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by andrepd 1y ago
Apples and oranges. Blacklist→allowlist is 2010s social justice virtue signalling thing. Sideloading→installing is about a word that is scary to normies vs a word that's completely normal and neutral. See the history of words such as &
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by andrepd 1y ago
> I got a serious uneasy feeling as if I was on a psychedelic and couldn't quite trust my perception When I took LSD for the first time, I realised it was hitting when everything started looking like stable diffusion
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by andrepd 1y ago
App stores are riddled not only with spyware and malware, but also with harmful content like gambling apps targeted at kids. And they claim some moral high ground as an excuse to ever more pervasive spying and control? Fuck me, Stallman was
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by andrepd 1y ago
This is not enough. Things like banking apps are virtually necessary for many people's daily lives, yet they often require a non-rooted phone with Google Play Services spyware installed at the OS level, or they will simply refuse to op
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by andrepd 1y ago
> Since we implemented verification requirements on Google Play in 2023, we have seen firsthand how helpful developer identification is in stopping bad actors from exploiting anonymity to distribute malware, commit financial fraud, and s
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by andrepd 1y ago
It's kinda funny how so much "capitalist innovation" turns out to be basically fraud lol.
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by andrepd 1y ago
>Netanyahu in a narcissistic and tyrannical move tried to seize control of the judicial system as part of his ongoing attempts to subvert democracy and justice. He's corrupt and if he's found guilty he'll go to prison so h
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by andrepd 1y ago
And only in 1917... :)
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by andrepd 1y ago
TREE(3) is so crazy to me. You would expect it to either be a reasonable number, or to be infinite (i.e. there's an infinite sequence of such trees). But no. It's just an _ impossibly unfathomably large number _. Eventually, there
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by andrepd 1y ago
Ooh, nice to find someone who is following that too ahahah Ultima Underworld is my favourite so far, that's an outstanding game .
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by andrepd 1y ago
> Land reform was extremely popular in many socialist countries until it actually happened Actually, land reforms were spectacularly popular—and very successful—in many countries like Guatemala or Vietnam (coincidentally, two places that
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by andrepd 1y ago
> Unfortunately, voters rejected that change quite strongly, Both major parties united in a ridiculously aggressive campaign for the No (there were literally, I mean literally , billboards equating the electoral reform to killing babies
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by andrepd 1y ago
In the Netherlands most people shop at a small store, not at a big box surrounded by a sea of parking. So no shopping carts there.
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by andrepd 1y ago
The big supermarket in my town does it, but that's because students stole the shopping carts to carry booze during the year-end party and parade!
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by andrepd 1y ago
> No menus > Cryptic icons with no text > Optimised for looking good on a screenshot and not for actual user interaction No thanks :)
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by andrepd 1y ago
A couple more, adjacent: Ahoy (if you like Amiga and old video games, I cannot recommend enough) Ben Eater Majulaar Tantacrul And of course Veritasium with the consistently super interesting science videos.
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by andrepd 1y ago
Opus pretty much blows all those codecs out of the water, in every conceivable metric. It's actually pretty impressive that a media codec is able to universally exceed (or match) every previous one in every axis. Still, it's b
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by andrepd 1y ago
Man how would we live without these folks and their sensational acumen. Millions well spent!
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by andrepd 1y ago
He recently released a book that's kind of an abridged version. Capital in the 21st Century is 800 pages, so I don't blame you!
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by andrepd 1y ago
Financial markets and capitalism has only existed for ~300 years, even if trade did happen since the start of recorded history.
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by andrepd 1y ago
I wish I could print 400,000€ to buy a house with 40k in my account.
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by andrepd 1y ago
Yes, people who struck it rich are not miraculously more intelligent or capable. Seems obvious, but many people believe they are.
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by andrepd 1y ago
I don't get the joke.
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by andrepd 1y ago
> Give me a Pixel & all the Google stuff but without Google, and with advanced data protection and Apple's tracking protection and transparency and I'm in. This is literally GrapheneOS or LineageOS+microg x) which ironicall
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by andrepd 1y ago
How so? I was under the impression that gCam uses proprietary algos.
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by andrepd 1y ago
Really hope that can be disabled.
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by andrepd 1y ago
Judging by existing implementations, all of it.
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by andrepd 1y ago
Pixel 5 is about as big, but yes, that's as far as it goes. Unfortunately that goes for virtually any phone on the market... Sad.
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by andrepd 1y ago
Still does everything that I want it to and the photos are still excellent. I don't think I'm missing much.
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by andrepd 1y ago
Well this appears to be local and open-source, so if we're talking about being datamined this is not a concern.

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