sabreW4K3

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[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Traitor! 😭

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 points 2 months ago

Off the top of my head… yes, in that they integrate tighter with Mastodon and thus increase the likelihood of a wider black audience partaking in discussions.

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 1 points 2 months ago

The freedom part, unless they use an ad network that doesn't track users or impressions.

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 9 points 2 months ago

Definitely more harshly than Just Stop Oil

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think you'd be surprised. CalyxOS are making massive claims. If the US or the EU investigate, Google could be fined or worse.

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 0 points 2 months ago
[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Paid and FOSS are mutually exclusive. Open source and FOSS aren't.

But how, you ask? Free means having the right to do whatever you want with your copy including make copies and redistribute. Thus, how can it be free while demanding a payment before allowing usage?

That's why I said, FOSS Droid? Nah! Open Source Droid? Knock yourself out. I'm actually looking forward to supporting some of the developers of apps I love.

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 2 points 2 months ago

Given that we failed to get any attackers on the score sheet, I think that bodes well for our transfer prospects.

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's a late D&D session. Have fun. We're pretty lukewarm, so you're not going to miss anything.

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

It's quiet in here

[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 17 points 2 months ago (19 children)

Apparently they don't understand that the F in F-Droid is for FOSS.

I'm 100% all for adding a repository with paid apps, but it's not and shouldn't be marketed as F-Droid.

 

Full toot:

Many have tagged us in discussions about a specific Google extension built into Chromium browsers and asked us what we've done about it.

This is a part of the Google Meets browser extension, which we bundle in order to allow Google Meets to work. This can be disabled in Settings > Privacy and Security > Google Extensions > Meets. Disabling it will break Meets. We expose this as a setting because we want you to be able to control it, and disable it if you want to.

Disabling it by default would be great, but doing so would break Meets for users who are not able to understand why it’s broken, or what they need to change in order to allow it to work. Unfortunately, when websites break, either because of browser detection, or missing features, users invariably assume the browser is at fault rather than the website, and we have to make choices about what needs to be done to make websites work. We do not take these kinds of decisions lightly.

We do find it very interesting that Google, who run the Chromium browser project, choose to give Meets additional information that is not given to other videoconferencing websites, and this could easily be seen to be uncompetitive behaviour. Hopefully, the EU's competition enforcement agencies can add this to their radar, and require a change in Google's Meets functionality.

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