skuzz

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[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 6 days ago

Google is busy locking android down to remove any freedom of choice.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago

However many of these foods, particularly candy and soda, also contain sugar, which has also been connected to hyperactive behavior.

Hopefully it is just the article being poorly-written and not MSU making terrible studies and/or Jamie Alan being a dunce.

"Dyes cause kids to be temporarily hyper, also, the food with the dyes has sugar in it which could actually be the cause."

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[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 week ago

Moving voicemail to the phone is just terrible. The whole point of it existing is for when the phone is off or out of service. I have been the recording end of iPhone's version of this, when the person's phone is at a large venue with spotty weak voice coverage, the "voicemail" ends up being a choppy unintelligible piece of garbage.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 week ago

Android also is designed to run on lots of different hardware unlike Apple.

Apple's OSes are also designed to run on lots of different hardware. Intel, PowerPC, ARM, nVidia, AMD, Apple GPUs. It is just all hardware Apple (mostly these days) designs. There's no reason to talk about what hardware they run on. We're talking about their parallel roadmaps to closing off the OS development from users/open-source, and how both are doing the exact same transition, Apple's is just a quarter century in the making.

Google has already been doing what is necessary to close Android for years. Example: The AOSP texting app they abandoned years ago. Google Messages is now the messaging app. Fully closed-source. No requirement to ever open it. They also used RCS as an excuse to close off the third-party messaging app arena. No third-party app can use RCS on Android now.

Play Services, Assistant, Chrome, YouTube, YouTube Music, GBoard, all their applications are being separated and the "old" version phased out. Some things will remain open-source, likely, like the Chromium bits of Chrome, but even that they've already forked their secret Chrome sauce.

With a hybridization of ChromeOS and Android, this will further accelerate Google not having a need to care about the existence of AOSP. Eventually, they'll just abandon it entirely.

If you use an AOSP-based OS like Graphene right now, you can see the remnants of the AOSP apps. Peeps on projects like Graphene do some massaging to keep them usable, but they're basically apps frozen in time to aid companies in proof-of-concepts and not part of what one would call consumer-facing Android today.

Vendors like Samsung and Lenovo pay to have early access to the Android source, so they'll still get early access for device development, but it is a 100% pay-to-play model. Likely with NDAs. Which again, is exactly what Apple does.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Incorrect. MacOS and iOS both started out as Darwin, the Mach microkernel, and FreeBSD. 25 or so years ago, Apple had open repos and package managers to install standard Unix tools, and the core of the OS even used things like cron to schedule tasks. You could even configure MacOS to not launch the GUI and run it command-line only. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)

Over time, Apple slowly turned everything into Libraries, Extensions, and Frameworks, and slowly closed-source everything application-by-application. The same way Google is doing with Android.

And if you missed the memo, there is no Google equivalent to AOSP. They killed it in March, because they are doing the exact same thing.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (7 children)

Very true, your example is airtight. Where mine gets a bit more in the weeds, is the air conditioners and filters in the cabin have an express purpose of manipulating the temperature and climate, that is their only purpose. Otherwise the air coming into the cabin would be so hot from being compressed in the engines everyone would die and all the machines onboard would overheat.

It was a bit more technical, complicated, (air inside a plane in the atmosphere is still air from the atmosphere being manipulated!) and on the edge though, and not as easily conveyed as umbrellas.

Kudos for yours though, it was to the point.

So perhaps, they should just ban the air conditioners on jets to get it technically correct?

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Freedom costs a buck o' five.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (9 children)

Also, every commercial passenger flight is a felon. They are an apparatus released into the atmosphere, and affect weather/climate/intensity of sunlight by causing global dimming. Furthermore, they take the atmosphere in through their engines, and run it through a bunch of air conditioners to cool and filter the air for the cabin, expressly for the purpose of affecting the temperature and climate inside the aircraft, and then exhaust it out of the aircraft back into the atmosphere. Checkmate.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Even that is a challenge, with facial-recognition camera systems and wifi position tracking in stores. Time to just stop buying stuff except for what is necessary.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

These "verify you are human" things should be made illegal at this point. They were training OCR scanners, then self-driving cars, now they're designing them to be anti-AI and we've gone full circle where captchas are on the defense.

They were always abusive and exploiting free labor, and more so now. If you dumb companies can't figure out how to filter fraudomation/AI/whatever, just go out of business.

Tech industry, stop using us.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 2 weeks ago

The absolute cowardice of the Democrat party is supremely laughably sad. The US is no longer controlled by a government. Just rich people. Maybe it always has been.

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