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- Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth 1 week ago:
Which is?
- Comment on A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth 1 week ago:
Believe it or not, you can do two things at once.
- Comment on Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to 1 week ago:
Yeah, and currently you don’t need to know what an apk is to get install them.
- Comment on Firefox 149 adds built-in free VPN with 50GB monthly data 1 week ago:
A VPN to me is a way to prevent my ISP from seeing I torrent and to go around geoblocks. It’s not a privacy tool at all. So yeah, I’m evaluating them from that angle.
- Comment on Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to 1 week ago:
From what angle is it easy to do?
- Enable developer mode (using a hidden process where you have to know where to find it)
- Go through a scary form
- Restart the device
- Wait 24 hours?!
- Go to the settings again
- Do some more scary confirmations
- Check another scary checkbox
- And then… confirm again every single time you install an app
And you are telling me it’s easy to do? I can go publish a diet tracking app and Aunt Flo will happily go through this and I won’t lose customers?
- Comment on Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to 1 week ago:
I feel like anything you want to get that’s not on the Play Store, you’re gonna be savvy enough to install.
Yes, that’s my point. Google making it so that you have to be a tech savvy user to install anything from outside the Play Store is why there is nothing outside the Play Store that a non-tech savvy user would be interested in, because why would there be is no is going to install it anyway. Fortnite was a big example where you had to download the APK from their website. It would never work after this change.
- Comment on Firefox 149 adds built-in free VPN with 50GB monthly data 1 week ago:
They also know it’s you when you don’t use it. I’m not sure how is it worse? Seems like a handy way to go around geoblocks.
- Comment on Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to 1 week ago:
No, you do this and then you can’t install anything, because no developer will choose this process as their publishing strategy.
Apps outside the Play Store will be dead.
- Comment on Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to 1 week ago:
That’s already the case. The new thing is that they want developers to share their ID to have their apps be installable on Android in the first place, no Play Store involved.
- Comment on Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to 1 week ago:
Sure, it’s a win for power users. It’s not a win at all developers trying to publish an app without getting Google’s approval, since nobody is going to follow this process to install an app.
- Comment on The US in one image 2 weeks ago:
He is an asshole, but then, I wouldn’t care if we people call me names after I die. To them it doesn’t matter anyway. And maybe those soldiers who are alive will see that there is no glory in what they are doing.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 2 weeks ago:
And why is that a problem?
Google searches also usually generate mostly useless results, which is impossible to combat. Thankfully the person doing the search knows what they are looking for, can try different solutions, and learn from multiple results to get to a working solution.
Why do you consider AI different? Nobody is expecting it always give correct solutions, just like nobody is expecting Googling something to always give the correct solution.
I’m not saying AI is useful, but I’m saying that a tool being fallible isn’t inherently a problem, whatever the tool is. As long as the user knows it’s fallible.
- Comment on New ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI 2 weeks ago:
You should tell that to Linus Torvalds, he’s developing the Linux kernel without using GitHub at all. I’m sure he will appreciate being told git is insuffient to develop a good product and write good code.
- Comment on Maximum Shareholder Value® 3 weeks ago:
How dare you. If it’s your last thought then you are clearly not answering the question and thinking about how you can do better afterwards!
- Comment on simpler times 3 weeks ago:
Unfortunately the money went to other people who had too much of it.
- Comment on let's kill proton mail 3 weeks ago:
Not on Proton’s side, but whoever sent you that email obviously has both your info and your Proton address so they know it’s connected to you, even if Proton doesn’t.
- Comment on New ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI 3 weeks ago:
Why? What difference does it make that it’s big?
Keep in mind this is a single maintainer project, there are no PR reviews.
- Comment on Reddit users hate NordVPN. Are their criticisms legit? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah but so could my ISP, and all in all I find it more likely my ISP would, than that NordVPN would. I don’t trust either, but I definitely trust my ISP less.
- Comment on Reddit users hate NordVPN. Are their criticisms legit? 3 weeks ago:
I need a VPN to get around geoblocks and to torrent without my ISP sending me letters.
NordVPN always worked perfectly for me. I don’t see the problem? Not saying other ones aren’t better, but it seems perfectly adequate.
- Comment on New ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI 3 weeks ago:
The “single pull request” is a merge release from 79 separate commits.
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 3 weeks ago:
Me: It doesn’t require anything of users You: Yes it does require something of developers
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You are correct, but how does that disagree with my comment?
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 3 weeks ago:
And Facebook Messenger and Gmail Chat (or whatever it was called)! There was a glorious period of time where you could talk to pretty much anyone on any service from one chat app.
- Comment on I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion. 3 weeks ago:
Steam could stop asking in California, since it’s now the responsibility of the operating system to tell Steam your age.
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 4 weeks ago:
All right, then your argument relies on the licensing difference, not any technical differences between Linux root / Windows admin or source code access. Which makes sense, but it’s all hypothetical since neither company addressed this yet, either in the product or in the licensing.
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 4 weeks ago:
No, media did say that at over point, but it was never based on any announcement from Microsoft.
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 4 weeks ago:
What does the comparability of root/admin access change in this situation? Why is the ability to change Microsoft’s binaries important?
Suppose Microsoft adds this capability to Windows, and you edit the registry to disable it. How is that any different?
I can see the argument for something like iOS. But on Windows you would be able to add or remove such functionality.
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 4 weeks ago:
They only have access to the functions that Microsoft has provided.
And a user of Ubuntu only has access to the functions that Canonical has provided.
Unless they have root access and modify the OS. Or they have administrator access on Windows and modify the OS. Which is the case for both by default. I don’t really see the distinction.
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 4 weeks ago:
Great, but how does that help? 99.9% Linux users use a Linux distro that has, ay the very least, a website behind it, with a domain name, that has a registration info.
That the 0.01% of people that use an OS only hosted by anonymous devs on a Russian website does not make this law any better for the rest of us.
- Comment on California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup 4 weeks ago:
You are right, it just says whoever “controls the OS”, which is very vague. Even without going to open source, a user still controls the OS even on Windows or macOS. To a lesser degree of course, but in the same way a driver controls a car even if they can’t or won’t try to modify it.
- Comment on Why is the USA attacking Iran? 4 weeks ago:
OP posed two main questions:
- why did Israel become an ally of USA
- why did Israel attack Iran right now
Saying that Israel is an ally answers neither.