netzwerke und den Einfluss des Forschungsoutputs – für Einzelne und für Institutionen.
Warum ist das Thema für alle relevant?
Für Studierende – Orientierung im Publikationsdschungel
Die wissenschaftliche Literatur wächst rasant, im Studium und auch gerade bei der ersten großen Abschlussarbeit stellt sich immer wieder die Frage: Welche Literatur ist in deinem Fachgebiet wichtig und welche Quellen sind wirklich relevant?
Bibliometrisches Wissen hilft,
- die Kernliteratur in einem Fachgebiet schnell zu finden,
- wichtige Autor:innen und Zeitschriften zu erkennen und
- eine fundierte Auswahl für Seminar-, Bachelor- oder Masterarbeiten zu treffen.
Für Forschende – strategisch forschen, vernetzen und belegen
Publizieren ist mehr als nur „fertig schreiben“. Forschende stehen vor der Aufgabe, ihre Arbeiten zielgerichtet in der wissenschaftlichen Landschaft zu platzieren. Bibliometrische Analysen helfen dabei weit über das Thema Sichtbarkeit hinaus:
- Relevanz prüfen: Erkennen, ob ein Forschungsthema im Trend liegt, wo es Lücken gibt oder welche Aspekte in der Literatur bislang unterrepräsentiert sind.
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Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year
Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year
Google says it’s no different than checking IDs at the airport.Ryan Whitwam (Ars Technica)
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I daily drive a Pixel 8 Pro and it's never felt underpowered to me. I have no need or desire to look at benchmarks.
It's a fair point to make to say they're expensive, but that's not really relevant to their actual quality or performance, both of which are fine. And the used market seems pretty good for these things, too.
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I see it this way.
Google wants everyone using gapps to be identified but isn't outright saying you can't use Android without certification.
"Google says that only apps with verified identities will be installable on certified Android devices, which is virtually every Android-based device—if it has Google services on it, it's a certified device"
So LOS and Graphene may get off the hook on this and be able to install whatever non-google apps they need. By default, neither have google services.
Sucks for the gapps people, but, I mean. They knew it was coming, right?
Wait, what the hell?
I can't believe this, who the hell are they to decide what I should install?
They are welcome to curate their own store, but sideloading concerns only the user.
Hopefully, the EU and other jurisdictions block this.
Fucking corrupt American oligarchs.
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Hopefully, the EU and other jurisdictions block this.
This is very similar to the notarization process Apple introduced to comply with the EU requirement of allowing third-party stores, and yet the EU doesn't seem concerned (maybe because Apple did not allow third-party stores in the first place, will it be different for Google?)
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Not an Apple user, so I didn't know about this. Extremely disappointing.
It really does seem avoiding any and all American services/products (to the extent possible, with exceptions where reasonable) is the only way forward.
I am increasingly coming to the conclusion that the US is a ethical, cultural and even economic dead end. Yes even economic, only a fool would believe intense corruption and broad support of criminality and corruption among the population will not have any negative effects in the future.
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You think this wouldn't happen elsewhere?
It's not just an American thing, it's an asshoke thing, and those people are everywhere, and will always find a way.
Of course it can happen elsewhere.
Just US has a massive influence on tech platforms, and they are currently under-going an oligarch takeover (oligarch influence was already bad irrespective of whether the far right or centre right was in power).
Mind you I am not anti-American. I have largely always defended the US as a matter of pragmatism (it is the largest and most influential democracy-leaning country with a measure of respect for human right). US has done really bad things, but they have done good things as well. I can't say the same about say China or Russia.
I clarified what I meant by economic dead end. It's not going to happen tomorrow or even in ten years. But absolute corruption, rollback of democracy and a population where a large number of people support crime and corruption will have a caustic effect in the long term. It's a straw man to suggest that I was claiming an immense collapse in American economic might.
At one point the "sun never set on the British empire" and now the British empire is no more. There are also examples of economies that were once top end, but are now closer to middle income.
I don't think you understand the extent to which American "soft power" is being eroded right now. What countries have you lived in? What languages other than English do you speak? Do you have close friends in other countries?
Of course America is major economy, that doesn't mean the rest of the world doesn't exist. Just look at the state of Chinese products in the early 2000s and where they are now.
People don't like thugs and liars, especially ones who are constantly parroting polemics about "freedom for this and that" while engaging in criminality and opposing democracy.
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I just use my banking through the web UI. Why do you need an app for it? If it's for check deposits, try using an old phone as a dedicated banking device.
If you don't use apps that depend on Google services, consider deGoogling your phone.
Its 2050, you are waiting outside of the HR Office waiting for them to talk to you. You're certain that your job has just been replaced by a robot.
Fuck this shit, you thought, 90% of the people are unemployed anyways, fuck this 16 hour shift.
You pull out your hand terminal (yes a "hand terminal", as "smartphones" no longer have local storage now, almost all computing is done on cloud) and start typing in your journal app: "Down with the regime, Down with tyranny!". You tap "save".
"Action not authorized. This incident has been reported"
2 seconds later, you can hear sirens in the distance growing louder and louder.
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Google says it's no different than checking IDs at the airport
What, and Google is now the TSA? Fuck that shit. I've paid for my device, I get to do whatever the hell I want with it!
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I've paid for my device, I get to do whatever the hell I want with it!
You bought a phone but is leasing the software. It's not yours to do with as you please.
Have you considered using fully open source android versions?
No custom ROM on a recent smartphone technically gives you a fully open source Android system when they rely on vendor-provided proprietary blobs in order for basic hardware functionality to work at all. Unless you want to go without a modem, GPS, and likely more depending on your model, at which point it's functionally no longer a smartphone.
Open-source custom ROMs are at least far more open-source than the alternative in most of the ways that matter most, including the ability to change the code in order to remove app installation restrictions, to avoid Google's telemetry, etc.
Would the proprietary blobs in the baseband hardware stop the end user from installing software, which is the topic of concern?
If no, is this a irrelevant "achtually"-reply?
Okay, let’s check ids wherever you leave the house, since that’s the sane as checking them at the airport.
Papers please, right?
I can't say anything for the Reddit part of what you said but I agree with Google's unethical datamining. It's no secret what Google has been doing. I remember when the tinfoil-hat-wearers were warning people about those nifty little Google speakers people were generously inviting into their homes, telling them to watch what they were saying in the general vicinity of the speakers, that Google could be using them to listen to every conversation. The naysayers said "They wouldn't do that, that'd be illegal. The speaker only listens when I say 'Hey Google' and they wouldn't be saving what I say anyway!". Lo and behold, it finally got leaked that was wrong, that the speakers were listening 24/7 and Google was keeping everything. I could be wrong but I recall something going around that Google even admitted they were keeping the recordings. Suddenly the conversation died down, there was no lawsuit for espionage or any such thing and the naysayers suddenly converted to "I've got nothing to hide, I don't care if I'm being recorded". Ignorance remains forever blissful, it would seem.
