What, as in just in case he removes specifically that part? I mean, I wouldn't wory, it's the least wrong part of his previous post, although it's still supremely weird that they're so obsessed with passports.
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I suppose it makes more sense the less you want to do and the older your hardware is. Even when repurposing old laptops and stuff like that I find the smallest apps I'd want to run were orders of magnitude more costly than any OS overhead. This was even true that one time I got lazy and started running stuff on an older Windows machine without reinstalling the OS, so I'm guessing anything Linux-side would be fine.
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After a OS update? I mean, I guess, but most things are going to be in containers anyway, right?
The last update that messed me up on any counts was Python-related and that would have got me on any distro just as well.
Once again, I get it at scale, where you have so much maintenance to manage and want to keep it to a minimum, but for home use it seems to me that being on an LTS/stable update channel would have a much bigger impact than being on a lightweight distro.
So you'd live in Spain but not in Portugal, Germany, Belgium or Greece? That's highly specific aspirational European life goals. What's with that? You like it when the Ñs get curls but Çs make you queasy?
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I'm sidetracking a bit, but am I alone in thinking self hosting hobbyists are way too into "lightweight and not bloated" as a value?
I mean, I get it if you have a whole data center worth of servers, but if it's a cobbled together home server it's probably fine, right? My current setup idles at 1.5% of its CPU and 25% of its RAM. If I turned everything off those values are close to zero and effectively trivial alongside any one of the apps I'm running in there. Surely any amount of convenience is worth the extra bloat, right?
In social media? Not much.
Here I block any and all threads and communities that focus on US news. Specifically stuff that just has a generic name ("News") but is 100% US-focused content.
Night and day improvement, frankly.
With the exception of NVidia, all GPU vendors build their drivers on Mesa, so they are more homogeneous than Windows.
This sentence is written in some form of alien language that looks like human writing but clearly isn't.
Alternately, it may or may not be a particularly playful segment of Alice in Wonderland.
I can already tell this is going to be one of those conversations you get online where people are just itching for somebody to defend the position they want to argue against and will just have that argument regardless of what the other side says.
But because I'm a very flawed person I'll still go for it and note that technically if F-Droid is the one signing all the apps and Google doesn't like one of them, they'd have to ban F-Droid's entire account, not just the one app. Anything else would require them to look at the apps in the first place, which in this scenario they are not doing.
But it's certainly possible that they'll ban a specific developer (or a store if the store is doing the signing), and that's one of the reasons why this scheme is unacceptable.
What it is not is an approval process, since... you know, they're not looking at the apps themselves. Words mean things.
Presumably, at least nominally, Google wants the signatures to be able to tie an app to a developer. Whether they are going to ban people proactively or not we simply don't know because their stupid policy is barely communicated and they seem to intend to get it rolling before addressing any of these because Apple already used this loophole successfully so why the hell not, I suppose.
Not "non-approved apps", unsigned apps. They're not running approval on the software itself. And technically you can still sideload signed software. And you can sideload unsigned software in non-Google certified Android devices, too.
Hey, I hate their stupid power grab, it sucks and I hope regulators intervene, but if you're gonna get all pretentious and uppity about everybody else's responses you're gonna get fact checked. I don't make the rules.
Nobody in Europe uses a passport as a primary form of ID, what are you on about? Within the EU you don't even need a passport to travel. Passport coverage rankings in Europe are between 40 and 80%, just like pretty much everywhere else. Are you under the impression that people in the EU just present their passport to identify themselves at the bank? Because... no, they don't.
But most of Europe (and pretty much every other continent) does have some form of mandatory ID. And most ID, mandatory or not, now contains biometric identification, and that includes passports even in countries without mandatory ID, with only a few exceptions.
I'd be more contrarian about whatever point you're trying to make, but there doesn't seem to be one. Still super curious about how you grew a thorn key on your keyboard and how you came to think this was a cool thing to do online, speaking of erroneous impressions.
So let me get this straight, you're arguing that you shouldn't be repurposing other people's images in conversations on Lemmy/Fedi?
Have you... seen the Internet?
Also, I pasted a screenshot to a piece of info instead of linking the fifteen minute video where it originated specifically to save people time. How hard can you Karen at someone giving you an accurate piece of info? You have now posted three separate times acting all mad about receiving accurate, increasingly detailed information. Am I allowed to go do my other tasks of the day now, boss? Or do you need me to look up any other factoids while you slap me with a riding crop?
