Neither can I, that’s why I think that allowing this feature to be used for free apps is purely a malicious move by Google to push people away from sideloading in general.

That’s a very legitimate reason! I was talking about free apps, but I failed to mention that in my comment. My bad. Any legit reason for free apps?

What legitimate reason would an app developer have for not wanting to let people install their app from sources other than the play store?

Yup. This isn’t an anti-piracy thing, it’s a fuck-over-people-who-don’t-like-google thing.

It’s easy on Reddit because they have their own username generator when you sign up, but the usernames being used here are very telling. Random letters is literally the absolute bare minimum effort for randomly generating usernames. A competent software engineer could make something substantially better in an afternoon and I feel like an adversarial nation-state would be using something like a small language model trained solely on large lists of scraped usernames.

John F. Kennedy?

DRM is to prevent piracy. This does not prevent piracy unless it only applies to apps that cost money.

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That seems to be untrue.

You could probably fit it into the K-12 program without losing any value elsewhere if you cut out things like memorizing maps in regions of the world that are so unstable that those maps won’t be valid anymore by the time kids graduate, studying writers like Shakespeare that lived so long ago that what they wrote in could barely be called English, and mandatory electives.

There is no course of action for legal reform because the right to genital mutilation is enshrined in the US constitution. Any action to enact justice would have to either happen outside the US or outside the law.

As a victim, I wish people had insulted previous victims so that they wouldn’t pass on their trauma to the next generation.

The first time yeah, but I tried it again on another instance and it was better (at least it didn’t fail to load half the time), but still super slow. The 2nd time is what I was talking about.

I saw this headline and was thinking, “Huh, I thought the limit was 8MB.”

Matrix is a laggy dumpsterfire. Messages take longer to send in Matrix than they do in Lemmy, and Lemmy isn’t even supposed to be a real-time chat app.

exceot for the fact that it MASSIVELY inflates their stats for investors and advertisers.

Ah yes, the Reddit strategy.

I think that training models on scraped internet data should be legal if and only if those models’ weights are required to be open-source. It’d be like slapping a copyleft license on the internet - you can do what you want with public data, but you have to give what you use it for back to the public.

The solution, to me, would seem to be to divide the revenue up on an individual basis instead. Does some sort of licensing issue prevent this? I’d think that the legitimate record labels would want to fix this loophole ASAP so that they can get more money.

uBlock Origin, not uBlock. uBlock is a bullshit extension riding uBO’s popularity to bait people into downloading it.

They should have to make the weights public if they train on data scraped from the public internet. It’s be something like copyleft by default for AI training.