https://archive.is/Pg9mT

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19831054

> > Third-party Android launchers often suffer from limitations and issues because of Android, but this user survey could help.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19831105

> > Google seems to be preparing a new feature to help users backup their Health Connect data on devices running Android 15 or higher.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20329962

> Linus has released the 6.11 kernel. ""I'm once again on the road and not in my normal timezone, but it's Sunday afternoon here in Vienna, and 6.11 is out."" Significant changes in this release include new io_uring operations for bind() and listen(), the nested bottom-half locking patches, the ability to write to busy executable files, support for writing block drivers in Rust, support for atomic write operations in the block layer, the dedicated bucket slab allocator, the vDSO implementation of getrandom(), and more. See the LWN merge-window summaries (part 1, part 2) for more information. >

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19727459

> > Android 15 QPR1 Beta 2 redesigns the Settings app with some Material You tweaks and better organization.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/2527767

> cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/2527714 > > > Archived link > > > > When men go to pee in a public toilet they spend a minute gazing at the wall in front of them, in what many advertisers have seized upon as an opportunity to put up posters of their products above the stinking urinals. > > > > But in terms of framing, you'd better ask yourself: is this really what I want my brand to be associated with? > > > > You might well think twice if you were selling ice cream or toothpaste, so what if your poster was Ursula von der Leyen's face selling EU values? > > > > Because that's the kind of environment in which the European Commission president, other top EU officials, and national EU leaders are posting their images and comments every day when they use X to communicate with press and the EU public. > > > > Even the toilet analogy is too kind. > > > > There was already lots of toxic crap on X before the summer of 2024. > > > > **Racist, antisemitic, and homophobic content had "surged", according to a January study by US universities. ** > > > > **X had more Russian propaganda than any other big social media, an EU report warned in 2023. ** > > > > **Porn was 13 percent of X in late 2022, according to internal documents seen by Reuters. ** > > > > But this summer, with the failed assassination of Donald Trump in the US and the UK race riots, X's CEO Elon Musk turbocharged his platform into an overflowing sewer of bigotry, nihilism, and greed. > > > > As I tried to follow the UK riots from Brussels using X, time and again, I saw von der Leyen's carefully-coiffed Christian Democrat torso issuing some polite EU statement, while sandwiched on my laptop screen between video-clips getting off on anti-migrant violence, pro-Russian bots, and OnlyFans links. > > > > Musk's algorithms pushed pro-riot content so hard down users' throats it prompted a transatlantic UK government rebuke and talk of legal sanctions. > > > > Tommy Robinson, a leading British racist, got over 430 million views for his X posts, for instance. > > > > Andrew Tate, Britain's top misogynist, got 15 million views for one X post inciting rioters. > > > > And the biggest turd in the cesspit - Musk's own avatar - also kept appearing next to von der Leyen and other EU leaders on my screen, as the US tech baron ranted about "civil war" in the UK, pushed pro-Trump conspiracy theories, or told EU commissioner Thierry Breton to "literally fuck your own face". > > > > Musk's summer coincided with France's arrest of a Russian tech CEO, Pavel Durov, in August on suspicion he condoned the sale of child pornography and drugs on his Telegram platform. > > > > The European Commission also started legal proceedings against X in July over misleading and illegal content, in a process that could see Musk fined hundreds of millions of euros. > > > > But aside from the grand issues of how to regulate social media without stymying free speech or privacy, EU leaders could do something a lot simpler and closer to home for the sake of public mental health - just switch to any other less sleazy platform instead. > > > > You could do it tomorrow with one email to your tech staff and for all the stupid content on Instagram, for example, at least your face won't keep flashing up next to racist glee and naked tits on your constituents' screens. > > > > Von der Leyen has 1.5 million X followers, French president Emmanuel Macron has 9.8 million, while Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez and Polish prime minister Donald Tusk have 1.9 million each. > > > > EU leaders could also do something a lot simpler and closer to home for the sake of public mental health - just switch to any other less sleazy platform instead > > > > But please don't worry, not all journalists or the general public are that dumb yet, most of us will find you and follow you because politics is genuinely important. > > > > And we will thank you for giving us one more reason to get off X ourselves, because so long as you use it as your main outlet for news updates you are dragging us along with you. > > > > My initial analogy of advertising in a public toilet was designed to show the importance of semiotics in political PR - it matters where you speak, not just what you say. > > > > The analogy also holds good for those who worry that if normal leaders and media abandoned toxic platforms, then extremism would grow in its own exclusive online world. > > > > It's just good public hygiene to bury our sewage pipes, instead of letting people empty their buckets out of the window onto our heads. > > > > But if you prefer to hold your nose and stay on X, consider also that you are damaging not just your own brand but also causing financial and political harm in real life. > > > > Financial hurt, because if you help make people reliant on X for news, then greater use of Musk's platform makes people like him, Robinson, and Tate ever richer via X's monetisation schemes for viral content. > > > > Political injury, because to the extent that von der Leyen, Macron, or Sánchez possess real importance, they help to aggrandise Musk, Tate, and Robinson by continuously appearing alongside them in X's hyper-curated online space. > > > > And so if you should worry that urinals below your face might put people off, then the situation is actually worse than that. > > > > Your presence on X is also helping to pay for the muck to flow and the toilet owner is using you to sell it to the world.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19811329

> I just came across this amazing app. Idk much about yt-dlp but the app seems to fully support it, even with custom commands and stuff. Of course I tested it and it worked well (with just 1 video fail to download out of approximately 10). Though by default it seems to download videos without audio so make sure to click the small "Audio" button in the download menu and enable it. > > I recently saw someone recommending using a privacy respecting frontend for searching videos and downloading them instead of watching them online for better privacy and consistency so I hope someone will find it useful... or just use it to download videos because that's what most people do anyways. > > Also I hope I'm not copying anyone's post here. My Lemmy client doesn't support search so I can't check if there are any posts about this app. > > P. S. Excuse my usage of the foul phrase "YouTube downloader" to describe this app. I just wanted to make it easier for less tech savvy people to understand what this app is and how it can be useful for them.

Discovered via this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwTub7_we0w

Other reviews:

• https://www.theverge.com/24184777/boox-palma-e-ink-smartphone-reader
• https://www.androidpolice.com/boox-palma-review/

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19734027

> [D.N.A] Elasticsearch and Kibana can be called Open Source again. It is hard to express how happy this statement makes me. Literally jumping up and down with excitement here. All of us at Elastic are. Open source is in my DNA. It is in Elastic DNA. Being able to call Elasticsearch Open Source again is pure joy. > > [LOVE.] The tl;dr is that we will be adding AGPL as another license option next to ELv2 and SSPL in the coming weeks. We never stopped believing and behaving like an open source community after we changed the license. But being able to use the term Open Source, by using AGPL, an OSI approved license, removes any questions, or fud, people might have. > > [Not Like Us] We never stopped believing in Open Source at Elastic. I never stopped believing in Open Source. I’m going on 25 years and counting as a true believer. So why the change 3 years ago? We had issues with AWS and the market confusion their offering was causing. So after trying all the other options we could think of, we changed the license, knowing it would result in a fork of Elasticsearch with a different name and a different trajectory. It’s a long story.