"Power users" is doing a lot of work in Google's blog post.

You don't need to be a "power user" to deserve to have access to computing without monopolistic interference.

https://chaos.social/@grote/116257002625921666

wtf. we really don't own our devices anymore: Google just released what you will have to go trough to install apps from developers not wanted by them: This is Censorship. This is closing android, this is ripping the last bit of control we had from our hands.

And all this talk of "sideloading" no, i'm just installing normal apps, you make it so that has to be all hacky and seem risky.

https://keepandroidopen.org/

#keepandroidopen #FLOSS #freesoftware #solarpunk #android #google #phone #sideloading

Having fun with the revelation that Kagi Translate is actually something like a thin wrapper over an LLM, so you can pass anything you want as the "to" language in the URL's query string and it will do its best to "translate" your text to that

https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=pentagon+speak&text=I+think+we+should+break+up.

"Excuse me, your highness" the frog said. "May I implore you to give me a peck on the cheek?"

"Not a kiss?" the princess asked.

"I would not presume. A peck will turn me back into a prince for a day, so I can find a bow and arrows."

"Whatever for?"

"I'll kill the heron who's eating my friends!"

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories #FairyTale

Trump threatens allies with retribution for not bending the knee.

UK digital infrastructure can be used as leverage or disrupted on his say so.

We need interoperable open-source systems, so we're not locked in to services owned and controlled by foreign tech firms.

Sign the petition for #DigitalSovereignty ⬇️

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-trump-s-kill-switch-secure-our-digital-sovereignty

#Trump #nato #starmer #ukpolitics #ukpol #petition #opensource