Big Tech is at it again.

Some of you might have seen this already. Google has announced a new policy for Android app developers, which would require them to seek Google’s permission if they want to distribute their apps outside of the Google Play Store (on their own website or on alternative app stores). This would entail:

1) agreeing to their terms and conditions
2) paying a fee
3) uploading a government ID

Which is wrong on so many levels. Nobody should be forced to register with Google if they don’t want to use their services.

In doing so they would be extending their gatekeeping (tentacles) into distribution channels where they’re just not a legitimate authority.

At Vivaldi, we believe you have the right to run whatever software you want on a device you own. That’s why we’ve co-signed this open letter, together with other 53 organisations, requesting Google to back off on the proposed policy before it enters into force.

(Plus, they have have a pretty cool logo 😄)

https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/

@steph I used to work with formaldehyde a lot. we consider there to be a safe amount but it always made me nervous. fortunately the job lasted only like four months. reminds me of when people solder with lead.

linux isnt really a computer that works but it is a computer thats yours

"We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter..." -- Sam Altman

https://x.com/TheChiefNerd/status/2032012809433723158

There you go, there it is. Yup.

@anemone time to read the bible

God cannot be said to hate remotely like a person hates, for his hatred is entirely a righteous antipathy that does not vanish in him like other mental hobgoblins that go when a soul is fully enlightened--that is to say, things not found in yogis like hatred will naturally not be found in God who is their master. But Gods wrath--Gods special anger, His hatred for evil should always be worshipped if it is to be revered at all alongside his universal indiscriminate love. Gods hate is finite while His love is beyond all numbering. God is (beyond uncountably) infinitely good and loves (beyond uncountably) infinitely, while beings dependent on God have finite egos and finite sins, and thus God hates terrible sinners while loving them beyond countlessly more. an evil cosmic dual to God will never exist, so hatred beyond all numbering will never exist. this is ontologically true: God is God, the Lord of Love, the Full and Complete one, not full of hatred. cultivate bodhicitta and realize him in your circumcized heart!

@scathach hmmm well thats one way to prevent peoples stickers from being put up there

@lanodan I do not know what it is smh

@lanodan bimboification in all forms will be eradicated from the earth

I would be in my yellow dragon fruit era were it not for everyone else eating them before I can get to them

@meowski enjoy chelating yourself you nerd

@meowski theyre iridescent too

@meowski oh damn I goofed

@meowski I used to have a bismuth crystal it was way overpriced for an artificial one but the artificial ones are more beautiful

@meowski hehe you didnt know bismuth comes before lead

once etsy doesnt work I'm super fucked

and other things like the safetynet spoofing which hasnt worked wifh the new updates

I really need to fix data on my phone smdh

@meowski its the heavy element with the longest long half life via alpha decay. iodine is the heaviest nutritive element in the body and I think bismuth is the heaviest safe element.

@djsumdog fuck all that