trevor (he/they)

In the show,

says something to the effect of:

The show basically requires you to be a bloodmouth for that to make sense, which is annoying. If you ignore that giant plot hole, it’s pretty interesting though.

https://llmdeathcount.com/

Good. LLMs are a fucking blight on the world and every company that pushes that dogshit deserves to implode.

Valid :) I wouldn’t either.

They should try making good games and putting them on Steam and GOG and not their shitty launcher.

It’s so satisfying watching one of the worst actors in the gaming industry eat shit and die. I hope Activision, EA, and the other purveyors of overpriced, malware-laden, microtransaction slopware can meet the same fate one day too.

Again: Google would not be doing this if there was no perceived benefit for them. If it was merely a matter of adding a scarier warning, then what purpose does the new “student/hobbyist” account type that restricts the number of devices your app can be installed on serve??

The headline is incomplete to an extent that it’s dishonest because it doesn’t reflect the reality of what Google is saying.

Google will only allow “experienced users” to “continue” sideloading with the new, draconian restrictions that Google will be the arbiter of. “Continue” implies that sideloading will continue as it is in its currently acceptable form. However, that is not the case. If it were, Google would not be changing anything at all because there would be no perceived benefit for them doing so.

So in a way, yes, the entire article is wrong, because it doesn’t adequately push back on the premise that it implies and instead uncritically parrots what Google would prefer people to believe, which is that people that want to sideload their apps and use third-party app stores like F-Droid will not be negatively impacted, which is not true.

It’s not FUD. The “install unknown apps” toggle already does what you’re describing. Whatever the intentionally vague blurbs from Google imply, whatever the new toggle ends up being will be worse.

And that doesn’t account for the need they’re creating for a “student/hobbyist” account that Google is creating. If you use such an account, your app can only be installed on a limited number of devices, which Google will control.

The “install unknown apps” toggle already does that. Whatever that vague blurb implies, whatever the new toggle ends up being will be worse.

And that doesn’t account for the need they’re creating for a “student/hobbyist” account that Google is creating. If you use such an account, your app can only be installed on a limited number of devices, which Google will control.

Yeah, this is garbage. Nobody should accept this. People need to keep fighting this because the “hobbyist account” bullshit still gives Google full control over what apps you can install by creating an arbitrary restriction that they can change on a whim.

Nothing short of leaving the process of installing apps from outside the Play Store exactly the same as it is now should be accepted.

The Verge is laundering Google’s Big Brother bullshit with their headline by making it sound like Google responded in an adequate manner, which is exactly what Google wants.

It is unwise for anyone to bet against certain odds.

I’m glad you found your way to being vegan! I have a pretty different background (I was never a vegetarian) and I just want to share as well:

I definitely agree that if you’re doing whole foods, you’re gonna have a great time being vegan. I am what I’d call a junk food vegan (because I was a junk food carnist for all my life previously), and have been for ~5 years, but I met someone wonderful that’s showing me how to enjoy eating good whole foods and I’m really enjoying it!

I went from carnist to vegan immediately in an area that is considered a food desert. It’s very easy once you internalize the ethics and understand that the exploitation we do to other beings that can suffer is wrong. I will never go back to excusing and paying for the rape, murder, or torture of anyone ever again.

Stories like yours and mine are why it’s so great that vegan food is just regular food. Even carnists and vegetarians eat it because it’s normal food (lentils, beans, oats, leafy greens, etc.), and if they don’t, they will simply malnourish themselves or perish. Most people, aside from some very unfortunate cases, are already used to eating “vegan” food. They just need to understand why consuming animal products when it is possible for them to avoid them is wrong and harmful.

Fuck that. Trans people are my friends. Transphobes can catch these hands.

Good.

Well, for one: no Rust SDK 😭 This is a half-joke. I’d make some apps for Proton, but I’m not touching JavaScript to do it.

Hopefully, they make more language bindings. I saw that C# was planned, so hopefully they keep the language bindings coming as they stabilize their SDK.

Lol. No.

Probably the same shit that Israeli fascists use on Palestinians.

People just don’t like reading slop from lying machines. It’s really just that simple.

Polluting a chat thread with slop is just a rude thing to do. Nobody like sloppers.

If you couldn’t be bothered to think or write for yourself, why would you think anyone would be bothered to read that?? It’s literally just pollution.

Evergreen. He still sucks.