That’s exactly right. Users will have to purchase phones on credit like we do for every other major (and sometimes minor) purchase. This doesn’t change the relationship between carriers and their customers at all. It only changes their accounting.

This is the first such prime that was discovered using GPU cloud computing. It’s not just an incredible new discovery, but also a demonstration of what this type of hardware network may be capable.

Following this thread because I think it’s one of the very interesting unanswered questions about federation.

Most Android phones also have an extra dim mode. Any phone with an OLED screen will give you true blacks (including the s23).

I’ve always had good experiences with Samsung phones in terms of durability.

It’s a very stable, reliable, local, cross-platform file syncing that is pretty easy to set up. Basically, it allows you to have a shared folder (or folders) on multiple devices without using Google Drive, OneDrive, iCloud, etc.

Oh No! This is terrible news. This IMHO is one of the most irreplaceable projects out there. I don’t know of another cross-platform local file syncing app that comes anywhere close to this. I hope that it can continue even if it’s not through the Play Store.

Google seems to be torpedoing open source developments with a number of decisions lately. Maybe they see F-Droid as a threat now that EU is making them open competition? Maybe they just don’t care.

If your bank account gets low enough, spontaneity goes back up.

Breaking news, obvious scam is a scam.

Bad actors who want to rile up unrest while the votes are being counted.

I wish the title weren’t so clickbaity… the article is actually very good and written by a top researcher in the field.

This is the future a quarter of Americans are fighting for.

Now if we could just get the other 3/4 out to vote…

In most cases, it’s probably safe, but ask a lawyer. Led Zeppelin has a bunch of songs about Lord of the Rings.

Probably the most famous example is Barbie Girl. The musical group Aqua created the song and was sued by Mattel. The toy company won the rights of the song because it was specifically using their product IP. They referenced specific features of the toy line, including the names of Barbie and Ken. Mattel was able to demonstrate that the song harmed their IP. That was the key feature IIRC. In the end, I think that it was ruled that the song was clearly a parody. So any harm that was caused, people would not assume was connected with the real-world toy.

Honestly, the best treatment of this was in the pre-streaming world with the “next time on Arrested Development.”

The running joke is that they would pretty much never happen, except once in a while when they did.

Same

Holy shit, they listened!

https://stackdiary.com/free-rss-readers/

This was pretty useful to me.

For android, I use Feeder, but I’ve also enjoyed Cappy, Neo Feed, Twine, and Nunti. Nunti is a really interesting one that uses a local, private smart algorithm to show you more of what interests you.

That’s surprising. I found it be underpowered as an RSS reader, personally. Although I am really only using it for news - I know some people who use it for videos, etc.

Feedly, Fluent Reader, NewsBlur, yarr, etc.

Thunderbird is fine, but I don’t really want to interact with my feed how I interact with email.

Well, they’re not called the Tali-permit