Quick note for the pedantic: No, it's not just Google. Amazon, Apple and Microsoft are doing it too. If there's a microphone in your house, be mindful of what you're saying around it; you never know how an innocuous conversation might be used against you.
fuck google!
Who can I donate to that is working on making alternative OS accessible on android or iphones?
I know there are alternative OS already out there but they aren't as universally accessible compared to how Linux can run on any PC.
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The only way to bypass a forced bootloader lock is to find a bootrom exploit. It's basically like jailbreaking an iPhone or a console at that point.
Note, the iPhone hasn't had a working jailbreak in years. Samsung phones in the US also haven't been able to be unlocked in years.
Android would be even harder because of how fragmented the market is. There are many different phones from many different manufacturers.
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lineageos does support far more phone vendors; who knows what pixel phones will be like in the future
I'm hoping on fairphone to get graphene support 🤷
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They are actually very far removed from meeting them, compared to OEMs like Samsung.
GrapheneOS Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to frequently asked questions about GrapheneOS.GrapheneOS
GrapheneOS has largely worked around this by automating creating device support themselves using "adevtool". The current Pixels' hardware supports installing third-party OSes and will continue to do so, they will support those Pixels until EOL. For future Pixels (Pixel 10 series has not yet launched, only available for pre-order), it remains to be seen whether they still fully support installing third-party OSes. If they do, GrapheneOS will also support them, but it might take much longer to implement device support because they need to make this by themselves and this is more difficult doing it from scratch than being able to use the old Android device support for it as a base, like they could do for the existing devices when Google did their rugpull.
They have not really vendor locked themselves for the future. They have hardware requirements listed in their FAQ: grapheneos.org/faq#device-supp…
Google just happened to be the only company meeting those requirements, which weren't even that strict, becuase other OEMs just didn't prioritize security.
But, there is good news. GrapheneOS is currently in active talks with a major Android OEM right now in order to help them meet the security requirements for a subset of their future devices. They are very optimistic about that.
GrapheneOS Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to frequently asked questions about GrapheneOS.GrapheneOS
Google just happened to be the only company meeting those requirements
I don't know. They designed the requirements in a way that only Google met them. It didn't "happen" to meet them after the fact.
It's like demanding yellow hard hats on a construction site. Sure, they are safe and highly visible. Would it make sense to allow black hard hats as well if it means not locking into a single vendor and try pushing for high vis while having a stronger base? And also working around the issue with a vest? I don't know the answer to that but it's clear that they have made a conscious decision to move into the situation that they now find themselves in.
I didn't say they need to rip something out. I didn't say their current efforts to open up weren't valid.
I specifically said that I don't know whether it would have made sense to start with reduced requirements.
I just stated that they didn't "happen" to only support Google. I simply acknowledged how they knew exactly that the standard they were writing would only be matched by one vendor as they were writing it.
The only proper solution is to focus fully on the new Linux Mobile ecosystem and become independent from Google-maintained shit (and hardware - Graphene is based on Google Pixels, they literally exist at the mercy of Google). Otherwise they will fuck you over again and again. Not saying getting Linux Mobile on par will be easy, but it's our only true, permanent option aside from rejecting smartphones altogether.
Only because Graphene is about using a security chip.
Lineage isn't, so runs on more devices. I'd argue most people don't have risks that require the security of Graphene.
But the moment another phone manufacturer decides to use a similar security chip, Graphene will be on it.
Chinese version of YouTube (bilibili (B站)) has built in sleep timer functionality.
That beats the hell out of the adverts and autoplay rubbish YouTube subjects people not using Invidious or Piped to.
“ but android is open source! You can do whatever you want with it!”
A 20 year-old lie, and I’m glad to see the android worshipers finally realize it was always a load of shit.
You can complain about iOS all you like, but android is no better. It’s about time people started to realize that.
I just upvoted a comment which is sure to get downvoted to hell.
You’re right though, the idea that you could “do whatever you want” with android was always a fantasy.
Me right now:
Can I install an independently compiled version of iOS an an iPhone, equivalent to Lineage or Graphene?
I'm currently running a fork of Lineage called DivestOS. That's 3 more versions of OS than available for iOS.
Stop acting like they're the same, because they're not. I use iOS for my work devices, and have since 2010.1 my personal devices are Android, because iOS won't allow me to do things as simple as move files the way I need to.
Watch out, we got a badass over here!
Sounds to me like you’re not using android, and this your condescending rhetorical question does not apply. Sure, you can put forks of forks on your device, but good luck running banking or travel or healthcare apps, among many others.
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There's a world of difference between iOS and Android.
Just look at Lineage and Graphene. Both independently compiled versions of Android. Show me the equivalent in iOS.
Google says that only apps with verified identities will be installable on certified Android devices, which is virtually every Android-based device—if it has Google services on it, it's a certified device.
Any chance you can just remove their shit via adb?
Looks like I'm gonna just carry a stock phone, give it nothing but the most basic information and tether it to a laptop over a VPN. They stop tethering? I'll use VOIP and a hotspot.
Welcome back to 2011. Maybe messenger bags will come back into fashion in foss culture.
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Run Lineage on your phone of choice.
Or if you're paranoid, a Pixel with Graphene.
...What about after September 2026?
Well, there's one teensy tiny caveat.
Google says that only apps with verified identities will be installable on certified Android devices, which is virtually every Android-based device—if it has Google services on it, it's a certified device.
So, in theory... no gapps, no approval necessary?
Open devs just have to have two versions, as many already do, one signed with Google's spyware and one on github/fdroid with nothing.
Seems about right, for as long as they can.
I'd even consider the possibility of "google-free" phones showing up on kickstarter in two or three years for the tinkerer market. That market exists. Raspberrypi didn't buy itself. We are here!
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As an iPhone guy, I always thought, what apps am I missing? It was mostly emulators. Then Apple allowed them, and I ask the question again.
