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Puzzle #843
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Lol.

Yellow is probably the only way I was gonna get my foot in the door and I’d never heard of one of the answers. I should have done some we searches instead of guessing I suppose 😅

The ones where it’s hard to get any one surefire answer and start picking apart the threads and reducing the pool of options are always the hardest

Blue and green probably should have been within reach

I think pretty much everyone who replied regarding terms and conditions seems to have potentially misunderstood what I meat, which leads me to believe I may have communicated poorly. My point is that early news coverage didn’t mention independent apps needing to follow Google terms and conditions.

That’s not just a privacy issue for devs, that’s an issue of Google wanting control over what the apps and actually do, and it changes how severe of a problem this is. I’ve also learned since then that this may mean only the devs can distribute apps(?), which would potentially kill f-droid outside of custom roms (I still don’t fully understand that part but that idea was also not in early coverage)

I think pretty much everyone who replied regarding terms and conditions seems to have potentially misunderstood what I meat, which leads me to believe I may have communicated poorly. My point is that early news coverage didn’t mention independent apps needing to follow Google terms and conditions.

That’s not just a privacy issue for devs, that’s an issue of Google wanting control over what the apps and actually do, and it changes how severe of a problem this is. I’ve also learned since then that this may mean only the devs can distribute apps(?), which would potentially kill f-droid outside of custom roms (I still don’t fully understand that part but that idea was also not in early coverage)

I think pretty much everyone who replied regarding terms and conditions misunderstood what I meat, which leads me to believe I may have communicated poorly. My point is that early news coverage didn’t mention independent apps needing to follow Google terms and conditions.

That’s not just a privacy issue for devs, that’s an issue of Google wanting control over what the apps and actually do, and it changes how severe of a problem this is. I’ve also learned since then that this may mean only the devs can distribute apps(?), which would potentially kill f-droid outside of custom roms (I still don’t fully understand that part but that idea was also not in early coverage)

In a post today Prud’hommeaux said that Google’s planned changes are incompatible with F-Droid. “The F-Droid project cannot require that developers register their apps through Google, but at the same time, we cannot ‘take over’ the application identifiers for the open-source apps we distribute, as that would effectively seize exclusive distribution rights to those applications,” he said.

“If it were to be put into effect, the developer registration decree will end the F-Droid project and other free/open source app distribution sources as we know them today,” said Prud’hommeaux.

(From Google’s dev registration plan ‘will end the F-Droid project’ by The Register which was linked here https://lemmy.world/post/36669429) I’m not so sure any of this is being sensationalized. Every time more details get discussed it becomes clear this is actually a lot worse than early coverage suggested.

People were talking about this just being bad for the privacy of devs, which would be bad enough alone. But if this structurally makes it so that fdroid can’t distribute apps because the apps aren’t registered to them, and are instead registered to their devs, that’s pretty catastrophic

Its also become more clear as this has gotten more coverage that part of the impact would be requiring devs to agree to and comply Google terms and conditions. Which suggests that if what they distribute conflicts with those terms and conditions their ability to distribute apps may be taken.

If those are the same terms and conditions for the Google play store that routinely fuck over devs with no explanation for entirely reasonable shit that’s really not good.

Every time I learn more about this issue, it becomes more and more clear how bad it is. Early explanations when people first started covering it did a really bad job of showing just how big of a negative impact it would have

In a post today Prud’hommeaux said that Google’s planned changes are incompatible with F-Droid. “The F-Droid project cannot require that developers register their apps through Google, but at the same time, we cannot ‘take over’ the application identifiers for the open-source apps we distribute, as that would effectively seize exclusive distribution rights to those applications,” he said.

“If it were to be put into effect, the developer registration decree will end the F-Droid project and other free/open source app distribution sources as we know them today,” said Prud’hommeaux.

This could still be explained better but I think I follow it clearly now after a second read. This policy change would be so much worse than it was originally presented as being.

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Puzzle #842
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This one clicked pretty well for me, I was a bit surprised when it showed the difficulty, but it did have a lot of potential red herrings I think

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Puzzle #841
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Shouldn’t have leapt to a guess lol 😅 still a fun one

I wish more people focused a bit more on the need to agree to terms and conditions, I didn’t know that was a part of this issue and that massively increases the negative impact of this potential policy change

Google’s terms and conditions are consistently draconian and stupid. Especially if it’s the same terms and conditions applied to the play store, where apps constantly get pulled and devs are always frustrated as hell

Edit: I think pretty much everyone who replied regarding terms and conditions misunderstood what I meat, which leads me to believe I may have communicated poorly. My point is that early news coverage didn’t mention independent apps needing to follow Google terms and conditions.

That’s not just a privacy issue for devs, that’s an issue of Google wanting control over what the apps and actually do, and it changes how severe of a problem this is. I’ve also learned since then that this may mean only the devs can distribute apps(?), which would potentially kill f-droid outside of custom roms (I still don’t fully understand that part but that idea was also not in early coverage)

Youre very welcome, and thanks! ☺️

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Puzzle #840
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I’m so proud of myself, this is my first 5/5 with no mistakes, and no hints or googling!!

I’M SO PLEAASEDD ☺️☺️☺️

I just posted a video on a couple comms about the history of defeating nazis in London by a london history YouTube channel

I think one of the big things that it was clear really worked was disrupting any organizing. And that’s a thing that doesn’t necessarily require violence.

People did so by blocking roads, yelling so loud no one could speak, and well, throwing things and being violent consistently enough that the government would sometimes deny them being able to meet (I dont believe that would work in the us due to free speech) but that often came with risks, like the government sometimes instead dispatching police to protect the nazis

But many of the things she discussed as being historically effective aren’t entirely incompatible with compassion on an individual scale, while showing no quarter and giving no platform at a larger scale.

I still don’t know what the most effective means is, but it’s some stuff to think about :)

Edit: here’s the link in case the video interests you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeHviTKEqSo

Regardless, I hope you have a lovely day. Thanks for being part of this little online haven with me :)

Oh neat, I’ll have to go check it out!

If you can think of other comms it’d be appropriate to crosspost this to, please feel free to do so! ☺️

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It feels fitting that you posted this given your username :P

It sounds lovely! Even if I’m not sold on banana flavor lol

That’s so fuckin cool!

God coveralls are cool, I really want a flight suit at some point

God I need thunder to have good piefed support. Every piefed app I’ve tried so far has given me trouble, but every passing day it becomes more clear my next instance should be piefed lol

Thank you so much for posting this, Daryl Davis is a huge inspiration to me and is a huge part of why I try so hard to maintain empathy for those who’s views I find abhorrent.

The only thing I have ever known to deradicalize someone, is undeserved compassion.

Though, that is at an individual scale. I am still grappling with how society and culture at large can change, and whether it necessarily looks the same way.

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Puzzle #838
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Pretty straight forward this time