The terror of war.

Nobody wins in war, and I hate how angry this photo makes me feel.

How about not hard code this in the first place. If they are hell bent on this logic then let each instance admin list the instances they want to use?

What do you mean lucky 10,000?

I don't get it. I'm not seeing the same thing, and I can't find any reference of anyone else reporting the same issue online either. Either this isn't an accurate report, or it's some very specific A/B testing. I can't find any options in settings that mention this functionality either.

That's awesome that you've surrounded yourself with people like that - but people that believe this shit do exist and there is enough of them that it's still a huge problem for many people today, just acknowledging it happens and it shouldn't can make a positive change!

F-Droid and Obtanium are going away for normal android users.

It is deliberately difficult, and this whole thing is absolutely about Google making more money by tightening control of the ecosystem, not about security.

A nice summary from https://keepandroidopen.org/

Nine steps, 24-hour wait, buried in Developer Options, delivered through a proprietary service that Google can revoke whenever they want. That's not sideloading. That's a deterrence mechanism built to ensure almost nobody completes it. And since it runs through Play Services rather than the OS, Google can tighten or kill it silently

I had to look up what the "empire" is because I'm not familiar with Russian propaganda. It's NATO and Western allies, and apparently they're better at manipulating Ukrainian foreign policy than Russia is, so Russia's only option is to go to war.

Agreed. I pay for Kagi, and find their search better than any other, and struggle when I'm forced to use another search engine temporarily.

Agreed, AWS make pricing deliberately difficult to control.

Check out budget actions, you can set that to stop EC2s on certain thresholds. Not perfects but can help. Also if you can use parameter store instead of secrets manager, you can save a bunch of money there too.

Thank you! I needed to see this comment, the whole premise of this post is icky to me.

Depends on what you call vibe coding. AI tools in the hands of experts can be effective, but definitely not fully hands off.

I guess it depends on how you define stupidity.

Distrusting governments and distrusting vaccines are totally different things. There is vast scientific consensus that vaccines work, if you're antivax you've made a conscious decision to ignore that, which is stupid in my book. Distrusting government advice on vaccines, depending on where you are, may be totally justified.

The data shows that it won't though, that's the point of the article. Those genuine use cases are really uncommon.

The pessimist in me thinks the GrapheneOS Motorola partnership won't happen, Google will put pressure on Motorola and make it fail. I really hope I'm wrong though.

There are some decent laws here to stop this getting out of hand and make sure it's reasonable.

https://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/pricing/card-surcharges

I've had strange looks when I say "crack the shits" or just "crack it". Take it for granted that everyone uses these terms.

Strong disagree from me. Using violence as a deterrent teaches kids that it's OK to use violence against others in the future. Does it work immediately? Yes. Does it do long term damage? Also yes.

The subconscious correlation between "being right" and "being the strongest" is a source of a huge amount of problems.

I never once threatened violence or used any sort of violence against my kids, and they never used violence as they grew up.

This is probably the real unpopular opinion though, I don't expect many people to agree with me on this one!

I think it's valid to boycott Russian companies, or any companies that supports them. Justifying it to be the best search engine doesn't necessarily make it right. And yet I still have a paid Kagi subscription, but I don't blame people who don't, and think their use of Yandex should be more obvious.

I really want to watch that movie again now. Thanks for the quote!

Doubting an experimental vaccine is different to being antivax.

There no ambiguity on vaccines, the science is settled, and anyone who doubts vaccines as a concept because of localised corruption isn't harbouring a healthy amount of caution. I call it stupidity, but others might say brainwashed.