Oh yeah, we have Delta, why doesn't Android have anything like that? So, in a nutshell, I can uninstall Delta right now. App gone, games gone, saves gone, it's all gone. No longer have any trace of it on my iPhone. Go to the App Store and download it. Empty library. Got to start over, right? Wrong. Go into Settings, connect Google Drive. It's now downloading my games, my saves, my settings. Everything back where I was. Would be so cool if it were on all the platforms, so a game started on one could be picked up and played on another. Not necessarily Android <==> iOS, but more like phone <==> computer/tablet.
Yeah, so anyway, what can't I get in the Play Store or the App Store that I actually want?
I get it's a slippery slope and future implications. I get that. I'm just not seeing the issue now.
Also, it seems like Google has taken away all the things that would convince you not to get an iPhone. They took your headphone jack (though an Android was the first to do so). They took your microSD card slot. The tech always sucked, no one tried to make it better; past 16 or maybe 32GB the write speeds were too low to be usable. Now they're coming for your sideloading? Honestly what is the argument for staying?
what can't I get in the Play Store or the App Store that I actually want?
For me, it's an independence from Google thing and a privacy thing. I am logged in to the Play Store on my phone, but I try to get whatever I can from F-Droid. On other devices like my TV, tablet and e-reader, I'm not even logged in and use F-Droid and the Aurora Store instead. Not having to rely on Google is great.
Honestly what is the argument for staying?
There are still Android phones with headphone jacks
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it's an independence from Google thing and a privacy thing. I am logged in to the Play Store on my phone
Uh.
I can try it though
Yes, my Android phone (Galaxy S10) has a headphone jack and a microSD card reader and a fingerprint reader. And it's a flaghship. But it's a 2019 flagship. (Still does things better than my iPhone 16 Pro Max, which is Apple's flagship from last year, and still their current flagship model. Most notably, the Android keyboard is better.)
Do any new flagship Android phones have headphone jacks? Not that I need one. I'm 100% on board with AirPods. Love them. I own headphones but it's a lesser experience. I have some decent (not great) over the ear Sennheisers (they were around $50, so not audiophile range, probably the brand's entry model) and they're good enough, but the AirPods are a better experience in many ways. But anyway, mid-range Android phones have headphone jacks, but they're underpowered compared to flagships, and Android flagships are underpowered next to iPhones of the same year. So while granted, a mid-range 2025 Android likely outperforms my S10 across the board, I have no reason to upgrade what is essentially my backup phone.
Do any new flagship Android phones have headphone jacks?
Less and less. Sony still does and Asus still does on their ROG Phones, but dropped it for the Zenfone 12 so not sure how long they'll last with it still (I love my Zenfone 9, so a bit sad about it).
But anyway, mid-range Android phones have headphone jack
Shockingly little nowadays. If I search between 300-500 euro, I can only find Sony, Poco and two Samsungs (A25 and Xcover 7).
Not actually true, there are still some scam apps on the App Store. As long as they have recurring subscriptions, Apple doesn't care too much. It's the free apps that are just as good, they will bury, even if they have users.
As far as music, I agree. I use Apple Music because it's the best streaming service for my needs and they pay artists better than the other big one. But on iOS you also have Marvis Pro and MusicHarbor. I couldn't get that experience on Android. The actual Apple Music app is great on Android, and it has gotten better, but on iOS I still prefer Marvis, which is a frontend to Music.app.
Yeah, so anyway, what can't I get in the Play Store or the App Store that I actually want?
When I upgraded my Samsung to a OnePlus13, Samsung's app that manages the tag device flat out had an error message telling me that it could only work on Samsung phones. 5 minutes later I found an open source app allowed me to use the Galaxy tag that I paid for on my new phone. Samsung has some of the best engineers in the world so they were 100% lying or intentionally trying to brick my tag device to either force me to buy their overpriced phones...
And that is just one example. I use tons of open source apps. For almost any useful app you can think of, there is a free open source version. Premium-YouTube? Newpipe is ad-free with all the premium features for free.
what can't I get in the Play Store or the App Store that I actually want?
On the Android world, there are various Firefox forks with privacy enhancements. Such an example is IronFox. These apps are not listed on Play Store, and are, instead, distributed through F-Droid.
Besides this, there is a big difference between the policies of Play Store and F-Droid. Play Store takes your compiled blob, runs some security tests, signs it and publishes it. F-Droid, on the other hand, requires that all the source code is public and compiles the app.
This allows the users to be sure that the apps cannot be tampered by their developers. While, on Play Store, devs can easily submit applications that aren't built based on the published source code.
what can't I get in the Play store that I actually want
Well, for starters, versions of apps without Google play store tracking. Or without GMS/Firebase so the apps aren't constantly being awakened whenever someone else decides.
Or old apps that Google has decided you don't need anymore because they "won't run" on current versions of Android, yet work fine.
Or, any app category that Google doesn't permit you to publish to play, like my system wide ad blockers.
Or apps that aren't malware, since Play store is the single greatest source of malware.
AdAway isn't in the Play Store? That was my ad blocker back in the day... on, like, Jellybean and KitKat.
Of course, I wouldn't be surprised if Google has since banned ad blockers. They threaten their business model after all.
So I guess my next phone will be a Chinese phone. Even if it spies on me, I'll have the freedom to install whatever I want from anywhere.
The Chinese have a golden window of opportunity. Let's hope they don't mess this up.
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LOL. Chinese phones are way worse, they simply block installations of "unsanctioned" apps with no workaround.
My wife is Chinese and I used to live there for 7 years, it's an absolute privacy nightmare.
Oppo = OnePlus
Huawei bootlaoders can't be unlocked, so absolutely no custom ROM there.
Honor bootlaoders can't be unlocked, so absolutely no custom ROM there.
Poco seems possible for now, never used one of their phones, but well good that there's something possible.
So I bought it from giztop, they take the Chinese version of the phone, get the Google play store on there and get it set to English, plus a couple other things, so that it's easier for you to get started with. I bought this because I had thought they'd make a global version and I could flash that rom when that happened, and only deal with some Chinese sections of the phone for a short while, but for some reason they didn't with this specific phone, they did for the 14 ultra.
I busted the phone out again to see the popup I was talking about, but actually one of the (semi) recent updates made it so the buttons are english. I am allowed to just install things with a few pop-up warnings and the phone does some kind of check. I wonder if it's because it's an "unlocked" phone (I don't know if it's the same in China where a carrier locks the phone to their network and has their own shit installed if you buy it from them) or what.
Either way, interesting.
As someone who uses a Xiaomi phone, that's not true.
It was a faff getting it to install any random apk I found of off the Internet, but it was possible. Did involve holding down a graphic for 10 seconds as part of the unlock procedure.
But for now at least, you can still install any unsigned apk without going through a store.
