Google has news on what you will need to do for still being able to sideload apps:
* enable developer options
* confirm that you are not tricked
* restart phone and re-authenticate
* wait one day
* confirm with biometrics that you know what you are doing
* decide if you only want unrestricted installs for 1 week or forever
* confirm that you accept the risks
* enjoy the few apps that still have developers motivated to develop for a user-base willing to put up with this
From a comment on this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPm4de6-eTg)
'Whenever someone says, "SUVs are safer than sedans", I reply, "I stand up in movie theaters because the view is better" '
I'm stealing that and will be using it all the time now. #urbanism
Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation.
(We can measure semantic ablation through entropy decay. By running a text through successive AI "refinement" loops, the vocabulary diversity (type-token ratio) collapses.)
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/semantic_ablation_ai_writing/
Überweisung des Bundes an Microsoft: Was macht das mit euch?
2023: 274.091.361,75 Euro
2024: 347.665.579,71 Euro
2025: 481.369.660,77 Euro
Man stelle sich vor, was mit 1.103.126.602,23 € alles an Open Source Software in Deutschland hätte beschafft und entwickelt werden können. Vermutlich wird sich der Trend hier auch noch weiter fortsetzen :(
Torsten Grote
nils
GrapheneOS
Der Postillon 📯
kim_harding ✅
Blake Hall 
Twra Sun
Charlie Stross
Daniel Gerber