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  • Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration

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  • I don't see why it would need to be affected.

    The constraint to require a valid signing isn't something imposed by the license on the Android code. If you want to distribute a version of Android that doesn't check for a registered signature, that should work fine.

    I mean, the Graphene guys could impose that constraint. But they don't have to do so.

    I think that there's a larger issue of practicality, though. Stuff like F-Droid works in part because you don't need to install an alternative firmware on your phone --- it's not hard to install an alternate app store with the stock firmware. If suddenly using a package from a developer that isn't registered with Google requires installing an alternate firmware, that's going to severely limit the potential userbase for that package.

    Even if you can handle installing the alternate firmware, a lot of developers probably just aren't going to bother trying to develop software without being registered.

  • White House memo says 750,000 furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to back pay

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  • They may not be paid promptly, but I kind of suspect that if back pay is not forthcoming, there's probably going to be a class-action lawsuit or similar, and they may wind up not just wages, but with with interest on said wages.

  • Arduino (Italian Electronics Company) acquired by US-Based Qualcomm

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  • Hah! In a world where everyone's hot topic is heavyweight, highly-parallel-compute chips, there's a lightweight, serial-compute chipmaker making the news.

  • Germany decides against supporting chat control

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  • The Czechs got upset at EU-level efforts on gun control --- Czechia has permissive firearm law --- and passed an amendment to Czechia's constitution in 2021 guaranteeing certain firearm rights in Czechia. If the EU passed a directive that conflicted with it after that point without getting Czechs to approve an amendment to their constitution, Czechia would immediately begin violating the directive, which raises the stakes for people who wanted additional restrictions EU-wide.

    One imagines that the same tactic could be used in other areas; if one or more EU members prohibited restrictions on end-to-end encryption or the like, it'd create a legal bar that would first need to be undone to create a restriction EU-wide.

    That being said, if this sort of hardball tactic gets done too frequently, it'd make it really difficult to legislate at the EU level, because you'd have one state or another creating legal landmines all over.

    And any other individual member could still impose their own state-level restrictions on end-to-end encryption in such a scenario --- it'd only create an impediment to EU-wide restrictions.

  • Senate report says AI will take 97M US jobs in the next 10 years, but those numbers come from ChatGPT

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  • I wouldn't put it entirely outside the realm of possibility, but I think that that's probably unlikely.

    The entire US only has about 161 million people working at the moment. In order for a 97 million shift to happen, you'd have to manage to transition most human-done work in the US to machines, using one particular technology, in 10 years.

    Is that technically possible? I mean, theoretically.

    I'm pretty sure that to do something like that, you'd need AGI. Then you'd need to build systems that leveraged it. Then you'd need to get it deployed.

    What we have today is most-certainly not AGI. And I suspect that we're still some ways from developing AGI. So we aren't even at Step 1 on that three-part process, and I would not at all be surprised if AGI is a gradual development process, rather than a "Eureka" moment.

  • Tories set a low bar after misspelling Britain on conference chocolate

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  • Based on current polling the conservatives would be lucky to get third place. Reform on track to get second or third place depending on the pole, Labour and the lib Dems are fighting for the top spot.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_United_Kingdom_general_election

    This graph has the Liberal Democrats at ~14%, the Conservatives at ~16%, Labour at ~20%, and Reform at ~32%.

    A Liberal Democrat-Labour coalition might just edge out Reform, but Reform's also rising, and Labour's been getting hammered.

    EDIT: Though, of course, this is just showing proportions of popular support, and first-past-the-post may cause that to not directly translate to seats.

  • Man Arrested For Pooping on Opossum in Public

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  • Judging from the facial sores in the mug shot, I'm guessing that the gentleman in question has a history of meth use.

  • Any hope for changing the lights on a Mountain Makalu 67 mouse?

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  • I'm not familiar with the software situation there, but on the hardware side, if you don't mind permanently disabling it, you can probably just open it up, find the LED, and snip the lead that runs to it. Or, if you don't mind soldering, swapping in LEDs is possible. I once swapped an infrared LED in on a trackball that used a translucent ball and a red LED when I used the thing in a dark room.

