Young Workers Haven’t Been Replaced by AI—Economists Are Just Looking for Them in the Wrong Places
Young Workers Haven’t Been Replaced by AI—Economists Are Just Looking for Them in the Wrong Places | Antonio A. Casilli
A new working paper authored by three Stanford researchers, titled "Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence", claims that GenAI has significantly reduced employment opportunities for individ…admin (Antonio A. Casilli)
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Reuters withdraws Xi, Putin longevity video after China state TV pulls legal permission to use it
Reuters News on Friday withdrew a four-minute video containing an exchange between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussing the possibility that humans can live to 150 years old, after China state TV demanded its removal and withdrew the legal permission to use it.
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One child killed every hour in Gaza war: Save the Children
Save the Children says that on average at least one Palestinian child has been killed every hour in Gaza during nearly 23 months of war.
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KLM ground staff announce strike over labour dispute
KLM ground staff, represented by unions CNV and FNV, will stage a strike at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport on Wednesday, September 10, from 8:00–10:00, with a longer four-hour strike planned the following week. The action follows dissatisfaction with a new collective labour agreement signed by KLM and smaller unions.
China criticises Australia, Canada warships in Taiwan Strait
The actions 'send the wrong signals and increase security risks', says a PLA spokesperson.
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China criticises Australia, Canada warships in Taiwan Strait
The actions 'send the wrong signals and increase security risks', says a PLA spokesperson. Read more at straitstimes.com.ST
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Root cause for why Windows 11 is breaking or corrupting SSDs may have been found
The root cause behind why Windows 11 24H2 appeared to be breaking NVMe SSDs may have finally been found.
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Is This The Hidden Part of the Trump-Epstein Drama?
Is This The Hidden Part of the Trump-Epstein Drama?
Let me connect a few dots for you that may be a key part of the Trump-Epstein drama and may even be what Trump has been trying to keep hidden in those files. I’…Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
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Genocide by remote control: Israel's explosive robots devastate Gaza
Genocide by remote control: Israel's explosive robots devastate Gaza
Hamza Shabaan woke up mid-air. A massive blast had hurled him off his mattress, leaving him disoriented and shocked.Mohammed al-Hajjar (Middle East Eye)
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Israeli leadership is treating Gaza like a war crime buffet at this point.
"I mean, if genocide's on the menu, why not sprinkle in a little murder-children-by-starvation and robot warfare? It's my cheat ~~day~~ year and a half, after all."
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US | Trump seeking ways to take over 9/11 memorial in NYC
“Before he meddles with this sacred site, the President should start by honoring survivors and supporting the families of victims,” Gov. Kathy Hochul said in a statement.
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Apple sued by authors over use of books in AI training
Technology giant Apple was accused by authors in a lawsuit on Friday of illegally using their copyrighted books to help train its artificial intelligence systems, part of an expanding legal fight over protections for intellectual property in the AI era.
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Pakistan, China vow to deepen ‘all-weather strategic cooperative’ partnership
Pakistan, China vow to deepen ‘all-weather strategic cooperative’ partnership
PM Shehbaz reaffirms desire to continue working closely with China for the successful implementation of CPEC's next phase with its five new corridors.APP (Dawn)
Global Day of Action: Over 300,000 march in London to demand justice for Gaza
In the 30th National March for Palestine, more than 300,000 people poured into the heart of London today in one of the largest public movements the city has seen in decades, joining the Global Day of Action for Gaza to demand an end to the bloodshed. From Russell Square to Whitehall, streets were transformed into a sea of flags, placards, and chants calling for a permanent ceasefire, an end to Israel’s siege, and accountability for war crimes committed against the Palestinian people.
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Mexico extends labor rights for app delivery and ride share workers
Mexico extends labor rights for app delivery and ride share workers
Tested until January 2026 before being fully implemented, the reform allows workers for companies like Uber and Didi to benefit from the same social rights as salaried employees.Anne Vigna (Le Monde)
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Modi says Russia and India stand together even in difficult times
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"Even in the most difficult situations, India and Russia have always walked shoulder to shoulder," Modi said. "Our close cooperation is important not only for the people of both countries but also for global peace, stability and prosperity.""Had an excellent meeting with President Putin," Modi said on X on Monday, adding that they had discussed cooperating "in all sectors, including trade, fertilisers, space, security and culture."
"Our Special and Privileged Strategic Partnership remains a vital pillar of regional and global stability," Modi said
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ALL of this could have been avoided if the West wasn't cowardly AF and struck back at Russia back in 2014!
the longer we wait the worse it gets, the harder it will be at the end!
Russia is a nuclear state run by a murderous sociopath. There were plenty of legitimate concerns about how they might react to aggressive military action.
Personally, I'm not sure they even have any functioning nukes at this point but there's not enough compelling evidence to back that theory up. Treating them with caution is still warranted.
That said, more should have been done to shore up Ukraine sooner. It was pretty obvious that annexing Crimes was just a test run of the broader objective.
you're just letting him hold the world hostage with that reasoning.
there was an agreement to protect Ukraine. the West failed to uphold their part and now the entirety of democratic Western civilization is on the ropes.
UN experts applaud Brazil veto of controversial environmental licensing bill
UN human rights and environmental experts on Thursday welcomed Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s decision to veto 63 provisions of a sweeping environmental licensing bill, calling the move a decisive step in protecting human rights, Indigenous communities, and the planet.
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UN experts applaud Brazil veto of controversial environmental licensing bill
UN human rights and environmental experts on Thursday welcomed Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s decision to veto 63 provisions of a sweeping environmental licensing bill, calling the mo...Joshua Villanueva | George Washington U. Law School, US (- JURIST - News)
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Trump invites world leaders to put money in his pocket
Trump says he will host the G20 summit at his Doral golf course.
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It doesn't matter how unpopular Vance is. It's a one legal way he can get power without election process.
And unlike Trump, Vance is not stupid. He's been groomed his whole life for this.
It doesn't matter how unpopular Vance is. It's a one legal way he can get power without election process.
And unlike Trump, Vance is not stupid. He's been groomed his whole life for this.
It doesn't matter how unpopular Vance is. It's a one legal way he can get power without election process.
And unlike Trump, Vance is not stupid. He's been groomed his whole life for this.
It doesn't matter how unpopular Vance is. It's a one legal way he can get power without election process.
And unlike Trump, Vance is not stupid. He's been groomed his whole life for this.
Edit: Ignore the other messages. Network error poped up and posted the same message 4 times for some reason.
How would I turn an old android phone into a music streaming server
I have an old android xiaomi phone with 128 GB of storage that I want to use as a music streaming server that I can access from my current phone and computer.
I want to know if this is possible and if it is, can it be done without rooting?
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If you're hoping to use your phone as is and just install a "server app" onto it to use as a streaming service, I have some bad news for you.
That's definitely not gonna work. If you think you're gonna be able to run a server without root, that's also probably not going to work.
You're most likely going to have to install a custom ROM onto your phone or some version of Linux onto your phone in order to do the thing you want to do.
I don't have much knowledge of it, but the Android communities will probably be the better place to reach out about running a server from a phone
No, I totally understand that, but for the thing you're doing, if you take away piracy, you're just trying to run a server on an Android phone, so you're gonna find better results in an Android forum from sysadmins who want to run a server.
People get nervous with torrenting and pirating, so when you go on the Android forums, don't mention that's the reason you're looking for this.
whatever you go with, you might have an issue with it being constantly plugged in if that's your plan.
I used to run a piratebox off a nexus s years ago and I'd regularly unplug it to let it run off the battery for a while. constant charging can cause excess heat and that's not good for the battery.
Constant plugin isn't actually the problem. When the battery's in good condition, they can stay plugged in and it only charges when it hits 99%, it stops again at 100. But as the battery gets older, the cells degrade and the resistance gets higher. They can start trying to push to 100% when it can no longer get here. At that point, they're supposed to be some smart software to determine that you can no longer charge to that level and reduce the capacity that tries to charge to. But if you never discharge fully and recharge that software often doesn't work.
The best solution for the condition is to use software that makes the phone stop charging it 80%. It takes the battery a very, very long time to lose 20% of its capacity if you don't hit the overcharging over temperature issues.
Having the battery stop at 50% or 80% the battery will probably outlast the hardware.
Is there such software
There is an app but is also requires a dongle: chargie.org/
smart charging limiter and scheduler for phones and laptops
Chargie is a smart charging limiter and scheduler for phones, laptops, and any device that uses lithium ion batteries.Chargie
I wouldn't. I like the idea of repurposing old electronics, but the issue is, it's meant to be a low powered device meant to run off a battery.
You can run Plex off a RPi and those are like $20. A bit more if you want the case and heatsinks and such. They are also (similar to the Android) low powered ARM64 computers, but the hardware and software is more open.
I also have an old 128GB Android phone. I use it as a cosplay prop and I treat it like an iPod Touch. I'm primarily an iPhone guy, so of course it has Apple Music on it, but I also know Android and know where Android excels, so it also has Firefox with uBlock Origin, and Nova Launcher Prime. It's way better to type on because the iOS keyboard has always been dogshit.
Also, you're in the Piracy community. Not to be pedantic, but this is where you'd go to ask how to get the files to populate your music streaming server with. That's my weakness there — I mostly self-host stuff I've bought and ripped myself. There are good tools and you'll find good advice here, but something something old dogs, something something new tricks (me being the old dog, not you, unless you are, in which case, good on you for trying to break the mould). Right. So, what you want is the Self-Hosted community. Don't ask them about where to get the music (that's this community), but they can help on hardware and software. Me, I just use Plex, and I host it off a Mac mini. My desktop computer. You don't need to spend nearly that much on a server. My Mac is a couple generations out now, but it's still overkill for a music server.
The only time I use either of my phones as servers in any capacity is to like send a few files or something — and yes, I can do it just as capably with either. Honestly though both of them can easily host a file server another phone (either platform) can connect to and download from.
You can run Plex off a RPi and those are like $20
Non-Zero Pi models haven't been even close to $20 for a while now. Any Pi these days is gonna be $60-80 for a fully functioning setup (Pi + SD + case + power adapter), at the minimum. And I wouldn't run Plex off a Pi Zero, those have more or less the same specs as the 1st/2nd gen Pis.
Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms
This consolidation of power is a dream come true for the Big Tech platforms, but it’s a nightmare for users. While the megacorporations get more traffic and a whole lot more user data (read: profit), users are left with far fewer community options and a bland, corporate surveillance machine instead of a vibrant public sphere. The internet we all fell in love with is a diverse and colorful place, full of innovation, connection, and unique opportunities for self-expression. That internet—our internet—is worth defending.
Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms
If you live in Mississippi, you may have noticed that you are no longer able to log into your Bluesky or Dreamwidth accounts from within the state. That’s because, in a chilling early warning sign for the U.S.Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Hopefully, in the EU at least, the verification will be provided by the government. Like a 2FA, meaning Big Tech would only get a verified token and nothing else.
The government already got passports with our face, and have had it for many years. They could use that information.
That would mean that any platform could implement this verification, and never get hold on any data.
Best case in a shitty scenario, I know.
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When I was in highschool my friends parents had child lock bullshit on his computer, poor sod couldn't even goto wikipedia because there are articles with naughty words.
This shit is real slippery slope shit.
We need to reframe the discussion from "it's for the children" to "it's for lazy parents".
People are keen to scapegoat parents, and here it's the truth. They don't want to use existing opt-in controls, or put the damn computer where they can keep an eye on Little Timmy while he uses it. Make the entirery of the legal system do it for you!
Ok, so I also hate the "protect the children" argument, and there are certainly plenty of lazy parents around.
However, if everyone 10 year old at school has a phone and a Facebook account, it's just so much more difficult for parents who are not lazy to hold the line. Its an extraordinarily difficult situation. You'd make your kid's a pariah by upholding a basic standard of care.
By prohibiting access for kids you set the basic societal standard. Yes it will be circumvented but you enable parents to uphold appropriate restrictions.
Is it worth it? Probably not. Its not a good thing but as a dad I can see the intention.
I'm surprised there isn't more of a crowdsourced solution-- community maintained block/allow lists and pluggable tools.
Part of the reason filters suck right now is that they're sold to turboprudes and people pushing compliance solutions that will placate litigious turboprudes. So you get blocking all of Wikipedia and .edu/.gov because three pages have an anatomical diagram of a breast. The kids are frustrated, normal parents have to keep unblocking legit stuff, and nobody wins.
If you could pick from easily managed lists sponsored by groups you personally trusted, with responsive appeals systems, people might be more willing to use them.
The ad-blocker ecosystem has a lot of precedent for how to work this stuff.
You make a good point. Now, I have 2 kids (12 and 10), and they use phones (when one of us allow them to). However, and thank God for that, the school they go to has banned cell phones entirely, which effectively reduces the unsupervised exposure to stuff we don't want them to be on yet. Additionally, I removed everything 'big tech' from those phones, so they use Signal to communicate with their friends and family, get to stream content from my Jellybean instance, and have all types of DAV in my server to keep files, contacts, calendars and whatnot synchronized. Plus, I keep them tracked with my own Traccar instance when they go out, and I audit their devices pretty regularly.
I am all too aware we cannot shield them from everything. Some things will fall through the cracks, but that's been the case even when we were kids (dad playboy mag left carelessly somewhere easy to grab?). This does not mean that I will allow, or even want, the government of any country deciding how my kids are raised. That's my wife's and my job, nobody else's.
Having said that, I wholeheartedly agree with the fact that lazy parents are the ones that help the obscure intent of governments and large corporations drive this kind of shit to spy and control us.
Unfortunately the largest percentage of parents worldwide are just that lazy and irresponsible, and unless they change that, this will be the life and challenge of actually responsible parents. Sadly, I don't see those parents suddenly caring for their kids,it just doesn't happen. Why would they drop such convenience?
Don’t worry, soon enough all the SMUT will be eliminated and only the good word of the LORD will be on-line. The solution to all our problems!
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Same. I hardly use youtube and will pirate anything I want to see.
I am planning on open sourcing phones and computers too.
Silicon valley parasites can do their age verification without me, that is the last straw, I hardly use now anyway.
Facebook is kinda unavoidable here.
I have young kids, and marketplace has saved me thousands of dollars. Kids need a lot of different stuff at different ages and it's nice to be able to flip the stuff you dont need anymore and get the stuff they do need second hand.
Also messenger, what's app. My apartment building has a what's app group thats invaluable. I talk to customers on messenger.
I think everyone feels that way. All you can do is just try to stick to the bits you really need.
I would def think about paying someone to manage your business page.
Plenty of people have second-hand items to sell without using fb marketplace.
Where? Craigslist has become a pit. eBay is not cost effective for large items that are expensive to ship.
That's not really true.
I live in a fairly small city. There might be other platforms but they're not in common use.
I can list a box of toddler clothes and they'll sell in a week, while other platforms perhaps they won't sell at all.
Then you dont ever get to complain. You have other options, but its too hard for you, so youd rather just contribute to pissing away freedoms and privacy. Its because of people like you, who wont put up with even a little discomfort, that we are where we are. They keep pushing, and people like just keep on saying "OK".
If we are ever to stop this increasingly vile push to have us be endlessly profiled, its unfortunately going to have to be people like you that finally grow a fucking back bone. So yeah, we're fucked...
Oh my sweet summer child. One day the light of idealism will fade from your eyes just as it does for everyone who is not 15.
I'm not contributing to pissing away freedoms and privacy, but I'm not going to inconvenience myself on ideological grounds.
LOL. Settle down mate.
You can call me names if it makes you feel better.
I couldn't care less if fb knows I'm selling toddler clothes.
I, and everyone else who is not 15, will continue selling my junk on facebook.
Wao, you actually think that's all they know and therefore that's the only data they would share and profit from?
OK, then I totally understand why you are so complacent about it. It all makes sense now.
It is totally avoidable, you will find new ways to handle your business. You have to stop using their service, they are a cancer on our society and they are actively engaging in propaganda for genocide amongst many other shitty things.
The sooner you pull the trigger the better off you will be. It is past time to move on.
Not really. I use my tech for both.
How does that matter?
Logging in to fb marketplace in a containered tab isn't a big deal.
Well, sure ok it's "avoidable" in the sense that I'm not forced to engage with facebook or any other company or platform.
However, the imposition on my daily functioning and ability to interact with my peers would be severely disaffected.
If there's a group of a dozen people that I know in person who are interacting on whats app, then if I want to interact with them I need to use whats app.
users are left with far fewer community options
Where is the fediverse in this analysis?
Edit: The article references Bluesky fleeing Mississippi due to risk of fines. Do admins running fediverse instances run similar risks?
Bluesky was the first platform to make the announcement. In a public blogpost, Bluesky condemned H.B. 1126’s broad scope, barriers to innovation, and privacy implications, explaining that the law forces platforms to “make every Mississippi Bluesky user hand over sensitive personal information and undergo age checks to access the site—or risk massive fines.” As Bluesky noted, “This dynamic entrenches existing big tech platforms while stifling the innovation and competition that benefits users.” Instead, Bluesky made the decision to cut off Mississippians entirely until the courts consider whether to overturn the law.
Our Response to Mississippi’s Age Assurance Law - Bluesky
A new Mississippi law requires us to block full access to Bluesky unless all users complete age checks. We have concerns about this law’s implementation.Bluesky
Eugen issued a statement that Mastodon is physically incapable of implementing age verification and that thedecentralized nature of the fediverse means there is no central authority that can block regions which define these laws.
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IANAL, but I imagine under the laws, they would go after individual instance owners to mandate verification. The laws have no provision for third party software, so it would fall to the courts, but most instances don’t have the funds to fight it.
Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws | TechCrunch
Decentralized social network Mastodon says it cannot comply with age verification laws, like in Mississippi and elsewhere, and says it's up to individual server owners to decide.Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
No, as soon as you ask the government to send a site a token verifying you, you’ve given up your privacy to the government.
Also, how are smaller sites going to pay for this service? This is the tech bros using the religious nuts to pull the ladder up behind them. Locking in the monopoly. The only answer is the freedom we’ve had for the last 35 years.
Well, as much as I hate it, there's no privacy when it comes to your government, and this is the case even since the internet was a thing.
Yes, we can keep some stuff obscured from the government, but the fact is that they know everything about us since we are born (probably even before). We need driver's license, passport, bank accounts, registering homes, cars, even dogs, putting kids in the school system, health services, the list seems infinite.
But that does not mean we have to stop pushing back, because if we do, we're utterly fucked.
My government doesn't know everything about me. Look at the news and how long it takes for basic information about a high profile criminal to come out. It takes a lot of investigative effort to put all that info together, even if it's all largely from various government agencies.
Some stuff is easy to track (e.g. registrations), but a lot isn't. That means there's absolutely precedent for privacy from the government on things that don't matter to it. Why should the welfare department need information about my driving history or whether I have a passport? It doesn't, so it shouldn't have access.
Right, like Al Capone got caught for tax evasion instead of all the murders and whatnot. If they're digging, they'll find it, and they can get almost anything with a warrant.
My point is that governments are generally pretty dysfunctional with information sharing, so even if they have a piece of information, it's unlikely the appropriate agency has it. They're getting more and more information the more crap like age verification gets passed, but that doesn't change the dysfunction between agencies.
I can never disagree with this premise. Government institutions are dysfunctional and broken as hell, regardless of the country we're referring to. And that alone supports your point, so I have to say, you are right, not one single institution has all our info. The sum of all of them may, however, have it all. Should they choose to organize all our data and have it centralized (say one database for all institutions to feed from) it's just a matter of merging the data and giving all of them access, even if they use different systems.
That's where I'm going with this. We do need to obscure as much as we can, but knowing what we're not able to keep private anymore is pivotal to focus on those things that we can keep under our control.
Agreed.
My point is that it's not hopeless. We can have reasonable privacy today, and we can change the laws to protect the rest. If we just assume we don't have privacy, our governments will continue to take.
2) hopefully you get it from another trusted person.
You can't always simply VPN around it. I applied for a job via one of the popular job sites. Tried to log back in to the job site a week later only to to find my account had been blocked until I provide proof of ID to a US based third party company ...I'm in Europe. Spoiler alert: I did not provide proof of ID & so have no idea whether or not I was a suitable applicant for the job.
Guess i won't be job hunting through that site again. The whole thing is farcical.
I completely agree. The minute a platform asks me to do age verification is the moment I leave that platform.
I will take my traffic to platforms that won't do shit like that.
Some of them. Yes, many others not so much. Are you not realizing the thread you're commenting on here?
That smaller site services and companies who really don't want to collect this data are going to be forced to at an expense that may be too high for their entry point into the market they're trying to work in?
Or even worse websites or services that are hosted for free may have to incur costs they cannot afford for data they don't want to collect.
Ah you meant like that...
Yeah, the power these companies have over our lives is very disturbing. They have positioned themselves as something most academic people really need, at least linkedin has.
I personally don't use Instagram already, no need to wait for age verification.
WhatsApp is the one I can't skip yet, but it they force this shit I'm out.
May I suggest using Signal messenger over WhatsApp.
WhatsApp does use the Signal messaging protocol but I don't trust meta not to modify their implementation of it.
Signal is a privacy at all costs foundation.
