yardratianSoma

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Funny how Kaspersky thinks what it comes down to are people who are afraid of change, when there’s also just people who are also not too happy with the direction Microsoft is taking their OS. And then there’s the fact that their stats only come from users who still use Kaspersky, which might be mostly businesses, instead of the average joe, skewing the data.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify is finally launching support for lossless music streaming⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
with flacs on soulseek, who needs music subscriptions?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit is dropping subscriber counts on subreddits⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Literally haven’t regretted a single day since I left that platform, fuck reddit
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More people are joining the military. A shaky US job market could be boosting the numbers.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Nah, I grew up on Dragon Ball Z, and I always just said it like “Zee”, I’m Canadian but not that Canadian.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More people are joining the military. A shaky US job market could be boosting the numbers.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I mean, ngl, even as a Canadian, the idea of joining the military is always my plan Z, if all else fails.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Nice, I could tell you’re a smart dude, so at least we all can agree that Android is no longer to be trusted.

Funny how words and language become the focus of this thread, and then the main issues get pushed to the side. I was arguing against you as if we didn’t agree on the main problem 😅
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
You are the master of your body, the person who decides ultimately what goes in and out of your body, No doctor can force you to take anything. That’s what I mean, The play store aka the doctor wants to become the master that decides what apps go in or out of your phone, instead of the user. My comment doesn’t invalidate the premise of the use of the term sideloading, because I don’t agree with the term to begin with.

Whether the effect is ideal or not does not change what is chemically happening in the body. The body can’t tell apart side effects from the main ones, so this distinction exists because humans deemed it so, just like the distinction between play store sanctioned apps, and everything else. It’s a distinction that Google is now abusing for it’s own monetary benefit.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Okay, I understand your position. Android’s play store has market dominance, so the a term to distinguish between 99% of play store installs vs others, makes sense.

Now, that is a tangent to the main issue, just arguing semantics. The issue is control versus openness, not about the term sideloading.

Is Google’s plan to restrict app sideloading a good thing in your eyes, or no?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
The words for distinguishing between apps that come from one trusted location vs others is usually untrusted or unverified apps versus trusted or verified ones. “Installing apps from outside the default app store” converts to, “Installing an untrusted app”.

It’s not that complicated.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
even within android, if you attempt to install an apk directly, it doesn’t say “would you like to sideload this application?”, but instead says, “Do you want to install this app?”.

Even Google’s own OS doesn’t use made up language.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Talking to the wrong guy here, I’ve taken many a medications against their intended purpose: I am a curious guy.

But that sounds like saying, in the context of Google’s intention of disabling app sideloading, that warning users that it poses a security risk because it’s their intended purpose for android, is fine because the authority on android is Google.

Don’t just take the word of authority at face value, when they prioritize profit and mindshare over personal freedom.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Don’t forget “side effects”, when really, medications only have “effects”. Whether the effects are intended or not doesn’t change the fact that they happen.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AOL announces September shutdown for dial-up Internet access⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
RIP, I still remember getting those AOL CDs in the mail, and was so excited by the concept of a disk that could allow me to connect to the world wide web.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨South Korea ban using mobile phones and other smart devices during classes at elementary and middle schools nationwide, starting March 2026⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Nice, maybe North America can follow suit, kids are already kind of fucked here.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gamers Nexus big story about GPU smuggling got taken down.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
seeding on my seedbox, for the people!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One Angry Man⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Bicycle Theif

Longleg

The Gentleman

Funny Game
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Human civilization won't last forever; someday there will be a last movie ever made⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Thats assuming that there won’t be an end to all creative output on this planet in the next million years.

Anything past 1000 years from now is beyond understanding, IMO.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I like where you’re going with this!
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
yeah, well-intentioned things tend to go sour when exposed to the glow of anonymity on the internet. Starts off innocent, and goes downhill fast.

The creator, Sean, stating that he started this app as a reaction to the online dating scene his mother experienced, seems fine: an anti-catfishing app would be great.

To give the devil their due, the data they collect might also be valuable as data on how women discuss men online, which at a cursory glance seems to favor far more hyperbole than I see in everyday life.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google, Microsoft say Chinese hackers are exploiting SharePoint zero-day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
When I say things like, “Use linux, the attack surface is much smaller”, people say, “well, that won’t last forever”, to which I say, “if a trillion dollar company can drop the ball like this, I’m taking the route less travelled because society doesn’t change quickly, Microsoft isn’t going anywhere in my forseeable future”
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robot performs first realistic surgery without human help: System trained on videos of surgeries performs like an expert surgeon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Just a hunch, since technological advancements seem to hit the public realm much faster in places like China, in the cities especially. I don’t know what the laws are like there, but I’ve heard rumors that there is less government regulations for technologies that can benefit the general public, like drones and automated metros.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robot performs first realistic surgery without human help: System trained on videos of surgeries performs like an expert surgeon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
it’ll definitely get the greenlight in countries like China before anywhere in the west, I believe
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DeepSeek accused of powering China’s military and mining US user data⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
“Detachment 201: the Executive Innovation Corps”

Lol, as if AI technology in the military hasn’t been in the public zietgiest for at least the past 40 years
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨matrix is cooked⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
cheap and easy? I tried running it myself and ran into several hurdles, and gave up. How did you host it? VPS? Docker? Bare-metal?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨matrix is cooked⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
no mention of tox chat, eh? Open source, p2p private chat, what’s not to like?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For All That Is Good About Humankind, Ban Smartphones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Author admits smartphones are ubiquitous, and doesn’t at all consider, in a hypothetical situation where everyone unanimously agreed to stop using them, where all this e-waste will go?

Also, how do you disillusion the millions of people that use them religiously?

I get the sentiment, but only a significant technologically literate society would really appreciate the need for greater control over their devices and actually possess the skills needed to modify and configure them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For All That Is Good About Humankind, Ban Smartphones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Greed isn’t limited to any one economic system, I fear.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨autofocus glasses⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
oh damn, I’ve never seen one in person, but I don’t really care about judgment by others, so if I could get some prescription lenses on those, that’d be ideal.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨autofocus glasses⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
A manual focus version would be cool too. I don’t like the idea of having yet another thing to charge.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Florida ban on kids using social media likely unconstitutional, judge rules⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Just imagine if the eloquent words of the founding fathers were the norm of the type of content you see on tik tok. If that were the case, I would have joined a long time ago.