Indicates to me the decision to do ActivityPub was bolted on very late in the project's lifecycle, probably rushed to try to take the users flocking away from Twitter.
Because a lot of those limitations makes zero sense.
Can't you just... Install the Epic Store separately from Google Play, like we already do with F-Droid?
Installing a store through Google Play sounds pretty stupid when you can easily just install any store's APK independently via the web browser.
They just need a way to let users grant that store the necessary permissions to install and manage apps, which currently requires root but is already doable. They just need to make a UI for it with plenty of warnings about the power this grants. F-Droid happily does its duties and updates my apps in the background and everything like it should, after flashing the privileged extension.
This seems intentionally done by Google to make it look more ridiculous than it needs to be. It doesn't need Google's involvement past adding a permission screen to Android, which is completely independent of Google Play. The ROM communities would get that done under a week most likely.
It doesn't need it, but it does allow it to be more like the Play Store. No need to download then tap install which pops an Android prompt to allow install/update nor any need to allow from unknown sources in settings.
With the privileged extension it's exactly like the Play Store: you tap install and it downloads, installs and updates the apps in the background for you without any prompts. It's technically possible unrooted with some adb hacks, but the privileged extension is the technically proper way to be a store. Without it, it needs that user interaction with the app install popup window to let it through. That's not F-Droid being nice and confirming, that's enforced by Android.
In the context of the article, allowing the user to allow this for any store app, puts every other store on exactly the same ground as Google. The Play Store is not special in any way other than that it has that special store app permission that can only be granted via an XML file on the system partition.
The music industry has officially declared war on Suno and Udio, two of the most prominent AI music generators. A group of music labels including Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony Music Group has filed lawsuits in US federal court on Monday morning alleging copyright infringement on a “massive scale.”...
Because humans don't also take inspiration from other's work they've heard and unconsciously repeat part of other songs they've heard before, possibly decades ago. Never happens. Never. Humans don't profit from books they've read and apply to their career. Humans don't profit from watching other humans do the thing and then learn to do it themselves.
All AI does is do the same thing but at ridiculous scale and ridiculous speeds. We shouldn't hold progress because capitalism dictates that we shouldn't put people out of jobs. We need to prepare for the future where there is no jobs and AI replaced all of them.
I use PCLinuxOS as my primary Linux OS. They are a bit conservative to adapt new updates until they are sure of stability because of rolling nature. KDE is still at 5 there. Heard about Neon and wanted to try KDE 6. I find that they have adopted Windows style approach to updates where we need to reboot to apply the updates and...
And also with the atomic/immutable distros, the switch is practically instant, so it's not even like it forces you to watch a spinning circle for 20 minutes when you turn off your computer. You reboot and the apps all start clean with the right library versions.
It's rare but I've seen software trash itself because the newly spawned process talks a different protocol and it can lead to either crashes or off behavior that leads to a crash eventually. Or it tries to read a file mid update. Kernel updates can make it so when you plug in a USB stick, nothing happens because the driver's gone. Firefox as you mentionned. Chromium will tolerate it mostly but it can get very weird over time.
The risk is non-zero, so when you target end users that don't want to have to troubleshoot, it's safer to just do offline updates. Especially with Flatpaks now, you get those updated online and really it's only system components you don't care to delay updates taking effect
If you're new to Linux and everyone told you you can just update and no reboot, and you run into weird Firefox glitches, it just looks bad.
Stritcly speaking if you buy it and it comes with sources under the GPL then that is perfectly okay. The principle of freedom software isn't that everything is free of charge, but rather that when you obtain software you should be free to access its source and customize it for your needs and share those modifications with other people.
That does make it hard for people to really have to pay for it, but it's not like people don't pirate proprietary software anyway. The presumption is if you're honest and a good person you will pay the other for the software that you like and want to keep using.
It's also not violating the GPL by having proprietary apps alongside GPL ones bundled together. SteamOS for example, comes with Steam and other proprietary Valve stuff.
But I would definitely expect it to not be popular and for most of the open-source and Linux communities to want nothing of it (paying for a programming language, what is this, 1995 when we pay for Delphi?).
I first joined Lemmy back during the big Reddit exodus of last year. I like many others wanted an alternative to Reddit, and I thought that this might've been the one. I made two accounts, one on lemmy.world and another on sh.itjust.works, in the June of last year that I used on and off for about 4 months....
Lemmy wasn't ready and still mostly not ready for a mass Reddit exodus. The Reddit API fiasco wasn't anticipated by anybody and the large influx of users exposed a ton of bugs and federation issues.
But it's not a failure, yet. I'm sure Reddit had growing pains after the Digg exodus too. Some platforms take years to become popular. Reddit was small for quite a while before it became more mainstream.
In a way to me Lemmy feels a bit like Reddit must have been a few years before I joined it 12 years ago.
The problem is the expectation that Lemmy could replace Reddit overnight, and would immediately be a 1:1 replacement.
Although personally I like it more here, and I get more interactions than Reddit. But I am a tech nerd, so.
Hey y'all, i recently had to rma my gs76 stealth after a hardware thing but when i got it back, my VR wouldnt work, i traced that to probably being a bios setting that got reset when the battery was removed, however, when i went into the MSI clickbios, it looked way different and i don't even have the setting im looking for...
They most likely sent you a new board which happens to have an older BIOS on it. I don't think they try to upgrade them at all, they pick a boxed new board from the warehouse and ship it to you. You can probably just upgrade it again, there's no way this one's newer. Also I guess double-check you got the same model of board back, that could also explain the old BIOS.
RMA'd an MSI board for which they released a BIOS update specifically for the bug I encountered which can get the system completely unbootable even with a CMOS reset, and it didn't even come with the updated BIOS either. I imagine they expect it'll eventually get updated through Windows.
Ah it's a laptop, I thought it was a desktop motherboard. That is strange, on a laptop I wouldn't expect people to have to mess with the BIOS at all to make VR work, that's usually a desktop thing to make sure rebar is enabled and stuff.
I have always been afraid to install Arch because they tell you it is difficult to install and unstable. I want a simple system following the KISS philosophy and install only what I need, which is little. I don't need anything from the aur repository, for now....
The stability of a distro usually has more to do with API and ABI stability than stability in terms of reliability. And a "stable" system can be unreliable.
That's why RHEL forks are said to be compatible bug for bug. Because you don't know if fixing the bug could have a cascading side effect for somebody's very critical system.
Arch has been nothing but reliable for me. Does it doesn't need fixing sometimes because the config format of some daemon changed, or Python or nodejs got updated and now my project doesn't build? Absolutely not. But for me usually newer versions are better even if it needs some fixing, and I like doing it piecemeal rather than all at once every couple years.
Stable distributions are well loved for servers because you don't want to update 2000 servers and now you're losing millions because your app isn't compatible with the latest Ruby version. You need to be able to reliably install and reinstall the same distro version and the same packages at the same versions over and over. I can't deal with needing a new server up urgently and then get stuck having to fix a bunch of stuff because I got a newer version of something.
I use multiple distros regularly, for different purposes. Although lately Docker has significantly reduced my need for stable distros and lean more on rolling distros as the host.
I am considering replacing my old 50" 1080p TV which I use with (external) Chromecast and Roku. I would like a 4K display 60" or greater but I really, really don't want any smart features. I am aware that I could purchase a commercial display to achieve this and that's my fallback option. Can anyone here make any useful...
For me the reason I want a non-smart TV is the software is complete shit and even a Raspberry Pi runs smoother, and I can replace or upgrade the Pi when it becomes too old to be useful instead of the whole TV.
Those will all become dumb TVs over time, and then you're stuck using the crappy software to get to your HDMI input through all the lag even though the software is literally useless.
At least old TVs had ugly as hell but snappy and responsive menus. No waiting 5+ seconds between button presses because the home screen is lagging loading all those ads.
I caved in and got one anyway and I regret it. Manufactured e-waste. The amount of times I have to reboot the damn thing because even my HDMI input starts glitching out is plainly ridiculous.
wanting to hop into the world of linux on a dual boot method (one of my favorite games unfortunately cannot be run on linux at all, and it's a gacha. I don't want to gamble with my account being banned, so I'm keeping windows for it specifically.) this'll be my second go at it, I used Pop!_OS briefly but had some issues with...
