forrcaho
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- Comment on Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun 5 weeks ago:
So, giving you what I called the choice dialog. That makes sense. Intent intercept wouldn’t help then, it would just give you one more basically irrelevant choice to do all the things (although it’s useful for developers).
- Comment on Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun 5 weeks ago:
Is it actually opening up the Sprinkler app for all those other purposes, or giving you a choice dialog? If it’s actually opening up the app, maybe installing Intent Intercept would at least make it a choice dialog, as it also tries to open everything (just to show information about the request; it’s a dev tool).
- Comment on Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Some basic info about USB 2 months ago:
Yeah, it’s gotten so bad I eventually ordered a USB cable checker to figure out what any given USB cable is capable of (and to see if the cable has gone flaky, which seems to happen a lot). I haven’t received it yet so I don’t know if I can recommend this item, but … gosh darn you sure need something like this.
- Comment on The Uruguayan company teaching people how to turn regular cars into EVs. 2 months ago:
Although safety is certainly a legitimate issue, I can almost guarantee that car manufacturers will use that as an excuse to kill this form of competition – yet another way in which capitalism is dooming our species to extinction.
- Comment on “Should art be regulated by the SEC?” NFT artists file lawsuit 2 months ago:
It’s kind of a shame that Jonathan Mann got wrapped up in all this NFT grift. Many of his songs are quite catchy, I recommend checking him out on YouTube if you haven’t already.
- Comment on Shein sues Temu over copyright infringements as legal feud heats up. 2 months ago:
- Comment on Fast-food chains battle for low-income diners with summer value meals 3 months ago:
People learned how to cook again during the Pandemic … found out it wasn’t hard, and some even found it enjoyable. Tacking on a period of inflation right after that, and fast food is no longer anywhere near the economic staple it was in the Before Times.
- Comment on DOJ finally posted that “embarrassing” court doc Google wanted to hide 1 year ago:
Roszak’s notes also said that because users got hooked on Google’s search engine, Google was able to “mostly ignore the demand side” of “fundamental laws of economics” and “only focus on the supply side of advertisers, ad formats, and sales.”
This is textbook phase one of what Cory Doctorow calls “enshittification”. Users don’t have much of a choice, so make it as shitty as you are able without them leaving? Check. Phase two (which Google is no doubt also doing) is to do give the same treatment to the advertisers.
The pressure to maximize profits ensures that all private entities performing this sort of connection role on the internet will eventually become enshittified. There’s no escape (under capitalism).
- Comment on Welp that answers a lot of why all .ml are down 1 year ago:
Wow, you’re right. We really need to bring back something like USENET, where newsgroups (their “communities”) weren’t tied to a specific server. We could almost just resurrect NNTP, although the handling of images (and binary data more generally) probably needs some tweaking.
