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A lot of creators I watch are YouTube exclusive with their content.
If they were on Peertube, I’d delete YouTube in a heartbeat.
But I also understand that a lot of them make their living off ad revenue, so I don’t blame them for staying.
Meat used to refer to any kind of food. Now it means animal flesh. Girl used to be a gender neutral term for any child.
Install in a smartphone context means “from the app store” now.
No amount of “here is an idea” hohoho sarcasm is going to reverse the flow of language.
No one’s forbidding you from using the word install.
We have universal words like go, as in “go by foot” or “go by car” or “go by bus”.
But we also have words like walk, run, drive, bus (as a verb), and Uber to specify how you go to a place.
And we can have words to specify how you install an app.
In my opinion, we’re more likely to win by reclaiming sideloading (by giving it a positive connotation) or creating new words (and giving corpo installs a negative connotation) than we are to get current and future smartphone users to go back to using an older definition of the word install.
For people who know they would be the average guy in that future, they were warnings.
For the tech lords who believe they’ll be in the penthouse suite with sex droids serving sushi, they were advertisements for cool toys.
It’s useful to have specific words for things.
Sometimes you want to express that you’re specifically eating meat, not vegetables. The word food doesn’t do that.
It’s fine to want to install “from ANY place”.
Sometimes you want to express that you’re installing from local source not from the app store. The word install doesn’t do that.
Install is an umbrella term for all installs.
We want to be able to differentiate between direct and store installs.
If they put out a press release about fixing it, I won’t believe it until I see “click the squares with a cat in them” captchas.
The safety record of these cars has been no less than stellar until now.
Typo?
Linux people responses will be like: “ive never seen that, works fine on my machine. i’m curious tho what version of Wine, Proton are you using? …. oh? what’s your desktop environment? … oh KDE…? ah must be a Bazzite thing? i’ve never seen that before on Mint with GNOME on my Intel Graphics Card”
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@SilbinaryWolf/115483449807384098
I like NewPipe for this reason.
My feed is what I’ve subscribed to and only what I subscribed to.
“You know we have cameras in that town. You can’t get a breath of fresh air in or out of that place without us knowing,” Milliman said to Elser, according to Ring doorbell footage of the Sept. 27 encounter viewed by The Colorado Sun.
And he saw nothing wrong with that.
Does this mean sideloading is going away on Android? Absolutely not. Sideloading is fundamental to Android and it is not going away.
This statement is untrue. The developer verification decree effectively ends the ability for individuals to choose what software they run on the devices they own.
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Wikipedia’s summary definition is:
the transfer of apps from web sources that are not vendor-approved
By this definition, Google’s statement that “sideloading is not going away” is simply false. The vendor — Google, in the case of Android certified devices — will, in point of fact, be approving the source. The supplicant app developer must register with Google, pay a fee, provide government identification, agree to non-negotiable (and ever-changing) terms and conditions, enumerate all their current and future application identifiers, upload evidence of their private signing key, and then hope and wait for Google’s approval.
I’m glad to see this bullshit called out.
Billionaire transcends all other identities.
A trans billionaire (if it was ever allowed to happen) would be a shitbird by default.
What kind of services?
I’m having trouble imagining what’s possible and worth hosting for friends and family.
Flood the feed with a million twinks and AOCs and Republican Congress will coom itself until early retirement.
TL;dr of the article :
This secret stays between you, me, and Elon.
I hope politicians use the hell out of it, so we can see what they really think when it gets (inevitably) hacked in a few weeks.
In case you, like me, were wondering wtf stingrays are (besides a type of fish). This is from their report :
Cell-site simulators, also known as “Stingrays” or IMSI catchers, are devices that masquerade as legitimate cell-phone towers, tricking phones within a certain radius into connecting to the device rather than a tower.
Cell-site simulators operate by conducting a general search of all cell phones within the device’s radius, in violation of basic constitutional protections. Law enforcement use cell-site simulators to pinpoint the location of phones with greater accuracy than phone companies. Cell-site simulators can also log IMSI numbers (unique identifying numbers) of all of the mobile devices within a given area.
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The fact that government agencies are using these devices without the utmost consideration for the privacy and rights of individuals around them is alarming but not surprising. The federal government, and in particular agencies like HSI and ICE, have a dubious and troubling relationship with overbroad collection of private data on individuals.
This just in: 13 stream-ripping sites launch in Vietnam.
There is no substitute for Hank Green.