FutileRecipe

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Trump skips FBI background checks for controversial cabinet picks – report in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] FutileRecipe@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago

the federal government has long had hesitance to hold figures like presidents, senators, and supreme court justices to account, and this is just an extension of that.

Because if they start holding others in similar offices to account, they might have to hold themselves as well, and that ain't happening.

The Democratic Consultants Getting Rich off the Harris Campaign in c/usa@midwest.social
[–] FutileRecipe@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

"Crazy concept, but we're going to start only paying you for results (aka winning) and not just "effort," or lack thereof."

D-Link refuses to patch a security flaw on over 60,000 NAS devices — the company instead recommends replacing legacy NAS with newer models in c/technology@lemmy.zip
[–] FutileRecipe@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago (6 children)

oh, these are all four years past their EOL. Yeesh.

Yeah, at a certain point it's the consumer's (and blog writer's) fault, and that's after EoL. Not patching a supported one and just getting rid of support, saying buy a newer one? Yeah, that's bad.
Continuing to not support an EoL model that you already don't support due to EoL (or even dropping support for an EoL model that no one expected you to support in the first place due to EoL)? Non-issue.

Steve Madden says it will cut production in China to avoid Trump tariffs in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] FutileRecipe@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago (3 children)

develop our factory base and our sourcing capability in alternative countries, like Cambodia, Vietnam, Mexico, Brazil, etc."

From the same article:

Trump has proposed a 60% tax on imports from China, plus a universal tariff of 10%-20% on imports from all foreign countries.

So those goods still get a tariff, probably raising prices for the American consumer, just not as steep as from China. I thought the primary goal of the tariff was to move production back to America (which is a whole thing and not as simple as flipping a switch), which this does not do...and it wasn't necessarily to try to limit China's economy,which it probably doesn't even put a dent in.

Trump AG prospect warns Letitia James: ‘We will put your fat ass in prison’ in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] FutileRecipe@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (6 children)

The Democrats did not fail us. WE DID. We failed.

Can the people, by definition, fail? What happened to the "will of the people" and democracy that Americans go on about?

If this is what won, this is obviously what the American people wanted/chose.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warns of potential impact of 2024 election in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] FutileRecipe@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You actively sought loss...you didnt listen and lost...

I'm genuinely confused. What are you saying? The American voter currently only has two options: vote Democrat or vote Republican. Anything else, as it stands in present day America, throws the vote away.

I think you're saying voting Democrat is "actively seeking loss," yet the only other option is to...vote Republican, which they wanted even less?

Help me out here, as your logic ain't logicing.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez warns of potential impact of 2024 election in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] FutileRecipe@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (6 children)

The 2/3rds of American adults that are disenfranchised without representation are the victims.

The real victims (with a say/vote) are the Americans who voted for Harris. The people who voted for Trump and those who abstained from voting actively and passively chose what's coming.

Once Again, the Democratic Leadership Has Failed Us All in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] FutileRecipe@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The first, and foremost failure, is the Republican party.

They are not a failure. They are exactly what they want to be, they are exactly who they said they are, and they won the election. Sounds like the GOP is doing alright to me, from a GOP perspective.

Rudy Giuliani to appear in court after missing deadline to surrender assets in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] FutileRecipe@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

And if you can't because they've been moved or "mysteriously misplaced," charge him for grand larceny and arrest him (IANAL so there is probably a better legal term for this).

I don't think that "sure, I stole from them, but I "lost" what I stole so we cool now," is a valid legal defense. But I'm not a disbarred lawyer, so I could be wrong.

Trump wins. in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] FutileRecipe@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Is there any chance that shit was rigged this time around?

There's always a chance of almost anything, but it is very slim (conspiracy theory) with no evidence to support it:

"Importantly, we have no evidence of any malicious activity that had a material impact on the security or integrity of our election infrastructure," per the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director Jen Easterly.

Source: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/news/statement-cisa-director-easterly-security-2024-elections

Trump wins. in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] FutileRecipe@lemmy.world 50 points 1 week ago (14 children)

Harris was popular when she first announced.

I don't think she was popular when first announced, rather the fact that not-Biden was popular.

Harris defeats Trump in Virginia in c/politics@lemmy.world
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Sources: Here's when Google will release the Android 15 source code (www.androidauthority.com)
 

TL;DR

  • The Android 15 source code will be released next week, according to multiple sources.
  • The source code will allow Android platform developers to build modified versions of Android 15.
  • Major OEMs have already had access to Android 15’s source code, giving them a head start on preparing updates.
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Sources: Here's when Google will release the Android 15 source code (www.androidauthority.com)
 

TL;DR

  • The Android 15 source code will be released next week, according to multiple sources.
  • The source code will allow Android platform developers to build modified versions of Android 15.
  • Major OEMs have already had access to Android 15’s source code, giving them a head start on preparing updates.
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Custom ROMs have had just about enough of being Android's second-class citizens (www.androidauthority.com)
 

TL;DR

  • Efforts like Graphene OS face increasing pressure from apps that refuse to run on non-standard Android.
  • The custom ROM project characterizes Google’s approach to device attestation as incomplete and flawed.
  • Graphene OS is prepared to take legal action if Google won’t let it pass Play Integrity checks.
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German combination axe-gun, ~1580 AD (lemmy.world)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16474034

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Apple is bringing RCS to the iPhone in iOS 18 (www.theverge.com)
 

Apple has announced that its Messages app will support the RCS messaging standard in iOS 18. RCS offers more advanced features compared to traditional SMS, including higher-quality media, typing indicators, and end-to-end encryption. This move will improve messaging between iOS and Android devices, which currently rely on the less capable SMS protocol. Apple's decision to add RCS support likely comes in response to pressure from Google, Samsung, and European regulators who have pushed for better cross-platform messaging. Overall, this change will bring the iPhone's messaging capabilities more in line with the Android experience.