I guess if GrapheneOS finally gets spoken to by a manufacturer interested in filling this market gap, that would be awesome too.
Hell, maybe it could be a chinese manufacturer.
I believe disabling play protect turns this off
Edit: no it doesn't. This is play integrity API which can't be disabled and will be in the APK itself.... hopefully it can be patched out
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For the benefit of those reacting based on the headline and one-sentence summary, yes it's a pain, I agree with the mob that it should be the user's choice what they install, BUT, the headline is badly written, in that it implies that the app itself has to be verified, and also many commenters seem to have also inferred that it means an Apple walled-garden style Play Store lock-in which also isn't the case. (a better headline might have been "sideloading of Android apps from unverified publishers")
You can still publish and run apps from outside of the Play Store, but publishers will need to get a verified key from Google to sign them with. Google don't have any visibility of what the app actually is, they just issue you a key and you do whatever you want with it.
(EDIT: fuck me, don't shoot the messenger, just because you don't like what Google is doing. I even opened by saying I agreed that the user should be able to choose, knowing full well that the sort of person who doesn't read past the headline also would interpret correcting it as a defense of Google... guess I'd have been better off just quietly leaving y'all to get angry over things that didn't actually happen)
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All Google would have to do is check what key an app is using on a user's device and they can invalidate it. Someone made a youtube vanced 2 (not revanced)? Google can easily invalidate it for everyone using this process.
Even if I misunderstand how the key works and it's more of a signature, it would mean that if you try to download an older app then it could fail bc the signature expired and isn't maintained anymore. You also run into the same issue with not being renewed if Google chooses.
My point is it could effectively be a side loading killer, maybe not right away but the point of sideloading is the independence which this takes away
I'm making a statement about companies in general. People are just so willing to bend over and take it. In my mind people used to have more gumption, but I'm probably overestimating how much was individuals vs how the media portrayed things.
Feels like if Upton Sinclair released "the jungle" today we'd all collectively say "oh well, guess we're eating rats and formaldehyde."
I'm confused. I read an article about the new 3310 getting the ability to install apps, a long time ago. I found an article on how to do so, but it doesn't look like the 3310 screen in the screenshots but a general android OS. I thought it had a simplified OS, either their own or a stripped down android (unsure) as it has a tiny screen.
It's the Nokia 3310 4G model according to this article. But it might be a generic article in which they have the phone model automatically generated by the one you search for?
If you have a non-Google build of Android on your phone, none of this applies. However, that's a vanishingly small fraction of the Android ecosystem outside of China.
Linux-based Android build when?
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The current trends and direction of tech is making me want to become Amish...
I'm getting so fucking sick of everything turning into shit, what's even the point of fucking point anymore? This is borderline kernel level enshitification
The Amish that I grew up near were big into shunning, child marriage, sexual abuse, not talking to the cops, and lots of drugs.
I'm just saying it might be easier to switch to open source or something.
If postmarket gets the drivers under control, we can be running relatively vanilla distros on them. There's already a version of NixOS that leans on postmarkets work to run Nic right on a dozen different phones
You just need a window manager that can handle touch, small form factor, and just a couple of gigs of RAM. And there are already projects doing that.
I feel ya friend.
Those guys are getting really decent funding, then Gnome and Plasma-mobile are already serviceable. It's really just a matter of reverse engieering the cellular radio/voice/volte and the true hard part of the networks not pulling the rug on that work.
Jolla is definitely interesting, but search around, there are caveats.
One notable thing is that until pretty recently they were on a subscription model for OS updates, that turned a lot of people off. I get the need for continued funding, but definitely not something I'd want to deal with on my phone.
Also, for me personally, my phone is partially for work too so it needs to be compatible with that or else I honestly probably don't really even need a phone. Jolla has some preliminary support there, but there's no way it could pass our requirements for MDM compliance at my company and I doubt it would for most others. There are things that are non-optional there in relation to audit requirements that a lot of very different companies all have to comply with and it's just not compatible with the idea. That's probably going to be the major sticking point for any smaller players trying to break into the mobile market.
I might consider a Jolla tablet if they gave it another shot, but we do have a lot more options in the linux non-phone portable space.
Assuming you are in US, it seems dependent on ATT backbone. That is not a complete turnoff for me. I use ATT and the covereage is almost perfect. I cannot recall the last time I lost service.
I would be willing to call the company with questions and try it for everyone, assuming the pass the qusstions. Do you send ifo to AI like fairphone? Do you have any deals with Google? Are you open source?
Well, nevermind. They have nothing in stock that has a North American modem.
Google says it's no different than checking IDs at the airport.
You're not a fucking airport, Google!
It also becomes no different than iPhone, so.. what's keeping me to android if they do this? Or hey, maybe I'll commit to de-googling. I have CoMaps, I'm planning to setup nextcloud soon... Hell, I don't even buy anything on Google play anymore since it's so shit, i have no purchases tying me to the OS. Maybe I'll buy a cheap old iPhone so I can finally use imessage with everyone that's been bitching about me and use other tech for everything else.
(I'm not going to iPhone, but the point stands)
I left iphone because of a walled garden issue, was thinking about working with my parents off of iphone so I can actually assist with them because I've been off of it for decades.
Instead may be the other direction because at least iOS has a modicum of privacy by at least telling the US government to make their own back doors instead of just licking the boot like google does. I'm not a fan of apple by any stretch of the imagination, but at this point of the falling apart world fuck it, I gotta figure out what the least evil is, even if it's only marginal.
Whilst this is true, it's also a good reason to move to self hosting if possible.
I've been slowly removing my reliance on these ad filled services, even though the apks I use have ads removed, and this news just gives me more reason to ramp this up since these same APKs may no longer work without some trickery by 2027 (if they go with this plan).
Still, this all seems like constant patchwork as any and all effort is being taken to rid ourselves of control over our devices. It's an iffy situation and I just hope people smarter than myself will continue fighting, in some manner.
How about we abandon proprietary locked-down launcher sandboxes on our phones and just run regular old Linux on them like we do on the desktop?
Isn't that what PostmarketOS is? Is there some bullshit firmware issue in the way of that? What exactly is stopping us?
No one talking about how this could completely annihilate open source .apk development? First off the lead dev has to get identity verified to get a key, which will reduce the number of devs willing to push through friction to start a project. Then when the key is issued and it is posted to the repository, what keeps anyone from grabbing it and using it for another repo? We'll they have an official app registration of some kind, ok, what about version control? Does every new version have to be registered before it can be loaded and tested? Same for forks?
