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It’d be cool if Mozilla could just stick with one thing for more than a couple months. Even if that thing is terrible. Right now it’s like some physical embodiment of ADHD is running the company.

Google wants your app to handle payments through Play Services so they can get a cut. I think it’s technically allowed now to have external payment links in certain cases, but sometimes it’s just easier to remove the thing Google is mad at even if they’re in the wrong.

Again, though, that commit is only for the Google Play variant. Maybe some weird branch merging thing happened and it ended up in the main branch accidentally, but it shouldn’t have made it to F-DROID.

0.76 should only exist for the Play Store. Donation links had to be removed in the Google Play variant: https://github.com/LemmyNet/jerboa/commit/ea2776441b4f76ff66f7beb7b64e5291101af5c5.

Not sure why F-DROID would pick up changes from a different branch and build them.

Not to defend the mega corporation, but companies file patents for ridiculous things all the time that never end up actually being made or used.

A lot of these scam operations are effectively staffed by slaves.

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/10/1218401565/online-scamming-human-trafficking-interpol

The last time I looked into HarmonyOS, it was an intentionally vague umbrella name for a family of operating systems and kernels. On phones and tablets, HarmonyOS was a fork of Android 10 (this was when 13 was new). On embedded devices, it was a Linux kernel fork. There were supposedly some unifying features and APIs between them, but the documentation felt very much like Huawei didn’t actually want you to know what HarmonyOS is.

Threads is owned by Facebook, a company notorious for interacting with the web in bad faith.

The EU giveth and the EU taketh away

I don’t think Microsoft can reasonably block opening the command prompt and bypassing the OOBE without breaking a lot of other things, but them removing the simpler workarounds is a pretty obvious attempt to get more people to sign in with a Microsoft account.

Microsoft does sync activation keys to your account but the license is also embedded in the firmware in recent prebuilt laptops and desktops, so you don’t need a Microsoft account to activate.

The article is talking about the initial setup experience, where you could put in a fake email to bypass the requirement to sign in with a Microsoft account.

It looks like Jerboa is forcing HTTPS. It’s using the Markwon library for parsing markdown, and a custom ForceHttpsPlugin is installed: https://github.com/LemmyNet/jerboa/blob/19be714fe08eaff6d2f616aa3da1b82df81a1d84/app/src/main/java/com/jerboa/ui/components/common/MarkdownHelper.kt#L93.

I mean technically it’s possible to have different sites on http:// and https://, since the conventional ports are different (80 and 443), but it’d be a pretty weird thing to do.

Edit: I just visited the links and the http:// one does indeed go to an xkcd-style site, while https:// has some dogecoin tracker with a broken SSL certificate.

Edit again: the SSL certificate is for dogecoinaverage.com, so I have a feeling this person just misconfigured their nginx or Apache instance.

Yet another edit: the maintainer’s Mastodon is linked on the xkcd site, which links to their GitHub, which includes the source for the Dogecoin average site: https://github.com/Two9A/dogecoin-average. Definitely just a weird misconfiguration.

The good old “make a tech startup with a gimmicky product idea, get millions in VC for some reason, create an underwhelming product that was never meant to be any good, then get bought up by a big company that will sit on the IP and never do anything with it” strategy of making money.

That might explain why the title says “nearly”

Double tapping and holding on the second tap for granular zoom with one finger is a standard feature on Android.

The person you’re replying to is just suggesting an alternative for one-finger zoom. Pinching with two fingers still works.

I don’t really care about my TV being 4K, but I like the extra desktop space on my PC.

It’s also very nice how this site tries to launch a new tab to ask to enable notifications.

“Microsoft’s latest update breaks [some] VPNs and there’s no fix [yet]”

Windows is getting worse and worse, but do we have to spin legitimate bugs as some nefarious plot?