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Starbuncle

Starbuncle@lemmy.ca
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You could probably fit it into the K-12 program without losing any value elsewhere if you cut out things like memorizing maps in regions of the world that are so unstable that those maps won’t be valid anymore by the time kids graduate, studying writers like Shakespeare that lived so long ago that what they wrote in could barely be called English, and mandatory electives.

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DRM is to prevent piracy. This does not prevent piracy unless it only applies to apps that cost money.

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It’s easy on Reddit because they have their own username generator when you sign up, but the usernames being used here are very telling. Random letters is literally the absolute bare minimum effort for randomly generating usernames. A competent software engineer could make something substantially better in an afternoon and I feel like an adversarial nation-state would be using something like a small language model trained solely on large lists of scraped usernames.

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Yup. This isn’t an anti-piracy thing, it’s a fuck-over-people-who-don’t-like-google thing.

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What legitimate reason would an app developer have for not wanting to let people install their app from sources other than the play store?

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That’s a very legitimate reason! I was talking about free apps, but I failed to mention that in my comment. My bad. Any legit reason for free apps?

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Neither can I, that’s why I think that allowing this feature to be used for free apps is purely a malicious move by Google to push people away from sideloading in general.

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Whaaaat the fuuuuuck? Kind of ironic for a libertarian to be spouting nazi shit. They either don’t know what libertarianism is or don’t know what fascism is.

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