cbarrick

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[–] cbarrick@lemmy.world 30 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
[–] cbarrick@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

The Google app is often used as a web browser by the tech-illiterate.

It even has tabs.

This is how my grandparents use it.

[–] cbarrick@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Ha, I see.

Yeah, sarcasm over text forums is sometimes difficult to pick up on.

[–] cbarrick@lemmy.world 68 points 7 months ago (8 children)

To be clear, the right of free speech given in the first amendment is the right to express any opinion without fear of repercussions.

There is no inherent right that your opinions must be given a platform, or that any particular platform has the right to exist.

The first amendment is entirely orthogonal to the question of whether or not TikTok should be allowed to operate in the US.

[–] cbarrick@lemmy.world 50 points 8 months ago (5 children)

So you're telling me that there was a Mac super computer in '05?

[–] cbarrick@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The EU gave Google an option: pay or take down the content. The latter option was a bluff, and Google called them on it.

I don't think this will hurt Google at all.

But it will certainly drive less traffic to these news sites if they are banned from Google. And that will hurt the news sites.

[–] cbarrick@lemmy.world 32 points 8 months ago (4 children)

EU: You have to pay to show our news.

Google: Ok. We won't show your news.

EU: Pikachu face

[–] cbarrick@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I mean, they don't have to release the source code. A compiled version would be fine.

[–] cbarrick@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

it's unrealistic to assume it would exist forever.

Older multiplayer games would let you self-host the server, long before the current trend.

Ubisoft doesn't have to continue to host servers. They just have to release the server code. Zero cost to them.

 

On my "subscribed" page, if I scroll down, the app crashes. Not sure of anything more than that. But it's definitely repeatable for me.

Device information

Sync version: v23.11.29-22:27    
Sync flavor: googlePlay    

View type: Smaller cards    

Device: ASUS_AI2302    
Model: asus ASUS_AI2302    
Android: 14
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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by cbarrick@lemmy.world to c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world
 

GBoard (Google's keyboard for Android) has a GIF entry feature.

Sync properly uploads the GIF from GBoard to my Lemmy instance, but the GIF does not play in the comments, and clicking on it returns an error "image was actually a web page!"

For the record, they're not technically GIFs. GBoard uploads the image as WebM.

This seems like a user journey that should be supported. Android users who use Google's keyboard to input a GIF comment would expect it to work or throw an error at upload time. Instead, Sync allows us to submit such comments, but they are broken upon viewing.

Device information

Sync version: v23.11.29-22:27    
Sync flavor: googlePlay    

Ultra user: true    
View type: Smaller cards    

Device: ASUS_AI2302    
Model: asus ASUS_AI2302    
Android: 14
 
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