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Yeah, about a decade+ ago I paid for mIRC and WinRAR as a way to pay them back.

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Even more money lost for rural schools. Getting high speed, high capacity internet connections to much of rural America is extremely cost prohibitive. E-Rate was the only way the rural district where I was network admin could possibly afford it.

My blog used to receive direct traffic to various articles from search engines.

Now, 90% of hits are on the homepage with no search engine referral. I’ve blocked the bots in multiple ways, but they keep coming.

Google and the Open Web

1. Embrace

2. Extend

3. Extinguish <-- we’re here

Embrace

Extend

Extinguish <- Google is here with Android as an open platform

LOL, just as I started using an /e/os phone

Signal is flawless on my Fairphone with /e/os

Double win for right wing thinking: fill the pockets of techbros while white washing the underclass labor force.

Two decades. We’re old

Nobody asked for this

Ban private and charter flights. Only high volume commercial flights

They said this 2 weeks ago. Forever running out, but never getting there

I maintain a small Windows dual boot for taking certification exams (that don’t run on Linux). It’s torture to update it once every 6 months. 3-4 hours requiring multiple reboots.

Literally every single large AI provider admits to committing large scale piracy. No congressional response.

Some members of the public are watching HBO shows because they’re poor? FULL FORCE OF THE LAW

• enable developer options
• confirm that you are not tricked
• restart phone and re-authenticate
• wait one day
• confirm with biometrics that you know what you are doing
• decide if you only want unrestricted installs for 1 week or forever
• confirm that you accept the risks
• enjoy the few apps that still have developers motivated to develop for a user-base willing to put up with this

Counterpoint: I think it’s reasonable to inform people of what a dev team allows into their project, or how they’re directing the development of the product.

For some people, it will be a hard no. Others maybe don’t mind AI interoperability if it’s not in the codebase itself. Others won’t mind if the app is critical to their workflow, but may reject apps that are less critical. Others don’t care at all.

I look at it like the Denuvo labeling curator on Steam. Nothing wrong in informing people.