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alice

i don't think i've ever seen a wikipedia page cite itself before

Wikipedia text: McHenry was bitten by a rabid fox while running through Capitol Hill in 2022. He did not publicly mention the incident until months later, commenting that "I didn’t want my Wikipedia page to say, 'And he got bitten by a rabid fox'". The incident, however, was included in his Wikipedia page.

[the last sentence cites itself]
alice

how did the EU stop going after apple for sideloading. you still need to follow apple's rules and you need to pay them even more than if you published on the app store (core technology fees). but you get the privilege of handling distribution yourself instead of it being handled by apple.

alice

apple fanboys hate the EU for forcing apple to enable sideloading. i hate the EU for not forcing apple to enable sideloading enough. we are not the same

alice

meta rolls "worst fediverse software", asked to leave w3 consortium

You can now follow fediverse accounts on Threads, but the accounts aren't searchable and their posts won't show in feeds
Dalek ☕🫰

@lexd0g@wetdry.world They are progresing ....inch by inch... ​:KEKW:​

They will hopefully have two way support by end of year 2026 ​:nkoLaugh:​

Vel 🌊
@lexd0g can you believe that they were bringing these guys to the table for things like "fediforum" in earnest as if they ever planned to do what was best for the fediverse or implement it in a way that is sane
Tisha Tiger

@lexd0g "won't show in feed" : I don't understand, what's the point of following then? Oo

alice

this quest app uses really shit ai art for its promo images. i made the second image in 3 minutes in gimp and i think it gets the point across much better

really generic looking ai art of a guy with a generic vr headset holding a generic phone and in the background theres some well known world landmarks like the christ the redeemer, big ben, leaning tower of pisa, great wall of china, pyramids, colosseum, etc.
the pointing wojak wearing an oculus quest 2 and holding its controller standing in front of an aerial image of the eiffel tower, there is green text saying "Earthquest" written in the papyrus font overlayed
alice

people selling 3d printed items online and not sharing the model files feels entirely antithetical to the whole idea of 3d printing

alice

if you told people in the 80s that in the future we would have the replicator from star trek as something most people could buy, but you couldnt make items with it because people wanted to make money off their own replicators i think they would call you a fucking idiot

nago

@lexd0g how I feel about software in general tbqh

alice

it has been 0 days since i've been asked to agree to the- wait, what?

Servo installer asking me to agree to the Put Your License Agreement Here license that starts with Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit
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Billy Smith

@lexd0g

Is it an instruction?

Can it be used as a text-entry box? :D

So how much money do they owe you for installing their software? :D

Urix Turing

@lexd0g well that looks exactly like any other legal text to me: gibberish full of Latin words

nLupo

@lexd0g Lorem Ipsum is the most funny license ever :blobfoxangrylaugh:

alice

i cant login to discord because they forgot to add the 0 key to the numpad

discord app 2fa screen on meta horizon os, there is a numpad open but there is no zero key
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Alex Helvetica 🏳️‍⚧️

@lexd0g apple used to have an app to help people migrate from an Android phone to an iPhone. To use the app, you'd type in a number displayed on the new iPhone into the old Android.

It didn't allow you to use the phone's software keyboard, instead it had a keypad on the screen. The app also assumed the Android device has a 16:9 aspect ratio screen.

A family member's phone had a 3:2 aspect ratio screen, so the keyboard went off the screen. I can't remember if I couldn't click the summit button, or the 0 button, but needless to say the app was useless.

Apple made it so much harder to move a family member to an iPhone. I had to use a 3rd party application. It's incredibly frustrating

@lexd0g apple used to have an app to help people migrate from an Android phone to an iPhone. To use the app, you'd type in a number displayed on the new iPhone into the old Android.

It didn't allow you to use the phone's software keyboard, instead it had a keypad on the screen. The app also assumed the Android device has a 16:9 aspect ratio screen.