Depends on the nature of the platform. It is not good for small commercial entities that will be required to enact a ID verification system because it will increase the cost of entry to the market.
Increasing the cost of entry will benefit large corporations that will easily absorb the cost. Platforms that don't require it will likely be unaffected.
It is not good for small commercial entities that will be required to enact a ID verification system because it will increase the cost of entry to the market.
As someone who works in this space, I doubt it’s going to be an issue for smaller entities. We already have SSO for basic login identity from a variety of providers (Microsoft, Facebook, Google, Apple) — smaller sites already love to use these as it provides easy access to existing users, and saves a ton of coding for having to handle login information, password management, etc.
These same entities can handle the age verification. Now I can see arguments as to why centralizing logins and age verification like this could be a problem for users, but if I decided to start my own social media app tomorrow I’d likely rely on the big platforms to handle all of this (as we already see everywhere — heck, app for ordering pizza support Facebook, Google, and Apple logins), and save myself the cost and hassle of implementing this myself (never mind the potential embarrassment and liability should someone hack my site). Then it’s on those platforms to worry about age verification.
All of these services are currently free, and save you from a ton of coding around user accounts and authentication, so using them is usually cheaper then having to DIY it.
I could see it being an issue for more privacy-oriented sites. I imagine some Lemmy and Mastodon users might be less inclined to have to login to Apple, Google or Microsoft to be able to interact with others even if the vast majority of users are fine with it. Would be nice for somebody to come up with an open-source service that handles some more basic age verification so other services can just self-host it instead of each platform implementing their own logins. By basic age verification I mean things like matching user behaviour to users with a known age and maybe some face scanning. Nowhere near perfect and it’s a constant cat and mouse game, but maybe enough to be compliant with the law.
If age verification wasn’t being made mandatory in Australia for social media sites I think it could be a great idea for some services especially if the verification is done by the government with the same level as photo ID. Think dating apps, finance and marketplace sites where having a higher level of confidence that the person you are talking to is who they say they really matters, especially if law enforcement need to be involved down the line. Even if you the user can’t verify the identity of the other person, law enforcement could, and the site might be able to block alt accounts. The credential theft problem still exists of course so it’s no silver bullet, but it’s a lot better than what we have now.
And that’s just fine. Considering how many people do login with those services, I doubt any that use the SSO services will particularly miss you and the small subset of users who don’t want to let a third-party service confirm your login.
That’s not meant as snark — every app and website out there has some subset of users who will decry “I won’t use that because it does X”. And that’s fine. It’s a personal decision. But it likely won’t significantly affect development decisions, as it’s going to happen with some group for some reason anyway.
currently free
And that’s always worked out in the past, hasn’t it?
Imagine putting your entire business in a position where one of Google’s half-assed AIs could decide tomorrow at zero notice to cut you off from your entire user base.
This is why most apps that do use such services use more than one. Lots of modern sites have buttons for “Login with Google”, “Login with Facebook”, “Login with Apple”. None of them want to lose access to the user data and analytics they get from these services — so I doubt one is going to jump into cutting you off or requiring payment while the others are still free.
It would take all of these services to (illegally) coordinate to suddenly start charging — and of all of them I don’t see that being in the interest at all for Apple. Apple’s login service uses Touch and Face ID on their devices, and is part of the selling point for those devices (extremely easy logins with no password). They’re not making their money off Single Sign-On (SSO) login services — they make their money off selling devices, and they make the case for selling these devices in large part by selling “simplicity”.
So if you’re worried today about a login service yanking the rug out from under you, you just implement many/all of them. It’s not significantly more work — all of them are based off OAuth — so long as your website or app can authenticate via OAuth you just need to use the APIs each company provides to implement the authentication, and you’re done.
Nothing them stops you as you get bigger form implementing your own login/authentication service — and if you ever get big enough, you too can offer it as a service for other websites.
Depends on the platform surely, couldn't a lemmy instance just ignore the UK? Not block, ignore.
I am sure I saw that smaller platforms are seeing a surge in popularity because they are not doing it while pornhub saw a large drop. How many switched to a VPN and how many use another site?
Most of the smaller sites are doing just that. But mainstream sites do have identification in place.
I still think it's a clearly designed plan by VPN providers to make themselves relevant.
Even safer might be that image that's been circulating. It states that if you're in the UK, the hosting site is required to verify your age, but they're not required to verify your location. Now, please click on of these buttons indicating whether or not you're in the UK to determine whether age verification must be performed.
(Presumably "I am in the UK" leads to an innocuous website)
I don't think I agree, as I think almost any individual clicking those buttons could extrapolate that there was some subterfuge involved, but I do appreciate your take.
Did you see the original meme to which I'm referring?
It makes more sense to cordon off all parts of the internet with identity/age verification and consider them destroyed. I'd like to have an IP banlist of all participants in his harebrained scheme, just rip off the bandair immediately rather than have them shit the bed down the line.
Maybe the gov is just going to have to go
Guyana holds election amid oil boom, tensions with Venezuela
Guyana holds election amid oil boom, tensions with Venezuela
Polling has concluded for the presidential race in Guyana. The contest is broadly between three main political parties vying for the leadership of the oil-rich nation.Dharvi Vaid (Deutsche Welle)
Trial of Brazil's ex-President Bolsonaro enters final phase
Jair Bolsonaro: Trial of Brazil's ex-president enters final phase
The former president is accused of plotting a coup to remain in power after he lost the 2022 election.Ione Wells (BBC News)
Gaza flotilla with Greta Thunberg on board departs Barcelona
Gaza flotilla with Greta Thunberg on board departs Barcelona
Around 20 boats have left the port of Barcelona with Greta Thunberg and aid supplies on board.Gabriela Pomeroy (BBC News)
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I have to say I don't get this. They keep trying again and again but to what end. There's no way this will change anything. The navy will intercept them, maybe kill some people in the process, dump the food and sent them back home. It all feels like a huge waste of manpower, resources and time.
But by this point I'm wondering if Greta feels like she's achieving much with the make noise strategy. I feel like that could work in a world that cares which ours increasingly is not that. She could attain more by going into politics for example. But dying in the sea on her way to a brick wall would be a huge loss that I can't follow the logic of.
My guess is it's a form of highly visible and publicized protest.
The fact that you now know about this event and who is involved and talking about it here proves they have been successful.
They don't really care if the food arrives or not, they just want you to pay attention to their humanitarian efforts and how it's being diverted.
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It all feels like a huge waste of manpower, resources and time.
Go ahead and explain to us a better way
Politics where? The United States? Israel? Who has the power to do anything at all about this?
She'd have to literally become the President of the United States, which is literally impossible since she was born in Sweden.
There's politics and establishment politics.
What Greta is doing is a political act, it raises global awareness, which puts pressure on politicians to act or risk losing their offices to folks who will.
Don't get me wrong I would love to see her run for office. I think it would need to be something with authority though to do as much good as she is now.
Like Prime Minister or whatever they call the top position in her country.
Even if she didn't win, she could move the needle a lot.
But that's just one country, what she's doing now moves the hearts and minds of folks globally.
I already did in broad terms. I would target politics, start a party or movement, grab power, votes and influence, take the helm and actually enact policy and put pressure where it hurts.
These activists must be really stupid to put their life at risk when they can simply win elections, grab power and change policies...
Yeah, if the bully keeps beating your friends up, and they are way stronger... Why try to stop them?
Politics is a great idea. Maybe if she was a Minister in her home country of Sweden she could draft a formal letter of disapproval! That works really well for the US Democrats.
It's best to not make any figurative or literal waves. Best to stay in one's lane.
Sure:
“Publicity stunt” is just an objectively accurate description of activism, in this case.
If Israel does not let them through like last time then boom we have publicity of Israel actively denying food to Palestinians.
If Israel does let them through then they get to give aid to people in need.
So it’s either an aid mission or publicity stunt depending on what Israel decides to do.
So you agree that that is the publicity stunt part, which the activists can then use to shine yet another light on the evil that is the Israeli government.
Let me ask you this, what are you doing to make the world better or shine a light on things?
So you agree that that is the publicity stunt part, which the activists can then use to shine yet another light on the evil that is the Israeli government.
Yes, that is very often the point of activism.
Like not long ago we had a string of climate activists basically vandalizing random art and monuments. People called it great activism (especially here on lemmy), because it got attention. Even though these actions obviously couldn't have any direct impact on the core problem that was protested.
So I think this flotilla is already much better activism. At least they are trying to do something meaningful, even if the attention is the main objective. I feel like you somehow think that I disapprove of this action. That's not the case.
Let me ask you this, what are you doing to make the world better or shine a light on things?
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Statement by Prime Minister Carney on Canada’s recognition of a Palestinian state
For decades, it was hoped that this outcome would be achieved as part of a peace process built around a negotiated settlement between the Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority.Prime Minister of Canada
What in the world kind of thinking is this? Yeah, there’s a war going on and Russia is targeting civilian centers and are clearly the invading aggressor, but that is not on the same level as the full blown genocide happening in Gaza/West Bank. The fact that they could easily get into Ukraine and deliver food…means they don’t have to. What.
There is an actual famine happening in Gaza. Starvation is being used as a weapon of war and attrition against the entire civilian population. There are only upsides to them trying this: either aid gets through and some people survive a little longer, or it doesn’t, and it proves to the entire world—that happens to be sitting on their hands over the genocide—that this is real and needs way more attention and pressure. What don’t you understand about that?
It’s attempting to break an illegal and genocidal blockade of necessary survival items. The fact that the blockade exists means they should respect it?
Look what they’ve already done: started thousands of conversations about it. It’s already mountains more than you or I have ever done to help the people of Gaza. Your opinion is ridiculous. But it also shows how necessary these actions are.
it's a illegal blockage, if they tried to do it in secret it would 100% fail, it's a humanitarian aid flotilla, not a military stealth ship.
if anything the more public eyes on this the better.
That makes a bigger headline, and shows more and more people care about the Palestinian people.
Is there a downside here? Why are people upset by this concept?
Just because powerful bullies are unlikely to lose, doesn't mean it's not worth defying them.
That being said, genocide through purposeful mass starvation is quite possibly the most heinous crime that exists. God bless anyone does anything at all to fight against it
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An easy PR win by letting them enter a war zone? You can only lose by doing that. For an easy PR win, they could just let the trucks enter Gaza.
I give it a 30% chance that Israel military kills them and blames Hamas, a 60% chance that Hamas kills them and blames it on Israel... And a 10% chance of surviving...
I give it a 30% chance that Israel military kills them and blames Hamas, a 60% chance that Hamas kills them and blames it on Israel… And a 10% chance of surviving…
They've been doing this May and I don't think anyone has died/gone "missing" in the Flotillas yet. Israel doesn't want the PR win, they usually use the opportunity of the news media's attention being turned to the Flotillas to launch some extra drone strikes in Gaza. Murdering Palestinians is much more important to them.