  • Right-wing Sanae Takaichi set to be Japan's first female premier

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  • Could be. Liz Truss said something similar, and she's also very much on the "loose" side of things

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/liz-truss-margaret-thatcher-similarities-b2159085.html

    When Liz Truss was asked at the very first Conservative leadership hustings in Leeds which of the party’s past prime ministers she most admired, she had a very definite answer: Margaret Thatcher.

    As Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies pointed out just last week, her plans to increase the national debt in order to lower taxes “could not be further from Thatcher who...took the very unpopular decision to raise taxes in 1981 to manage deficit and inflation”.

    Rather, the economics expert said, such a policy had “clear echoes of Ted Heath in 1973”.

    Conservative MP Robert Jenrick expressed a similar concern. “It is antithesis of Thatcherism,” he said, “to be going around making unfunded tax pledges merely to win a leadership contest.”

  • XMPP servers / communities?

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  • Let's talk popcorn.

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  • Tories set a low bar after misspelling Britain on conference chocolate

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  • Organisers are reportedly blaming the mistake on a “printing error” and have since removed the chocolate from the bags

    Wait a minute. So the organizers dick it up and get rewarded with a bunch of chocolate? This doesn't seem like proper incentivization.

    EDIT: Also, based on recent polling, isn't Reform the largest opponent, not Labour?

  • Landmark study shows 1.4m Britons have a gambling problem

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  • An estimated 1.4 million adults in Britain have a gambling problem

    Put more optimistically, that's 67.8 million Britons who don't have a gambling problem.

  • Right-wing Sanae Takaichi set to be Japan's first female premier

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  • Takaichi, who says her hero is Margaret Thatcher, Britain's first female prime minister, offers a starker vision for change than Koizumi and is potentially more disruptive.

    An advocate of late premier Shinzo Abe's "Abenomics" strategy to boost the economy with aggressive spending and easy monetary policy, she has previously criticised the Bank of Japan's interest rate increases.

    I mean, I guess there's nothing necessarily wrong with both having Thatcher as your hero and adopting said policy, but Thatcher was a deficit hawk and advocated for tight fiscal policy, which is kind of the opposite of this.

  • XMPP servers / communities?

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  • Brits in disbelief as new refillable drinks ban implemented across UK

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  • https://www.joe.co.uk/news/brits-in-disbelief-as-new-refillable-drinks-ban-implemented-across-uk-508201

    An original consultation took place during 2018 as part of the previous government’s Child Obesity action, and legislation was finally passed in Parliament in December 2021.

    The rules only came into force on Wednesday (1 October 2025).

    The legislation was actually passed under the Johnson government:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Johnson_ministry

    I suppose that Labour could have passed a law canceling implementation, though.

  • Brits in disbelief as new refillable drinks ban implemented across UK

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  • If you put sugar in granulated or powdered solid form into soda, it'll create a lot of convection points and the soda will rapidly foam up and lose a lot of its carbon dioxide.

    You could use a sweet syrup instead.

  • Post in r/Reddit alternative about r/Lemmy being banned

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  • From that thread:

    https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditAlternatives/comments/1nzbt8b/reddit_has_banned_rlemmy/ni26gw0/

    The sub creator got suspended. Checked the Wayback Machine on their profile reveals they are very vocal about certain political issues in Lebanon (in April 2025, last archive). There is a very high chance of something related to that.

    Possibly not related to the fact that /r/Lemmy dealt with Lemmy.

    EDIT: Someone in that thread also mentioned that /r/lemmy2 was created in response, so it'll be interesting to see what happens there. If it stays up, probably unrelated to the subreddit being about Lemmy.

    https://old.reddit.com/r/Lemmy2/

  • Brits in disbelief as new refillable drinks ban implemented across UK

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  • The notice reads: “Want Coca-Cola Classic? It’s one glass only.

    “Based on new government laws, we’ve had to limit Coca-Cola Classic to one glass per customer.

    “Still thirsty? Help yourself to any of our low-sugar fizzy Bottomless Soft Drinks.”

    Under the new rules, any soft drinks that are low in sugar, for example ‘Zero’ alternative versions of most popular soft drink brands, can be drunk to one’s heart’s content.

    I imagine that manufacturers of artificial sweeteners are in for a good time.