Looks interesting, and I thought KDE when? But, of course, it’s already there as Karousel. On the list of things to audit when I feel like futzing with UI again.
Impossible, no, the app is optional, car still drives, just not sucking data for VW (or not if you disable its network in gOS). It is however grounds for a lawsuit seeing as they’re arbitrarily removing functionality that was likely advertised. Yoti is UK specific I believe, and those companies are little loss anyway, more of a prompt to divest. It’s an unhealthy pattern, sure, but the sky is not falling.
The cultural effect of Android requiring developer registration and otherwise trying to kill third party stores like F-Droid, to get their precious walled garden, is a much more significant threat.
I was thinking just patch it out entirely, then you have no need to maintain a fork, just a script. Yours sounds fun too, but it’s not like it’s actually connected to anything at this stage, worth keeping in mind if it ever does become something.
FFS, just make a patch.
So, sites are now self-selecting to not be used.
“Those who would trade liberty for security, deserve neither and will lose both” - KMFDM, Shake the Cage, by way of Ben Franklin.
Participating in online communities is a fun, fulfilling and mostly harmless activity that improves many young people’s mental health, creativity, communication skills, and probably has other benefits too.
It should be, it was, but thanks to a bunch of billionaire technofeudalists it’s now infested with dark patterns, engagement algorithms running on fear and anger to drive addiction, propaganda, segmentation into unhealthy ‘echo chambers’ and whatever else they’ve cribbed from tobacco marketers and evil psychologists. There is significant scientific evidence that it is indeed harmful to children especially, but also adults.
The needful target is not keeping it away from children. It is fighting to bring down the Metas, the Xitters, the TikToks and YouTubes, ban the algorithms that they know full well are harmful to all. We need hold the companies responsible for those harms and fine them until there eyes bleed, but most importantly we need to hold the individuals in charge personally responsible, take away that ‘the company did it’ excuse. Have them rot in jail for the term of their natural lives as an example to all who would follow.
I’ve already got LDAC on mine anyway, and have devices that can use it.