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An easy PR win is letting the trucks in.
Letting opposing, famous people (who would of course also take and share pictures from the war reality) enter the war zone without anyone getting hurt or killed by anyone else (with Israel military, Hamas and Islamic Dschihad involved) is probably the most complicated PR win ever...
Apart from that, it of course lets the question come up "Why is Greta allowed to enter, but not actual help organizations?". And it seems that they don't want such a precedent, because otherwise, they could easily allow the trucks to pass.
Oh no, I 100% agree with everything you've said here.
My point was 1) the flotillas have been happening for a few months now and has gotten more people sympathetic to the situation (Greta for example live-streamed being boarded and captured by the IDF in...June I think?) and 2) The IDF don't WANT the easy PR win. They want Gaza empty.
Doesn't really matter when anyone can just go on Google Maps and see nearly every single building in Gaza has been destroyed
Pretty impressive that they had Hamas in each of these buildings, eh?
Obligatory fuck Israel.
Oh, it matters. You think most people are going to look on Google Maps themselves?
Quick, gut-punching visuals and stupid soundbites are the name of the game in public opinion. Even if news agencies were to show this map, it's way more abstract and remote. The impact wouldn't be the same as a starving, swollen baby.
"War zone" is an interesting thing to call the world's largest death camp.
"60% chance Hamas kills them" lol sure, whatever islamaphobic fantasies get you off pal.
The only reason you would rate them higher is because you, like most in the West have been propagandized to demonize Muslims
Wow... I'm talking about Hamas terrorists and do not even mention a religion, but your brain seems to really really really want to connect that to regular Muslims... Why???? Can we please stop acting like Hamas/Islamic Dschihad and average Muslims are the same???? Please??? Doing that seems to actually be islamophobic.....
especially ones who take up arms to defend from invaders
If we are talking about Hamas, we are talking about those how also kind of caused the invasion....... And yes, I know, the conflict did not start 2 years ago. It kind of started with the Balfour Declaration.
They caused the invasion but also this started with the Balfour Declaration
Yes, it's more complicated than you seem to understand.
There was a recent cause for the current escalation: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_…
But the whole conflict lasts longer.
If you want, I could ask ChatGPT to simplify that for you.
If they let her in... She never went in.
I thought, that was kind of obvious...
You can only lose by doing that.
You're not wrong. As soon as they let in one group of foreign aid workers, others follow. And then you run the risk of people ending the engineered famine.
Sort of defeats the point of doing a genocide if outsiders can just feed the people you're trying to starve to death.
a 60% chance that Hamas kills them
I swear to God, the average Zionist's understanding of a Palestinian is somewhere between Ayatollah Khomemi and The Terminator.
They've got no food, but they still have anti-ship missiles?
I talked about “Hamas”, not about random people
There is no difference between the two in the eyes of the Lavender AI.
If you're baited into opposing "Hamas", it is only a matter of time before you're defending an airstrike on a hospital or the IDF gang rape of a general surgeon.
If you’re baited into opposing “Hamas”
I kind of got baited into opposing Hamas by.... Let me check.... Ahm... by Hamas!
That does not mean that I'm not also opposing Netanyahu and his far right assholes.
Both sides have terrible governments.
Both sides
Where is the Palestinian government in Gaza? Name one living state official in the territory.
I don't exactly understand the question. Hamas is the de facto government since 2007.
If you want to, we can use a different word like "leaders" or "rulers" or "dictators" or "those in power", if the word "government" does fit...
Or do you want to question whether Hamas still holds the power in Gaza?
Hamas is the de facto government since 2007.
Palestinians haven't been allowed normal elections since a plurality of the party won office. They've been under IDF martial law, with no working civilian government or democratic process, precisely because the Israelis didn't want to let a Hamas-aligned civilian leadership hold any kind of power.
Or do you want to question whether Hamas still holds the power in Gaza?
Who is the Hamas PM? Name any Hamas minister. Name a Hamas MP, even. A Hamas Mayor? Police chief? Dogcatcher?
Name any single living Hamas politician.
Can you? How can a party hold power if all of its leadership have been executed?
What exactly is the point?
I can name you only 2 people from the Israel government. Does that mean that there are only 2? No.........
Why are the names relevant? When there is a new hostage deal, there will be armed Hamas people with face masks forcing the hostages on a stage... Ask those Hamas guys what their names are... To be honest: I don't care about their names at all. Them doing what they are doing clearly shows who's in power.
We all know that Hamas did not want any fair elections. I mean... Read this...
After Hamas's June 2007 takeover, it ousted Fatah-linked officials from positions of power and authority (such as government positions, security services, universities, newspapers, etc.) and strove to enforce law by progressively removing guns from the hands of peripheral militias, clans, and criminal groups, and gaining control of supply tunnels. According to Amnesty International, under Hamas rule, newspapers were closed down and journalists were harassed.[191] Fatah demonstrations were forbidden or suppressed, as in the case of a large demonstration on the anniversary of Yasser Arafat's death, which resulted in the deaths of seven people, after protesters hurled stones at Hamas security forces.[192]
(from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Str…)
Can you? How can a party hold power if all of its leadership have been executed?
Why exactly can a dead person in power not be replaced with a living one?
With that logic, we can not talk about Mexico, Sweden, Finland and Kazakhstan. I don't know anyone from their governments and I don't care about their names at all... "Genocidal mentality", I guess...
Good that you know all of their names!!!111 A win for humanity!!!111
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Zionazis could get an easy PR win
In liberal corners of the United States and Europe, maybe. But in Israel this would be viewed as a humiliation and a defeat.
"The J's".
Yeah, we can tell who you are here. You sound like an antisemite if you're going with that approach.
Not all Jewish people in the world are for this genocide. Israel is commiting this atrocity, not every Jewish person.
What would you call a group of boats?
I'm being told by the IDF that a group of boats carrying food and medical aid is called a "publicity stunt".
I'm also being told it's Hamas.
2) Pawn becomes any other piece when it reach its destination including a Queen.
3) that is a lame comment that makes no sense.
Pawns are the first pieces to be sacrificed in a game of chess. How deep did you go to pull out this comment?
Maybe the first to loose a pawn in game are statisticaly more prone to loosing. But that's will be Tue reason of being the worse players not that the piece in itself is so important.
People say it's a publicity stunt. Well so what. Greta knows if she goes, cameras and reporters will follow. It's the same thing Lady Diana did when traveling to 3rd world nations....she knew that she alone wouldn't make a difference, but the cameras and reporters that follow her would.
Greta is doing what most of us only discuss....helping. and if she helps by keeping Isreal's hypocrisy in the news, then she wins.
People say it’s a publicity stunt.
Shortly before the IDF bombs another Reuters photojournalist team, sure.
and if she helps by keeping Isreal’s hypocrisy in the news, then she wins.
If she really wanted to help, she'd be campaigning for Kamala Harris for President.
That's what I'm told Palestinians actually want.
She was in Norway like a week ago. Woman's busy.
She would be better of protesting in Saudi Arabia or stopping some russian shadow fleet ships before supplying the Russian war machine.
We got the Temu version of a radical protestant instead.
???
Why would that be better? I'm interested to hear how you think that would be more effective and within her "power".
There has never been any hope that they'd get the food through. This is all about showing people that Israel are willing to arrest and deport them.
My main critisism is that it isn't going to change anything because:
- No country is going to allow people who aren't refugees to illegally enter their territory like this. Israel arresting these people and deporting them isn't new. So Israel doing something every other country would do is a non-story.
- This isn't going to convince anyone who has agreed with Israel's action up to this point because, they already tried it before, and denying aid to palestinians is not their worst crime. Anyone who could be swayed by this action, was swayed more than a year ago, when it was crystal clear Israel was purposely murdering civillians.
So to me, this comes off as an attempt to get media attention, with a happening that does nothing to help the people they really want to help, changing no ones mind, and all without actually being anything but a slight inconvenience to Israel, making their coastguards take a slight detour to arrest a few people.
Sure, it's more than I've done, and more than I care to do, and I'm sure a lot of people are going to be very angry, because I don't think this will matter in the slightest. I'm sympathetic to their course, but this just reeks too much of a bunch of privilaged kids, wanting to make a name for themselves, so they load a boat up with food, alcohol and weed, have a bunch of fun on the way, get sent home when they reach their destination, and hope they get to talk to the media.
The flotilla is not sailing to Israeli territory. They are sailing to Gaza, which is under an illegal military occupation.
Not even the Israeli government claims Gaza as Israeli territory (yet). The government is trying to ethnically cleanse the Gaza strip so they can flood it with settlements, establishing facts on the ground for an eventual annexation.
That’s why the flotilla is trying to bring food and medical aid to Gaza.
Ukrainian forces turn to unmanned ground vehicles to counter drones
Ukrainian forces turn to unmanned ground vehicles to counter drones
Specialized Ukrainian units using unmanned ground vehicles are emerging across all brigades. These machines already carry out most supply runs and evacuations on the front lines.Emmanuel Grynszpan (Le Monde)
New law in Burkina Faso bans homosexuality
New law in Burkina Faso bans homosexuality
Lawmakers in the country's unelected parliament have approved fines and prison sentences for persons convicted. Homosexuality is illegal in around 30 African countries, but not until now in Burkina Faso, whose military seized power three years ago.Le Monde with AFP (Le Monde)
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- "we want to break with our colonial past"
- embraces ideology originating in former colonial powers
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Homophobia in Africa: The American far-right's footprint
Investigations reveal how American far-right activists are contributing to rising anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment in Africa. With funding and support from Uganda to Nigeria, they're influencing laws and public opinion.Martina Schwikowski (Deutsche Welle)
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Every of these organizations should be banned from Europe, with their leaders and members monitored afterwards like potential terrorists, or European democracies will fall in favor of Seven Mountain Dominion flavored christian fascism.
I have a feeling that the great anti-islam and "cultural christianity" in the atheist movement was a psyop.
Homophobia isn't universal, but it's not an uncommon cultural feature either.
Racism, specifically centering around skin colour and related features, is actually pretty recent and pretty Western. In ancient times they hated over different things. Religion was obviously big in the medieval period, food preferences come up surprisingly often if you go all the way back to clay tablet times.
Raceism, specifically centering around skin colour and related features, is actually pretty recent and pretty Western.
If I may take a guess, it's also because up until historically recently, larger groups of ethnicities didn't know that other such groups existed. To be racist, you need to be aware of people you'd clarify as another race
Nah, people did move around a bit. Herodotus discusses the "Aetheops" (subsaharan Africans) in his Histories, for example. Rome straight up had emperors who we wouldn't consider white.
