Their data centers are flammable. Just sayin'

Do they seriously expect discord moderators' faces to fit into a picture not taken from like 15m?

Yeah, guess I'll never understand that whole agentic ai craze. To me it basically looks like

we have a tool that is relatively simple to trick into doing what it's not supposed to. Let's feed it arbitrary data and give it the ability to execute arbitrary code!

Uh-huh, sure, just about protecting the users. Nevermind that actual malware is regularly found on play store, and exactly 0 times -- on f-droid they're "protecting" the users from.

Baseless (and also wrong) assumption that piracy is responsible for by any means significant monetary losses aside, there are other reasons for bypassing that DRM bullshit. Like, off the top of my head:

• archiving -- when you don't have a local copy of a piece of content, it can be changed or deleted at any time;
• ability to access stuff on a wider range of devices -- I want to be able watch my favorite coomtent creator in full resolution on my phone that has only L3 and quite outdated version of widevine without installing proprietary crapp, so what;
• bypassing bullshit restrictions -- not sure if onlyfans in particular does that, but we have Netflix, for example, that would tell you to fuck off when you're not watching from home be it VPN or an actually different location when traveling.

A small addition to already mentioned stuff. There are multiple ways to deliver the notifications without google services. 1st and older one is by simply letting the app hang in the background indefinitely and ping the necessary servers from time to time, that one almost always works, since app developers can't really rely on gapps being installed; 2nd is UnifiedPush (that's already mentioned sunup [mozilla], but also ntfy [ntfy], nextpush [nextcloud], gCompat-UP [google firebase], NoProvider2Push [fully local]). AFAIK, it works similarly to the way gapps send notifications and uses less battery, but not all apps support it, so you may need to search for forks. For example, the official and, iirc, Foss telegram clients don't, but mercury, nagram{,x} and momo do.

It's sometimes useful for messengers, tho. I mean, many of those are electron apps anyway, and those that are not are unlikely to have a sandbox as good as what browsers have.

Although, I agree: my default action for notifications is always reject, and then I can manually approve what I think I need.

Exactly like Facebook

Surely, you meant https://github.com/kieraneglin/pinchflat

Most sites use some custom js-based players instead of the native video tag anyways, so I don't exactly think it's an issue.

I don't have to, fortunately. Just decided to check if it's as bad as I thought it was (it's way worse)

Signal is the most user-friendly option so far, which is also expected, given it's also one of the oldest one of those.

Simplex is also a good-ish option, but somewhat rough around the edges; the biggest benefit is, one doesn't need a phone number or e-mail to start chatting.

Matrix is questionable: it's quite feature-rich, but lacks solid android clients (IMO, fluffychat is among the best so far, yet when I last used it, it didn't handle stickers/custom emojis all that well, for example); as for the desktop/web clients cinny is a godsend due to allowing importing/exporting encryption keys manually, which just works all the time.

WDYM "the 1st time"?

Good to see there are still viruses in the wild, I was beginning to think those kinda became some ancient forgotten form of art. [I mean proper viruses, not malware in general]

I doubt most people actually dislike "ai", but rather the ways it's used. Like, does it make sense to say one dislikes hammers? I mean, it is a valid sentence, and maybe there are like 3 glue enjoyers who think hammers are an abomination, but it isn't a general sentiment.

For example, I personally hate that the web nowadays pretty much turned into a place where bots write articles to appease other bots, and where actual people need yet another set of bots to throw away the folk tales of someone's great great grandmother's cooking practices and leave only the 3 lines telling how to cook pasta.

"Less suitable [...] than expected" is kinda terrifying given expectations must've been pretty low in the 1st place knowing their history with linux...

To quote flippanarchy,

Does it matter, tho? To me it looks like all phones are ultimately the same for quite a while now. Pixels used to be better mostly due to providing the ability to effortlessly unlock the bootloader while being the de facto aosp testing target, but as of lately they've decided to fix that, not to mention their moves to enshitify away the option to side load the apps. Samsung's always been a wannabe crapple, and crapple is crapple.

I'd rather push for js-free internet as opposed to the one with free js (: