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  • TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill

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  • Shout-out to every dumbass that thought just because that bill to give the president to unilaterally designate companies as foreign companies national security threats and ban them was being passed during a democratic party Presidency, that meant the ACLU and EFF were wrong and this was actually a good thing. The most popular easily abusable legislation of the past ten years.

    Don't support government powers that you wouldn't want your opposition to possess. They will be in power someday, bet on that no matter what. Especially stupid stupid after 2020 Portland federal law enforcement disappearing people it should have been clear that the powers of the executive should have been limited before it was going to inevitably be in the power of opposition again but nope, Tiktok bad because China makes us feel insecure.

    Stupid bill and stupid people that were, I know ACLU and EFF are against it but TikTok needs to be banned, dumbasses - a bill can be written that targets a single company rather than a blanket power to block out any company from that selection of countries. Of course now that it is law, a willing congress - an inevitability - can remove the country specifics or add any and for some reason dumbasses after 2020 were like - it won't be abused

  • AOMedia To Release AV2 Video Codec At Year's End

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  • I put the base at 5 years being optimistic. I'm not expecting 5 years from final spec publishing. A stable spec is released end of the year so pretty much 2026. Take a couple years for hardware decoders to start releasing in niche to expensive gear. Pretty much demonstrative gear.

    Then progressively decoders proliferate down to consumer gear with years to get down to cheap entry level gear. Keep in mind the Snapdragon 7 Gen 4 this year was the first 7 series chip to get an AV1 hardware decoder. Don't know about Snapdragon 6 and 4 series of chips. AV1 stable spec was like 2018

    Maybe AV2 adoption will be quicker because VVC seems to have garnered minimal interest since 2020. However long it takes, you'll be itching for a new computer by then. Lessons learned from what adoption took for AV1 for AV2 development. Regardless, content distribution will trail hardware decode adoption on mass media devices, phones - maybe even have to wait for people to replace their televisions with ones that have AV2 decoders in them

  • AOMedia To Release AV2 Video Codec At Year's End

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  • Don't sweat it. By the time AV2 starts getting serious adoption rolled out, your hardware will be 5+ years old

  • Huawei unveils new trifold smartphone before Apple’s iPhone 17 reveal

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  • It'd be good for comic ebooks, PDFs, documents. Pretty much stuff you'd use with a tablet. I see the appeal of a one device covers it all. Phone, tablet, if it had a solid desktop mode, office productivity. Don't have faith in these mobile first OSs to do it all well though

  • Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann

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  • It's time the community open source movement starting gaining a lot more traction on mobile. We need better hardware support and standards for a streamlined non-Google/Apple/MS platform. Something not beholden to any single company or country

  • Why did PinePhone fail?

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  • Like others, it was specs for me. I fully am ready to deal with minimal Linux applications designed for a small touchscreen display but for that compromised mobile experience, I want a good desktop experience when it's docked. So I'd like near flagship phone specs. So today would be like Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 or better. Canonical had the right idea with Unity 8 but didn't execute

    Now today there are mobile Linux frontends but no company pushing out hardware to leverage a Linux phones most unique ability, docked experience with full desktop applications. Things like the Ayn Odin 2/3 or Ayaneo Pocket S. They're putting out niche Android gaming handheld with high end mobile SoCs that I doubt sell a ton while in the Linux phone land, it's lackluster

  • Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the end | Alyssa Rosenzweig stepping away from Asahi Linux

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  • The link in "onto the next challenge" is to an Intel page

    Introduction to the Xe-HPG Architecture

    I was hoping it'd link to FEX-emu. Would have loved if they went full time on that. Still, age 23 and done all that. At 23 I finished college and by age 30 still felt like a junior developer, mid at best

  • Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year

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  • Mobile desperately needs hardware with first class open source drivers and firmware to get away from Google/Apple/Microsoft controlled software platforms. Phones have been super powerful for a long time beyond what most need. We can take hit in theoretical peak performance to build up a better ecosystem until the market is large enough that the big money has to address the market

  • UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole

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  • I'm certain a lot of politicians and veterans are bitter over the lack of universal adoration they get in their own countries. Politicians certainly annoyed with how easy it is for victims of war and veterans against war speaking out against enlistment. Politicians and the rich want their populaces to be patriots whereas the Internet makes people jaded when learning their countries history and present in detail.

    I'm certain that's the real reason internet censorship picked up steam. The Internet has poisoned the well for so many countries when trying to build out some unified national message of righteous action. Can't like how negative the public reacts to bills described as for child safety. Internet makes it real easy to call it another manipulative cry of wolf. It's got to be the #1 marketing trick for the rich and powerful. #2 being those foreigners are evil. But shit now people see people across the world are mostly just getting by not even participating in politics or don't even have any voting power and are just caught in the crossfires of the power hungry

    Today there are no heros from the invasions across Asia west to east. In recent times you don't get a marketing bump for fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Libya, wherever. That's problematic for patriotism and public support for future war fighting. Every government leader now has a mixed legacy while alive that makes their memory mute in history compared to WW2 and earlier leaders who committed just as much or likely far worse terrors but enjoyed widespread domestic support while in power and adoration in retirement.

    National anthems before sporting events are tacky whereas just like 15 years ago damn near everyone bought into those. I swear one day there will monitoring software and crackdowns on hitting the mute button during national anthems and commercials

  • LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think.

