Lol. I download a library or program to do a task because I would not be able to code it myself (to that kind of production level, at least). Of course I’m not gonna be able to audit it! You need twice the IQ to debug a software compared to the one needed to even write it in the first place.

on devices running Android 13 or later.

Sounds easy then: stay on the latest Lineage that does not incorporate A13.

While I wouldn’t say Google is actively hostile towards these power users,

Author is obviously sold out. Are they even trustable?

Oh thanks for re-teaching me that one! It’s been far too long since I last used French reallistically. Even tho it’s better that I took that than German, otherwise I’d understand the ich_iel memes which would make them lose half their charm.

faux pas

Not much of a “faux” pas. Not only did he double down on it, but the board supported him.

There is ⚝ U+269d “Outlined White Star”. Tho no idea how well it looks at any usual reading resolution (12 to 16 pt).

From the 404media article on the subject:

The Distilled announcement post says the company made the choice to shut down these products because “it’s imperative we focus our efforts on Firefox and building new solutions that give you real choice, control and peace of mind online.” It also says the choice will allow Mozilla to “shape the next era of the internet – with tools like vertical tabs, smart search and more AI-powered features on the way.” Which is what everyone wants: more AI bloat in their browsers.

(The monkey paw turns, and) we got our wish.

We did, internet! We killed Pocket!

When you are [old / young] enough, Windows 95 feels like it would be retro. It’s at just about that right age where it works both ways.

The attack surface yes, but not the attack volume. No matter if the app is containerized or native, it has access to the data that it has to operate to. That’s literally part of computer nature.

But a containerized app, assuming the container service itself is kept up to date, has less hooks to break into other stuff than a native app does. For starters, a native app can read everything that’s world-readable, which in a shared system might be lots of stuff but in a containerized app might be quite minimal.

, and the worst thing he does is

…to farm dead veterans and turn them into cyborg soldiers solely so that he can antagonize Mark and (fail to) make a point about how “above things” he has to be?

Oh and he tapped the water supply of the entire country. Possibly the entire world, who knows. Anyone who’s read Batman “protocol” stories how where do those “preparations” lead and how.

That and teleporter abuse, but he’s earned that.

At the cost that has been calculated by the fanbase, in the apparent economy of cities being destroyed on the double? Okay that one I might be willing to concede.

What? That was the best part– no wait, the ONLY GOOD PART, of the second prequel!

, but then he realizes what a bad idea it is and changes to Cap’s side

No he doesn’t; he just realizes that it personally inconveniences him because it gets his (only) moral tether killed, and decides to walk back that support to restore his own benefit, at the cost and harm of everyone else.

This meme from the late 90s is still going? It’s honestly an impressive record.

if you have to list more than one thing per thing the landscape may not be there for a full replacement

And it would be even less if there had to be only one thing per thing.

One of the strengths of the FOSS metacommunity is the variety in designs and results. Big Corpo abuses economies of scale and locks you in with a “one shoe fits all solution” because they under the table also chisel and file your feet; FOSS has (largely) no such restrictions so they can afford to try things and see what results and, more importantly, what evolves. Not everything has to be a copy of corporate, and we shouldn’t act as if it had to be.

True, how could I!

, and my rebuttal is “should we ban mute, or speech-impared people from getting a CDL”?

Well those people are already Undesirables under the rule of el trumpo, so their answer is… yeah?

Ironically and not, that’s exactly what Iron Man brought Nu-Spiderman to do in the CW movie. Government is crying about control, so a war profiteer recruits, illegally extricates from the country, arms and indoctrinates a kid to collaborate in a paramilitary action to oppress the following groups represented: war veterans, the elderly, women, foreigners, scientists, disabled, performance athletes, amputees and people seeking asylum.

Geez. Considering the previous movie was about a nazi takeover of the US, seems like someone shoud have seen things coming!

Doesn’t synapse need like, a server cluster to run? The self-hostable service is supposed to be something owo, I think.

Hopefully no one is asking developers to be virtuous (even tho, to be fair, if we are going to be asking that we should also expect the code to be wholly bugs-free!), but how many times they actually “keep their beliefs to themselves and focus on technical issues in the project”? On whichever side. It’s just not a thing that can reasonably be avoided all the time between humans.

But the reality of these times is that behaviour outside the field of programming is representative and/or predictive of behaviour in the field of programming, when it comes to literally working with other people. And this is not only about the act of commiting changes or filing PRs, it’s about the why of programming and the ways of delivery as well. Someone who strongly associates with barbaric beliefs is less likely to want to spend their spare time working in peace for all, and more likely to be wanting to work on software that at least in some way carries or represents those beliefs, for example in capturing and using user data, or in aiding systems used by the military to kill children of “non-citizens”. So being “absolutely” uncaring does not really make sense.

Nah, I chose DDG and got a better result, but thanks!

Good olde Conversations for Android, as well as Monocles. Can’t speak for ios, I am not paid enough to touch that dev crap (literally – they expect you to pay to even touch their dev crap).