This is about to be a terrible mess, Google is assassinating FOSS with this.
You distribute the code without your key and a built package that is signed. This isn't exactly rocket science.
Anyone who forks the code will have to use their own key to install a package they built.
It's just unnecessary red tape.
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It's just unnecessary red tape.
Which will reduce the number of people using foss apks, which will in turn, reduce the motivation, and then the number, of foss apk developers.
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Fdroid itself and every package they host will have to be signed.
Maybe there are still workarounds, like enabling dev mode on your phone, but still tedious.
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Google has been been cracking down on installing .apk's on your phone for years and they're getting more and more aggressive about it. It's not a question of if they'll disallow it completely, but when.
It's already extremely tedious. Back in the Android 2.3 days (oh, good old Gingerbread) you could just get an APK and install it, but those times are long gone.
Years ago they threatened the developer of Total Commander to remove his app from the PlayStore unless he patched out an APK install feature, so he was forced to do that.
Now another example: Try to install eBay on a phone that is not passing device integrity. It is not listed on the PlayStore because your device doesn't pass safety checks. You can grab an APK and install it, but the OS will check if the app has been installed through the PlayStore and if it hasn't, it will complain and close itself.
GrapheneOS has patched that bullshit out, btw.
And this behaviour happens with all apps where the developer has enabled the "App Integrity" option, which is heavily pushed as a super-great security feature. So developers might just enable that feature, not being fully aware of the implications.
As you can see, it's one method at a time, slowly but surely, until Google fully controls the ecosystem. The intention behind that is pretty clear: They don't want people to have AdAway and Revanced, they want money and user data. And they also want you to login to the PlayStore, get hooked on their stupid daily points challenges and spend your hard-earned money on virtual crap.
This is textbook enshittification, it will only get worse from here on.
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I'm probably going to spam this around a bit, since most people don't seem to know about it, but a reminder that FuriLabs has a (GNU+)Linux phone with decent spec.s and the ability to run Android app.s (from what I've heard) pretty decently: furilabs.com/
Biggest drawback is it's based on Halium. Usual growing pains of a new product/company apply but apparently the company is pretty responsive and their dev.s have worked with customers to get things like calling working with the carrier and bands of their country where it hasn't worked before so improvements move pretty quickly.
Collection of different experiences I've variously seen online over the last year or so:
* clehaxze.tw/gemlog/2025/07-20-…
* news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
* reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1f…
* reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1j…
* theregister.com/2025/02/03/fur…
I don't own one, myself, so I can't give any personal experience but I've seen it around for a few years now but most people don't seem to even know about it. Maybe there's a reason for that? But none I've ever seen anyone say.
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: Fun with a FOSS-focused Phosh fondleslabLiam Proven (The Register)
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From what I can tell most of the roadblock is drivers for hardware support. Basically every price of hardware has to have a reverse engineered driver to work. We need hardware mfrs on board to really gain traction in this arena.
Still, I'm pretty sure my next phone is going to be a Linux phone. I know I'll lose functionality but if I can make calls, send texts, and browse the web I'll get by. Hopefully that space keeps gaining traction and it won't be long until it is a truly viable option to replace google/apple products.
Yes, and its pretty great on devices you can install it on.
Problem is? Its not possible to install on most phones.
Postmarket OS is getting there. It only runs at all on a couple dozen older phones. And they don't currently have receive voice. But 2 months ago they didn't have 4G data or send voice so...
Oh, and battery life is not good.
My next mobile device will likely be a small tablet running Linux and a Wi-Fi hotspot.
Oh, the problem isn't the OS's. You can hardly get a phone that can have its bootloader unlocked these days.
When they stop providing security for our flagship phones, if we could just install lineage or GOS on it, they wouldn't get a new purchase out of us, and they'd also stop receiving all our data that they can sell..
for the greater good
This good is gonna be so great after we lose everything to the worst of us.
This device looks really interesting, but I don't see anything on their site about how I can write software for Light Phone, or install anything except what they provide through their app.
How is that any different from what Google plans to do to Android?
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We would have plenty of Linux phones if drivers were open sauce or even just available closed sauce.
So Android is pointless now?
No, really. If I'm gonna be dragged kicking and screaming into the walled garden, why would I go with Google's joke of an ecosystem instead of much nicer and better integrated Apple garden?
I might as well start carrying one of those weird branded ultra-tiny laptops from AliExpress and some used, older iPhone for the 2 apps I need.
Fuck it. Throw out the baby, the bathwater, the bathtub, the whole damn thing. Fuuuuck it.
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Does anyone have try puri.sm/products/librem-5/ Or c2 shop.jolla.com/
Can we still load custom roms? It's been a while since my last install of Lineage OS.
If that's not an option either, well, Linux phones I'm coming!
What will be the point of android?
you can pack them on the magisk denylist and then they might work flawlessly.
this has never failed me but i would still not recommend it.
these banks and Google have no hesitation to cut your access to your money one day. they own your way of interacting with the web now and they don't like what you're attempting here
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Basically title; how long did it take you to get used to them?
For bonus info for me, how old were you when you started wearing them? How bad are your eyes?
I finally had to give in and get them. My eyes aren’t that bad (I think) but I’m almost 40. I’ve had them made a few times in the past because I have had a prescription all this time (since my mid 20s) but I never wore them. It was more work than my eyes were doing…… probably. Felt that way anyway..
But I can’t avoid it now and I got an additional pink tint added to maybe help with headaches (not directly related to my eyes, I’ve had the headaches most of my life; they run in the family, yay!).. and one eye has a stronger prescription than the other and it’s insanely nauseating. It’s my dominant eye no less. And maybe I shouldn’t have done all the vision changes at once.
How long am I gunna deal with this? I can’t just stop wearing them after a few days this time, because off is worse for reading and I know it and I notice it.
Edit: this is day one of wearing these. It sucks but it’s not like this is ongoing. This is new to me in that it’s physically uncomfortable, but my eyes are legit bad and I’ve known it and I think the prescription might be a bit off but they have been telling me for years if I just wear the damned things my eyes will relax and my prescription will probably change. I do not like the visual changes. They make me sick because I have neurological problems that both cause headaches and intense motion sickness. Like I can’t swing on swings without getting violently ill. -end edit
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I started wearing glasses at 17. I technically didn’t need to wear them all the time, but I just did because it was immediately much more comfortable on my eyes. I have a bent nose from a break and I got a little irritation from it, but the relief on my eyes was easily worth it.