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  • My understanding is that Proton Docs web editor is a markdown editor and I've seen people complain about the limitations there but I'm not a power user to compare with. Don't know how well collaborative annotation/suggestions/replace would work with markdown. Fully out of my knowledge base but interested in learning what office text document abilities can't be done in markdown. There's still ODF for whatever markdown can't do

  • Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface

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  • This guy's got to know pervasive would come off bad. Ambient bad too

  • What problems does Linux have to overcome to get more users

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  • Laptops sold in store. Vendor that targets schools elementary to college along with software and support to manage a fleet of computers. Would be relevant for corporations too. They would market and support Linux hardware

    User friendly way to deal with permissions on flatpaks. Needs to be like Android and iOS where when it's needed, you get a prompt box to affirm/deny or file/application picker to grant access to

    Grow commercial support orgs for professional software support. Like orgs that support deployments of LibreOffice. Blender foundation is good. More of that for other open source pro/prosumer software. Sales and support staff separate from developers

  • Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet

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  • We're heading back to the dreams of the 90s with people running websites on non-standard ports and DNS (new rinky dink decentralized DNS?). Take a performance and usability hit for the return of a more decentralized Internet. Probably still more usable than the early internet with all the lessons learned and tools available to modern developers. We can also bring back the term: web master

  • (Edited title, see details for original) Here's why you're getting enshittified...

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  • It would better if that came off paragraph after but instead they dipped into simultaneously dunking on individual efforts to build up poorly detailed communal efforts. Spends more time complaining about peoples individual efforts than explaining the how to's and benefits of communal efforts

    When all your friends are going to a festival, are you really going to opt out because the event requires you to use the Ticketmaster app (because Ticketmaster has a monopoly over event ticketing)? If so, you're not gonna have a lot of friends, which is a pretty shitty way to live.

    If you turn your personal campaign to live an enshittification-free life into a set of rigid practices that isolate you from your community, you will be miserable – and you will undermine your ability to address the systemic roots of enshittification.

    He should focus better on making his argument more tight and focused with minimal collateral damage. How does using Linux, Signal, Mastodon isolate people. People can have all that installed and more. Terrible examples.

    Yes recycling is mostly green washing as it gets dumped/burned elsewhere. Why try make people feel like they were fools for sending things to recycling. They tried.

    Not effective writing, not effective communication, not effective persuasion and so far in this thread he's not even hitting with leftist let alone centrist and conservatives. People are focusing on the hot take because the writer thought it'd be smart to frame his wants with a hot take about the individual actions people take as weak. Frame with click bait so get lambasted for being a click bait artist

  • (Edited title, see details for original) Here's why you're getting enshittified...

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  • I read his article and won't read his book. I won't reach out to him. If he wants to engage better with people, he should try not starting with belittling people's efforts that they can do in there individual lives of which doesn't preclude anything they can do communally. I don't start with environmental or moral vegetarians and vegans with, "what you're doing will change nothing and not worth the effort. Join a animal rights organization. What you're doing now is weak." Just start with saying join an animal rights group and why they should framed not why what they're currently doing is a waste of effort but what else they could also be doing and how that can be effective

  • (Edited title, see details for original) Here's why you're getting enshittified...

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  • Tldr; Join physical movements like a union to focus on actual laws being created and/or enforced while shitting on people for doing anything that else that may be positive

    Also tries to sell their book bragging about how early reviews are raving about it. Provocative for clicks to say obvious shit that they're selling. "Bruh, join a union. We need to organize a popular political party. "

    Also their conclusion doesn't read to me like it actually goes against personal conscious consumption choice. Like saying join a movement as if a movement doesn't start with a bunch of individuals making choices about how they spend their time, use their money, speak their opinion, etc and figuring out all these individuals have a lot in common and have a common point to organize around

    Article is like, "ya Linux, Signal, Mastodon, etc. But they're all niche and you as an individual make so little difference so join a movement."

    Linux is probably the most used kernel for operating systems in the world. Not a good example. Backend operating system for the Internet. Signal is far more popular than a decade ago. Don't know about Mastodon. Regardless if people aren't being encouraged to engage in more private and/or decentralized Internet, why the fuck would they be engaged enough to go to some political meetup about something they don't individually engage with and develop personal interest towards. Collective action starts with developing individual interests that converge to a collective group of individuals with shared interests.

    Telling people to join movements while telling people, well actually not those movements

    Also shit on people's good causes and their small actions and not realize that those little things keep people engaged and they're potential conversation points to bring people into more direct organized action.

    Then after complaining about small niche movements that apparently won't amount to anything long term, they point out small niche organizations that for some reason will grow and amount to something long term for reasons I imagine being that they care more about those than using decentralized and open source software (services)

  • Proton releases a new app for two-factor authentication

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  • The sync is the main thing for me. I already back up my Aegis library and upload that to proton drive. Difference in security for me is pretty much zero between Aegis and a proton authenticator app

  • Proton releases a new app for two-factor authentication

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  • Been using Aegis on android and managing my own backups but maybe switch or use for things I care less for just for simplicity

  • UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill

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  • To me it looks like every government in the world is pro-surveillance and anti-privacy; they're just all at different stages of depth into those ideologies done in practice. Privacy and anti-surveillance against foreign governments and corporations, pro for domestic. And I continue decade after decade to say that you should fear your domestic government far more than any foreign unless you're a country that may have US and allies bombing/droning and paratrooping your country. Countries with a modern enough military mostly have to worry about their own government rather than foreign governments