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- Comment on PSA syncthing-fork has changed owners 2 days ago:
Every Catfriend build since v2 has been reproducable. Most apps on F-Droid are and they are encouraging it for all devs, to build trust.
- Comment on Windows 11 could actually become the same kind of mistake Sony made with the PS3 2 days ago:
It does more or less follow the age-old Microsoft pattern: One disaster OS, followed by one improved OS people mostly enjoy.
Only problem for them is that this time there’s actually way more viable OS options for average people to turn to, and they’ve simultaneously leaned heavily into surveillance capitalism, monitoring, and AI when all of those things are broadly unwelcome. Its a recipe for a big loss in market share, and I can’t say I don’t love that for them.
- Comment on PSA syncthing-fork has changed owners 2 days ago:
Update from Simon aka imsodin, Syncthing Maintainer
tl;dr for android users: No need to switch apps at this time, the current install continues to work and is safe. If you can disable app auto-updates, please do that for now to be on the safe side.
Good news: Had a good chat with @nel0x. He is a collaborator on researchxxl’s repo and just marked those releases as “pre-release”, which prevents the obtainium auto-upgrades. So we are back to no immediate risk for users and we can take it slowly, trying to establish communication and more context. It’s still possible and imo likely that nothing nefarious is going on, just a very suboptimal handover that needs clearing up. There’s no need to go dig for repos on github, the technicalities of continuing to publish an app are not an issue - the open/relevant points are about a possible direct continuation of the existing app (or not), the time/effort that needs to be volunteered to publish an app and the trust in whoever does that. Hopefully we can work something out. If you are interested in helping maintain the app, let us know, other than that imo nothing to do here except if you are a user, to do the above in the tl;dr and every now and then check-in on the status (now and then being more like every week than every hour  ).
- Comment on PSA syncthing-fork has changed owners 2 days ago:
Sounds like a really good reason not to use Obtainium, if any repo you have tracked for updates can just redirect you to a completely different repo - and throw no complaints when updating to an entirely different apk.
With F-Droid they at least have to have the same signing keys, and the code must be a replicable build by F-Droid’s internal apk signature copying process - meaning the code for the supplied APK always matches the code on the repository for the build.
- Comment on I never understood what it was people did on Twitter. I understand it even less now that it is X. 5 days ago:
That is allowed and respected.
- Comment on Adguard DNS: Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today 5 days ago:
Your comment makes no sense with respect to this story.
I don’t use AdguardDNS’s services but they are going above and beyond in their response to this spurious claim, seems very professional to me. If you read the story and weren’t happy with them and it’s boistered your desire to roll completely unfiltered DNS so that you won’t have any CSAM domains blocked, well… weird flex.
- Comment on Adguard DNS: Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today 5 days ago:
Interesting read, great to have a window into the work done by AdguardDNS in the background to ensure their systems are not being manipulated by false claims.
I hope there will be a follow up and investigation from the French police or whomever is responsible for enforcing the LCEN law abuse provisions.
- Comment on I never understood what it was people did on Twitter. I understand it even less now that it is X. 5 days ago:
No.
From this communities sidebar:
A “Showerthought” is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you’re doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Rules
- All posts must be showerthoughts
- The entire showerthought must be in the title
- No politics
This is borderline rule 3 violation because it’s just baiting people to shit on Twitter/X for political reasons - not that it doesn’t deserve it, but that’s not what this comm is for.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey Releases Vine Reboot Where AI Content Is Banned 6 days ago:
The same reality where GPT5’s launch a couple months back was a massive failure with users and showed a lot of regression to less reliable output than GPT4? Or perhaps the reality where most corporations that have used AI found no benefit and have given up reported this year?
LLMs are good tools for some uses, but those uses are quite limited and niche. They are however a square peg being crammed into the round hole of ‘AGI’ by Altman etc while they put their hands out for another $10bil - or, more accurately while they make a trade swap deal with MS or Nvidia or any of the other AI orobouros trade partners that hype up the bubble for self-benefit.
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 6 days ago:
I think you are enormously overestimating their abilities to:
A) reflect on poor management decisions that hurt users. They have increased their company valuation TEN-fold under Satya Nadella over the last 11 years, and his push to cannibalise the hosted-services partners and Gold partners with Azure/365 made them a lot of ground before then. They became the second company ever to reach a valuation of $3T back in 2024. If you think a (globally) handful of unhappy home OS users will cause then to change course - I don’t think so, certainly never been my experience with MS.
B) win back most of the users they have lost to Windows. Why would those users return? They have what they need with their new solutions, and moving to them was a time and education cost that they have now fully paid, they’re invested. They’d have to have something very compelling to bring them back beyond, “hey guys we stopped being shit! (#### whispers for now)”.
- Comment on Death of beloved neighborhood cat sparks outrage against robotaxis in San Francisco 1 week ago:
It references Waymo’s public statement in the article. The article is the webpage that is linked by OP. You can read it if you click the link, and you can see the quote for yourself.
