Todd Bonzalez

You don’t have to know how to write your own software to install another App Store on Android.

Amazon has their own competing app store, with boomer-friendly instructions for installing it:

And Amazon’s phones and tablets use their own “FireOS” remix of Android without Google Play Store available.

I prefer the OS being open to third-party installers over any legal mandate that app stores not being allowed to curate their own store’s offerings. Closing off Google’s app store to competing app stores only makes sense if other app stores have no reasonable access to customers, which is clearly not the case.

Complete bullshit that they’re throwing this ruling at Android when iOS doesn’t even let you download and install a third-party app without either jailbreaking, or hooking up your iPhone in developer mode to a computer running xcode. Apple treats Cydia like it’s malware. Google perfectly tolerates Amazon and F-Droid running their own operations.

Eh, I have trouble with Mallrats. Kinda hard to like a movie where the protagonists save the day by showing child porn to a crowded mall.

Someone’s butthurt that Republican candidates are so detested that even their own family members come out condemning their policy positions.

Cry about it.

Is the solution to male loneliness ripping your father’s shrieking soul from the depths of the underworld and crudely resurrecting him in defiance of God’s will?

Holy shit, this guy is a complete fucking lunatic. This is actually how his lawsuit opens.

“Some people are creative. Very few people are creative geniuses. In the world of motion pictures, Plaintiff Francis Ford Coppola (“Coppola”) is a creative genius. Some people are jealous and resentful of genius. Those people therefore denigrate and tell knowing and reckless falsehoods about those of whom they are jealous. Here, Variety Media, LLC (“Variety”), its writers and editors, hiding behind supposedly anonymous sources, accused Coppola of manifest incompetence as a motion picture director, of unprofessional behavior on the set of his most recent production, Megalopolis, of setting up some type of scheme so that anyone on the set who had a complaint of harassment or otherwise had nowhere to lodge a complaint, and of hugging topless actresses on the set. Each of these accusations was false and knowingly so. They were made to harm Coppola’s reputation and cause him severe emotional distress. That harm has been caused.”

I suspect that this was something of a test case, with the regulator flexing their censorship muscle, and I’m glad it didn’t work out.

This was a POV stabbing video that people spread around to glorify violence. It’s in the same category as beheading videos.

America may have decided that child porn is the only media exception to free speech, but other more sane countries draw the line a little bit more broadly to include all forms of extremely violent crime filmed to be glorified, including things like murder, attempted murder, torture, and the rape of adults.

If you want to operate a business in places like Australia or New Zealand, you cannot be distributing violent gore videos within their borders.

I hope they revisit this as X users are pretty routinely celebrating things like the Christchurch shooting and other violent extremist incidents. Sometimes censorship makes sense, and when people are antagonistically spreading videos of people being maimed and killed, the “free speech” argument absolutely doesn’t fucking cut it.

Sometimes, yeah. In the age of streaming, this is happening all the time, sometimes for good.

Netflix altered all of the old episodes of Umbrella Academy so they wouldn’t deadname Elliot Page.

HBO would patch Game of Thrones episodes to remove mistakes after fans saw them. The infamous bottled water is gone if you stream it today.

These are shows, but it’s trivial to do with any streaming media.

The phenomenon of video games being released in an unfinished state and then elying on updates over time is a unique aspect of gaming culture. Something other forms of art and media like film, music, or literature would never really rely upon.

Star Wars

As for everything else you’ve said, you’re just marveling over the basics of software-as-art in an internet-connected world.

Oh boo hoo, Jack Black recognized the risk posed to his crew and his fans after is bandmate called for political violence on stage. Fuck him, right?

Y’all act like he endorsed Trump or something… He recognized that in the wake of an assassination attempt on a former president, his bandmate’s endorsement of violence and calling for another assassination attempt could put them and their crowded concerts in the cross hairs of violent right-wing lunatics.

At worst his cancellation of the tour was an overreaction, but he’s not wrong. His bandmate fucked up by saying something violent and stupid intended to enrage an large and unstable faction of American fascists.

I have pets, so I usually make sure all my light switches are on so I can control the lights remotely, and put little wifi cameras in a few strategic places so I can watch them and the Rover sitter when they come over for walks. I try to keep the place cool and well lit during the day, and I occasionally turn on TVs and play wildlife videos because my pets will actively watch them.

Durian. It smells sweet to me. Everyone else wants to vomit…

Did you actually read the article? The designers of this vision model used a software trick (inspired by the concept of quantum tunneling that has nothing to do with quantum computing) to allow inputs to bypass hidden layers at random, resulting in results that were able to see certain optical illusions in a way that other vision models cannot.

This can be done by just adding some noise to the image. Sometimes it gets recognized as one thing and sometimes like another, just like humans would.

Word soup by someone who knows way less than these researchers.

TIL that Shia LeBeouf is an abuser. I’m wouldn’t have known about it if it weren’t for this movie. Good job Coppola, your movie is basically a roster of people to cancel. Them all starring in a flop movie together is just kinda funny when you think about it.

Signal is bad then?

Yeah. Why use X3DH when there are algorithms that already exist and we know are secure?

So in which direction you want it go? More private or more moderated?

Privacy is good, but when the public chatrooms are distributing child porn, you can’t use encryption as an excuse not moderating. Failure to moderate illegal content is a crime.

Let the pedos run their own Matrix server or something. You can’t be knowingly providing comms and distribution to child pornographers.

Also terabytes of child porn that they won’t take down.

Look up brothels in sex-work friendly countries in Google Maps, screenshot them, and mass-report Google Maps as a prostitution app.

As someone who integrates Okta for a living, I have no idea why this would be part of the config. I can’t even figure how you would use Okta for content filtering at all.

It’s an authentication service…

We should count non-voting eligible voters like this, and if not voting wins in your state you don’t get any delegates for the electoral college.

Then just scrap the “first past the post” system and whoever gets the most delegates wins. In 2016 it would be Clinton with 51 vs. Trump’s 16.

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