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Kagi Search Changelog - Improvements and bug fixes (kagi.com)
 

April 2nd, 2024 #

Improvements and bug fixes

  • Allow previous 2FA code to work along with current 30sec one #3540 @frin
  • Custom bangs accessible from Search Settings tab #3616 @mhitza
  • Asking !chat to modify a <script>...</script> tag causes the script tag in the response to be not escaped/not visible #3694 @heavyg
  • We've resolved capacity issues with our recent models upgrade
  • Bottom of image search results is cluttered with low quality Second Life screenshots #3632 @yellow
  • Show summary of question in fastgpt in tab title #3203 @fictorial
  • Image Description Completely Wrong #3600 @CrunchyFritos
  • Assistant Expert "<SEARCH REQUIRED" and then switches to spanish #3661 @tschoesi
  • Mistral "Sorry, a problem occurred while processing your request. Please try again later." #3684 @abb128
  • Custom assistant ignoring custom instructions #3685 @Wanja
  • Latext support in quick answer #3455 @Grooty
  • AI Model selection should be sticky #3503 @JamesT
  • Assistant code overflows #3428 @cardinal086
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Lawnchair 14 is here! | Lawnchair Blogs (lawnchair.app)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by FutileRecipe@lemmy.world to c/android@lemmy.world
10 comments fedilink
 

This announcement is from the Lawnchair Discord:

Lawnchair 14 has arrived!

After about 2 years, we're delighted to announce that Lawnchair 14 has finally arrived!

Based on Launcher3 from Android 14, this release works with QuickSwitch from Android 10 to Android 14! You won't need to use an older version to integrate with the system.

Some major highlights:
• Search your phone, the web, and more with our new Global Search — no root needed!¹
• View flight info, see surrounding traffic, and keep an eye on your data usage with Smartspacer — all integrated within Lawnchair.²
• Want to further control your icons? Fret not, We now support custom icon packs for themed icons, alongside some new icon options.³
• Themers rejoice — you can now hide the Dock for a cleaner home screen. You can also change even more colors, fonts, and padding.
• Are you tired of Lawnchair crashing because of widgets? We've fixed that issue; you won’t need to do some hacky workaround to add them.⁴

Alongside that, we have a new partnership with Startpage — searching with Startpage (via the dock search bar or App Drawer search) helps support Lawnchair’s development.

We still have more things to share! See the announcement on our website for more information.

¹ Experimental feature, requires opt in Lawnchair Settings.
² Requires Smartspacer and respective plugins.
³ Requires a supported icon pack .
⁴ May still persist depending on the device.

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Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://poptalk.scrubbles.tech/post/567593

Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice

I'm not really big on "let's make a movement", but this independent dev has been hit with a cease-and-desist from making a FOSS Home Assistant addon for their Haier air conditioners.

Haier claims that they are losing out on millions of dollars due to this plugin which... lets you control their air conditions from home assistant. They haven't bothered to explain how that's possibly worth millions of dollars - they're just claiming it.

So of course they hit the Streisand button and are demanding that he takes it down. He of course is complying... in a couple of days. Maybe you see where this is going.

It would be an absolute shame if any of you just happened to create a fork, or clone the code, or mirror it in your own instance. An absolute shame.

Just so everyone here knows which repositories NOT to clone or fork, here are the two links:

and please, don't repost this anywhere, or share it in other communities, or anything like that. It's a shame that so many people already know and are making clones. I'm just letting you know so you don't do anything like telling others who may make their own copies.

(sidenote: Haier owns GE Appliance, so for our American folks it may affect you folks too)

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Availability (feature?) Request: Publish app to Accrescent App Store (lemmy.world)
 

Please add Voyager to the Accrescent App Store, "a private and secure Android app store built with modern features in mind. It aims to provide a developer-friendly platform and pleasant user experience while enforcing modern security and privacy practices and offering robust validity guarantees for installed apps."

This app store, while small, is supposed to be more secure than alternatives. And yes it is small, but it also won't grow if devs don't add to it.

Their publishing guide and requirements can be found here: https://accrescent.app/docs/guide/publish/requirements.html

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v1.23.1: New Donation/IAP has missing background (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by FutileRecipe@lemmy.world to c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world
3 comments fedilink
 

New Donation/IAP has missing background. Looks like it should have a background, but doesn't, so some words are on top of each other. This is on light mode, whereas dark mode doesn't have this issue.

v1.23.1

Edit: v1.23.2 fixes this.

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[Feature Request] Add Subscribe/Unsubscribe to the long click (where Block is) (lemmy.world)
 

Pretty much the title. That way Block isn't so lonely in its own long click menu. Also, they're both two sides of the same coin, so makes sense to have them together.

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