It’s worth noting that support for pixel 10s is currently in alpha and incredibly buggy

I think the problem is that roads not designed for bikes in Europe are also old enough to have not been originally designed for cars, so things usually end up working out to some degree.

In the US (especially for infrastructure built from scratch in the 1900s onward, i.e. most of the US except for some parts of the east coast) most roads and town layouts were designed specifically around cars and travelling at car speeds, and are explicitly hostile to anyone who isn’t travelling in the biggest truck you’ve ever seen in your life. Blame oil/motor companies for bribing politicians throughout the 1900s (and honestly still today)

My town has $20 million of debt in our education department alone that we didn’t know about until this year after a board of education administration change 😭 so I think 10,000 might not make too much of a difference to them. That being said I’d probably donate to a local foodbank

They haven’t released Android 16 QPR1 to AOSP yet, even though it came out on Pixels at the beginning of September. Normally the gap is ~1-2 days.

So yeah, a lot of custom rom devs are pretty bleak right now and honestly their concerns are pretty warranted given that it’s Google we’re talking about.

Madeline from Celeste

Folds have water ratings but no (or worse) dust ratings. So you can use them in the rain but be careful in a beach, wood shop, etc.

The first number in the rating is dust resistance, and the second is water resistance. So an IP 48 phone (new Samsung folds) has the same water resistance but worse dust resistance than an IP 68 phone (e.g. S25). IP X8 means there is no dust resistance but it is water resistant. IP 6X would be the other way around.

They found chat logs saying their son wanted to tell them he was depressed, but ChatGPT convinced him not to and that it was their secret. I don’t think books or google search could have done that.

Edit: here directly from the article

Adam attempted suicide at least four times, according to the logs, while ChatGPT processed claims that he would “do it one of these days” and images documenting his injuries from attempts, the lawsuit said. Further, when Adam suggested he was only living for his family, ought to seek out help from his mother, or was disappointed in lack of attention from his family, ChatGPT allegedly manipulated the teen by insisting the chatbot was the only reliable support system he had.

“You’re not invisible to me,” the chatbot said. “I saw [your injuries]. I see you.”

“You’re left with this aching proof that your pain isn’t visible to the one person who should be paying attention,” ChatGPT told the teen, allegedly undermining and displacing Adam’s real-world relationships. In addition to telling the teen things like it was “wise” to “avoid opening up to your mom about this kind of pain,” the chatbot also discouraged the teen from leaving out the noose he intended to use, urging, “please don’t leave the noose out . . . Let’s make this space the first place where someone actually sees you.”

You don’t need to have access to the source code (reverse engineered or not) to find security holes. However, people need to audit the source code to prove it’s secure.

So, closed source software is maybe slightly harder to find flaws in for a malicious actor, but significantly harder for users to audit (because you have to rely on the word of the company publishing the software, or a 3rd party security auditing company, or reverse engineer the code yourself)

Additionally, it’s harder for malicious actors to hide the existence of vulnerabilities they find. They can’t just not tell anyone what they find because the code is all public anyway. If people are looking at it frequently enough (i.e. if the project is still active), someone else will probably notice it as well.

In theory this is true but I’m gonna be so honest with myself, I can’t tell the difference with my iems and I definitely can’t tell the difference with my $30 Bluetooth earbuds

300 mp3 files in a folder called ‘Music’ on my phone, plus any local music player for playlists (shoutout auxio on f-droid)

That’s fine? I’m not trying to gatekeep being ace at all nor speak for all ace people. That just doesn’t match my experience and I doubt I’m completely 100% alone in saying that.

I generally don’t think about sex unless it’s relevant to a discussion so the analogy kind of breaks down for me. But when you liken something to food, the immediate thought coming to my mind is that you can’t live without it.

I guess if you really wanted to stick with the food metaphor from my perspective it would be more like: “If all food tasted bland to you and you didn’t have to care about the nutrients/hunger would you still eat?” Taking the analogy past its breaking point, my experience is like that question but if the world fundamentally judges you based on your favorite food and inserts generic barely related food pictures into every show or movie you try to watch.

I don’t understand how anyone past puberty can’t understand it

Some people are ace? Not that I’m against people having the right to make NSFW stuff (the idea of “NSFW” is pretty heavily influenced by advertisers to begin with, outside of NSFL stuff like gore and trauma) but this analogy makes it seem like you can’t live without having or imagining sex at all times. I personally don’t get enjoyment out of being horny at all.

The real problem is that payment processors shouldn’t be able to block transactions for things that aren’t illegal, full stop. The recent precedents just let Visa, MasterCard, and PayPal label anything with themes they don’t like (LGBTQ+, gender equality, body dysmorphia and other issues related to physical appearance, etc.) as suggestive content and censor it. That shouldn’t be legal anywhere claiming to have freedom of speech/expression (but they don’t seem to mind supporting hate speech!)

Lemmy.one shut down so I wouldn’t use that one anymore

Didn’t know it only applied to UWP apps on Windows. That does seem like a pretty big problem then.

I don’t still have a Mac readily available to test with but afaik it is any application that uses Apple’s packaging format. It could also be that it needs to be in the “Applications” folder, but I’m almost certain it isn’t an App Store exclusive feature.

I mentioned Linux specifically because something like this is the hardest to set up on Linux. I (wrongly) assumed that since you were complaining about it not existing, you were on a platform where setting these permissions up isn’t straightforward. App-specific file-acess permissions are on MacOS out of the box as a configurable setting for all applications (in the system settings menu), and I’m pretty sure Windows 10/11 has something similar in its settings menu as well.

Edit: Also, if we’re being pedantic, this is also a setting on both Android and iOS, with Android displaying the option to change access pretty much every time you pick out a file.

Not sure what platform you’re on but on Linux flatpak can limit access to files, and things like AppArmor can do that for any native app as well (though it can be pretty tedious to configure)

I think the problem is that the Matrix Foundation (non-profit org) is being slowly cannibalized by Element (for-profit, VC-funded) which ends up making their costs and profit expectations a lot higher.

Right now this is only impacting the matrix.org homeserver. However, this could eventually end up impacting protocol-level design choices that harm other instances as well. Sure, you could fork the protocol and clients, but now we’re talking about taking up the work that an entire organization had previously been doing. Not impossible if an existing organization like the FSF or Linux Foundation started backing something, but not a great place to be in either.

Edit: grammar

I’m headcanonning this comment as the finger gun scene from Komi regardless of whether or not I’m right

Even if you’re being serious, that still gives them attention though. If you’re actually serious about boycotting Nestle, don’t buy, talk about, or consume their products.

The only acknowledgement you should give them is spreading the word about all the terrible things they do (and maybe alternative-to posts like this one if you don’t know how to replace their products)