My eyes aren’t super bad, I can actually be okay without them for most of the day. Neither eye is super bad, but I have a high astigmatism factor or whatever they call it. That makes my depth perception really funky and I can’t read anything at a distance.
I can’t really remember what difficulty I had at first besides the my nose hurting and getting used to the frames being in view. It definitely never made me nauseous though. You should probably talk to your eye dr about that.
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Rotaie abbandonate ci raccontano la storia poco nota del treno francese a reazione - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Successivamente alla metà del secolo, l’investimento significativo di menti e risorse nel miglioramento dei jet aeronautici portò gradualmente alla scoperta di cognizioni fisiche precedentemente inesplorate.Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
How to follow and participate in discussions here from your Fediverse and ATmosphere accounts
The magic of decentralized social networks means that even though the Nexus of Discussions is running NodeBB software, you can follow and participate in discussions here from accounts on GoToSocial, Mastodon, Glitch, Piefed and other Fediverse platforms -- and thanks to the magic of bridging, also from Bluesky. Blacksky, and other ATmosphere apps. Hooray!
But, it's not always as straightforward as it could be, so here's a quick how-to guide.
And, no matter what platform you're participating from, please make sure you're aligned with the community guidelines!
Note: I've done my best to test out these instructions, but there may still be some mistakes or situations where they don't work. Feedback welcome, either here or at my Mastodon account at thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange or bluesky account @thenexusofprivacy.net
From the Fediverse
- If you see a post from here in your feed on GoToSocial, Mastodon, Glitch, Piefed or another Fediverse platform, you should be able to interact with it just like any other post. (At least in theory -- If you run into problems, please let me know.)
- Replies to threads here are public by default, and may wind up indexed by search engines.
- If you've opted in to Bridgy Fed, replies to threads here are generally likely be bridged to Bluesky, unless you're replying to somebody who hasn't opted in.
- If you're looking at a page on discussions.thenexus.today and want to reply, like, or boost it, the usual trick of copying the link from the address bar in the browser into your search box doesn't always work. Instead, you need to copy the link from the post's timestamp.
- on a Mac, control-click on the timestamp, and then select "Copy link to post" from the menu
- on an iPhone, press the timestamp, and then select Copy Link from the menu.
- on Linux, Windows, or Android ... hmm not sure, let me know and I'll update the post.
Here's what it looks like on a Mac
- to follow an account here, you can search for it in the usual way (jon's account for example is [jon](discussions.thenexus.today/use…)\@discussions.thenexus.today) and then follow it as you would any other account
- to follow a category here, you can either search for the "category actor" (for example \@public@discussions.thenexus.today for all public posts), or just go to the category page and copy the link from the address bar
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- Replies from Bluesky, Blacksy, and other ATmosphere apps are only federated here if you've opted in to Bridgy Fed, which connects Fediverse sites to Bluesky. An important caveat here is that opting in to Bridgy Fed makes all your Bluesky posts available in the Fediverse as well!
- you can follow an account here by following its bridged account. The handle is @[account name].discussions.thenexus.today.ap.brid.gy
- as far as I know, it isn't yet possible to follow a category from the ATmosphere
From Threads
- discussions.thenexus.today does not federate with Threads, so hopefully there's no way to participate in discussions from there. If you do find a way, please let me know, because that means there's a bug somewhere!
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Another way you can load discussions here into Fediverse is to copy the address bar, but add a post index to the end.
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Fellow pirates, How to download all the liked videos/song from YT music.
I have tried using yt download but am not able to find any option for such a case.
So something like, a tool which allows YouTube login and then pull all the songs/video.
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All your liked videos are at youtube.com/playlist?list=LL, and all your liked songs are at music.youtube.com/playlist?lis… .
I would try using yt-dlp. First, download your cookies from YouTube into a file (e.g. youtubecookies.txt). I like the cookies.txt Firefox extension for downloading the cookies.
Then run:
yt-dlp --cookies youtubecookies.txt "https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=LM"There are a lot of options to yt-dlp, so you'll want to look into those.
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Usually I recommend using cobalt.tools for downloading either the video or the audio file. Unfortunately, cobalt.tools isn't able to download from Youtube at the moment due to restrictions from Youtubes side.
I found a workaround, albeit it is a bit complicated, but suitable for an occasional download:
I installed FreeTube. Each video offers download options. However, if you want a better quality than 360p, it offers to download video and audio separately. Look for the highest quality. Both video and audio file can be merged using VLC player after downloading.
After selecting the desired file(s) in FreeTube, you deternine where the files are to be saved, and then the download starts. There is no visual confirmation that the file is being downloaded. Eventually it appears on your computer. The download is slow, it takes almost the duration of the video that is to be downloaded.
After downloading both the video and the audio file, open them in VLC. Follow one of the guides when searching for video audio merge vlc. You can also save the merged file.
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Liked Videos and Liked Music are private playlists, they have a generic URL and you can only access them by being logged in. I have two methods to download Liked Videos:
- Install a desktop app video downloader, most of them have the option to download an entire playlist.
- They also have an option to add a cookies file so you can download private playlists, such as Liked Videos or Watch Later
- Log in to YouTube in your browser
- Export the cookies from the browser
- Import them to the desktop app
- Download Liked Videos
That's what you're supposed to do, however i never got that to work. If it doesn't work, you can transfer all your liked videos from the private playlist to a public playlist. Here's what i do:
- Create a new playlist called Downloads, and make it public; it now has its own specific URL, unlike the generic URL of Liked VIdeos
- Install the YouTube Multiselect browser extention
- Use Multiselect to select every video in Liked Videos and add it to Downloads
- Use the desktop app to download the Downloads playlist
This is how i download my private playlists like Watch Later or Liked Videos, i assume it also works for Liked Music
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Use yt-dlp with a cookies file and your liked videos playlist like @RinseChessBacked@lemmy.ml said.
Use yt-dlp with the -U flag to make sure it’s updated. The default settings are best audio and video quality. If you wanna get just the audio, install ffmpeg according to the instructions on the yt-dlp page (download ffmpeg and unpack it somewhere, tell yt-dlp where it is with the path-tp-ffmpeg flag) and tell yt-dlp what format you want.
You do not need to use a website or gui. They are all based on yt-dlp anyway and are often old, outdated and have wrong settings. Literally just use yt-dlp all other offered solutions are incorrect.
