@fjaril

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Not having Google Drive Picker for mobile platforms for years is just absurd. Google has to fix that asap.

Here is a more detailed explanation of what's going on - https://denieler.com/blog/google-where-is-the-drive-picker

Google, where is Drive Picker?

A deep dive into why Google Driveโ€™s mobile file picker still fails in 2025, the limitations of the drive.file scope, and the workaround developers use to safely select Drive files on iOS and Android.

@AlSweigart you remember Dreamweaver? ๐Ÿ™‚ It seems it was "AI" of 2000-x
@davidcampey hey! Thank you for that suggestion, I used gcloud for some of my projects and yes, especially Google could functions (cloud run) appeared to be very cheap and cost effective ๐Ÿ‘
@peter I had a similar experience with Duolingo and moved to Italki teacher, but after some time decided to create an AI tutor to practice speaking, it works in an interesting way, not better or worse than a real teacher ๐Ÿค” if you are interested in checking this experience - I'm making some closed beta for free ok https://enkitalki.com
Enkitalki - Boost your speaking with AI

Practice natural conversations and improve your language skills with our AI-powered tutor. Get instant pronunciation feedback and learn from your mistakes.

@josefbacik hey ๐Ÿ‘‹ would you consider switching from Italki teacher to an AI voice tutor/partner?
@gedankenstuecke @vaurora ๐Ÿ‘‹ do those services provide AI speaking partner or tutor?

You probably don't know because why would you, but every weekend, when there's football playing, the biggest ISPs in Spain block the whole set of IPs from Cloudflare while footballl is being played.

In a perfect representation of "using a sledgehammer to crack a nut", every weekend most of Spain gets blocked from most of the internet while a bunch of guys kick balls ๐Ÿ™ƒ

Example, somebody trying to download glib from gnome.org:
https://fosstodon.org/@visone/114127650774319607

Edit: found an article in English talking about it from last week https://boingboing.net/2025/02/24/spanish-soccer-league-breaks-internet-to-stop-people-from-watching-their-precious-futbol-matches-for-free.html

#Cloudflare #Spain #Censorship

visone (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Despues de varios intentos de descargar las sources de glib-2.82.5 usando curl sin suerte dado a un error de certificados he probado a intentar descargar las sources desde el navegador con la sorpresa de que la causa del problema es el blokeo que tienen los taraos del furgol a cloudfare...... *Im - presionante!!

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So far from all voice AI services the most useful appeared to be VAPI, as it aggregates other services and gives you the opportunity to try various combinations and to find the ones that work best for your use case.

Their SDKs though are at a very early stage and have many and many bugs. Still I'd suggest it for now.

I would bet a non-trivial amount of money that Apple will also switch off Advanced Data Protection in the US within the year, because they just handed a blueprint to every government around the world that wants to spy on their citizens.

Signal has long said it'd "rather shut down or leave a market" than add a backdoor or weaken its encryption.

Apple also had this option when it was ordered by the UK government to build an iCloud backdoor. Apple could have said โ€” without violating secrecy laws โ€” why it was leaving the UK, rather than weaken the security of all of its UK customers.

Instead, Apple capitulated to the demand to keep operating, and prioritized its profits over its customers' security.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/21/apple-pulls-icloud-end-to-end-encryption-feature-for-uk-users-after-government-demanded-backdoor/

Apple pulls iCloud end-to-end encryption feature for UK users after government demanded backdoor | TechCrunch

In an unprecedented step, Apple caved to a reported U.K. governmentโ€™s demand to prevent users from using end-to-end encryption in iCloud.

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