TheOneCurly

They don’t even like kindness for themselves. They like rigid obedience. The instant anyone steps out of line they get beaten into submission or disowned.

That’s just it, you don’t need to grow. Just sell a useful product at a reasonable price.

It has to do mostly with overwriting community (human) translations with (worse) machine translations. Paying google to redo the work your community did in good faith but badly with tech that goes against everything they’ve been saying they believe in. Doesn’t really bode well for the “opt-in” and “ethical” LLM features they claim are coming.

i think it’s fingerprints…?

Like a pun on data fingerprinting. But that’s not exactly what this service protects against.

They’re literally working with a manufacturer to make non-google phones. Tethered to google is a wild mischaracterization.

yep, it was already impossible to get people to use fdroid. Now there’s no way anyone except hardcore enthusists will even attempt to get away from the play store.

It’s a reference to a meme about how male authors often describe female characters. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/breasted-boobily

Pangolin continues to deliver wildly useful features.

I tried and bounced off of several of the other popular auth providers over the years. PocketID was the first one I found reasonable to set up and configure.

I moved my entire public facing set of services over to Pangolin a little over a month ago. It’s been pretty sweet. I really like the auth system and they just integrated custom oidc providers so I’ve got pocketID set up with it as well.