Ah yes, local strays get tagged and collared and have bells. They also have their ‘family’ members who run the bodega they live out of get upset when other people start memecoins to exploit the situation when they are not family. Stray is mentioned nowhere in the article - and yet if fits your narrative so you try to jam the square peg in the round hole.
I’m done talking to this particular brick wall. 🚫
- Comment on Death of beloved neighborhood cat sparks outrage against robotaxis in San Francisco 2 weeks ago:
My quote is from the linked article.
Doubling down and re-stating your claims again as fact won’t make reality change.
- Comment on Death of beloved neighborhood cat sparks outrage against robotaxis in San Francisco 2 weeks ago:
The linked article, like the person claimed.
“We send our deepest sympathies to the cat’s owner and the community who knew and loved him"
Picture of cat shows a collar, tag, and bell. It’s a pet.
- Comment on Over the past ~20 years, Google became the de facto entry point for learning new skills and information. Google also sucks now. This is a really big problem. 2 weeks ago:
That first video was great. Subbed
- Comment on What's happened from July to September 2025 that might make people Google "Worst timeline"? 2 weeks ago:
One yank’s ‘infested’ is the rest of the world’s ‘appropriately proportioned’.
- Comment on Can Cows and Solar Power Coexist? We’re About to Find Out 2 weeks ago:
I can’t see how big this installation is, but if they dotted an occasional cow brush every 100m or something they could probably largely minimise rubbing on infrastructure poles too. Cows are not interested in smooth metal poles as much as anything with some texture to it.
- Comment on Can Cows and Solar Power Coexist? We’re About to Find Out 2 weeks ago:
A simple edited stock photo meme? In today’s post-AI-slop world? Sweet ambrosia.
- Comment on A rant on left-wing online infighting 2 weeks ago:
Lol… You’re in this post elsewhere stating if literally reanimated Hitler was running against Newsome you’d still not vote Newsome… And you reckon this person is a clueless right winger?
Look in the mirror. You just stated you’d equally support the epitome of fascism over a centrist. A non-vote is equal support for candidates, and the sooner the useful idiots work that out the better.
I’m going to not vote for Gavin Newsom even if you resurrect Hitler himself and tell me Gavin is the lesser evil.
And you’re mad about it.
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 3 weeks ago:
Same.
Also, for the zoomers who might not get your reference to the mighty KLF:
- Comment on "What is the oldest country in the world that still exists?" is a Ship of Theseus problem. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I dunno why the downvotes tbh
- Comment on "What is the oldest country in the world that still exists?" is a Ship of Theseus problem. 3 weeks ago:
South east Asia via land bridges during ice ages is the current dominant theory I believe. Indonesia wouldn’t be accurate, more like Papua New Guinea - but both of those countries are far newer than when the original Aboriginal’s descendants crossed. Genetically they’re closest to PNG AFAIK.
As an aside, Dingoes (genetically distinct from dogs, Canus familiaris) came over much more recently, also believed to be during a land bridge during an ice age ~3,500 years ago from south east Asia - specifically PNG also. They’re most closely related to New Guinean Singing Dogs and share the same taxonomic rank under ‘Canus lupus dingo’.
- Comment on Twitter says passkey reset isn't about a security issue – it's to finally kill off twitter.com 3 weeks ago:
Better idea: delete your Twitter passkey altogether, and leave the stupid site.
- Comment on mercy merci 3 weeks ago:
Does not apply so much in warm weather countries. All the spiders that come into our house are also easily found loving life outside (Australia). I just gently move them out, except daddy long-legs, generally let some of them stay as pest control.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I blocked em because it was too annoying trying to parse their posts - and the comments weren’t very contributory anyway
- Comment on What are some good uses the new ballroom can have after the Trump regime is over? 3 weeks ago:
Remember that scene in Inglorious Basterds where they lock the cinema full of Nazi officers and set it on fire?
Cool scene, just thought I’d bring it up.
- Comment on Being asked "Have you gotten the tour yet" upon entering a house for the first time is the adult equivelent of the kids asking: "Do you want to see my room?" 3 weeks ago:
Our stuff is a reflection of our desires, decisions and personality. Its normal to want to share it socially. Its totally fine if you don’t want to also.
- Comment on Mom they're fighting again 4 weeks ago:
I’m so sorry that you have chosen to argue with people who have little knowledge but have decided they do.
Coconut milk and coconut water are distinct products. Coconut water is just the liquid from the center of a (usually green) coconut, its unprocessed. Coconut milk is more an analogue to to soy milk than fruit juice, it is heavily processed by blending the pulp of the fruit with coconut water and added ingredients.
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 4 weeks ago:
“Assault drama is great for algorithmic engagement” - Twitch prolly
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 4 weeks ago:
I mean it’s mostly teen to 20s gamers, who are not known for their empathy or socialisation skills. So yeah…
- Comment on Two years after school phone bans were implemented in Australia, what’s changed? ‘The impacts were clear’ 5 weeks ago:
Do this? They already did this.
