Ulrich
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- Comment on PC Gamer Recommends RSS Readers in a 37MB Article That Just Keeps Downloading 4 days ago:
Advertising doesn’t have to be the way it is.
- Comment on PC Gamer Recommends RSS Readers in a 37MB Article That Just Keeps Downloading 4 days ago:
Unrelated note:
We finally have the technology
We had the technology in like 1998. RSS doesn’t solve this problem because publications stopped offering full articles a long time ago. You still have to open the site to read them.
On another note, the author left out that PC gamer hijacks your browser history to show more articles when you try to back out of the site.
- Comment on GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information 4 days ago:
…it is?
- Comment on Cyberattack on vehicle breathalyzer company leaves drivers stranded across the US 5 days ago:
Interlocks are for people who have had a DUI
Yes I am actually aware, thanks.
ankle monitors should not be able to be accessed remotely.
Ankle monitors monitor location. Interlock devices monitor intoxication levels, and locally send a signal to the vehicle about whether it’s ok to drive. The difference should be obvious.
- Comment on Cyberattack on vehicle breathalyzer company leaves drivers stranded across the US 5 days ago:
Of course I am?
- Comment on Cyberattack on vehicle breathalyzer company leaves drivers stranded across the US 5 days ago:
If it knows it’s been tampered with, it doesn’t need to phone home, it can be disabled locally…
- Comment on Cyberattack on vehicle breathalyzer company leaves drivers stranded across the US 5 days ago:
If you want to circumvent it, it’s as simple as disconnecting it. Source: I’ve done it (professionally)
- Comment on Cyberattack on vehicle breathalyzer company leaves drivers stranded across the US 5 days ago:
Since disabling the vehicle remotely is kinda the express intention of this device
Uhhh nope, there’s no reason for a remote connection.
- Comment on Microsoft announces sweeping Windows changes - but no apologies 5 days ago:
Nothing but lip service. MS did not “analyze your feedback”, they analyzed their income (most likely from enterprise customers) and realized they may have boiled the frog too quickly. Windows will never improve because they do not want it to improve, they want it to make as much money as humanly possible, and they will eternally push that envelope to find out just how much bullshit their customers will tolerate.
- Comment on This is Android's new 'advanced flow' for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period 6 days ago:
So it doesn’t apply when I click the big button which says ‘Install’ on F-Droid app on my phone?
Please note the use of quotes. I was using “installing software” the way you were, as in literally any software. Whereas this does not apply to apps in the Google Play Store. That’s why the distinction is important.
Just like installing software from the ‘secure’ Google Play store.
Yes, just like that, except a higher level of risk, because potentially no one is verifying the validity of said software. And as I already explained, there’s no technological way for the OS to differentiate a legitimate source like FDroid from a random sketchy website on the internet.
Installing software is installing software, no matter where you get that software from
Except it’s not, because sideloading is different, as you know, if you actually read the OP, and if you actually read my comments where I already explained how it’s different.
Now I’m done repeating myself over and over, so unless you have something new to contribute to the discussion, I’m out. Have a nice day!
- Comment on This is Android's new 'advanced flow' for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period 1 week ago:
To me that implies it’s somehow different than just installing software.
That’s because it is, as I’ve just finished explaining. Again, see the “advanced flow” in OP? This does not apply to “installing software”. It only applies to sideloading. I’m not sure why this is so difficult to understand.
You could say ‘install from play store’ or ‘install from f-droid’ if you need to specify which app repository you should use
Did you think about this at all before typing? Which repository do you think the OP refers to?
From the article:
None of this says “sideloading” or refers specifically to the term, it refers to the practice.
Google tries to twist that to mean something only ‘power users’ do and it comes with a ‘educated risk’.
You’re incredibly naive if you think anyone other than “power users” are sideloading.
And it does come with risk, because there’s no technological difference between downloading from FDroid, or downloading a random app from some unverified (by anyone) sketchy website.
- Comment on This is Android's new 'advanced flow' for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period 1 week ago:
Do you consider installing games to you PC
This is not a PC though. Whether you or I like it or not, they are different. And no one wants to type out “installing apps from outside the Google Play Store” every time. It’s a useful term.
Sideloading is a made up term
All terms are made up.
to make it sound somehow dangerous or complicated in order to justify
[Citation needed]
People keep saying this but it makes absolutely no sense. The term predates both Apple and Google, and nothing about the term itself suggests it is “dangerous”.
- Comment on FBI admits buying Americans' location data and says it won't stop 1 week ago:
Better yet, politicians
- Comment on This is Android's new 'advanced flow' for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period 1 week ago:
Yes, it is, thank you.
- Comment on This is Android's new 'advanced flow' for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period 1 week ago:
The advanced flow is not for “installing apps”. It’s for sideloaded apps.
- Comment on Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Stepping Down 2 weeks ago:
How is this “moving” on BSky and not fedi?
- Comment on Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Stepping Down 2 weeks ago:
Yes you can
- Comment on Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: AI compute as compensation 2 weeks ago:
Look at you. You are the cloud now.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 2 weeks ago:
I use my computer for simple tasks and can power through double that pretty easily. My family is full of Mac sheep who are constantly coming to me to make their computers faster and I have to tell them I can’t help because their machine was deliberately kneecapped by the OEM and there’s no way to fix it. Fortunately one of them just upgraded to the new Air w/ 16GB and they remark how much faster it is. Obviously it’s faster in lots of other ways, but none of those would do anything if they were still capped at 8GB.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 2 weeks ago:
They said websites, not website
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 2 weeks ago:
Again, no.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 2 weeks ago:
in the Linux world, 8GB is fine
Yeahhhhh no
- Comment on Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Stepping Down 2 weeks ago:
Lemmy and PieFed are not analogous to BlueSky. That would be more Mastodon, Misskey, Pixelfed, etc. So, in just about every other case, yes.
- Comment on From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT 2 weeks ago:
Well what’s the answer? Is he garbage?
- Comment on From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT 2 weeks ago:
But Gary Vee told me NFTs would make me rich!
- Comment on Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Stepping Down 2 weeks ago:
Mastodon’s problems are not intrinsic…
- Comment on Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Stepping Down 2 weeks ago:
AP accounts are also portable…
- Comment on Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Stepping Down 2 weeks ago:
but doing so risks just sending users to a pseudo-fork like blacksky.
I think if there’s anything we’ve learned at this point, it’s that it’s extremely hard to get users to leave a platform they have connections on. That’s always the plan.
- Comment on Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Stepping Down 2 weeks ago:
Why wait? Why continue contributing value and investing in the platform? The longer you wait, the harder it becomes.
- Comment on Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Stepping Down 2 weeks ago:
They used COVID as a kind of red herring.
Why would they need a red herring?