Not sure, but https://exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/ lets you check any app for the presence of trackers. Is that relevant?

I’m a big fan

Noooooo thank you

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Following this thread because I think it’s one of the very interesting unanswered questions about federation.

It’s a very stable, reliable, local, cross-platform file syncing that is pretty easy to set up. Basically, it allows you to have a shared folder (or folders) on multiple devices without using Google Drive, OneDrive, iCloud, etc.

Oh No! This is terrible news. This IMHO is one of the most irreplaceable projects out there. I don’t know of another cross-platform local file syncing app that comes anywhere close to this. I hope that it can continue even if it’s not through the Play Store.

Google seems to be torpedoing open source developments with a number of decisions lately. Maybe they see F-Droid as a threat now that EU is making them open competition? Maybe they just don’t care.

In most cases, it’s probably safe, but ask a lawyer. Led Zeppelin has a bunch of songs about Lord of the Rings.

Probably the most famous example is Barbie Girl. The musical group Aqua created the song and was sued by Mattel. The toy company won the rights of the song because it was specifically using their product IP. They referenced specific features of the toy line, including the names of Barbie and Ken. Mattel was able to demonstrate that the song harmed their IP. That was the key feature IIRC. In the end, I think that it was ruled that the song was clearly a parody. So any harm that was caused, people would not assume was connected with the real-world toy.

Honestly, the best treatment of this was in the pre-streaming world with the “next time on Arrested Development.”

The running joke is that they would pretty much never happen, except once in a while when they did.

Same

Don’t worry, one those will die out soon

They are rife with differences. They have improved over time, but they generally don’t really identify specific ancestry. Rather, they use statistical patterns to correlate self-reported ancestry.

My wife got this for recording board meetings and it does a pretty impressive job picking up different people around a room. https://a.co/d/9QiaXvr

You can’t prove it’s not hexadecimal.

Keen observers will notice the obvious anachronism in this photo. Of course, I’m referring to none other than the notched lapel of the general’s outer jacket. Although he certainly was well known for his double breasted suits, the president could not possibly have worn a notch lapel jacket, which we’re not popularized until over 100 years later in the 1880s. Truly preposterous and whimsical.

I don’t see any indication that this is limited to the Euclidean plane either

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Thanks, can anyone eli6?

Can anyone eli5?