DELETED

@lexd0g use the fucking keyboard if it lets you

alice

i have seen a lot of people think this is discords fault, this is the android app running in meta horizon os, the keyboard is not from discord it is from the os itself, it was a one time bug that fixed itself after restarting the app its not a big deal

alice

watched ltt's review of the apple vision pro, linus basically said it's very impressive tech but there's nothing to do on it

i can't believe apple invented the PS3

Miss adderal girl
@lexd0g apple inventing the ps3 every time somehow except for the macbook
but even then there ain't no games
alice

so for some reason in all chromium browsers i have installed (vivaldi, edge and chrome) times between 00:00 and 00:59 on mastodon render as 24:00 through 24:59. it doesnt happen with firefox. hilarious bug tbh

alice

forgot i used to have this custom boot animation on my steam deck

alice

it will never not be funny to see "powered by Android" on a phone's splash screen just for it to start booting postmarketOS 5 seconds later

The King! :bleh:

@lexd0g@wetdry.world I should try and get PMOS booting from SD card on the funny again (or emmc, I dont care at this point)

alice

shoutout people doing independent unobtrusive privacy friendly advertisements i will disable my adblocker on your site

alice

so under apple's new rules, if you make a free app, distributed on a third party platform, and it gets 1.5 million yearly downloads in the EU, you still have to pay apple €250k/year

between this and apple being able to notarize third party apps, i'm not sure how this doesn't violate the DMA

Apple fee calculator, with the following settings:

Do you sell digital goods and services in your iOS app or game?
No

How many first annual installs do you expect your app or game to generate per year in the EU?
1,500,000

Select an option to view results:
New capabilities and terms

Result:
Alternative providers only, App Store  and App Store payment processing commissions of €0, Core Technology fee of €20,833, total €20,833/month, which equates to around €250,000 a year
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Wam

@lexd0g these fees apply on both the app store and 3rd party stores. whereas previously free apps didn't cost anything to publish.

this just fucks over
all EU app developers

what the actual fuck

Marijke Luttekes

@lexd0g Do we know if they count fresh installs only, or updates to already installed apps as well?

Sindarina, Edge Case Detective

@lexd0g @mahryekuh Only if you decide to work under the new terms. If you don't switch and stick with the existing terms, nothing changes, and you don't pay anything more than you do now.

See ‘New business terms for EU apps' in the FAQ;

developer.apple.com/support/dm

Or select “Today's capabilities and terms” in the fee calculator.

A screenshot of the App Store monthly fee calculator, showing €0 estimated monthly fees if the developer decides to do nothing, and stick with the existing App Store model.
alice

linux gets better and better every single day 🙏

post on /r/linux_gaming: League of Legends will become unplayable on linux
alice

it's almost like publishers don't want us to buy games

the paying experience:
-pay [screenshot of epic games thank you screen]
-install third party launcher [screenshot of rockstar games launcher installer]
-create an account
-complete ~20 stupidly complex captchas (if you mess one up it restarts)
-game only works online [screenshot of an activation required error in red dead redemption 2]

the piracy experience:
-download [qbittorrent screenshot showing a seeding rdr2 torrent]
-install [empress installer for rdr2]
-launch a single executable [screenshot of Launcher.exe's context menu with Open highlighted]
-you can now play whenever and wherever you want without internet [screenshot of rdr2's menu screen with no errors]
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Chris Renfrow

@lexd0g the problem with the piracy experience is the potential for malware to be included in the binary. But I guess in many ways the official method requiring Internet access to transmit your activity as you play is a kind of malware itself. 🤷

sadmac356

@lexd0g me: lucks into a used physical copy of a game and is able to use 7zip to install it despite the steam code having already been used

ghostly nano :nanoBlobOwO:
@lexd0g you missed the part where you need to sign up for a new account on the store if you dont already have one, install their launcher, log in, then you probably have to make another fucking account on the games individual launcher also
alice

i tried to install the dolphin emulator from a windows package manager and got jumpscared by the kde file manager

kde dolphin file manager running on windows 11
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DELETED

@lexd0g Something I had happen to me a lot (Though I never knew you could get the Dolphin File Manager on windows)

Yora

@lexd0g There is also an Android browser.

Ji Fu
@lexd0g so what did you want of Dolphin if it wasn't the KDE file manager?
alice

how is this a real fucking tweet

tweet from rockstar games saying "Our trailer has leaked so please watch the real thing on YouTube" with a link to the GTA VI trailer
Essem :skeeter:

@lexd0g i'm surprised people are still getting this; i saw it once on this account, closed it, and it never appeared again

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