The new Aider-CE fork of Aider AI Assistant is now official
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Full list of areas in the UK targeted in ‘dodgy’ Fire TV stick crackdown
Upgrade your Tablet to use replaceable batteries.
What are the bands that didn't get international recognition but still are absolute legends where you're from?
Xiaomi replaced my app from F-Droid with their own version
Xiaomi replaced my app from F-Droid with their own version - Lemmy.World
So this just happened - those of you who have a Xiaomi phone know when you install apps it has it’s own “Virus Checker” screen which comes up before the app is approved for install. This is provided by Avast I just found out… Anyway while installing an app from F-droid today I got an error message on this screen - which said “app from unknown source” and two buttons below - “Ignore” and “Install”. So I clicked on “Install” since I wanted to install the app and then noticed that the install process seemed a bit different (I can’t remember what happened exactly) but I checked the app on F-Droid and the version history wasn’t available - which a notice says means the app was installed from Play Store or somewhere else. But I just installed it from F-Droid! So I tried another few apps and it happened again for one of them. I clicked around and there it was, some sort of Xiaomi app store installing versions of the app instead of the one I told my phone to install. I guess there is an innocent explanation for this - stopping people from installing malware and giving them a “correct” version of the app they wanted - but I have disabled it on my phone, I know what I am doing and if I want the cracked version it’s because that’s the version I meant to install ;)
The votes are in, it is bad UI! Thanks to those who commented and made suggestions.
I have no idea why, but somehow my site became the target of bots signing up, with legit looking emails but username was random letters. I already check for emails, so a friend suggested putting a hidden trip field for the bots (this is apparently common?) and I thought it might be fun if I made it visible.
The field totally worked though, the bots gave up. Still annoyed though, who was it? I didn’t post the links to the site in many places yet it’s work in progress, I have like 10 (human) users. I guess I need to add some IP blocking and all sorts of other stuff too in future (eg captcha).
And yes the DDG thing was put there by my browser. It’s a handy feature, gave me multiple free trials on ChatGPT for eg, before they stopped the new sign-ups!
I’ve been told it is bad, I really like it (it’s my own site)
Is this really that bad?