‘Out here all alone’: Texas health officials’ pleas for help were ignored by CDC as measles cases grew, report says
Public health officials in Texas were met with little to no response from CDC officials when they first reported a measles outbreak earlier this year, according to a new report
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Burner phones, wiped socials: the extreme precautions for visitors to Trump’s America
Horror stories about detainments at the border have also soured some from visiting during Trump’s second term
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Trump Order to Kill Cashless Bail Will Exacerbate Inequality While Doing Nothing to Fight Crime, Experts Say
"Cash bail is a system that preys on poor people," Wanda Bertram, of the Prison Policy Institute, told Common Dreams.
Iran demands concrete international action to end Israel’s genocide and occupation in Palestine
Iran claims the idea of “Greater Israel”, articulated by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently, was not an empty threat but a real zionist ambition backed by the US and other Western powers.
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Brazil's government says it will buy some domestic products hit by Trump's tariffs
Brazil’s government says it will buy several domestic products that have been hit by the 50% higher U.S. tariffs on the country’s exports.
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Draft how-to for people in the fediverse to follow and paricipate in NodeBB discussions
Several people told me they couldn't figure out how to reply to a NodeBB conversation if they just had a link to the post, and yeah it is kind of non-obvious. So I decided to write something up on that as well as a few other quirks. Here's what I've got so far ... feedback welcome!
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Several people told me they couldn't figure out how to reply to a NodeBB conversation if they just had a link to the post, and yeah it is kind of non-obvious. So I decided to write something up on that as well as a few other quirks.SocialHub
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Jon-Pincus hey check out that topic loading from within this NodeBB ;)
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I think the point is not that it is really going to happen at that pace, but to show that it very well might happen within our lifetime.
And also the authors have adjusted the earliest possible point of a possible hard to stop runaway scenario to 2028 afaik.
Kind of like the atomic doomsday clock, which has been oscillating between a quarter to twelve and a minute before twelve during the last decades, depending on active nukes and current politics.
Helps to illustrate an abstract but nonetheless real risk with maximum possible impact (annihilation of mankind - not fond of the idea...)
Even if it looks like AI has been hitting some walls for now (which I am glad about) and is overhyped, this might not stay this way.
So although AGI seems unlikely at the moment, taking the possibility into account and perhaps slowing down and making sure we are not recklessly risking triggering our own destruction is still a good idea, which is exactly the authors' point.
Kind of like scanning the sky with telescopes and doing DART-style asteroid research missions is still a good idea, even though the probability for an extinction level meteorite event is low.
Their whole predication is based on exponential growth moving forward which is just impossible. The growth of new models already stagnated and all the new improvements are just optimizations and better interface layers. They are basically hard capped at what they can do and more powerful hardware can't solve that.
Something ground breaking might happen that changes the whole landscape in the future, but it won't be exponential growth.
There’s an exhibition of retro / classic home computing machines this week (Aug 21-28 2025) at Kingston University, so I had to drop in.
It was fun to see some old favourites again, and it was nice to see some youngsters engaging with the games I used to play. Turrican, Hunchback, Mario, Puzzle Bobble, Lemmings!
The Townhouse building at Kingston University has been open for several years already and I drive, walk or bus past it regularly, but never had a reason to pop in until now! It has the university library on the upper floors, and a cafe and event space on the ground floor. For the duration of this week, the Archive of Retro Computing has taken over the event space with this display.
It is nicely put together, with some machines set aside for coding, some for gaming; information about each system displayed alongside; some meta-history on topics like the British computing scene (Acorn vs Sinclair), Commodore and Amstrad, and the US elements. The back section is dedicated to vintage home gaming systems, from the 1977 Binatone Pong game, through Atari / Nintendo / Sega, up to the Super Nintendo and Jaguar.
There are also some super “deep cuts” in the collection, including the Tatung Einstein, which I don’t remember ever seeing or hearing about before…
From my personal history, the Binatone Pong game on display is I think slightly older than the simple dial paddle controllers than we had hooked up to the TV at home when I was young. No sign of the metal-clad Commodore PET that I remember tinkering with at primary school, but a range of other Commodore machines are on show, including the classic Commodore 64 (I have one of these, from a former Twitter coworker!), and several other models I’m less familar with.
My first home computer, the Acorn Electron, is right there, running Arcadians, a Space Invaders clone I must have spent hours on back in the day. My own Electron ended as a hand-modded machine featuring switchable headphone or regular speaker output. I’m still quite proud of that relatively low-tech little hardware hack from back then.
Next along in my own line would have been the Amstrad CPC (with 3″ disk drive) that my uncle had, and pointed me towards on most visits to his house. I have memories of Jet Set Willy and Manic Miner on that one. The little info card here tells the story of how Alan Sugar did a deal on the disk drives such that Hitachi ended up having to keep making them, at a loss, even though the 3″ disk format was otherwise dead in the water.
My school had a very well-equipped computer room with (I think) about 30 BBC Master and Micro computers, so I was very much an Acorn boy and learned BBC BASIC as my first proper coding language (along with a tiny bit of 6502 assembler). Later on, the computer room was upgraded with Acorn Archimedes, and my brother had an A3000 in his bedroom… I had an Acorn Risc PC with a StrongARM processor, way faster than the x86 PCs available at the time! The BBC Master and A3000 are present and correct in the exhibition (there’s a BBC Micro as well, alongside the Electron).
We also had a Super Nintendo, which is one of the last of the home gaming consoles in the exhibition (I overheard someone say that the Playstation, our next games console as a family, was where gaming all went wrong and 3D and got boring… I can sometimes understand of that point of view!).
As an aside, I had a quick go on Wolfenstein 3D on the Jaguar in the corner there, and the controller for the Jaguar was bonkers! Chunky and not very friendly to use. The graphics seemed decent, with some kind of interpolation at distance? I don’t remember ever actually playing on a Jaguar when they were current…
Pretty much all of the machines had some kind of modification, both to output graphics to the LCD monitors in use, and/or to replace disk drives with some form of USB-floppy emulation, often with a Pi or something else doing the interfacing.
A fun trip down memory lane!
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Buongiorno, non so se sia il posto giusto per questo topic, non ne ho trovati di più pertinenti, in caso spostatemi pure.
Mi chiedevo se esista un modo per seguire profili X e Instagram tramite lettori feed rss o altro. Spulciando su Le alternative ho scaricato Newsblur, non mi permette di seguire i profili che mi interessano, ma vedo che ce ne sono altri suggeriti che invece possono essere seguiti (solo per X).
Magari esiste un generatore specifico da applicare..
Purtroppo le fonti principali di notizie che seguo sono profili di giornalisti Instagram o X, ogni consiglio per smarcarsi da queste piattaforme (gratis) è ben accetto. Grazie in anticipo per la pazienza.
