blueworld
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- Comment on Tiny stones rewrite Earth’s evolution story 8 hours ago:
OP, post a damn summary paragraph or something more than a title and a link. Tell me why I give and upvote, and get engaged. Help the author, help yourself.
- Comment on Google's shocking developer decree struggles to justify the urgent threat to F-Droid 8 hours ago:
For those in Europe, write your representatives.
Fro me f-droid's post:
https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.htmlWhat do we propose?
Regulatory and competition authorities should look carefully at Google’s proposed activities, and ensure that policies designed to improve security are not abused to consolidate monopoly control. We urge regulators to safeguard the ability of alternative app stores and open-source projects to operate freely, and to protect developers who cannot or will not comply with exclusionary registration schemes and demands for personal information.
If you are a developer or user who values digital freedom, you can help. Write to your Member of Parliament, Congressperson or other representative, sign petitions in defense of sideloading, and contact the European Commission’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) team to express why preserving open distribution matters. By making your voice heard, you help defend not only F-Droid, but the principle that software should remain a commons, accessible and free from unnecessary corporate gatekeeping.
https://f-droid.org/2025/09/04/twif.html [^antifeatures]: F-Droid Anti-Features overview: https://f-droid.org/docs/Anti-Features/ [^howmanyusers]: How many F-Droid users are there, exactly? We don’t know, because we don’t track users or have any registration. “No user accounts, by design”: https://f-droid.org/2022/02/28/no-user-accounts-by-design.html [^sideloading]: ‘“Sideload” is a weird euphemism that the mobile duopoly came up with; it means “installing software without our permission,” which we used to just call “installing software” (because you don’t need a manufacturer’s permission to install software on your computer).’ — Pluralistic: Darth Android: <https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/01/fulu/> [^playprotect]: “Google Play Protect checks your apps and devices for harmful behavior”: <https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/2812853>
- Comment on 1 week ago:
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Burning stuff seems to be on the minds of lots of people today. On September 10, Bloomberg contributor Mark Gongloff, whose resumé includes stories for Fortune, Huffington Post, and the Wall Street Journal, penned a piece with another startling headline, this one being:
“The US Is Giving Away $35 Billion a Year to Cook the Planet”
Why would America do that? Because the beneficiaries have the government in their pocket? That is one possible explanation. If that sounds more like a Mafia shakedown than a government, you’re not far wrong. The price of US government subsidies for the fossil fuel industry has more than doubled in the last eight years, Gongloff wrote, and added, “Welfare for an industry that makes billions of dollars in profits and pollutes the climate is worse than useless. It’s self-destructive.”
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- Comment on What China Banning Nvidia Chips Means for the AI Race 1 week ago:
Can you say more on your point on local or allied production? I haven't kept up, but last I heard the domestic US production of chips is many years away and likely to be generations older than Taiwan can produce. I was under the impression that these production lines take many many years to set up and train people for, unlike some manufacturing.
- Comment on Welcome to the new world of risk: Microsoft cuts off services to energy company without notice 1 month ago:
Especially a utility of all things.
- Comment on Ukraine Unveils Pocket-Sized Net Launcher to Take Down FPV Drones 2 months ago:
I think this is what you are talking about. Not sure about the brave inventors website validity in passing along the donations, but it has a picture or two.