WhyJiffie
@WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026 9 hours ago:
oh, right, my bad. I so rarely go to that menu that I forgot it.
- Comment on Let Google know what you think about their proposed restrictions on sideloading Android apps. - Android developer verification requirements [Feedback Form] 9 hours ago:
I would argue that was the definition even in the early 2000s. then it became a business model for famous companies.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 10 hours ago:
I don’t think there’s that many abdroid rom developers
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 10 hours ago:
nah, you waived your rights to class action lawsuits on page 178 section 2.4 subsection b) paragraph 5) when you clicked accept on the first time setup screen of your phone.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 10 hours ago:
and if you don’t use the app, they’ll force you to pay for second factor code SMSs each and every time you log in.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 10 hours ago:
the biden admin was not in the 90s. look up Lina Khan.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 10 hours ago:
honestly the hardware seems to be the harder task. for software we could just fork android and tear out the restrictive parts.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 10 hours ago:
and if it will work like the play store, you will need to upload an apk* and download the signed version, so it’s bot even immediately obvious if they changed anything.
* not really an apk but an intermediate build product
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 10 hours ago:
maybe it could even turn out to be a sometimes useful measure there with the slight change of placing the decision in the hands of the user.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 10 hours ago:
don’t iphones delete your sideloaded apps against your will and along with your data, if you don’t use the ibstaller tool at once every week?
if so that’s useless for anybody other than developers themselves who otherwise don’t even want to use their own app.
- Comment on Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026 10 hours ago:
- Comment on Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026 10 hours ago:
and how do you explain that to your family? you got off youtube, but they won’t be happy.
- Comment on Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026 10 hours ago:
there is already a dev option that users need to enable to use fdroid and such, and google wants to change that now. I doubt that they will just add a 2nd dev option, because that wouldn’t change anything.
- Comment on Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus 11 hours ago:
afaik (but take it with a grain of salt) at 3 strikes the decision is not pending but automatic, and very hard to reverse, partly because kost of decision making at youtube has been automatic for a long time, and just like with google they don’t have a support channel (that is easy to find and reach)
- Comment on Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus 11 hours ago:
nah, me too, other days I use it too much I have to admit.
- Comment on Kick faces possible $49 M fine after French streamer Jean Pormanove dies on air 11 hours ago:
ok, that’s a different reason now, I can agree with that. maybe it shouldn’t be legally possible to consent to abuse like that. but a law forbidding that could have far reaching consequences, like if a medical treatment is very painful but it cannot be avoided because painkillers have alimited effect
- Comment on Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus 11 hours ago:
sorry, not everyone is browsing lemmy as if it was a full time job. also I’m not a fan of them in that sense. Maybe I have watched 3 of their videos and even that was years ago. I just understand that copyright strikes are very dangerous even for a big channel like that, because independently of how many videos you have, it’s always only 3 strikes you need to get your channel deleted, and if they are mad and start looking it could easily happen.
- Comment on Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus 11 hours ago:
I don’t think it’s clickbait. if you made a company angry, it’s not that hard to get another 2 strikes too now that they are watching more closely, and it’s very hard if not impossible to get back a channel from that.
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 11 hours ago:
the instructions can cover the server setup too. the instructions can also be to just download and run a script with double click, because it’s really just following simple instructions that can be codified
- Comment on Kick faces possible $49 M fine after French streamer Jean Pormanove dies on air 12 hours ago:
I don’t think that’s a real issue. depending on how long this investigation goes, that would either be meaningless loss of revenue for these content creators, or an easy way to destroy the career of any other content creators too if a disgruntled viewer reports them falsely.
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 1 day ago:
what’s a VPN? what’s a VPN app? how do I log in? what the fuck does a tunnel mean?
kids somehow figured these out. they’ll be able to figure out their selfhosted VPN too.
sunbeam didn’t describe it very clearly but it can be described in a way that its just following instructions without even having to understand it. like something like this: “register here. click this to get a free cloud server. log in to the server like this. paste this command and hit enter. install this app on your phone. tap import and scan. point your phone to the qr code on the screen.”
- Comment on Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus 1 day ago:
there is revenue stream. liberapay is integrated, get your viewers to subscribe through there. they can donate any amount, literally.
then its also common that content creators cooperate with companies, mostly tech companies, to advertise their products. that can still be done on peertube. what they can’t anymore is to show generic ads for everyone every few minutes.
- Comment on Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus 1 day ago:
its fine if its first and foremost a backup, and not a public platform. then you don’t need the bandwidth. then they can open it up when google deleted their channel. they still need to figure out the capacity issues, but at least the content was not lost.
- Comment on Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus 1 day ago:
its fine if its first and foremost a backup, and not a public platform. then you don’t need the bandwidth. then they can open it up when google deleted their channel. they still need to figure out the capacity issues, but at least the content was not lost.
- Comment on Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus 1 day ago:
without context? context is in the video. or do you want titles that span 4 lines with 3 sentences?
- Comment on OpenMower: Let's upgrade cheap off-the-shelf robotic mowers to modern, smart RTK GPS based lawn mowing robots! 2 days ago:
kindly please go away with your internet connected medical devices. thank you.
- Comment on Docker or Proxmox? Something else entirely? 3 days ago:
where do you run PBS? in a vm on the main proxmox host?
- Comment on Docker or Proxmox? Something else entirely? 3 days ago:
docker in a vm in proxmox!
no but really. I don’t like that the vm host’s kernel is shared with all the containers.
then maybe have 2 or 3 VMs, one of which hosts essential services (not like your nextcloud, but services that are necessary to make the (internal or whole home) network work like DNS and DHCP, maybe monitoring, and another that hosts your convenience services (jellyfin, nextcloud). the first is easier to fix if it breaks, the second is not the end if the world if it does. maybe also have a third for services that would be painful to have offline (nextcloud), but try to limit it to few tasks because the goal is simplicity. this setup can help with distro upgrade difficulties, and vm custom configuration issues when you have set up something that seems to work but will prevent VM startup sometime in the future.podman could be a good idea too.
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 4 days ago:
I have replaced all that junk on my phone with a clean system I trust. cars not only don’t have alternative software, but using it would be illegal too.
- Comment on White House launches official TikTok account with Trump saying 'I am your voice' 6 days ago:
This is not my voice
Just something synthesized
These are not my words
Something’s speaking for me
I need to be released
I need to be free