Zedstrian
@Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on From F-Droid to emulators, here's who's hit hardest by Android's new verification rules 1 week ago:
Every APK installation from outside of the Play Store gives an installation warning. It’s unnecessary and deliberately trying to make such installations seem less secure in comparison.
A more useful warning would be for the many privacy risks in installing apps from the Play Store instead of privacy-respecting alternatives from F-Droid.
- Comment on From F-Droid to emulators, here's who's hit hardest by Android's new verification rules 1 week ago:
The APK installation process is already more inconvenient than it should be, and now it will be getting even worse. There should be no difference in installing an APK via Google Play versus any other method; the fact that the process will still warn about ‘security’ each and every time after the 24 hour wait period shows that even for “advanced users” they want to make it as inconvenient as possible while claiming to still be keeping Android open.
- Comment on Bluesky raises $100 M Series B as new CEO takes charge 1 week ago:
People should be switching to Mastodon with how clear the coming enshittification is. User data is valuable, and the way ATProto siloes data from multiple platforms using the protocol encourages them to entrench the dominance of the official Bluesky PDS to maximize data collection. With $100 million in venture capital, Bluesky is in no way incentivized to meaningfully decentralize its platform.
Before subscriptions or advertising turn it into just another Twitter clone, users should be migrating to Mastodon.
- Comment on Did we win? 2 weeks ago:
Making users wait 24 hours doesn’t improve security; it’s an anti-competitive change designed to make the Google Play store seem like less of a hassle in comparison.
- Comment on [Video] British journalist Steve Sweeney bombed by Israel while reporting in Lebanon 2 weeks ago:
Another example of Israel targeting illegally journalists, but it still doesn’t legitimize his position as a Russian propagandist.
- Comment on List of Fediverse instances 2 weeks ago:
The Federation Checker lists incoming and outgoing defederation for inputted instances: federation-checker.vercel.app
Might be a pain to use in bulk though.
- Comment on US | 'Last person we need help from is Zelensky' — Trump rebuffs Ukraine's drone defense offer 2 weeks ago:
Trump would much rather go to Putin.
- Comment on Digg Shut Down 3 weeks ago:
When you can’t trust that the votes, the comments, and the engagement you’re seeing are real, you’ve lost the foundation a community platform is built on.
Reddit and Twitter are filled to the brim with spambots and remain successful. The lack of distinction between real and fake content serves to attract marketers and propagandists to such platforms, with most users remaining due to the network effect. With its venture capitalist funding, Digg would be just as willing to benefit from spam if it held market dominance, and thus only distributed Fediverse platforms like Lemmy or Mastodon are viable solutions.
- Comment on Adobe to pay $75 million to resolve U.S. lawsuit over fees, subscription cancellations 3 weeks ago:
Penalties that are lower than profits encourage companies to rob consumers again in the future.
- Comment on U.S. fired at Iranian vessel that approached aircraft carrier, officials say 3 weeks ago:
Alternative to CBS.
- Comment on Scams could now cost Americans $119 billion a year, study finds 3 weeks ago:
A lot more than that counting all the grifting and governmental waste propagated by Trump since he took office.
- Comment on Women warn European governments on March 8: “We won’t work for your wars” 3 weeks ago:
Dedicating 5% of GDP to military spending is bullshit, but a degree of targeted spending is still needed to counteract aggression by countries like Russia that would otherwise invade countries like Ukraine with impunity.
- Comment on Delayed tariff refund could cost taxpayers $700M per month, economists warn 4 weeks ago:
The $175 billion itself is already theft from consumers when accounting for passed on costs.
- Comment on UK parliament to debate whether all suicides linked to domestic abuse to be investigated as homicide 4 weeks ago:
Including transgender suicides fueled by their failure to protect transgender rights?
- Comment on Starmer’s position on Iran pleases no one, but that is because there are no good options 4 weeks ago:
Not supporting violations of international law is a pretty good option.
- Comment on What is the current state of 'should degenerate' lists? 4 weeks ago:
Fediseer perhaps?
- Comment on Russia would accept security guarantees for Ukraine, Budanov says 4 weeks ago:
Of course they would, because U.S. security guarantees under Trump are meaningless, and such a peace deal would let Russia keep all the land and resources they’ve stolen from Ukraine.
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 4 weeks ago:
Because it’s still officially called the Department of Defense; only Congress can rename it.
More broadly, it illustrates the administration’s use of illegal boat strikes and regime change as a foreign policy tool.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Your game has malicious ads:
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 5 weeks ago:
Windows Central shouldn’t be parroting the U.S. government in mislabeling the Department of Defense.
- Comment on Discord delays global age verification rollout after backlash - Dexerto 5 weeks ago:
Agreed; Discord is trying to lull people into a false sense of security as a means of convincing them to stay, in the same manner that Reddit gave limited API access to apps like RedReader to step the tide of users leaving for platforms like Lemmy.
Beyond age verification, if Discord is scanning a user’s messaging history to determine what their age is, one can only imagine all the other data valuable to data brokers that they are extracting from it too.
- Comment on Discord delays global age verification rollout after backlash - Dexerto 5 weeks ago:
“Too late” isn’t even relevant anyway, they’re still doing it, so everyone should still be leaving.
- Comment on Until further notice: archive.today/archive.is/archive.ph/... is banned from this community for apparently being a Russian DDOS tool - Lemmy.World 5 weeks ago:
There’s websites that even Bypass Paywalls Clean can’t bypass. That doesn’t mean an alternative to archive.is shouldn’t be found, but we also shouldn’t pretend that nothing is being lost by losing access to unpaywalled sources. For practical purposes, a paywalled source means no source for most readers, unless a non-paywalled alternative can be found to replace it.
- Comment on Until further notice: archive.today/archive.is/archive.ph/... is banned from this community for apparently being a Russian DDOS tool - Lemmy.World 5 weeks ago:
While archive.org is good and more trustworthy than archive.is, it isn’t as useful for bypassing paywalls.
- Comment on Day 583 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 5 weeks ago:
There’s a typo in the title: 583 should be 585.
