ThomasWilliams
@ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world
- Comment on Apple rolls out mandatory UK age verification with iOS 26.4, requiring users to provide a credit card or ID, a first in Europe, after UK government pressure 12 hours ago:
The ID scheme doesn’t require user identification on a device, which would be superfluous.
- Comment on From F-Droid to emulators, here's who's hit hardest by Android's new verification rules 1 day ago:
You cannot sideload on Linux, not unless you’re some sort of mutant freak who can reverse engineer C code.
- Comment on From F-Droid to emulators, here's who's hit hardest by Android's new verification rules 1 day ago:
The APK installation process is already more inconvenient than it should be,
You what. All you have to do is download the apk and then run it on the phone. HTF could it be any easier ?
- Comment on From F-Droid to emulators, here's who's hit hardest by Android's new verification rules 1 day ago:
There are many very good reasons to host apps outside the Play Store.
You won’t have to upload apks to the Play Store.
Nonsense story.
- Comment on In the age of electronics, when is go to vote can I request a paper ballot instead of a machine? 4 days ago:
I don’t get it isn’t it expensive ?
Say each machine cost $500 to buy and maintain, multiply that by 30 booths and then tens of thousands of polling stations the costs would be massive.
You can just scan the ballots in to get a quick count and then hand count them later.
- 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:
If you don’t have age verification you will be blocked from sites that require it, because you can absolutely guarantee they will not want to lose the Californian market.
- 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:
Wonder if Motorola feels the same way.
Motorola phones will have both Graphene and Android.
- Comment on YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified. 1 week ago:
The purge started at the top and worked its way down. Senior party members were the first ones executed.
Once it got down to the lower levels of the civil service, the cheka would just round up anyone in the streets to meet the quota.
- Comment on This is Android's new 'advanced flow' for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period 1 week ago:
all they have to do now is press a single link to install a scam apk.
- Comment on This is Android's new 'advanced flow' for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period 1 week ago:
You can’t sideload on Linux
- Comment on Did we win? 1 week ago:
You can’t sideload on Linux…
- Comment on The US in one image 1 week ago:
Iranians are dying for their country, Americans are dying for their bankers.
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 2 weeks ago:
But the IDs are reused, they can really only track you while you’re using the internet.
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 2 weeks ago:
The mainstream media want to destroy the competition.
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 2 weeks ago:
Apple DOS was on a disk. There wasn’t really any OS, you operated the computer through the BASIC interpreter.
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 2 weeks ago:
Which entity/organisation/individual/company are they getting the ideas from?
The mainstream media.
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 2 weeks ago:
From the article it appears to be some technical experiment in Spain they were too disorganised or lazy to remove from the ROM.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 2 weeks ago:
No this is totally about race.
Very few Uber drivers are caucasian.
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto 2 weeks ago:
No one will create content without ad revenue. Peertube is doomed to fail.
- Comment on Uber is letting women avoid male drivers and riders in the US 2 weeks ago:
That’s the point, Uber can’t get any women drivers so they are offering this. It’s got nothing to do with “empowerment”.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Meta have paid the copyright fee but uploaded material from Ann’s Archive because it wasn’t financially feasible to scan in each book individually.
Fair use is irrelevant.
- Comment on Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant 2 weeks ago:
He did have a backup. This is why you use cloud storage.
The operator had to contact Amazon Business support, which helped restore the data within about a day.
- Comment on Candy cigarettes are illegal because they encourage kids to smoke 3 weeks ago:
Its starts with sherbet powder, by high school they’re snorting cocaine off the toilet seats…
- Comment on Forced age verification is comming sooner than we thought. 3 weeks ago:
If it doesn’t generate a token you won’t be able to access the site.
- Comment on Forced age verification is comming sooner than we thought. 3 weeks ago:
It literally only requires a single bit flag.
- Comment on Forced age verification is comming sooner than we thought. 3 weeks ago:
This will make it more anonymous because verification relies on a token defined in the OS rather than uploading identification.
- Comment on Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes 3 weeks ago:
The whole point of using AI is that its a search tool and that is the verification.
Otherwise there’s no point in using it.
And you can guarantee Conde Nast demands journalists use AI all the time.
- Comment on Is the Memory Shortage Intentional? 3 weeks ago:
Will lower memory availability to consumers increase reliance on cloud-based storage and demand for data centers? >
No, because you need more RAM to run a smart terminal than a standalone micro, because there’s no secondary memory available to rely on.
Therefore, according to our best estimates, OpenAI likely needs less than 30% of the 10.8 million wafers it’s planning to buy
OpenAI hasn’t actually paid for any of that, its sold on credit with a 6 year repayment period on hardware that will only last 2-3 years at most. That’s why no memory manufacturers are increasing capacity, as they would if they thought there was any long term increase in demand.
- Comment on Data centers are now hoarding SSDs as hard drive supplies dry up 4 weeks ago:
The devices will be returned to the supplier (they are supplied on credit) and then destroyed.
The manufacturers won’t want to flood the market with discounted hardware.
- Comment on New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater 4 weeks ago:
It has the same “energy density”, but lower density because of its honeycomb structure.