A growing number of apps are using the Play Integrity API to enforce installation from the Play Store. This is clearly highly illegal anti-competitive behavior. It doesn't impact GrapheneOS users installing apps with the sandboxed Play Store but does impact other install sources.
draeath
Systems Engineer / Solutions Architect.
I glue badly written software to other badly written software, in an attempt to get it to do something useful. Sometimes it even works!
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Ed Zitron is pissed about "Business Idiots" and I am here for it.
I especially value him pointing out the utter failure of the media.
(Original title: The Era Of The Business Idiot)
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they ban us from sports as precedent
they ban us from bathrooms so we can’t be in public
they classify our existence as porn and then make porn a crime
they allow employers to discriminate against us
they make our healthcare illegal to force destransition us
WHEN WILL YOU FIGHT TO HELP US?
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Most of the focus on the House passing the budget bill is on the numbers. (It is a budget bill.)
But this, as the screenshot says, should it survive the Senate, completes the transition of the US to a dictatorship.
We were warned. We didn't pay enough attention.
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“Though the researchers claim they’ve anonymized the data”
There we go again. There is no way to anonymize two billion messages, short of removing their content entirely.
https://www.404media.co/researchers-scrape-2-billion-discord-messages-and-publish-them-online/
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Try asking the worm? I hear it’s better informed.
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If only Christian charity were as easy as accessorizing.
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The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.
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We're ready for Microsoft Recall and the automatic screenshots it takes of everything on your desktop.
Signal Desktop on Windows now includes support for a new "Screen security" feature designed to block screenshots of your Signal chats.
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FDA Issues Warning About Popular Allergy Medications https://twp.ai/E67KQV
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"AI-First IDE" sounds so much nicer than "Developer-Last IDE." Can we first build an AI that works before integrating it into a piece of working code?
#AI #IDE
https://news.itsfoss.com/vs-code-ai-first-ide/
@mhussain @FediFollows try searching the #litrpg tag - follow folks you spot that interest you. No need to switch instances for a topic.
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Apparently the only way @signalapp can opt-out of #Windows #Recall exposing all of your private messages is by setting a "this application is DRM" flag. What a lovely and totally thought-out feature Recall is shaping up to be after a year of "iterating".
@sethmlarson @signalapp I suppose we should be happy there's a mechanism for at all but of course it's in there for the MPAA/RIAA and other such leeches...
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If you want an lol - Microsoft have implemented Copilot on its own GitHub repos and it’s a clusterfuck, you can see MS engineers publicly begging Copilot to work.
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This pretty much sums up how I feel about a lot of my social obligations. 😅
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