Then why do you have to agree to Google’s ToS to use it if it’s local only?

Especially given how easy it is to bypass Bitlocker anyway: https://youtu.be/Cc6vrQSVMII

Federation means, multiple servers talking to one another and exchanging information.

You’re on lemdro.id, I’m on my own server, yet we can talk. I can shut down my server, and you will still see my comments from lemdro.id.

This ensures you don’t have to be on a single website along with everyone else: you’re always free to leave lemdro.id if you wish and go to say, lemmy.world or sh.itjust.works or whatever other instance you feel like.

Lemdro.id doesn’t appear to block any servers, so it will federate with any server that doesn’t block lemdro.id. You can see the list here: https://lemdro.id/instances/linked.

Does Isreal get eradicated for violating the ceasefire repeatedly?

Perks of still running bare metal in colo, no issues for any of my stuff. Not seeing anyone say anything in the Lemmy chat on Matrix either.

I bet they’ll eventually get caught using coffee shop cameras and conversations for AI training, say it’s for training a security product or something.

It really depends, most people end up specializing into specific things they work on as software has generally become too big for single developers. We have people that only do frontend stuff so things look nice on the website, some only deal with the database and making sure we return results as efficiently as possible.

I started off doing the typical full stack but I’ve since branched off into DevOps so now I’m responsible for a few hundred servers across the globe that I keep updated and running smoothly.

Sometimes I work on new tools, sometimes I spend days tracking down weird problems, sometimes I’m rushing hotfixes because something is repeatedly crashing in production.

It’s worth noting that because you can click through UIs these days doesn’t mean that scales as you go. You can go spin up your app in a container in the cloud mostly through UI, but soon enough the defaults aren’t enough. I manage several hundreds of instances across a few clouds, I’ll well, well past clicking next next next finish. It’s just an easy and visual way to ease you into things, especially for beginners, as all the options available to you are there to see along with little help tooltips explaining what a setting does.

It also depends on what you do: if you work at a startup, clicking through Cloudflare’s dashboard is more than enough. When you have thousands of customers, you’re not managing the tens of thousands of settings you have to configure, you automate.

Code can describe things (HTML, CSS, HCL), code can configure things (YAML, JSON, Ansible), code can program things (PHP, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, etc), code can query things (SQL), programming as a whole is very wide.

At this point I just net user /add it, which just creates the user manually and then you can reboot and just log into it.

It’s not like you need anything from the OOBE at all, so might as well just skip it entirely.

Denver also have a pretty big problem with drivers running yellow/reds. I lived there for a year and lost track of how many truck crashed in front of my house within months. At the end I was always waiting for a second or two on greens because the risk of some impatient maniac missing the yellow and trying to get through anyway on the red, and you’ll even get honked at if you don’t.

Driving there is a very frustrating experience that’s almost designed to maximize road rage incidents.

So happy to be back into a walkable city.

They said it would require network access and that they would have a handful of popular apps preloaded to avoid too much disruption so those can be installed offline. In practice that probably means Google apps, Meta apps and other big corp apps.

They also have you register package names with them, not just a certificate.

I was hoping it would be a certificate situation but we’re kind of past Google using the least intrusive and privacy preserving options.

Apps from outside the Play Store? No, because previously your phone had no reason to ask Google anything. You could always not sign in to Google and disable Play Protect and use F-Droid and Obtainium.

But now, it needs to check developer signatures to know if it’s a verified developer, and it obviously can’t cache all of them as the size would be insane.

And that in turn implies that your phone needs to reach out to Google and be like yo, is this app banned?

That query gives them at minimum the IP of the user, the package name, and the time at which it happened.

And thus they can effectively track anyone using say, privacy apps, making it that much riskier to use them in places where they’re not allowed.

For your “safety”.

That also means they now will know about every app installs, worldwide. So when the government comes in and ask who have installed this app they decided is bad, they can come get you.

Signal, VPNs, they’ll have a list of everyone opting out of government-mandated backdoors.

LineageOS so worth losing Play Integrity.

Arguably, if it was normal to sideload apps it wouldn’t be as much of a barrier to users, but they’ve been conditionned to think they need an app and the only place you can ever get them is the store.

It’s a technical hurdle only because Apple decided they want to control everything, and same on Android because of Google’s ever increasing war on sideloading. You used to download an APK from the browser and it would go like “This is an app! Install?”, but now you have to go enable third party installation and all that, and now the whole Play Protect forcing developer validation coming up.

At least a title would have been nice, at this point that’s just lazy to just paste the link of a repo and click post. Ok cool, but why are you sharing it, what’s cool about it, why should I click on this and spend time reading on it.

PieFed seems to have taken the spot as well, mostly delivering on what Sublinks wanted to be but faster and better. Python is more attractive than Java even for the Rust haters.

Wouldn’t surprise me if it doesn’t check the UTF-8 validity at all and just lets the apps get broken UTF-8 where most of the time nothing horrible happens. That or they just strip invalid characters.

It’s not the size, it’s a size to content/quality ratio. I’ll happily download a 500GB game if it’s got the content to match.

Uncompressed assets doesn’t bring higher quality visuals or content, it’s merely pure laziness or a scam to make people feel like they’re getting more for the outrageous price games have gotten.

You can mostly backup everything but it’s impossible to make a perfect backup like the old days anymore because of the TEE. Flashing a new ROM will change the keys and permanently make the old data worthless. Stuff like Google Authenticator for example simply won’t backup even with a perfect bit copy.

Apps will restore okay but many will be logged out and have lost their permissions and push notification registration with Google.

Maybe Torvalds will make Sebastian understand that Linux is not a product, it’s an ecosystem, and maybe finally make him review Linux properly without the “as an average tech consumer” approach he’s been doing. It’ll never be “ready” through that lens if always approached with a FOMO attitude.

One can’t be free when sucking it up to big tech all the time because “you need the latest fancy half baked proprietary features”.

Free speech includes respecting speech you disagree with and speech that makes you uncomfortable.

If the roles were reversed and you were lined up to be banned because you’re not siding with the “correct” side, you’d be crying abusive censorship.

That’s what the downvote and block buttons are for.