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Recently Google decided that in the future for an app to be installable on an Android device, the developer of this app needs to be ID'd and registered at Google. They claim this is in order to "to better protect users". However, I think, this is a move to get more control over the Android ecosystem, and the data they can collect with it. If anyone who wants to develop an app for Android devices has to be registered with Google, this puts all the power of who to allow distributing an app to Google.

Furthermore F-Droid shows, that safe app stores can exist without registration, neither of users nor of developers. There is zero malware or spyware on the F-Droid store. What there is on F-Droid is thousands of beautiful, useful and, most importantly, safe apps. And this entire ecosystem is at risk, because Google wants to gain more control over its users and over the Android operating system.

 

Recently Google decided that in the future for an app to be installable on an Android device, the developer of this app needs to be ID'd and registered at Google. They claim this is in order to "to better protect users". However, I think, this is a move to get more control over the Android ecosystem, and the data they can collect with it. If anyone who wants to develop an app for Android devices has to be registered with Google, this puts all the power of who to allow distributing an app to Google.

Furthermore F-Droid shows, that safe app stores can exist without registration, neither of users nor of developers. There is zero malware or spyware on the F-Droid store. What there is on F-Droid is thousands of beautiful, useful and, most importantly, safe apps. And this entire ecosystem is at risk, because Google wants to gain more control over its users and over the Android operating system.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmit.online/post/6974281

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The original was posted on /r/comedyheaven by /u/SgtHulkasBigToeJam on 2025-10-04 22:01:44+00:00.

 

cross-posted from: https://quokk.au/post/322890

[–] tfm@piefed.europe.pub 11 points 2 days ago

If you feel like it's spammy it's probably spammy. It's not about quantity but quality. Post the right stuff into the right communities and you'll be fine. Doesn't matter how much.

 

cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/nottheonion@lemmy.world/t/2804708

Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos has argued that the huge surge of investment in artificial intelligence is fuelling a “good” kind of bubble, delivering lasting benefits for society even if share prices collapse as dramatically as his ecommerce company’s did 25 years ago. “This is kind of an industrial bubble as opposed to financial bubbles,” Bezos said at a tech conference in Turin on Friday, drawing parallels with the dotcom-era investment in fibre-optic cable that outlasted many of the companies who deployed it and the “life-saving drugs” that emerged from the 1990s biotech boom and bust. “The banking bubble, the crisis in the banking system, that’s just bad, that’s like 2008. Those bubbles society wants to avoid,” he said. “The ones that are industrial are not nearly as bad, they can even be good. Because when the dust settles and you see who are the winners — society benefits from those inventions,” he continued. “That’s what is going to happen here too. This is real. The benefits to society from AI are going to be gigantic.” [...]

[–] tfm@piefed.europe.pub 27 points 2 days ago

He is definitely fucking Satan

 
 
 

Republican Senator Ted Cruz thinks we need to “stop attacking pedophiles.”
The Texas senator made the brutal (potentially) Freudian slip during a Senate hearing about crime on Tuesday.
“Senator Booker also said we should have bipartisan agreement. I think that’s a great idea, we should have bipartisan agreement,” Cruz said. “How ’bout we all come together and say, ‘Let’s stop murders?’ How ’bout we all come together and say, ‘Let’s stop rapes?’ How ’bout we all come together and say, ‘Let’s stop attacking pedophiles?’” [...]

(other outlets portray it as more clearly a mistake, but we're rewarding the outlet leaning into the clickbait because it's more onion-y 🫠)

 
[–] tfm@piefed.europe.pub 4 points 6 days ago

Besides improving grammar in emails, no, not really

[–] tfm@piefed.europe.pub 1 points 6 days ago

It's going to be a dark future.

[–] tfm@piefed.europe.pub 18 points 6 days ago

Because you want to see those spicy AI ads in between the AI posts?

[–] tfm@piefed.europe.pub 21 points 1 week ago

Mir gehen diese Upsells soo auf den Sack

[–] tfm@piefed.europe.pub 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Link is broken

[–] tfm@piefed.europe.pub 4 points 3 weeks ago

Dachte der Postillion wäre Satire

[–] tfm@piefed.europe.pub 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

We're not supposed to

You don't tell me what I'm supposed to do!

[–] tfm@piefed.europe.pub 10 points 3 weeks ago

DuckDuckGo is much better at this point imo. Although, the SEO industry has destroyed search results in general.

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