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RedFrank24

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  • Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann

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  • If Google is going to lock down my device to the point where I can't install apps without their permission, I might as well dump Android and go straight to Apple. I sacrificed my phone being good for the openness of the platform, but if Google loses that openness, why shouldn't I go with Apple?

  • anons brother has some strong opinions

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  • I don't care enough to have an argument with you about it.

  • anons brother has some strong opinions

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  • It's not the social housing that's the problem though, it's specifically the tower blocks. Social housing by-and-large worked pretty well, with some pretty nice council housing being put up and people living in them without too much issue. The thing is, there's a big difference between a socially isolated tower block and a council house in the suburbs, a lot of which was eaten away by Right-to-Buy because it turns out they were really nice houses so people wanted them. Almost nobody wants to buy a flat in a tower block.

    The 'Stay Put thing for Grenfell Tower was actually good policy... When the tower was built. Each apartment acted essentially as its own fireproof box, so under the original design, staying put is actually the best policy to have, because you knew a fire was only ever going to exist in one of the boxes. It's when those boxes are compromised that things become a problem, stuff like unauthorised knock-throughs and especially the flammable cladding (that was added later) on the outside of the building. It turned all those fireproof boxes into fireproof boxes except on one side, so when that cladding caught fire, it just set fire to all of the boxes.

  • anons brother has some strong opinions

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  • Except a lot of the brutalist architecture in the UK looks like shit and the towers are shit, which is why they're being knocked down. Those tower blocks are SUPPOSED to have shops and amenities inside them, but the British ones don't, so they exist solely as shitholes nobody with a choice wants to live in.

    It also doesn't help that tower blocks very quickly became a dumping ground for local councils to throw unwanted tenants into, so troublemakers, those who can't be housed anywhere else. The image of a tower block became one of high crime, social isolation and poor construction. Couple that with Grenfell Tower and you've got "Death trap" added to the list.

  • Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal

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  • The copy of the web browser is mine, the data I've downloaded is mine, I can do what I want with it.

  • We had this in my house growing up

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  • I'm referring more to floor space and somewhere to put that stuff. An iPad is multi-functional, so in a one-bedroom apartment where space is at a premium, it's better than the full hi-fi setup.

  • We had this in my house growing up

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  • Buttons are an reminder of the luxury of space we used to have.

  • Cinema fall is comming

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  • I mean... The fight between Deadpool and Wolverine was basically just a giant sex scene.

  • Cinema fall is comming

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  • If Deadpool wasn't shitting on canon, it wouldn't be Deadpool.

  • Samurai -> Anime

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  • Sure if you want to broaden the definition to "anything that has ever been animated in Japan ever" then sure they've been doing anime for decades, but the stuff we would colloquially call 'anime' generally kicked off after the war, inspired by American culture. The signature 'anime' style is directly inspired by Disney cartoons, and it wasn't even called anime until the 60s.

  • Screen size & your importance

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  • and yet... if it's a company that's a bit slack on security, the right command in the right place by someone with 2 monitors can kill the company dead.

  • Samurai -> Anime

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  • I mean... It was essentially the occupation that did it. The Americans effectively colonised Japan after the war, wiping away the previous culture and going "No, you believe THIS now. You get to keep the Emperor because I'm feeling nice, but if there's a part of your culture I don't like, I'm getting rid of it whether you like it or not".

    ...Turns out there was quite a lot of Japanese culture at the time that needed wiping out, and the Americans were very effective at doing it.

    It's kinda interesting how two different approaches to conquering ex-authoritarian states concluded. In Germany, it was all about collective guilt and confronting the German people about the holocaust. In Japan? Not so much. They kinda just swept all those atrocities under the rug with a "That was the old me! This is the new me, right? I did what you wanted Mr America! I'm on your side now!". Maybe it was the fact that Japan was conquered wholesale by the US and could be put together as a more cohesive front against the Communist Chinese, whereas Germany was split into two and needed to be kept in line to avoid any grumblings about being Communist?

  • ChatGPT 5's PHd level intelligence is breathtaking \s

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  • That's funny though because I know Copilot can google things and talk about them.

    Like, a news story can appear that day, and you go "Did you hear about the guy that did X and Y?" and Copilot will google it and be like "Oh yeah you're referring to the news story that came out today about the guy that did X and Y. It was reported in Newspaper that Z was also involved" and then send you a link to the article.

    So like... GPT5 should be able to supplement its knowledge with basic searching, it just doesn't.

  • Anyone else from Europe feels the same while browsing the "All" feed?

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  • Well it's not like there's much else.

    Lemmy is dominated by exactly three topics and nothing else.

  • Supreme Court formally asked to overturn landmark same-sex marriage ruling

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  • It's funnier than that because in one of the hadiths it says, to quote:

    "Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "The prayer of a person who does Hadath (passes urine, stool or wind) is not accepted till he performs the ablution." A person from Hadaramout asked Abu Huraira, "What is 'Hadath'?" Abu Huraira replied, " 'Hadath' means the passing of wind.""

    "“The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) was asked about a man who felt something during his prayer – should he stop praying? He said, ‘No, not unless you hear a sound or detect an odour.’”"

    So if you let out one of those silent farts that don't smell, it doesn't count.

  • Supreme Court formally asked to overturn landmark same-sex marriage ruling

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  • Technically touching pork breaks your Wudu, but so does farting so it's not a huge deal, you just need to wash your hands afterwards.

  • Shamelessly stolen from Reddit

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  • The only time I would give a military discount would be if you are a military member that meets the following criteria:

    • You were conscripted for a defensive war

    OR

    • You volunteered (as in you weren't paid) to fight a defensive war

    If you fight for a professional army, you're a professional, and professionals don't need discounts because they're doing what they're paid to do.

  • Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30

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  • I mean... It's not being turned off. You can still use Windows 10 if you want to, it's just Microsoft don't want to keep pushing security updates to it, and they're like "Well if you want continued security updates you're gonna have to sign in and pay for them".

    You can always go without those updates.

  • He's addicted meow

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  • There's a term for that, it's called being voluntold to do something.