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instantapps , in Useful android apps you are using?

AR Drawing - for learning painting

onlinepersona , (edited ) in Apple limits third-party browser engine work to EU devices

If the EU commission hears about this, it might trigger another investigation. Hopefully Malus gets whacked over the head repeatedly.

Anti Commercial-AI license

ChallengeApathy , in Chinese social media companies remove posts ‘showing off wealth and worshipping money’ while the gap between the country's rich and poor widens

It's almost as if communism is an atrocious idea, it's not like they always turn into dystopian dictatorships or anything 🤔

sqgl ,

I prefer promotion of humility and a lifestyle which puts the emphasis on values relationships, nature, personal time etc, for instance...

In August 2020 the Chinese
government launched "Operation empty plate", a campaign to
stop food and beverage waste and cultivate frugality.

However banning materialist fetishes will probably do more good than harm anyhow. Slippery slope though.

hedge , in Need tech support (android bullshit) (resolved)
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I have the option to see hidden files using Material Files (won't let you look inside Android folder tho); if you need something more heavy duty there's Ghost Commander. Both are available on F-Droid. There's also Files from GrapheneOS, which might be available on the Play Store, but not sure about that one.

sleepybisexual OP ,
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Thank you.

Actually found a solution for what I needed without using this but this might help for future reference, rhx

ChallengeApathy , in Online Content Is Disappearing

Dead Internet.

darkphotonstudio , in Chinese social media companies remove posts ‘showing off wealth and worshipping money’ while the gap between the country's rich and poor widens

"Communist" country.

Ilandar , in Online Content Is Disappearing

This is even more concerning (or funny, depending on how dark your humour is) when you realise that it will be replaced by AI-generated webpages. Humanity's presence on the internet is disappearing before our eyes.

rwhitisissle ,

Dead Internet Theory is one of the few "conspiracy" theories I sort of buy, in the sense that it's probably not descriptive of the nature of the current internet, but rather predictive of what it's becoming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

And also with less of the whole "they're doing this to manipulate people into believing...things" and more "people want quick and superficial information so that's all that's being produced and since it's easier for machines to produce it than humans, humans will automatically get outcompeted and eventually that's all the internet will be." The internet is becoming a dead mall, filled with the corpses of long abandoned Hot Topics.

Ilandar ,

I think the Wikipedia article needs to be updated to be honest. Continuing to describe it as a "conspiracy theory" is quite misleading given the phenomenon is already underway and only picking up pace.

user224 , in Need tech support (android bullshit) (resolved)
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You mean directories starting with a .?

Depends on the file manager, nothing to do with Android. Which file manager do you use?

sleepybisexual OP ,
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I mean private directories like app data.

I tried the stock retroid one. Fossify and thunar on my PC, none worked

user224 ,
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Oh, stuff in Android folder?

That's been restricted since I think Android 11.
You can still access it using a computer with MTP.

Though there may be some better solution I don't know of.

Damino ,

You could also access it via ADB, and Shizuku lets you access ADB permissions on the device itself. No root required either, but the app needs to be built to use it. I found this file manager to work pretty well.

andscape ,
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I believe you need root to access those, plus a file manager that supports it (I use Mixplorer which does). Otherwise, as someone else suggested, you can access them from a computer over ADB or MTP.

leetnewb , in History says tariffs rarely work, but U.S. President Biden’s 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs could defy the trend, researcher says

Random thoughts....

Odd to talk about timing without referencing the election year.

Protecting the solar industry with tariffs in 2012 was probably too late. The US and Europe panel industries were decimated and effectively ceded the market to China.

China bankrupted the only US supplier of rare earth metals in the early 2010s (Molycorp).

There is reporting from April that Chinese EV are piling up in European ports and not being moved to dealers.

Kissaki , in Online Content Is Disappearing
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54% of Wikipedia pages contain at least one link in their “References” section that points to a page that no longer exists.

My impression was/is that over the last years/decade Wikipedia made efforts to/switch to not linking directly but extending direct links with (dated) Web Archive links or using Web Archive links directly (dated as "sourced from this in this state; which protects against upstream edits too).

tiago ,
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Have not contributed enough to Wikipedia! I'd like to implement this on links I come across.

How does one get an Archive link for a specific date and website? I tried snooping around but am not familiar

Kissaki , (edited )
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Wikipedia has guidance for it as Citing sources. Regarding web links specifically section Handling links and Preventing and repairing dead links.

The Web Archive "Wayback Machine" is available at web.archive.org. It has a "Save Page Now" action too.

https://web.archive.org/web/*/beehaw.org gives you a history of archived versions of that URL.

The Web Archive "Wayback Machine" is a project from archive.org, which does much more in archiving and accessibility efforts. An alternative service for websites is https://archive.ph/.

adespoton , in Online Content Is Disappearing

This isn’t helped by most websites reinventing themselves every couple of years so the old links 404 even though the content still exists.

brisk ,

If anyone is considering how to avoid this on their own site: https://indieweb.org/URL_design

GiovaMC1 , in History says tariffs rarely work, but U.S. President Biden’s 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs could defy the trend, researcher says

Analysts predict something that could or could not happen. More news at 10.

jarfil ,
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News at 10: Shit happened! If only someone warned us.

You can only pick to live either in the future, or in the past. One is uncertain, the other is unchangeable, and the "present" is an illusion where one turns into the other. Choose wisely.

Landsharkgun , in Self-balancing commuter pods ride old railway lines on demand

That looks horrible. Cramped, the giant windows means it's hot and the sun is always in your eyes.... Any reason they need to only use one rail? We already have road & rail buses, trucks, etc...just use those.

echodot ,

They use one rail so they can pass each other on single line tracks. Which are quite common for rural lines.

If only there was some sort of article you could have read.

Kissaki ,
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At least this one certainly can't pass each other on one track.

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/6560fff1-200c-4055-b1b9-b2adcde10a78.webp

echodot ,

They explained that one in the article as well.

This is a prototype so it has the mechanism so it doesn't fall over if the prototype fails. The actual production version won't have that. It's also running at low speed for the same reason.

blabber6285 , (edited ) in Slack users horrified to discover messages used for AI training

This was definitely a fuckup from Slack but as I've understood it, the "AI training" means that they're able to suggest emoji reactions to messages.

Not sure how to think about this, but here's some additional info from slack: https://slack.engineering/how-we-built-slack-ai-to-be-secure-and-private/

Edit: Just to pick main point from the article:

Slack AI principles to guide us.

  • Customer data never leaves Slack.
  • We do not train large language models (LLMs) on customer data.
  • Slack AI only operates on the data that the user can already see.
  • Slack AI upholds all of Slack’s enterprise-grade security and compliance requirements.
esaru ,

AI training to suggest emoji reactions? Really? 😂

AlternateRoute , in Slack users horrified to discover messages used for AI training

Interesting how MS is the reasonable one here where all their copilot stuff clearly separates paying business from free consumer stuff for training / not training.

However slack has gone and said they will train on everything, and ONLY the paying companies can request to opt out.

Too bad so sad for all those small dev teams that have been using the "free" version of slack.. No option to opt out.

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