The real catalyst seems to have been the situation in the New World, where coincidentally black slaves were suddenly cheap and abundant, and the colonisers where much lighter than the natives. It was a convenient worldview, basically.
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Ten years after the migration crisis, Germany assesses Merkel's 'Wir schaffen das' legacy
Ten years after the migration crisis, Germany assesses Merkel's 'Wir schaffen das' legacy
'We will manage,' Chancellor Angela Merkel declared on August 31, 2015, as hundreds of thousands of refugees, particularly from Syria, sought asylum in the country.Elsa Conesa (Le Monde)
China reveals potent tech powering high-orbit radar satellite wonder
China declassifies tech of world’s first high-orbit radar satellite, worrying US
Disclosures about surveillance satellite Ludi Tance 4-01confirm numerous breakthroughs in sensitive, electronic warfare-related technology.Stephen Chen (South China Morning Post)
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[Meta] Other free streaming sources acceptable here?
Wondering if other sources of free streaming VOD movies are acceptable here? There are multiple, legal AFAIK ones, although almost always with geo-restrictions of some kind.
E.g. Could I cross-post this here?
Some example sources:
- Plex
- Tubi
- Fawesome
- Mometu
- TheArchive.tv
- Filmzie
- Flixhouse
- FreeMovies+
- Mercado Play
- iQiyi
Links etc here:
Crunchy roll and yt-dlp
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IIRC Crunchyroll used to be a pirate site so that may be where you heard that? But they've been legit for years.
I would say just look for x265 (HEVC) webrips of your favorite content and throw it on a Plex (or Jellyfin if you don't have any Apple stuff) server. On the flip, if you have all Apple tech, Infuse is a good option, but IIRC it doesn't stream outside your network like the other two do.
Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users
Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users - Android Authority
Android will block users from sideloading apps made by unverified developers next year, but we may have found a workaround.Mishaal Rahman (Android Authority)
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tl;dr you can still "sideload" via adb.
This is so incredibly inconvenient as to be meaningless.
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There are plenty of people developing apps that require root, and users who run those are already jumping through a million hoops of cat and mouse to keep their fucking mcdonalds app detecting it so they can get cheaper coffees and free fries.
Like seriously, wtf McDonalds, your app is like the ultimate root/safetynet/device id detection tool, I don't think there exists even a banking app that is as hard to fool.
That's not who we're talking about. We're talking about the 0.1% who have custom ROMs.
It won't kill it completely but it will severely hurt it. The more complicated it becomes, the smaller the userbase becomes.
Apps like Syncthing have already discontinued development due to Google shenanigans + lack of users. That'll only get worse as the userbase shrinks.
Not at all, just get comfortable with ADB and use Claude to walk you through the steps.
I see this as an absolute win. /s
Edit: Y'all, ADB isn't hard to use. At all.
Every day? Who needs to install an app every day?
Not saying this isn't annoying AF, it is, but it's not the absolute lockdown that we all feared.
So just take one day a month and do your maintance. Anything that isn't from the Play store isn't exactly getting Dev work every day to patch whatever.
Whatever, I don't love this either, but it's not some absolute deal breaker IMO. Maybe 6/10 dealbreaker. We disagree and thats fine. Now please downvote like you were going to do anyway.
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As far as I know, ADB needs to be run on another device which is plugged into the phone.
I suppose one could write a script/app that detects the device is plugged in, and automatically looks for and installs updates using adb. That would be the least amount of friction.
Essentially banning any apps that would hurt googles profits.
I thought that was pretty obvious.
We hope that Google keeps its word and preserves ADB installation
lol, adb is the first loophole that will be closed.
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The FLX1 Linux smartphone is the best Linux Mobile! Privacy, security and a fast UI. Use Android and Linux apps the way you want.Furi Labs: Planned Permanence
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Yeah, that's why it's still in the "considering" phase for me as well - especially considering Trump's tariffs crap. It also seems a tad underpowered for the price, and they still don't have the promised removable battery replacements in their store.
It's worth remembering, though, that the cost covers the constant software updates, as well as their user support. As such, it's much like the Apple model of business, except much more open - so in the end it's probably worth it.
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While that is true, it does not invalidate the poster's point. All of the effects of drugs are just "effects". They could just as easily market cough syrup as a sleep aid with the "side effect" that it suppresses coughing.
The difference in definition in this context is simply that "drug uses" is the list of its effects that they were going for, and "side effects" are a list of effects that they were not. Its entirely a man made distinction. Extend that reasoning to the "installing" vs. "side loading" discussion to see the poster's point.
I believe him to be suggesting that "side loading" is a very different word for "installing" that can be loaded by PR people to shift public opinion against the practice. Whether or not they are doing that I can't say myself, but that appears to be the point being made.
They could just as easily have coined it "direct installing" or "USB installing", but they didn't even though those terms are more descriptive. Draw from that whatever you will.
Talking to the wrong guy here, I've taken many a medications against their intended purpose: I am a curious guy.
But that sounds like saying, in the context of Google's intention of disabling app sideloading, that warning users that it poses a security risk because it's their intended purpose for android, is fine because the authority on android is Google.
Don't just take the word of authority at face value, when they prioritize profit and mindshare over personal freedom.
Wait, so now I have to talk to a doctor before installing from F-Droid? Well, shit.
For all intents and purposes, your comment actually invalidates the premise of using 'sideloading' as a term for installing from outside the 'official' method.
You buy cough syrup because you're coughing, not because you want to be drowsy (I would hope that's the case). In the same way, you install Spotify to listen to music, not to get all your data extracted and sold. Getting drowsy is an inconvenient side effect of the medication, the same way that data grab and ads are an inconvenient side effect of the app.
You're not 'side-medicating'.
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You are the master of your body, the person who decides ultimately what goes in and out of your body, No doctor can force you to take anything. That's what I mean, The play store aka the doctor wants to become the master that decides what apps go in or out of your phone, instead of the user. My comment doesn't invalidate the premise of the use of the term sideloading, because I don't agree with the term to begin with.
Whether the effect is ideal or not does not change what is chemically happening in the body. The body can't tell apart side effects from the main ones, so this distinction exists because humans deemed it so, just like the distinction between play store sanctioned apps, and everything else. It's a distinction that Google is now abusing for it's own monetary benefit.
It is, because it's actually the term that defines the process of transferring files not from an external networked device - downloading - or to an external networked device - uploading - but between two local devices - sideloading.
It's over two decades old, you downloaded an mp3 from kazaa, and then sideloaded it to your player.
For android apps, I believe the term originates from the method of using ADB to directly write the app to the phone memory, the command of which is "adb sideload filename"
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Thay recoined jaywalking to put the blaim of the accidents to pedestrians and take away the road from them.
How do you suppose that works, exactly?
I assume you're unaware of the concerted advertising campaigns by auto manufacturers to take public streets away from pedestrians, including things like
The industry hired actors dressed in old-fashioned clothing to illegally cross streets, making the behavior seem outdated
missedhistory.com/1800/lobbyin…
"Jay" had started as a word for drivers driving on the wrong side of the road
jaywalker was pre-dated by jay-driver – a driver of a horse-drawn carriage or automobile that refused to abide by the traffic laws by driving on the wrong side of the road
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The History of Jaywalking in the U.S. - DebraBernier
While the term jaywalking has been used for decades, the origin of the word itself seems to come from several different sources. Before the 20th century,Robert Brown (RootSuit@dmin)
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I assume you're unaware of the concerted advertising campaigns
Maybe try to stay on topic?
jay-driver – a driver of a horse-drawn carriage or automobile that refused to abide by the traffic laws
So jay-walker seems appropriate, does it not?
It's extremely on topic for the thread you responded to.
Google has a concerted effort to make "sideloading" bad, so they can remove it without public backlash
The next comment in the chain mentioned how auto manufacturers did the same thing, villainizing people using public spaces by calling it "jaywalking" until it became illegal to walk on public roads
That was done to take public spaces away from pedestrians and give it to cars
This is being done to take software outside of Google Play away and give the only profit to google
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Which is why I linked two articles discussing the history of the term "jay" and how and why it was used to essentially mean "a stupid person"
Then I even took a quote out for you explaining that car companies paid people to do it trying to vilify it
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how and why it was used to essentially mean "a stupid person"
You told me how it was used to mean "a stupid driver". Seems like an accurate term to describe drivers and walkers alike doing stupid things, like walking into traffic. 🤷
The existence of the word does not blame anyone.
It wasn't a word for crossing the street until Ford wanted to make it illegal to cross the street.
Maybe that's the historical context you're missing
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They didn't make illegal to cross the street. They made it illegal to cross the street in a particular time or place where the walker would endanger themselves.
I'm not missing any historical context. What I'm missing is how the term is inaccurate or used inappropriately.
If you actually care, you can start with things like "walkable cities," look at city planning before Ford made it illegal, look into how NYC has made it no longer a crime, etc.
It doesn't actually seem like you do, though
Ford's work to reframe the action caused massive changes to urban planning, mostly for the worse.
Their work to change cultural views are apparently so strong, you can't see how changing the language around it was "inaccurate or inappropriate"
That's what Google is doing to the average user for "sideloading" - in a few generations, they will have stigmatized it enough that people will be saying it shouldn't be allowed
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Again, you keep insisting that I just don't understand anything about walkable cities or talking about Ford's ad campaigns. I do. That is not what we're discussing.
What we're discussing is how the word is inaccurate or inappropriate or "blames" anyone other than those who are doing exactly what the word is intended to describe. And it doesn't seem like you have any interest in putting forth a legitimate argument so I guess we're done here.
The same goes for "sideloading".
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I see your confusion. You are assessing it from the reality when the project already succeed. You think: people who wonder on the street are to blame if they are hit. How term change it in anyway? Right? Streets are for cars. Obviously.
But before the campaing, the streets actually belonged to the people and cars was the dafoult expectation. You had a shopping carts there, children plaing, cyklist and walkers. Cars were introduced, and the responsibility was on the driver to keep attention. When the increasing number of accidents start to generate the bad press and there was a risk that use of car will become highly regulated, they launched the the campaign with a basic premise "car accidents victims are simpletons that have only themselves to blaim".
Your confusions is a testimony to how well it worked.
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You think: people who wonder on the street are to blame if they are hit.
I have said absolutely nothing to give you that impression so I have to assume this is just an ad hominem in the absence of any legitimate explanation.
Seems like an accurate term to describe drivers and walkers alike doing stupid things, like walking into traffic. 🤷
- I think you may have glossed over the word "drivers" there. The word was used to describe people ignoring traffic regulations, both while driving and walking.
- I didn't "blame" anyone, I just said it was ignorant, as is the literal definition of the word, according to the person I replied to.