What distro I'm using isn't that helpful of a question because it's largely a matter of taste and technical needs. I use Arch in large part because I do some rather exotic things that would be harder to set up on most mainstream distros whereas Arch just gives me a completely blank slate to work with and configure my system the exact way I want it to work. My desktop also has some server duties, it runs VMs, it has multiple GPUs and also drives my TV room independently of my main workstation area.
I usually recommend whichever distro gets you the closest to having everything the way you like out of the box as a starting point just because it's less frustrating when most things works out of the box. The Arch experience is nothing works out of the box because it doesn't even come with a box. Arch isn't necessarily a bad choice even for beginners, but the learning curve is much steeper as a result and some people do like to just learn everything whereas some others prefer to start with the shallow part of the pool rather than diving it headfirst. It's not like you have to commit to any distribution forever, you can start with something simple to use, learn your way around Linux and then you can upgrade to another distribution as your needs and wants evolves.
On May 29, the National Housing Council’s review panel on the financialization of purpose-built rental presented a report that highlights the urgent need not only to build more non-market housing specifically, but also to protect Canada’s existing affordable rental housing from financialized landlords through an acquisition...
So I noticed that when you close an app, most apps, they never actually quit. Is this a new behavior? Or am I missing a setting to terminate, completely, an app when I actually close it without using Force Stop on everything.
Just because it shows the Force Stop button doesn't mean it's running, merely that at least one of its components is loaded. That can be just about anything. I have apps I know for a fact cannot run in the background that shows the force stop button.
Mainly, it boils down to battery management and the Android architecture. Android apps are very modular, so the Java class for handling push notifications might be loaded but none of its screens or other services would be loaded and it uses negligible amounts of memory. It's way more battery efficient than reloading it from storage, and if the system needs memory it'll clear some caches.
There's a bunch of browser extensions as well to add a "show on my instance" link whenever it detects a Lemmy instance page which basically does the same thing automatically for you, pretty useful.
To be fair, Lemmy is super alpha software. It'll take months and years before the platform is mature and more user friendly and has an ecosystem of really good apps.
We're like, emails just got invented era of fediverse. It's having to explain that yes, if you have a Yahoo address you can still email Hotmail users 2 decades ago all over again.
Now that the big ones like Threads and Bluesky are joining, users will be more familiar with the concepts and it'll get less... confusing.
And the emulators aren't even particularly good compared to what the community has been cooking, especially the new N64 recompiler that runs the games with interpolation at 240Hz 4K HDR graphics with raytracing in proper 16:9. Meanwhile Nintendo didn't even get the fog right on launch.
It does away with the emulation entirely, that's the crazy part. It's basically a PC port but most of it is generated. Those features have been injected directly into the game itself. It renders at that resolution, no upscaling. It's still low res textures but the anti aliasing and overall sharpness of it all works out well. The animations are interpolated in-game, no fancy frame predictions or anything.
It would play absolutely fantastic at 720p on the Switch.
considering the current state of the world and things like the resurgence of fascism and other authoritarian ideologies, do you think there is still a chance to avoid a new world war or now is unavoidable?
I'm extremely new to this site, but have seen a lot of promising things. People here seem to use logic and common sense, instead of baseless feelings. I've also seen calling out hypocrisy and (to put it lightly) evil laws and regulations....
I am very curious as to how databases are used in the real world, whether you're using MySQL and what not, how does it all come together in a real world business? Banking and gaming I know, but is it something that gets stored on data centres and then put into a VM?...
A good ELI5 is to imagine a couple of Excel sheets. Each sheet is a "table" and each row is a record. So you're gonna have a column for the first name, a column for the last name, a column for the email address and so on. That'd be your users table/sheet.
Then you would have another Excel sheets that contains posts. Each post record references the row number of the users sheet so you can cross-reference the user record of the author of the post record.
And so on. It's a way to store, lookup and retrieve records, usually cross-referencing other records until you have all the information you need to serve a particular request. There's an index like the table of content of a book that lets you quickly find on which page the record you're looking for is.
