freeman

@freeman@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is Android's new 'advanced flow' for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Without verification by Google. I am very much capable of verifying the origin and trustworthiness of the apps I install.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did we win?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He doesn’t need to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did we win?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No the scammer will simply point out that the warning is about scammers and not him, your friendly MS tech that called to help solve a problem you didn’t have.

  Scams don’t rely on tech.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did we win?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Evidence that any significant percentage of people, never mind the majority, is getting scammed? Then how many of them via app installs?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did we win?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then make the wait period a week, a month. Have this privilege expire every so often etc.

  Try to pull warranty shenanigans if you ever went through the process.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside the fiery, deadly crashes involving the Tesla Cybertruck: Cybertrucks have locked passengers inside and burned so hot they’ve disintegrated drivers’ bones.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A true Tesla them, no?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Historic Chat Control Vote in the EU Parliament: MEPs Vote to End Untargeted Mass Scanning of Private Chats⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No it says they any scanning must be in the context of sex crimes. It’s otherwise prohibited.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox as a platform is officially dead⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can add non-steam games to Steam Deck, not sure how that’s walled off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Motorola confirms GrapheneOS support for a future phone, bringing over features⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Motorola is based in a freedom respecting country not the EU so certainly they won’t get compromised by the hardware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean if you control the software on the “player” you don’t really need a dedicated dvd format. Think about mp3 CDs, it never became a real format with specs and everything yet most CD players after a certain date supported them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless you get new DVD players to support AV1, just put the AV1 files on a data DVD…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice blasts 'fake open source' OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You are missing the parts where MP3 is made by a company that makes a music player, publishes a spec to get recognized as an open standard, then starts diverging from this spec to prevent interoperability while of course still pretending to be an open format.

  Said company has also been convicted for anti-competitive practices, against the other spreadsheet software.

  Do you work with office workers? Tabbed design does not help them. I literally had a co worker ask me to if I could put spellcheck from the revision tab to the main one (or have it always showing).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Piracy communities remain blocked on lemmy.world despite "Unremoval of Piracy Communities" announcement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They did not admit it. I don’t think anyone could have have proof they didn’t. Only the ridiculousness of their arguments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Piracy communities remain blocked on lemmy.world despite "Unremoval of Piracy Communities" announcement⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering the bullshit spewed by them to justify their ban of pro-Luigi comments, claiming they consulted a lawyer, I doubt this ever happened.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox, Reddit and Discord users compelled to use biometric ID system backed by Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  People 18 and over are adults. I know the US somehow forbids adults from drinking but I don’t think more countries should dilute people’s rights.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is the issue tanks ? Because the National Guard has killed people during Vietnam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's it going to take to truly stop the US?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well a big part of the world needs to cleanse it self of US loyalists in it’s politics, military and intelligence/security. It’s going to be tough, a lot of expertise is going to be lost and the rebuild is going to be hard.

  After that they can boycott and sanction the USA but they need to militarize to protect themselves. Expansion of nuclear weapons is a good tactic if you can get it to happen fast. Tactical ones as well to strike at US expeditionary assets.

  It’s not going to be pretty, stopping the Nazis was not pretty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So it’s not about all decks being the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Money, gambling is (even if obfuscated via tokens) about money.

  Monopoly is not gambling because there is no (real) money involved. Uno is not gambling because there is no money involved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does Lemmy need a fork or a rewrite due to its maintainers views?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Reactionary forks don’t have a great record of success (or even getting off the ground).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do pro athelets get paid millions upon millions of dollars but will be taken off field for something minor? My coach always said walk it off or tough it out. How come its not the same in leagues?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your coach is a moron. Don’t take his stupid advice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I sometimes can't sleep at night. Perhaps my brain's "CMOS Chip" battery ran out and my circadian rhythm defaulted to my "factory settings" of Beijing Time (UTC +8), which would explain my insomnia.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Timezones, not even once.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  AMD is a member of the HDMI consortium and is probably bound by private agreements to not make open source drivers without permission from the consortium. They did try to get them to budge but they didn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well it’s science fiction. Being ‘genetically perfect’ (rofl) will impart less of an advantage than actually existing, mundane factors such as wealth and which country you were born in. Hell, the biggest advantage they could get is making sure their children is of the ‘right’ color.

  I do not even think the biggest assholes like say Musk would genetically modify their children. He already thinks he is perfect.

  I can also think of a few factors that would disadvantage poor people more than lack of eugenics.

  Lack of healthcare. Climate change leading to people having to abandon their homeland and also exacerbating another factor. Bad nutrition. Bad education in combination with disinformation by wealth controlled media.

  Genetic modification is not really a problem. It could also help some people if we fix our politics and make sure people get access to healthcare based on needs rather than means.

  Seriously, fiction is not necessarily a good guide for politics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s fiction.

  You can find actual discrimination based on genetics or wealth or class into the present and past of the real world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree that Play integrity is a huge problem and a way for Google to maintain control of Android.

  However a Linux phone wouldn’t solve that at least in the beginning.

  The devs who don’t allow apps to run on devices that do not pass Play integrity are unlikely to make a Linux phone app.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That does not make sense. Even in the worse scenarios Android would be more open than Apple and there would be Android options unaffected by this. Not many and not the most mainstream, though certainly more so than non-Android Linux phones.

  But compared to a picking a non-Android Linux phone it makes even less sense. Unfortunately it’s true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunatel, even here on Lemmy, that is a not techier/fossier than the mainstream, a lot of people say they will switch to… IOS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Doubtful, phone vendors already had access to binary blobs to run Linux (Android) on them.

  It’s no surprise Valve who is buying those SOCs is also provided with them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are android phones outside Google’s garden that will remain outside it’s walls. Apple’s walled garden vs Google’s future wall garden is a false dilemma.