- Society has this super weird position that there can only ever be one person or entity to blame. You can blame a pedestrian for ignorantly wandering into traffic while simultaneously blaming the driver for being inattentive.
To be clear, your position is that "stupid person walked into the traffic" and "it's that person fault" are two different things? You grasp the tiniest of straws. (You accused me of ad hominem, look up motte-and-bailey)
But even beside that you miss the point entirely. What I tried yo explain you there was that there was no "into the traffic" there. People didn't "wonder" on the streets. They were just there. Like today they are on the sidewalk. People were the rule cars were the exception. If electric scooter run into the pedestrian, you don't defoult into "the pedestrian was likely ignorant". Imagine scooter manufacturers start to call people involved in the accidents like this something like "loonies" or "zombies" until the legislation that people can walk only directly beside the curb is passed... And 10 years from that somene like you will argue "but skipping across the entire sidewalk is ignorant and careless. Term loonie sounds accurate to me".
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You grasp the tiniest of straws.
Absolutely not. Those are enormous straws...
What I tried yo explain you there was that there was no "into the traffic" there. People didn't "wonder" on the streets.
- That is not what you said. What you said was, and I quote "You think: people who wonder on the street are to blame if they are hit."
- If people are not "wandering into the street" then they are not "jaywalking", are they?
People were the rule cars were the exception.
It doesn't matter which one is which. The one that is "jay" is the one doing so without any regard for the rules, endangering themselves and other road users.
Imagine scooter manufacturers start to call people involved in the accidents like this something like "loonies" or "zombies"
That would be a completely different use of the word, since neither of these words mean "someone who operates scooters carelessly and without regard for the rules", as jaywalking does.
What I tried yo explain you there was that there was no "into the traffic" there. People didn't "wonder" on the streets.You think: people who wonder on the street are to blame if they are hit.
One of these things is not like the other.
Yes, those are not the same and that's exactly the point.
2nd one is me trying to understand your perspective and assumimg that you asses the irresponsibility of wondering into trafic must comr from the modern perspective in accordance with modern standards (existing traffic laws and road culture) - reality after PR campaign.
1st one is pointing out that that traffic laws and road culture were different back then, and.we.can't even talk about "wondering into" traffic anymore than we could talk about "wondering into sidewalk" - reality before PR campaign.
Those two not being the same is the result of PR campaign changing one state of round culture to another by stigmatizing being a pedestrian on the street. That's the problem we are discussing.
Come on.
(Man, I'm regretting biting after it was obvious this conversation is going nowhere. This time I'm truly out. Feel free to have your last word, but - hopefully - I'll not address it)
and assumimg that you asses the irresponsibility of wondering into trafic must comr from the modern perspective in accordance with modern standards
So you're confused because you made baseless assumptions about me personally? Yeah, that'll do it.
- You could blame the pedestrian, but it would be incorrect. A pedestrian is more vulnerable and harmless than a vehicle, and arguably has more of a reason to be traveling through the downdown of a city on foot than the vehicle does.
When cars began taking over streets making it dangerous for the people there, and auto makers lobbied to make cities more car centric, it made the cities way worse.
Imagine for a moment if in the model t days, the dangerous vehicle was held responsible and regulated instead of the people walking. We would have walkable cities today and cars wouldn't be allowed to take over.
We are not talking about individual blame, we're upset at the historical choices that led to a car centric landscape.
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You could blame the pedestrian, but it would be incorrect.
How would you know that when I haven't even specified any circumstances? Unless your intention is to suggest there are no circumstances in which a pedestrian is even partially to blame?
If a pedestrian sprints out from behind a wall into traffic moving 70MPH, that's 100% the driver's fault for hitting them? This is the logic you want to go with?
A pedestrian is more vulnerable and harmless than a vehicle
What does that have to do with whose responsibility it is!?
and arguably has more of a reason to be traveling through the downdown of a city on foot than the vehicle does
No they don't? And why are we downtown?
Imagine for a moment if in the model t days, the dangerous vehicle was held responsible and regulated instead of the people walking.
You mean instead of a world where we hold responsible the people who are actually responsible?
We would have walkable cities today and cars wouldn't be allowed to take over.
No, we would just have more criminals. The only way we have walkable cities is by banning cars.
We are not talking about individual blame, we're upset at the historical choices that led to a car centric landscape.
I know you want to talk about that. I agree with you. But it is, in fact, not what we're talking about. We're talking about the supposed use of the word "jaywalking" implying that all pedestrians are to blame for collisions.
The time is 1900. There are no traffic laws. A car almost runs into a dude.
If you say, "that car is dangerous" you are correct, and society tends towards making laws that protect pedestrians.
If you say "that person is jaywalking" you are framing the situation such that the car has more of a right to be there than the person. Maybe you think that cars are modern. "The wave of the future." This is the incorrect framing. We have seen how much of a mistake this was.
Some places like the Netherlands have been undoing the damage, rectifying the error in urban design.
We are downtown because that was the context in which the term "jaywalking" was invented. To kick pedestrians out of their own downtown.
We're talking about the supposed use of the word "jaywalking" implying that all pedestrians are to blame for collisions
Maybe that's what you're talking about. The rest of us are talking about how "jaywalking" was coined to make a normal behavior (people walking around their city) seem wrong. That is why so many people are telling you to listen to what they're saying.
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Can't help but notice you declined to answer any of my questions.
If you say "that person is jaywalking" you are framing the situation such that the car has more of a right to be there than the person.
Incorrect. You are framing the situation such that the jaywalker is endangering themselves and other road users by ignoring the rules of the road that keep everyone safe. "Jaywalking" does not refer to pedestrians as a whole, only the people committing the act of jaywalking.
Some places like the Netherlands have been undoing the damage, rectifying the error in urban design.
Wonderful! Good for them!
We are downtown because that was the context in which the term "jaywalking" was invented.
Okay, so "jaywalking" only applies "downtown". Presumably you can provide a source for this?
The rest of us are talking about how "jaywalking" was coined to make a normal behavior (people walking around their city) seem wrong
That is not what you're talking about. You're talking about automotive propaganda and the history of urban infrastructure. Nothing about the term itself or how it was misused or appropriated to mean something other than exactly what it does.
That is why so many people are telling you to listen to what they're saying.
They keep saying things that I already know. Strawman topics that I agree with and don't require further discussion.
You are framing the situation such that the jaywalker is endangering themselves and other road users by ignoring the rules of the road that keep everyone safe. "Jaywalking" does not refer to pedestrians as a whole, only the people committing the act of jaywalking.
This is simply miskaken. At the time the term was invented, the streets were for pedestrians. There were natually no laws or norms saying people shouldnt walk in the street. Car companies waged a campaign to kick pedestrians out. If we can't agree on this basic fact, I am not sure how to continue the discussion.
References: vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jayw…
salon.com/2015/08/20/the_secre…
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bbc.com/news/magazine-26073797
Jaywalking: How the car industry outlawed crossing the road
The idea of being fined for crossing the road can bemuse foreign visitors to the US, where jaywalking first became law after a car industry campaign.Aidan Lewis (BBC News)
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There were natually no laws or norms saying people shouldnt walk in the street
There aren't any today either. But there are regulations about where and when people should walk in the street. Violations of these regulations (not literally just moving your feet back and forth) are known as jaywalking.
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There are laws
Now you're doing that strawman thing again. No one said there were no laws. What I said is that there are no laws saying that people cannot walk in the street.
They are called the right of way.
Yes, exactly. Jaywalking is the act of ignoring the right of way. Thank you for clarifying that.
I will not argue further with someone who is unable to incorporate new information.
Please, by all means, stop arguing.
How is that offtopic? It's direct answer to the question that was asked.
The point is, there shouldn't be a distinction. To make one is to support prejudice against installing software from elsewhere.
If you use "installing" for stuff from the Google store but any other word for stuff from other sources, you are aiding and abetting Google's anti-property-rights propaganda.
there shouldn't be a distinction.
There has to be. When 99% of installs come from one location, there needs to be a way to describe that other than "Installing apps from outside the default app store".
To make one is to support prejudice against installing software from elsewhere.
No? It isn't.
The majority of PC game sales happen via steam but we don't call games purchased from GOG "sideloaded."
There is no necessary reason to make the distinction
There is no necessary reason to make the distinction
There is and I've already given it. MS app store doesn't make up 99% of installations.
Okay, I understand your position. Android's play store has market dominance, so the a term to distinguish between 99% of play store installs vs others, makes sense.
Now, that is a tangent to the main issue, just arguing semantics. The issue is control versus
openness, not about the term sideloading.
Is Google's plan to restrict app sideloading a good thing in your eyes, or no?
Now, that is a tangent to the main issue
A tangent someone else made. Many others really.
just arguing semantics
100%
Is Google's plan to restrict app sideloading a good thing in your eyes, or no?
Absolutely not. I will no longer recommend Android to anyone. It's cooked, as far as I'm concerned.
Nice, I could tell you're a smart dude, so at least we all can agree that Android is no longer to be trusted.
Funny how words and language become the focus of this thread, and then the main issues get pushed to the side. I was arguing against you as if we didn't agree on the main problem 😅
When 99% of installs come from one location, there needs to be a way to describe that other than “Installing apps from outside the default app store”.
Y tho. What difference does it make? Its the same thing.
Installing an app is not the same thing as installing an app?
Yes, that's exactly what I said 😮💨
I didn't say that's what you said
It was clearly the implied suggestion. I've already answered your questions a dozen times elsewhere. Gonna have to have a poke around because I don't feel like typing them again.
Or do you agree that there's no functional difference and splitting hairs about where it came from is just a way to enforce corporate hegemony?
The functional difference is that one means "installing from anywhere" and the other means "installing from outside the default app store". They are different words with different meanings, one being more specific than the other.
It's like saying "neurosurgeon" instead of "medical professional". There is a difference. One is much more specific. "Neurosurgeon" wasn't made up by Big Pharma to gaslight you into believing brain surgery was bad, it's just a lot fewer words than "medical professional who does surgery on brains".
The functional difference is that one means “installing from anywhere” and the other means “installing from outside the default app store”. They are different words with different meanings, one being more specific than the other.
If the outcome is the same, then there is no functional difference. If I say I need to see a doctor, there is a functional difference between a neurosurgeon and another medical professional. If I say I want to download a calculator app, there is no functional difference if I download it from a first-party app store or a third-party app store. You're splitting hairs. Stop supporting corporate hegemony.
If the outcome is the same, then there is no functional difference.
The outcome is absolutely not the same. If Google said "we're no longer allowing you to install apps", that would be a completely different conversation. There is a functional differrence.
If someone sent a nurse in to do your neurosugery, that would absolutely not be the same...
I don't understand why this needs to be explained...