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Da li cerchi gli account che ti servono, poi in alto a destra trovi l'icona per i feed rss. Puoi generare un feed per ogni utente e poi importarlo nel tuo client rss preferito. (Consiglio di non abusare coi profili da seguire altrimenti salta tutto)
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RSS Feed Generator, Create RSS feeds from URL
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ho trovato anche questo ma non so se funziona ancora.
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Come creare feed RSS per gli account di Instagram, Twitter e YouTube - PC Professionale
Grazie ad RSSHub è possibile “generare” feed RSS dagli account social e non solo, così da poterli seguire in totale libertà nel nostro Feed Reader.Alfonso Maruccia (PC Professionale)
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Re: Feed rss per X e Instagram
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ADORO, con Folo (l'app suggerita qui) Twitter si vede benissimo!!! Con Ig non ho ancora capito bene se funziona.. FB non c'è. Cmq fuori uno! 🤩
Come creare feed RSS per gli account di Instagram, Twitter e YouTube - PC Professionale
Grazie ad RSSHub è possibile “generare” feed RSS dagli account social e non solo, così da poterli seguire in totale libertà nel nostro Feed Reader.Alfonso Maruccia (PC Professionale)
ho scoperto che esiste anche un estensione per chrome che dovrebbe facilitare il lavoro.
chromewebstore.google.com/deta…
RSSHub Radar - Chrome Web Store
Easily find and subscribe to RSS and RSSHub.chromewebstore.google.com
Da parte mia aggiungerei Facebook.
Purtroppo tutte queste piattaforme ostacolano attivamente la possibilità di seguire profili da "fuori".
Ti capisco, e, la mia soluzione è, da un lato trovare fonti alternative e accontentarsi, dall'altro portare nel fediverso quelle notizie che trovo dalle altre fonti (che includono telegram e whatsapp nel mio caso).
Se trovi qualcosa, fammi sapere!
amazzonici pacchi per un haul di letture pazzo (Sailor Moon e poca altra roba pagati dalle vostre tasse)
L’altra sera non ho scritto niente a riguardo, ma quello che è accaduto è che ho rapinato un Amazon Locker… inserendo il codice eh, niente danneggiamenti. Ok, sto scherzando; in verità, con la mano diretta di mio padre (che ha banalmente piazzato il suo ordine) ho piuttosto rapinato lo Stato italiano, ordinando circa 100 euroni […]
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amazzonici pacchi per un haul di letture pazzo (Sailor Moon e poca altra roba pagati dalle vostre tasse)
L’altra sera non ho scritto niente a riguardo, ma quello che è accaduto è che ho rapinato un Amazon Locker… inserendo il codice eh, niente danneggiamenti. Ok, sto scherzando; in verità, con la mano diretta di mio padre (che ha banalmente piazzato il suo ordine) ho piuttosto rapinato lo Stato italiano, ordinando circa 100 euroni di libri, per consumare i punti del bonus docenti che rimanevano e a giorni sarebbero scaduti. E però ora sono state, e a breve saranno, rogne, un pochino, perché sono veramente un botto di tavolette di carta. 🤯
Ho consumato il braccio la sera per andare a ritirare questa roba, perché, e vai a capire il motivo, da un lato gli articoli sono stati divisi in due diversi pacchi, uno gigante da 1,28 kg (e maremma bilancia…) e uno più piccolo con solo 2 volumi dentro… e, giustamente, nella busta che mi sono portata per trasportare i pacchi non c’è stato verso di farli entrare tutti e due, quindi un braccio non ha portato quasi niente e l’altro si è tirato al punto da rimanermi moscio per tutta la sera (e ancora adesso lo sento strano, ma forse avrò solo dormito stort). Tutto divertente fino a qui… e in effetti le rogne vere arrivano adesso. 💥Per circa 60€ sono arrivati tutti e 12 i volumi di Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, che è oggettivamente una serie da avere in libreria per ogni ragazza magica che si rispetti; nonché da leggere, immagino, motivo per cui ho già iniziato il primo volume senza preoccuparmi troppo. Poi ho preso un tomone di Zerocalcare, perché essendo lui e i suoi fumetti gnam allora immagino che anche i suoi libri lo siano, e infine qualche altro tomino per arrivare alla cifra da spendere. Poca roba… o almeno sembra, per chi digerisce interi libri su base giornaliera… e invece io, mo’, come minchia me ne esco??? 😱
Io tutto sommato leggo anche tanto, relativamente alla media comune dei (decadutissimi) giorni odierni… però leggo comunque solo quando l’alternativa sarebbe fare puro rotting (a qualsiasi dei livelli del niente); quindi, se raramente magari finisco un intero volume di un manga in 1 o 2 giorni, più spesso un tomino di quelli mi dura di più… talmente di più che ho ancora un paio di cosini da parte comprati con il bonus cultura (il mio, quello) l’anno scorso che ancora non ho recuperato. Ma non è tutta colpa mia, perché nel frattempo sono arrivate altre robe, anche libri non-fumetti, e quindi ops. 😳
Vabbene però, dai, guardiamo il lato positivo: avere tutte queste letture arretrate è buono dal punto di vista che devo necessariamente posticipare il giorno in cui andrò per keepare myself safe… Almeno, questo perché i libri sono arrivati fortunatamente intatti, e quasi tutti perfetti ad un’occhiata veloce; tranne 1 volume della bella ragazza guerriera con la copertina leggermente piegata, ma si è sistemato impilandoci altri libri sopra. Quindi, stavolta sono calma, ma altrimenti per davvero mi incazzavo!!! 😈
P.S: un (1) bacino a tutti i cittadini i-ta-lia-ni! che, pagando le tasse, pagano alla ragazza magica quest’anno i manga, e due anni fa il server che regolarmente serve i frutti del mio lavoro di sviluppo magico per tutti… 🥰
#AmazonHaul #haul #libri #manga #pacchi
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in reply to Davriellelouna • • •Once it stops just 1 school shooter then all schools will have them.
It would be great for law enforcement to use as a non-lethal use. If they use tranquilizer darts for people with a knife and mental unstable.
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in reply to Davriellelouna • • •I predict this will end in complete success.
We shall define "success" later.
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in reply to Davriellelouna • • •Yeah this will go swimmingly. Especially if you’re the supplier of drones to the schools.
These will be purchased, sit in a cabinet and never be charged or maintained. When they are “needed”, no one will know how to operate them or what they can do.
This is a waste of money from the hit git go.
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The US has more guns than its total population. Real GUN CONTROL is needed.
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