We use databases because they're engines designed to ensure data consistency, and fast access to the data in a structured manner. Usually that runs on some server that other servers connect to to access the database, so all servers can have the same view of the data. That can be a VM in the cloud, that can be a cluster of VMs in a cloud, it can be Docker containers. It's just software that manages data so we don't have to reinvent the wheel everytime we need to store stuff. Then you just ask questions to the database, like, "what's all the last 50 posts made by this user number" (SELECT user.username, post.title FROM posts LEFT JOIN users USING (user_id) WHERE posts.user_id = 42 ORDER BY posts.date_inserted ASC LIMIT 50).
Prometheus/VictoriaMetrics/Grafana are pretty good, had no issues with it and there's an exporter for damn near anything. They're pretty easy to custom write too.
I get that you can't stop people from commenting on your posts but you can still filter it out from the results.
Mastodon is arguably easier to deal with since you're replying directly to someone, so the user's server can reject it and be done with it. On Lemmy it really should behave as if you blocked the user: just hide it from view. Simply because if you're on instance A, blocked instance is B and the community is on C, B has no problem posting to C as it doesn't know you've blocked it on A. But even defederation doesn't address that either: you can reply to defederated users and they'll never know for the same reason.
I think on this type of social media, not seeing it is the best you can do regardless.
Does anyone know, or can anyone guess, the business case for predictive text? On phone apps, it is often incredibly difficult to turn off. Why is that, do you think? (The examples I have recent experience with are Facebook and Outlook mobile apps.)...
I have none of that on my phone, just plain old keyboard.
But the reason it's everywhere is it's the new hot thing and every company in the world feels like they have to get on board now or they'll be potentially left behind, can't let anyone have a headstart. It's incredibly dumb and shortsighted but since actually innovating in features is hard and AI is cheap to implement, that's what every company goes for.
I have been using Micorsoft Bing for a few weeks and using the Rewards program and I'm still debating on whether or not I should be using their new digital assistant Copilot assuming it won't replace everything else....
Last month Alberta Premier Danielle Smith tabled Bill 18, the Provincial Priorities Act, in the provincial legislature. If passed into law, the bill will give the Alberta government power to vet any agreements between the federal government and post-secondary institutions, and other “provincial entities.”...
Totally not setting up a loophole to dictate what gets researched and making sure no inconvenient things gets discovered that would contradict the province's agenda and local industries negatively.
NGINX is also available at a mere 1kb in size for the slim version, full version also available as well as HAproxy. Those will have you more than covered, and support SSL.
Looks like there's also acme.sh support, with a matching LuCI app that can handle your SSL certificate situation as well.
Hello, I'm relatively new to self-hosting and recently started using Unraid, which I find fantastic! I'm now considering upgrading my storage capacity by purchasing either an 8TB or 10TB hard drive. I'm exploring both new and used options to find the best deal. However, I've noticed that prices vary based on the specific...
The concern for the specific disk technology is usually around the use case. For example, surveillance drives you expect to be able to continuously write to 24/7 but not at crazy high speeds, maybe you can expect slow seek times or whatever. Gaming drives I would assume are disposable and just good value for storage size as you can just redownload your steam games. A NAS drive will be a little bit more expensive because it's assumed to be for backups and data storage.
That said in all cases if you use them with proper redundancy like RAIDZ or RAID1 (bleh) it's kind of whatever, you just replace them as they die. They'll all do the same, just not with quite the same performance profile.
Things you can check are seek times / latency, throughput both on sequential and random access, and estimated lifespan.
I keep hearing good things about decomissioned HGST enterprise drives on eBay, they're really cheap.
It would be nice if they'd make "web" search the good old keyword search we used to have that made Google good, now that normies will just use the AI search and it doesn't have to care about natural language anymore.
Kbin is an example. But just due to the nature of the protocol, it has to be stored somewhere but Lemmy also just lets admins view all the individual votes directly in the UI.
Still report as well, it sends emails to the mods and the admins. Just make sure it's identifiable at a glance, like just type "CSAM" or whatever 1-2 words makes sense. You can add details after to explain but it needs to be obvious at a glance, and also mods/admins can send those to a special priority inbox to address it as fast as possible. Having those reports show up directly in Lemmy makes it quicker to action or do bulk actions when there's a lot of spam.
