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This is why opensource developers get burnt out. If you don't like it, fork it. Stop shoehorning what you want on other people's project, especially for petty things like this.

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This is great news. usernames next, lets goooo

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  • Significant battery life improvements

  • Granular Internet Acess Control (Give users option to prohibit apps from connecting to data or Wi-Fi)

  • Something native like KDE Connect or Your Phone from Microsoft

  • Something like Samsung Dex

  • Unlimited Paypal money generator

There are so many things Google could do.

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Before that, it was hangouts and regular people didn’t know about it.

This is their biggest problem, They themselves fragment their user base. We were on hangouts, you could even get your google voice calls on it, we didnt' switch to allo or duo, till they announced they were retiring hangouts. And now all three are gone.

We stay away from Google now.

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it's free until oracle decides to shut it down without warnings. Then everything goes poof

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what's with that? without mentioning why they suck, that's just the ol' "trust me, bro"

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it seems ridiculous to prosecute the particular crime of posession

what does this even mean? you mean with people hoarding CSAM shouldn't be charged because they're not distributing it?

Do people think there would be some dramatic explosion of CSAM?

Yes, this is not your local backwater town where you know there are a few visibly shitty & disgusting people and people tell their kids to stay away and everyone becomes safe. And if you think shit doesn't explode on the internet, you might be living under a rock last 2 decades.

That's stupid on a whole new level and your made up scenario doesn't make it any better. No one is threatened for having been sent some questionable content. The person who sent those however might be and the tech today makes it incredibly easy to prove where anything came from since everyone is being tracked.

Seize all funds received for distributing it, throw anyone involved in producing it in prison and throw away the key,

How about we prevent such things from happening by discouraging it in the firat place? Sure, they won't be down to 0, but your solution starting after the distribution has already started is highly disturbing.

Jitsi, the open-source video conferencing platform, now requires a Google, Microsoft, or Facebook account for their online service. - Beehaw (beehaw.org)

While Jitsi is open-source, most people use the platform they provide, meet.jit.si [http://meet.jit.si], for immediate conference calls. They have now introduced a “Know Your Customer” policy and require at least one of the attendees to log in with a Facebook, Github (Microsoft), or Google account. If you prefer not to...

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Looks like they have valid reasons for doing this

Yea, the company does not want to be an accessory for crime or illegal activity. That's to be expected if they want to keep their business running. But that won't stop people from raging and claiming the project is now going to die.

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Not a smart watch, but a Mi Band fitness tracker.

Pros:

  • works well enough
  • Private
  • data visualizations are great
  • Advanced sleep tracking
  • Lots of customization features

Cons:

  • needs 3rd party app to sync weather
  • Doesn't exit cleanly
  • Calendar sync has never worked for me (even though I gave it necessary permissions )

Stories and 10 Years of Telegram (telegram.org)

Today August 23rd, Telegram celebrates its 10th birthday – with our biggest update yet. Over the past decade we’ve built hundreds of new features that are now used by over 800 million people. In this update, we launch Stories – with a unique dual camera mode, granular privacy settings, flexible duration options and much...

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  • Adds stories (most annoying feature on a messaging app)
  • Can't disable it

our biggest update yet

Meh

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CloudNordic said: “The attackers succeeded in encrypting all servers’ disks, as well as on the primary and secondary backup system, whereby all machines crashed and we lost access to all data

They did. They were affected too, if you read the article.

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So on the today's news, a kindergarten stand off, A is facing off B over who has a bigger pencil. C sides with A while he breaks his own and gives it to A. D is eating crayons in anticipation, F is knocked out asleep on the floor, and G looks high as fuck.

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Xitter has gone down the shitter

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Is it possible that they offloaded the scraping to a different company to avoid direct litigation now theyre out in the open? To say "we didn't scrape your website, and you can't prove it."

Like DDG, Ecosia, Qwant use Bing for their data Or how feds buy data from data brokers. Outsource the dirty job like every tech company does and shift the blame if caught doing something unlawful.

It seems they are trying to garner some positive PR after they scraped through everything without anyone noticing.

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"It's all good until we decide to change the entire interface of the OS every few iteration, abandon apps you love to use, introduce you to multitude of messaging apps (any of which you can't be sure to last), so you need to learn everything over and over again.

And have you heard about our new AI assistant, that's better than our old AI assistant that we're purposefully making dumber by the moment?"

It’s all good with Google on Android because we need want your data.

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Also Apple is known for supporting its devices for years and years longer than Android phone makers, so I have no idea why anyone would claim anything about planned obsolescence.

If a browser (iOS) is tied to a system update, you can claim to give out updates years beyond anyone else and it might include anything but a brower "update" and they'll still be able to call it a security update. Those updates to older iOS devices are watered down versions of what latest phones get.You'll also get security patches but Android can provide many patches directly through Google play store and services without pushing a system update.

Android manufacturers might abandon phones, but there's an after market community which provides trustworthy updates and security patches long beyond Apple does. I still have an Android tablet which won't update further than 4.4, but can still run apps that are regularly updated through f-droid(website, their app doesn't support 4.4 anymore). With Apple you're fucked with Appstore, being the only source for apps. And your old device is as good as a pdf reader.

That is planned obsolescence and both Android manufactuers and Apple do it. With Android, you still have after-market options without rooting your device.

Sure you might say those third party app and ROM security isn't as reliable but for less half the price of Apple devices, they last way longer than what fanboys give Android devices credit for.

Also Apple hardware is top-tier because they have exclusive contracts with with top-tier hardware manufacturers and limit everyone elses access to it. That's what you can do when you're a trillion dollar company. And yes, I agree their hardware is top tier, That hardware that runs only what Apple wants is what I reccomend to old folks and teenagers who are less technically literate and are likely tap every link on their email, popup on scammy website or download obscure game/apps from the internet.

I currently have a Pixel 6 and and iPad, the most I do on iPad is watch some movies. And I say that as someone who hates both of them

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anyone care to explain what we're looking at here?

As a Firefox Desktop/Android user this sure sounds awesome.

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This is not the official instance, is it? I heard the developers were going to scrape reddit if they needed to.

https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit/issues/400#issuecomment-892605

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This is Google trying to limit the use of Adblock in their Browser (Google Chrome).

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"Science communication is hard so I'm going to play a game while explaining science, cuz that's not distracting at all."

It just wasn't for me and I lost interest after a few minutes

I always had doubts about scientific theories on atomic particles and space but they were theory for a reason. Theory is what the word means, it is based on many assumptions. Like the big bang is a theory, It leads scientist to explore it from multiple angles through validation and verification (because science is hard). They are never put out as a fact. So I don't even know what point she's trying to make.

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Forgets to charge the headphones.

Hops on the bus. someone is playing obnoxious loud music. Puts on the headphones.

battery low

Welp I’ll be listening to shit music today then.

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