I mean, I can fulfil a fact checking fetish in a pinch, unusual as that may be, but I do think we should get some safety words down at this point.
You see both a larger picture that provides the same, consistent info with additional data and an explanation of the information contained in the screenshot I shared above. Typically a second independent source is considered a good thing when fact checking, friend.
Buyt hey, since you're so simultaneously concerned with sourcing every single instance of the same data and unwilling to do any work to find it yourself (which you aren't, at this point you're mostly being antagonistic), the source of the original image is this video, not Google Images.
And in case you're too busy demanding other people do work for you for free to actually watch it, the numbers are the age gates for mandatory ID in those countries and are there because I just happened to land on that particular frame when screenshotting it. Because... yeah, I decided to only devote so much time into looking this up for you all. I do enough homework for people on the Internet as it is.
"Want" isn't my concern. Presumably no developers want to give Google a piece of anything they generate, open source or not.
My concern was not understanding how this interferes with F-Droid and that has been explained above: F-Droid builds their own APKs for verification and this process potentially makes that a lot harder while not providing a replacement for their verification from Google.
That makes sense and it is indeed a dealbreaker. The other thing much less so.
Oooh, gotcha. That makes sense.
I guess it'd make sense to take that first option as far as it will go, at which point the issue becomes litigating this the first time Google has their own weird censorship issue in the Apple mold. I'd expect if they ban all of F-Droid explicitly that would at least make more ripples than going after a single torrent client app or whatever. It may play out different from a regulatory perspective, too, if the practical effect is they ban third party stores.
Side note, I'm really mad at the very deliberate choice Google made of categorizing all potential apps as either "apps meant for Google Play" or "student or hobbyist apps". You know they know why that's wrong, but it still makes you want to explain it to them.
I'm confused by this:
The F-Droid project cannot require that developers register their apps through Google, but at the same time, we cannot “take over” the application identifiers for the open-source apps we distribute, as that would effectively seize exclusive distribution rights to those applications.
If it were to be put into effect, the developer registration decree will end the F-Droid project and other free/open-source app distribution sources as we know them today, and the world will be deprived of the safety and security of the catalog of thousands of apps that can be trusted and verified by any and all. F-Droid’s myriad users5 will be left adrift, with no means to install — or even update their existing installed — applications.
My understanding is that developers need to sign up with Google and once they have an account they can sign their own apks.
How would this impact F-Droid in any way? Presumably by the time F-Droid enters the picture the developers of the apps they distribute would have already gone through that entire process, right? The apks will be tied to that new Google certificate, but after that they can still be distributed anywhere.
I mean, don't get me wrong, this has genuine, very serious, dealbreaking issues, in that Google can just cancel the account of a developer making apps they don't like, the same way Apple has done in the past. That's not great. But from F-Droid's perspective all of that has happened upstream, they are not anywhere in that loop, unless I've misunderstood the changes.
Based on that explanation I'm gonna say little of column A, little of column B.
Either way, none of those elements would be present in Trek's fiction. No confusingly backwards nomenclature for regional governments that really seems to say the opposite of what it says, no conflating nations with federal states... and probably no funding at the center of the definition at all, considering the post-scarcity thing.
He absolultely does not, because he lives in a postnationalist society.
He respects the sanctity of natural parks. Maybe natural reserves. Both names are in use in less jingoistic places, so you have to assume Trek's Earth goes with some variation on that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_identity_card_policies_by_country
I get that Google sucks these days, but... you know, there are still ways.
"Your" as in pretty much everybody's. The vast majority of countries have biometric data in passports. And a majority have compulsory ID.
And frankly, I don't particularly care about how weird people in the US are these days. I'm not sure I get what point you're trying to make. Is the fact that you can redneck yourself all the way off the grid supposed to be a good thing in this scenario?
Also, what's with all the thorn usage? Is your keyboard broken or have you been watching too many linguistics videos in Youtube and developed an affectation?
Oh, hah. Hadn't noticed. Man, that makes me more curious. I assumed it was some sort of macro, but if it isn't then I want to know what typing solution is in play.
Whatever, if they want to be that guy, be that guy. We used to have post signatures in forums and recognize people from those. It's just... you know, people are gonna keep asking, understandably.