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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Moves like this always assume that location equals citizenship. As an EU citizen living in North America, a move like this means that I would not get the remedy that Apple legally owes me (or would owe me if I owned an iOS device)

    The main thing I’ve been sideloading on Android for a decade is a fan implementation of the Dominion card game called Androminion. It was trademark cease and desist removed from the Play Store a decade ago, but you can still get the apk on Github

    There’s a couple other things. One big gap in both the Google and Apple stores is the complete absence of adult content. I’m amazed there’s not more of a clamour for adult apps among either userbase, given that most people don’t own a normal computer. Sideloading could plug that gap


  • Not sure if you are trolling, but no

    Meta is joining the Fediverse not because it needs the people currently on the Fediverse, but because it needs a regulatory figleaf to protect itself from monopoly charges. At Meta’s scale, there are 0 users on the Fediverse right now. There is no market benefit to getting Fediverse people to move to Meta

    What Meta gets out Threads/Fediverse compat is that suddenly Instagram is not technically a walled garden with platform lock-in, so while the number of people who’ll migrate from Instagram Threads to the Fediverse is going to be tiny they suddenly look a lot less like a mean monopoly to regulators

    At some point they might remove the Fediverse compat. The people currently screaming about embrace-extend-and-extinguish because Meta is joining will then scream about bait-and-switch even though they’ve had Threads defederated the whole time. The Fediverse will still be there. That’s the cycle of life







  • Me: Play Whitehorse the band
    Google Assistant: Playing Whitehorse the song by some other guy
    Me: No, play Whitehorse the Canadian band
    Google Assistant: Playing Whitehorse the album by a third guy
    Me: Play Achilles Desire
    Google Asistant: Playing Whitehorse

    Me: Play Tu vuò fà l’americano on Spotify
    Google Assistant: !?!?!?!?

    Me: Play Laisse tomber les filles
    Google Assistant: !?!?!?

    Me: Play Les Cowboys Fringants on Spotify
    Google Assistant: !?
    Me: Play Les Cowboys F R I N G A N T S
    Google Assistant: Playing Les Cowboys Fringants

    I only ever use those junky voice assistants when driving, and they are useless half the time