It's also good to report it directly into the Lemmy admin chat on Matrix as well afterwards, because in case of CSAM, everyone wants to delete it from their instance ASAP in case it takes time for the originating instance to delete it.
I got in some hot water a while back for admitting I was relatively unconcerned with Republican villainy these days compared to other worries. This Canada Online Harms Act, whose details I missed earlier (apologies to Public and Yuri Bezmenov!), perfectly embodies the kind of thing that keeps me up at night now....
Genuine political dissent would become logistically impossible, and virtual mob rule a certainty.
There's a major difference between political dissent and hate speech.
You can say: "I don't think transgender people should be allowed to choose which bathroom they go to", that just makes you a shitty person with no compassion. But if you say "If I see a trans women in the mens bathroom I'll beat them up out of there", that is very clearly hate speech and threats of violence.
It's not like it's hard to treat people with basic respect. You can disagree without resorting to hateful comments and threats and name calling. If you don't see the hate speech problem you're probably part of the problem because surprise, it's only conservatives you see online constantly spewing FUD and hate speech.
Threads can now show replies from Mastodon and other fediverse apps ( www.engadget.com )
Don't shoot the messenger!
Here’s how much Google says it’d cost to fulfill Epic’s biggest demands ( www.theverge.com )
US Record Labels Sue AI Music Generators Suno and Udio for Copyright Infringement ( www.wired.com )
The music industry has officially declared war on Suno and Udio, two of the most prominent AI music generators. A group of music labels including Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony Music Group has filed lawsuits in US federal court on Monday morning alleging copyright infringement on a “massive scale.”...
Are offline updates going to be the future?
I use PCLinuxOS as my primary Linux OS. They are a bit conservative to adapt new updates until they are sure of stability because of rolling nature. KDE is still at 5 there. Heard about Neon and wanted to try KDE 6. I find that they have adopted Windows style approach to updates where we need to reboot to apply the updates and...
SDesk OS, and frowned on open sourced? ( sh.itjust.works )
I recently spent some time browsing my favorite website, Distrowatch.com, where they provide weekly news updates...
Lemmy is a failed Reddit alternative
I first joined Lemmy back during the big Reddit exodus of last year. I like many others wanted an alternative to Reddit, and I thought that this might've been the one. I made two accounts, one on lemmy.world and another on sh.itjust.works, in the June of last year that I used on and off for about 4 months....
MSI click bios has been downgraded after RMA?
Hey y'all, i recently had to rma my gs76 stealth after a hardware thing but when i got it back, my VR wouldnt work, i traced that to probably being a bios setting that got reset when the battery was removed, however, when i went into the MSI clickbios, it looked way different and i don't even have the setting im looking for...
Arch Stability
I have always been afraid to install Arch because they tell you it is difficult to install and unstable. I want a simple system following the KISS philosophy and install only what I need, which is little. I don't need anything from the aur repository, for now....
Options for non-smart TV in UK 2024?
I am considering replacing my old 50" 1080p TV which I use with (external) Chromecast and Roku. I would like a 4K display 60" or greater but I really, really don't want any smart features. I am aware that I could purchase a commercial display to achieve this and that's my fallback option. Can anyone here make any useful...
EU attempt to sneak through new encryption-eroding law slammed by Signal, politicians ( www.theregister.com )
Introducing "Wave Music," for all things synthwave, chillwave, vaporwave, retrowave, darkwave... ( lemmy.world )
For fans of '80s-inspired contemporary beats. Share artists, albums, compilations, -wave channels, and vibe art....
Are you ready? Plasma 6.1 drops tomorrow at 10am UTC. ( lemmy.kde.social )
Find more pieces in the Fediverse and KDE's forum.
what's your current linux distro?
wanting to hop into the world of linux on a dual boot method (one of my favorite games unfortunately cannot be run on linux at all, and it's a gacha. I don't want to gamble with my account being banned, so I'm keeping windows for it specifically.) this'll be my second go at it, I used Pop!_OS briefly but had some issues with...
Landlords in Alberta are using government-funded climate retrofits as an excuse to hike rents ( ricochet.media )
On May 29, the National Housing Council’s review panel on the financialization of purpose-built rental presented a report that highlights the urgent need not only to build more non-market housing specifically, but also to protect Canada’s existing affordable rental housing from financialized landlords through an acquisition...