You're splitting hairs
My brother in Christ, you're literally the one splitting hairs...that's the opposite of what I'm doing.
Why would you want to call it sideloading when you're not loading from the side?
I don't know what you think "loading from the side" means? I use the term for the same reason I use any other term: to convey ideas through common understandings.
It's just doing what Google wants you to do.
Why the fuck would Google care what words you use?
It means downloading not from the internet but from another device.
Google wants it to mean installing software they don't condone, but I don't see why the rest of us should follow their lead. I don't know anyone who calls installing from FDroid "sideloading"
The words people use influences public opinion and the bottom line of corporations such as Ford and Google.
If there is a functional difference, then why can't you say what the difference is? You continue to refuse to do so BECAUSE THERE IS NO FUNCTIONAL DIFFERENCE. All you're doing is installing an app. The only thing that changes is where the app comes from and if your corporate overlords approve of it's origin. So again, what fundamental difference does it make where the app comes from?
My brother in Christ, you’re literally the one splitting hairs…that’s the opposite of what I’m doing.
I'm saying they're the same. You're saying these two things that are functionally identical are fundamentally different. In what conceivable way am I splitting hairs?
then why can't you say what the difference is?
I literally just did, twice. If you're just going to submit angry replies without actually reading the comments then this discussion is doomed, so good day.
The words for distinguishing between apps that come from one trusted location vs others is usually untrusted or unverified apps versus trusted or verified ones. "Installing apps from outside the default app store" converts to, "Installing an untrusted app".
It's not that complicated.
"Installing apps from outside the default app store" converts to, "Installing an untrusted app".
It doesn't. It's not that complicated.
"lots of other people" was not the words I used.
It can be both "installing" and "sideloading". One is just more specific.
—99+% are from official repositories
LOL you just lumped every other repository into one and then excepted the AUR for...reasons?
Because the AUR is by users. The others aren't.
I know you just can't explain the difference though so wrote this instead.
Wow, you're frustrating. If using an unofficial source for applications is called sideloading, why isn't that term used for desktop computing?
You are also frustrating, asking me questions that I've already answered: Because 99% of people aren't using the default app store on desktops.
even within android, if you attempt to install an apk directly, it doesn't say "would you like to sideload this application?", but instead says, "Do you want to install this app?".
Even Google's own OS doesn't use made up language.
When you install a '.exe' file in Windows, you don't call it 'sideloading', you call it 'downloading and installing'.
This is the exact same thing. I download from sites, F-Droid, Obtainium, etc., and install the software that is the file I downloaded. I'm effectively NOT side-anything.
The issue people have with making the distinction is that Google is trying to spin the narrative and make side loading seem like a dangerous and bad thing to the average user base who don't know any better.
They're taking umbrage with you agreeing that quantitative usage of a storefront makes something simply installing vs side loading a program. Because it helps Google's narrative in a way.
Google is twisting the word to justify their purpose of preventing people from installing anything that isn't from their walled garden. So anything that sounds even close to support for that motive is going to be met with pushback, even if it is a word that existed before Google's use of it. Google's implicitly saying that installing something from anywhere other than their store is something nefarious or otherwise bad/risky. Google is trying to perform the same kind of security theatre as the US with the NSA at airports.
Honestly, it doesn't matter to me where you install an app from because you're simply installing it. Whether that's from Google's storefront, Apple's, or somewhere else, you're installing an app. The circumstances where I'd need a term to specifically say that I'm installing an app from outside the default app store would also be covered by simply saying "I got it from GitHub (or wherever)." It takes the same energy to answer the question of where you got it from regardless of whether you say that you installed it or you side loaded it.
Google is twisting the word
How is it being twisted? They're using it in exactly the way it is intended to be used?
By justifying getting rid of it as "security concerns". This is the first time the average user will have heard the term, so it will be linked in their head to this and therefore as risky/dangerous and they won't question why Google would want to make it harder, if not impossible, for people to install apps or other software without Google's explicit permission.
The walls around the garden get taller, and those inside won't question why there aren't any doors.
By justifying getting rid of it as "security concerns".
That has absolutely nothing to do with what you said. What you said is that they were "twisting the word". Once again, they're using it in exactly the way it is intended to be used.
So it's always had a negative connotation to it? Because that's what I'm saying. That Google is using the word by its correct definition, but adding to the original definition a subtext that side loading is a bad thing. Hence, they're twisting it from its original meaning to a negative connotation to the average person (who has never heard the word before).
It's like Windows' UAC popping up with a warning when you try to install just about anything. To the average computer illiterate person, they're going to second guess whatever they're installing as "dangerous" while the rest of us are like "shut up Windows, of course I want to install the Nvidia drivers, that's why I clicked on the damn thing."
Installing software without a store was just called installing software.
Sideloading is when you download from the side, e.g. downloading software from a separate device instead of from the internet or physical media.
Go for it.
Source: dictionary.cambridge.org/dicti…
I will concede that the corporate use of 'sideloading' is bypassing the official store, but if you look at the other examples you'll see that it is not the only usage. I think it is important to frame installing software as just that.
sideload
1. to put software on a computer or mobile phone without using the official way…dictionary.cambridge.org
Installing software from outside the play store should be called installing software
Good news. It is!
It's installing software from the play store what should have a special name, like "gatedloading" for example.
Make it hap'n Cap'n. You're still not invalidating the term of "sideloading".
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And "littering" is the "real" culprit why we all drawn in uneccesey plastic. We should blame consumers not the polluters.
Corporations do it all the time.
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why can google not just code something like this into android:
allow apps from:
( ) All sources (how it is now; allow each app to install apps from external sources)
( ) Just Google Play
( ) Apps which have been verified by Google Developer Program
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Option 1 is a potential cause of "lost" revenue.
Late stage capitalism absolutely forbids anything that could cause that, even if the cost of implementation outweighs any potential gain.
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That would just continue to ensure lock-in, and at least the EU would never go for that (& neither would I). Sideloading should still be allowed.
Google's Play Store security has never been all that stellar, anyway.
Taking Google at their word for a moment
And why should we do that?
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The implication here is, if they implement this, is that they volunteer to assume liability, should e.g., your bank account be drained despite undergoing their forced strict lockdown on paid and owned devices.
Fat chance, because laws are meaningless to crime syndicates
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I can see it already:
() Just Google Play (safe)
() Verified apps (not recommended)
click on Advanced settings
() All sources (Unsafe. Will probably kill your cat and burn down your house)
tick the box
Are you sure?
click yes
ARE YOU SURE?
click yes again
ONE HUNDRED PERCENT SURE?
wait for the 30 seconds timer to count down
click yes
( ) I do not love my cat and want him to die.
tick the box
( ) I accept the very real risk of my house burning down
tick the box
Please wait 24 hours for the change to apply. You can reverse it at any time from this menu.
get spammed every hour for the next 24 hours with notifications asking me to fix my security settings
get a bigass ⚠️ every time I turn on the phone
every once in a while the change just straight up reverses and I have to do it all over again
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Doesn't work, the reason they can expire is to make certificate rotation possible.
If an expired ssl certificate is cracked it doesn't matter because no browser will accept the expired certificate, with your idea the expired certificate just signs an app with the date of 1984 and it works.
Certificates in SSL can't change the date because that date is signed by a certificate higher in the hierarchy.
This isn't "my idea", this is how the industry already does code signing. You can't sign something with a date of 1984 because your certificate has a start and end date, and is usually only valid for 1 year.
You can read more about how this works here:
knowledge.digicert.com/general…
The trusted 3rd party in this case is actually multiple 3rd parties. There's several options for trusted timestamping just like there's multiple trusted root CAs for SSL. Since the timestamping service is free and public, anyone can use it to sign anything, even self-signed certificates. There's no mechanism to deny access, at least for this portion.
There's always a risk the root CAs all collude and refuse to give out certificates to people they don't like, but at least so far this hasn't been a problem. I don't have a better solution unfortunately. If we could have a 100% decentralized signing scheme that would be ideal, but I have no idea how you would build such a thing without identity verification and some inherit trust in the system
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Then why aren't they already doing that by blocking DuckDuckGo?
The DuckDuckGo app blocks all apps from sending to Google (and other advertisers) tracking/ad data on a system level. And it's freely available on the Play Store (has been for years.
play.google.com/store/apps/det…
If they wanted to prevent apps from blocking their ad abilities, this app would never have been allowed on the Play Store.
DuckDuckGo Private Browser - Apps on Google Play
Private. Fast. Fewer Ads. DuckDuckGo never tracks you.play.google.com
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Does it actually block ads in apps?
Blokada 5 blocks ads in apps and it was removed from the google store years ago. You have to sideload it in order to use it.
There's a neutered version on the google store, but it doesn't block ads effectively.
Google also removed an addon called Adnauseam, which clicked ads in additional to blocking them. That way, advertisers still have to pay site owners for your visit. Google removed it without justifiable reason, then kept it removed since there was no sufficient backlash.
It's the main reason why I switched to Firefox. That kind of abuse is for useful idiots.
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This simply doesn't work anymore for all apps on my Pixel 8.
Many I installed manually just redirect to the Play store with the message it could harm your device and you should download from Play.
GrapheneOS patches this behavior if apps match their Google play signature IIRC. This is a behavior that apps on the play store can opt into (basically they block operation if they aren't installed via Play).
It was rather annoying until recently, since some apps require you to be on a certified Android install to find them in the Play store, but don't actually check play integrity in the app. These apps when installed via Aurora wouldn't work for me until Graphene patched this.
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Since Google’s goal is to improve security
This is an obvious lie.
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Leaving ADB open to unverified apps is more than I was expecting. ADB is reasonably straightforward to use even without actually being an Android developer.
There was never any way they'd integrate it to play protect and still allow play protect to be disabled. I prefer this to being required to use play protect personally, though the services do seem somewhat redundant. Presumably the whole point of doing this is to create an Apple style walled garden (which is of course very profitable). Google likely doesn't want to fully lock it down and risk legal trouble, they just need to make it difficult enough that the masses don't bother installing unapproved apps that may not act in Google's interests.
I still hope the EU takes legal action against this anyway.
they always do this to gaslight us into accepting things we would not. when blocking installs from outside gplay is a possibility, further restricting it is a relief, not the outrage it should still be.
that or they got a feel for it and decided to settle with less restriction. for now.
the permanent solution as always is deposing them from this position of enormous power and monopoly. easy said.
Trump Admin Circulating Plan to Transform Depopulated Gaza Into High-Tech Cash Cow
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/47721311
Under the proposal, the US would take control after "voluntary" relocation of Palestinians from the strip, where proposed projects include an Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone and Gaza Trump Riviera & Islands.Archived version: archive.is/newest/commondreams…
Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.
