if you didn’t install google-chrome-stable yesterday*

The real package used to be called google-chrome-stable many moon ago.

you can’t order foreign entities to change especially if you’ve banned them already

However, the 2023 trial overseen by US District Judge James Donato revealed a pattern of scheming on Google’s part to prevent the distribution of alternative app stores on Android phones. While Android devices do allow sideloading of apps, and the platform is open source, Google’s scale and partnerships with OEMs made it a de facto monopoly. This led the court to impose extensive remedies that could remake the mobile app ecosystem.

in the linked article on the 2023 trial:

At the time, Google was quick to point out that the ability to sideload apps on Android meant Epic hadn’t been completely barred from distributing Fortnite on the platform (as it had been on iOS). “The open Android ecosystem lets developers distribute apps through multiple app stores,” Google said in 2020. “While Fortnite remains available on Android, we can no longer make it available on Play because it violates our policies. However, we welcome the opportunity to continue our discussions with Epic and bring Fortnite back to Google Play.”

By April 2020, Epic had returned to the Google Play store, accusing Google of imposing a number of important limits on its sideloaded software. As the company said at the time:

Google puts software downloadable outside of Google Play at a disadvantage, through technical and business measures such as scary, repetitive security pop-ups for downloaded and updated software, restrictive manufacturer and carrier agreements and dealings, Google public relations characterizing third-party software sources as malware, and new efforts such as Google Play Protect to outright block software obtained outside the Google Play store.

on what? there’s a gazillion chinese android app stores already, which makes chinese android phones need a ton more ram to compensate for all the update notification etc. services clogging up the backend

One is definitely racist.

plus the idea that the country might be gone in two months

The CAPTCHA is question is Cloudflare Turnstile, which slowly ramps up a different assortment of invisible challenges while not tracking your mouse movement or cross-site activity.

If a bot can find all images with crosswalks in grainy photos faster than we can, surely it can check a box as well. Bots definitely can check a box, and they can even mimic the erratic path of human mouse movement while doing so. For Turnstile, the actual act of checking a box isn’t important, it’s the background data we’re analyzing while the box is checked that matters. We find and stop bots by running a series of in-browser tests, checking browser characteristics, native browser APIs, and asking the browser to pass lightweight tests (ex: proof-of-work tests, proof-of-space tests) to prove that it’s an actual browser.

The article talks about Cloudflare’s very different CAPTCHA, not Google’s, but I agree.

indeed, i find the fact that there’s an empty webpage there with absolutely nothing, not even a redirect or 404 notice, on a FAANG website, very interesting

I don’t see what’s so crazy about common law. With how dysfunctional the US Congress is, common law means you have a stopgap when a bind prevents rights from being upheld in a situation where the law doesn’t apply.

All the more reason to see what’s different about that outlier.

there’s no spelling mistake here. whether or not you agree it can be a verb (probably not), “shutdown” definitely can be a noun. it’s not that AI shut it down, it’s that this happened during the shutdown

it’s not even taut, it’s somehow just “floating around” and slicing the neck every single time

Unfortunately that’s not conducive to getting the verifiable facts in an article.

As I mention, this is a retelling of a real conversation the author had:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:History_of_the_Internet/Archive_3#Pictures

i think it’s more like saying a black person can use the Hard R

this a queer-as-in-LGBTQ+ magazine man

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Them_(magazine)

now you see me…

tell me more

too late when i’m already on the bus

Yes according to both the article and the \mathbb X thread. https://x.com/jasonlk/status/1946240562736365809 I pointed this out below and got downvoted to -8 for it smh.