Android 14 Apps Run Forever, why? ( fedia.io )
So I noticed that when you close an app, most apps, they never actually quit. Is this a new behavior? Or am I missing a setting to terminate, completely, an app when I actually close it without using Force Stop on everything.
Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices from his companies over OpenAI partnership ( www.cnbc.com )
PSA: You can paste the link to a Lemmy post in the search bar of your instance, and you'll be able to access the post from your instance
For instance, this one (link to a post to !memes): https://reddthat.com/post/20260613...
Nintendo is erasing its history - The war against ROMS ( www.youtube.com )
do you think that a third world war will take place?
considering the current state of the world and things like the resurgence of fascism and other authoritarian ideologies, do you think there is still a chance to avoid a new world war or now is unavoidable?
Texting 911 via RCS is coming to Google Messages ( www.theverge.com )
'Internal purposes only': Memo backs claim Trudeau government suppressing carbon-tax impact data ( nationalpost.com )
Donald Trump found guilty on all counts in hush-money trial | CBC News ( web.archive.org )
Is it true that he can still run for the office even if he's in jail?
Did anyone else here get mentally exhausted from their diagnosis tests ?
from the puzzle solving and maths questions to answering of questions...
what kind of demographic is lemmy?
I'm extremely new to this site, but have seen a lot of promising things. People here seem to use logic and common sense, instead of baseless feelings. I've also seen calling out hypocrisy and (to put it lightly) evil laws and regulations....
Databases and their real world use examples
I am very curious as to how databases are used in the real world, whether you're using MySQL and what not, how does it all come together in a real world business? Banking and gaming I know, but is it something that gets stored on data centres and then put into a VM?...
Monitoring software for a wide array of hw and sw
I'm looking into setting up some monitoring combined with simple automation for my selfhosting. Currently I was thinking about using Zabbix....
A certain overly sensitive instance deleted my meme so I've blocked it completely. Will it also block their community from interacting with me on other instances?
Why is predictive text so hard to disable?
Does anyone know, or can anyone guess, the business case for predictive text? On phone apps, it is often incredibly difficult to turn off. Why is that, do you think? (The examples I have recent experience with are Facebook and Outlook mobile apps.)...
Should I use Microsoft Copilot?
I have been using Micorsoft Bing for a few weeks and using the Rewards program and I'm still debating on whether or not I should be using their new digital assistant Copilot assuming it won't replace everything else....
Why Danielle Smith Is Wrong on Research Funding in Alberta ( thetyee.ca )
Last month Alberta Premier Danielle Smith tabled Bill 18, the Provincial Priorities Act, in the provincial legislature. If passed into law, the bill will give the Alberta government power to vet any agreements between the federal government and post-secondary institutions, and other “provincial entities.”...
Tunnel app for my openwrt home server
(I know wireguard, tailscale and so on are the preferred options. But for some reaon I can't use any vpn atm)...
How much does it matter what type of harddisk i buy for my server?
Hello, I'm relatively new to self-hosting and recently started using Unraid, which I find fantastic! I'm now considering upgrading my storage capacity by purchasing either an 8TB or 10TB hard drive. I'm exploring both new and used options to find the best deal. However, I've noticed that prices vary based on the specific...
Google now offers ‘web’ search — and an AI opt-out button ( www.theverge.com )
PSA for reporting best practices ( lemmy.cafe )
Created using feedback from https://lemmy.cafe/post/4823550. Maybe this can be useful....
Mods, what tips or etiquette do you recommend for reporting?
With recent events hilighting the value of quality moderation, it got me to consider: How can we help you out?...
Blame Canada? Justin Trudeau Creates Blueprint for Dystopia in Horrific Speech Bill ( www.racket.news )
I got in some hot water a while back for admitting I was relatively unconcerned with Republican villainy these days compared to other worries. This Canada Online Harms Act, whose details I missed earlier (apologies to Public and Yuri Bezmenov!), perfectly embodies the kind of thing that keeps me up at night now....
[Question] Disk Space for Lemmy and Mastodon instances
Hi,...