Trump Admin Circulating Plan to Transform Depopulated Gaza Into High-Tech Cash Cow
Under the proposal, the US would take control after "voluntary" relocation of Palestinians from the strip, where proposed projects include an Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone and Gaza Trump Riviera & Islands.
Archived version: archive.is/newest/commondreams…Disclaimer: The article linked is from a single source with a single perspective. Make sure to cross-check information against multiple sources to get a comprehensive view on the situation.
Trump Admin Circulating Plan to Transform Depopulated Gaza Into High-Tech Cash Cow
Under the proposal, the US would take control after "voluntary" relocation of Palestinians from the strip, where proposed projects include an Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone and Gaza Trump Riviera & Islands.brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)
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Goodness... I thought it was just one of trump's social media pundits spouting nonsense, maybe with an AI-generated image or two, but this is serious. That I hate America and Israel at this point goes without saying, but I hate any country or politician that closes their eyes to what these nations have become.
You really need to read the article, but here is a lengthy quote regardless:
The GREAT Trust was drafted by some of the same Israelis behind the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), whose aid distribution points in Gaza have been the sites of deliberate massacres and other incidents in which thousands of aid-seeking Palestinians have been killed or wounded.According to the Post, financial modeling for the GREAT Trust proposal "was done by a team working at the time for the Boston Consulting Group"—which played a key role in creating GHF. BCG told the Post that the firm did not approve work on the trust plan, and that two senior partners who led the financial modeling were subsequently terminated.
The GREAT Trust envisions "a US-led multirlateral custodianship" lasting a decade or longer and leading to "a reformed Palestinian self-governance after Gaza is "demilitarized and de-radicalized."
However, to journalist Hala Jaber, the plan amounts to "genocide packaged as real estate."
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Take one of the most violently-contested parts of the Earth, a center of blood feuds that have been raging for, depending on how you count it, between eighty and six thousand years, a place that has become synonymous for "a location of endless conflict," take that piece of real estate, enhance the violence, and then tell yourself you're going to build a bunch of high-end condos and invite rich assholes to move in.
What could possibly go wrong?
Hmm I'm confused...
"Voluntary emigration" is widely considered a euphemism for ethnic cleansing, given Palestinians' general unwillingness to leave their homeland.
But I thought they were refugees, i.e. Gaza ISN'T their homeland. If they are living in their homeland then how are they still refugees?
One of my friends is a Ukrainian refugee. He isn't living in his homeland and doesn't consider himself British.
The land now known as Israel, including Gaza and the West Bank, is their homeland. These people are refugees because they were driven out of their homes during the violent formation of Israel in 1948 and many of those who survived ended up in refugee camps in Gaza. Gaza is one small corner of their homeland. Over the course of 70 years or so, these refugee camps became entire cities because these people had nowhere else to live, for generations. So they were refugees in a small corner of the country that was once theirs. Then Israel destroyed even these cities.
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Honey, would you give me a hand assembling the new BÄNGGEN precision guided munition that IKEA just delivered?
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OK. I'm at wit's end attempting to convince Google's LLM to pronounce an English name correctly.
Seriously, 15 times is my limit on correcting an LLM.
The name in question? Rach. Google absolutely cannot pronounce it in any other way than assuming I was referring to Louise Fletcher in the diminutive.
Specifying "long a" did nothing, and now I'm past livid. If you can't handle a common English name, why would I trust you with anything else?
This is my breaking point with LLMs. They're fucking idiotic and can't learn how to pronounce English words auf Englisch.
I hope the VCs also die in a fire.
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How the death of a delivery driver ignited Indonesia
How the death of a delivery driver ignited Indonesia
Protests over corruption and inequality have spiralled into violence, arson and deaths.Gavin Butler (BBC News)
TikTok has also suspended its live streaming feature in Indonesia "for the next few days", in a bid to limit potentially inflammatory content amid concerns about live mass mobilisation.
Complicit traitors. No surprise there.
You're right it's bad that they shut down. Does make me wonder about the use of "traitors" since I don't think tiktok could ever have been considered on the side of the people.
I hope these events result in better lives for Indonesians.
Body seen in secret mortuary could solve 50-year mystery of vanished religious leader Musa Sadr
Musa al Sadr: Body seen in Libyan mortuary could solve 50-year mystery of vanished religious leader
Compelling evidence to suggest Lebanese Shia leader Musa al-Sadr was killed in Libya is uncovered by BBC.Moe Shreif (BBC News)
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Nestlé sacks CEO over ‘undisclosed romantic relationship’
Nestlé sacks CEO over ‘undisclosed romantic relationship’
Swiss multinational finds Laurent Freixe breached code of conduct as it names Philipp Navratil as his replacementGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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Oh you said it so much better than I...
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It is possible they wanted to fire him anyway. My guess is that the code of conduct policy is only enforced when they want to oust someone at his level. He'll likely get a massive severance package on the way out. Looks like Nestlé has been struggling this year.
Nestlé (OTCPK:NSRGY) (OTCPK:NSRGF) shares dropped 6% after reporting disappointing half-year results. Revenue continues to decline, organic growth is driven solely from pricing, and margins remain pressured.
Wanna bet the romantic relationship was compromising in some way? Like banging the board’s chairman’s daughter?
Or someone inside the company? (I’m imagining something beyond simply dating someone. Maybe something with “favors”)
Sudan landslide kills at least 1,000 people, rebel group says
Sudan landslide kills at least 1,000 people, rebel group says
Landslide destroyed a village in the Marra mountains area of western Sudan and left only one survivorGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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Now Live: Europe’s First Exascale Supercomputer, JUPITER, Accelerates Climate Research, Neuroscience, Quantum Simulation
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36980362
Now Live: Europe’s First Exascale Supercomputer, JUPITER, Accelerates Climate Research, Neuroscience, Quantum Simulation
Europe’s First Exascale Supercomputer, JUPITER, Now Live | NVIDIA Blog
At JUPITER’s inauguration ceremony in Jülich, attended by Germany Chancellor Friedrich Merz, the Jülich Supercomputing Centre and NVIDIA unveiled ways the supercomputer is already spurring innovation across the world.Chris Porter (NVIDIA Blog)
Now Live: Europe’s First Exascale Supercomputer, JUPITER, Accelerates Climate Research, Neuroscience, Quantum Simulation
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36980362
Now Live: Europe’s First Exascale Supercomputer, JUPITER, Accelerates Climate Research, Neuroscience, Quantum Simulation
Europe’s First Exascale Supercomputer, JUPITER, Now Live | NVIDIA Blog
At JUPITER’s inauguration ceremony in Jülich, attended by Germany Chancellor Friedrich Merz, the Jülich Supercomputing Centre and NVIDIA unveiled ways the supercomputer is already spurring innovation across the world.Chris Porter (NVIDIA Blog)
Now Live: Europe’s First Exascale Supercomputer, JUPITER, Accelerates Climate Research, Neuroscience, Quantum Simulation
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/36980362
Now Live: Europe’s First Exascale Supercomputer, JUPITER, Accelerates Climate Research, Neuroscience, Quantum Simulation
Europe’s First Exascale Supercomputer, JUPITER, Now Live | NVIDIA Blog
At JUPITER’s inauguration ceremony in Jülich, attended by Germany Chancellor Friedrich Merz, the Jülich Supercomputing Centre and NVIDIA unveiled ways the supercomputer is already spurring innovation across the world.Chris Porter (NVIDIA Blog)
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in reply to chobeat • • •So the author's argument is that youth have just gone to gig work instead of traditional jobs. OK, maybe true, but first of all, this is not a good thing on its own either. And secondly, we have to consider why gig work even exists, aside from being a fresh new way to exploit workers and deny them the traditional protections of the labor market. Because there is a specific reason gig work exists right at this very transitional moment in the workforce, and I'll give you a spoiler: It exists because of AI.
AI is going to do the same thing to gig work that gig work has already done to traditional youth employment. It represents the transitional step from traditional human labor to full automation. That's part of the reason companies are using gig work in the first place. It makes it really easy to treat workers as instantly and transparently interchangable in an extremely efficient and flexible way. And they are going to start interchanging them not just with other gig workers, but AI drones -- self driving cars, drones, and other machine infrastructure as it gets developed and matures. The flexibility allows them to absorb the impact of any issues with the technology by instantly falling back to more "human gigs" when needed, but whenever the technology becomes successful, the human jobs will just instantly evaporate as quickly as the technology can roll out, and not a single thought will ever be spared for the millions of gig working humans waiting for their phone to buzz for the next gig that will never come while looking at bills that are never going to get paid. That's literally the goal that gig work exists to enable, it's fundamentally designed for the AI endgame, it's inevitably going to leave millions of people suddenly and quietly unemployed and unemployable without warning or even any official notification when it's happening, and it's coming sooner than we think.
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in reply to cecilkorik • • •Considering the author is possibly the most relevant scholar on (against?) platform work, I'm quite sure he would agree with you. The article implies that AI is deskilling and displacing workers and that's intrinsically a bad thing.
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in reply to cecilkorik • • •Wrong, gig work existed way before the advent of AI, even before the advent of Internet and PC. It was not uncommon that teenagers worked during the summer holidays to have money to go on holidays, to buy themself something or to pay for school or other activities.
The problem is that for some people it is the only way to work, and this was happening way before companies started to use AI for everything.
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in reply to gian • • •You're understanding of "gig work" is comically outdated. You sound naive or trollish. "Jobs for teens" like fast food work, grocery clerking, and working at movie theaters have always been taken by people who need "real jobs" and not just teens looking for extra money. So you're wrong that these careers exclusively for kids to get pocket money ever existed, certainly not in living memory.
Secondly, OP isn't talking about working the carwash for the summer. He's talking about Uber and AirBNB. Maybe you heard of them? Over the last decade, they've caused massive disruption of the hotel and taxi industries by allowing thousands of unlicensed and unregulated "micro entrepreneurs" 🤮 to create a new economy of pay-per-task workers who end up owning all the physical assets (which rapidly deprecate in value) but none of the infrastructure or investments (which do not, or do so on much different schedules).
Houses being bought up for short term rentals has contributed to the housing crisis. Its caused economic harm to inner cities. It's a looking part of the polycrisis destroying the practical economy and the planet's livability. But yeah man, the real problem is lazy people just don't want real adult jobs, give me a fucking break.
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in reply to CodexArcanum • • •I agree with most all of that, but shit jobs for teens were all teens in the day. We started in those shit jobs, and our coworkers were all peers.
That's why so many middle-aged people don't get the modern paradigm. The modern world no longer reflects our youth, at all.
I worked at Lowe's for 5-months. But you're right. Most of the gig workers coming through were older than me. I'm 54. Imagine that.
Signed, GenX.
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