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> "play store services" meaning having to sign into play store

Not necessarily. Most apps that require Play Services should work fine even if you’re not logged into Google. You do, however, have to have the “gapps” installed. (Some apps would also actually check whether you’ve installed them from the Google Play store and not, say, Aurora, but from my experience most don’t bother.)

Also, perhaps look into microG? It reimplements the Play Services APIs, but is FOSS and only connects to Google servers when it’s necessary for some functionality (e.g. if you enable push notifications): https://microg.org/

> GitHub Sponsors is another way to raise for an open source organization.

Which they do in fact use, with OSC as a fiscal host. Still doesn’t help here though – Google is unhappy with the nature of transaction (donation that is not tax-exempt in the U.S.), not with the platform on which it occurs.

If they instead made the donations go to e.g. the lead developer, it would probably be allowed (“peer-to-peer payments” can’t use Google Play billing, so the app can “lead users to [another] payment method” [1]). Whether this is a good idea is a whole another question.

[1]: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...

The point was never to make it impossible to have E2E communication. They just want to make it too inconvenient so that they can spy on the ordinary people. Criminals will, of course, find a way to have secure conversations – this is just a pretext.

Not being able to read about Musk doing some shit because Musk have done some shit to Nitter is just peak comedy.

Just go ahead and do set it up. You’ll be my hero (I don’t have mental capacity to research which jurisdiction works for this right now, but obviously not in US or EU.)

There are probably some legal differences (IANAL), but isn’t the idea basically the same as in C&D?

Google has sent a cease and desist letter to youtube-dl. It didn’t work out well.

And of course, Google is an AI company, too.

And before that one, user content was hosted on *.github.com! Wild times.

I think you can have a separation between days while still allowing 24/7 trading. Just schedule automatic operations like stock splits at midnight, and with a proper staging environment you can deploy software in the middle of the day, too (just give a heads-up first).

And of course, overnight trading is available on some stock exchanges now. (I’m not sure whether this is a new thing or has existed for a while, but I’ve only noticed it on TradingView for some papers about a year ago I think.)

“SQLite database as an executable format”? A bit farther away from the original but captures the meaning and sounds more neutral.

Well, for the usual reason :-)

I’m wondering if the anti-clickbait filter could benefit from some lightweight LLM integration. E.g. when the submission hits the front page, if the title was “de-clickbaited” and wasn’t changed manually yet, run it through a cheap model and see if that was the right call.

> I didn't really need to see a million examples of the author's vibe coded slop before getting to the topic which the title suggested the article would be about.

Agreed. One would hope the article would go into detail of how to make a great GUI (including tips on how to make sure it’s easy to navigate with a keyboard).

> cross-platform GUIs always look bad outside of the "main" platform

qBittorrent looks great on KDE, and would look great on macOS too if they used native icons (I’ve made a theme for that but was too lazy to install it when I was switching laptops). No idea about Gnome and Windows, but probably alright as well.

So, Qt can get you a long way. But you should of course adapt your app to platform conventions and guidelines.

> because the telefax machine [...] is currently broken (and not even for DNS reasons!)

Who knows! Maybe it’s working just fine, but the e164.arpa record is pointing to the public prosecutor’s teapot or something.

I think we’re broadly in agreement: the more private options we have (with different levels of privacy), the better.

It’s possible, in theory, to use Privacy Pass to allow e.g. using credit card to pay for the whole subscription without associating the account with the payment. (E.g. one payment gives you 1 “pass”, and it can be used to extend your account validity for one month.) In practice, it’ll probably be fairly easy to correlate a payment with an account extension, as those would happen almost simultaneously, so a couple more levels are needed here (e.g. doing this through resellers, and maybe breaking up the subscription payment into, say, 30 “day passes” which are used in random order to make it harder to track).

Posteo’s “one-time code system” is a fair bit weaker than Privacy Pass btw: when they get a payment, they can still associate it with your account (so if you’ve paid using, say, bank transfer, they will know your name, and you’ll have to trust them not to store the link). But it can be used together with Privacy Pass :-)

Privacy Pass would decouple each search from the account. I think it’s okay to have as an opt-in thing. But private payments should be the default IMO.

> You cannot scan a book and share it without violating copyright law.

Hence the “leaking” part.

GitHub has bigger problems at hand. The uptime won’t plummet by itself!

> You had to install so much of google's stuff to get anywhere near proper experience that it just wasn't worth it

What was it? Personally, the only thing I miss from stock Android is the Google Wallet/Pay/Wallet. (I do use microG to get push notifications and embedded maps working.)

Google has servers inside ISP networks that distribute YouTube videos. They pay nothing for the distribution costs, I think they don’t even pay for electricity/cooling. If they wanted to distribute Android source code, they wouldn’t have to pay a dime.

Yep. Same thing with Adobe.

I don’t think I’ve said it out loud more than a couple times in my life. But in general I think I spell out / pronounce the “dot” in file extensions unless it’s completely obvious from context.

Hmm, it could work then if they’ve pressed most of the game data first and then recorded the encrypted part for each disk. But I guess the tooling for such setup would still be too expensive.

I vaguely remember CD drives with a headphone jack output!

(E.g. this one: https://pavel.network/using-cd-drive-as-poor-man-audio-playe...)

Good point, I forgot they’ve recently banned it. Updated my comment.

> depending on what you’re developing it may or may not be a good fit for you

I think if your project is free / open source (edit: and you don’t use LLMs/AI), Codeberg is the a good starting point at least. You can move on to a self-hosted instance if you feel you’ve outgrown it, but even for larger projects I think you can get away with self-hosting just the CI runners.

And don’t forget to donate! https://donate.codeberg.org/ / https://join.codeberg.org/

> CREDITS FROM YC STARTUP SCHOOL

Is that still a thing? I’ve thought they’ve discontinued the deals section. (There are a lot of other ways to get a startup grant, of course.)

And I’m pretty sure that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

It is used and I guess it works largely the same way as in author’s first picture: you get arrows pointing towards where you should correct your course to. Tom Scott has made a video on those: https://wew.youtube.com/watch?v=d99_h30swtM

> Maybe I'm foggy on the history. But isn't this like Fork #4 or #5 of some previous AdBlock extension?

IIRC it was written from scratch. It was called uBlock before, then a co-maintainer tried to pull some shit, and the original author had to fork it with a new name (I don’t remember the details, it’s been ages since then).

No selling out yet. The author also explicitly says they don’t accept donations. I don’t think he’s looking for a business model. But if that changes – yeah, the fork button is right there, so I don’t see a big problem here.

Waterfox, a Firefox fork, has actually built a builtin qdblocker. (And yes, they do whitelist their search partner by default, but you can turn that off.) Apparently it’s faster than uBlock Origin, but there’s been problems on some websites, so I’ll be sticking with uBO for now.

Edit: actually, it seems the underlying functionality was built by Mozilla themselves, just not exposed in the UI yet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49309020