Although I'm slightly relieved there is a way out of Googles verification system, it's still pretty wild if you compare this to installing software on a Windows pc. I'm sure Microsoft is heading in the same direction with Windows, but today its still "only" a few confirmations to install anything.
This will sadly still put a major damper on adoption of open source apps, while giving a false sense of security that apps from the Play store are safe.
Years down the road, the low usage of apps installed from outside the Play store will be used as an argument for removing the functionality completely.
This looks pretty interesting from a laymans perspective. Can anyone with more in depth knowledge relate this to the current state-of-the-art auto regressive models? are diffusion models closing the gap in a meaningful way, or are they still in the experimental stage?
The court subtracted a fee for the artwork and for the display of the work, which he does not have to give back - so the artist did in fact get paid for his empty frame artwork. Now he just has to give back the money he lent for the originally agreed upon artwork that he did not create.
Seems like a fair deal, since he also got a ton of publicity out of it.
I wonder if this could be used to finally get universal audio streaming from the device, kind of like airplay. Perhaps using the received audio stream to create an internet radio station, which could then be played by most multiroom speakers, without needing specific support for each player app on the device.
Wow, this sounds like a really important decision. I wonder what Metas next line of defense will be, if any. The article says Meta can appeal, so I guess they will try that.
It will be interesting to see how many users will decline to opt-in to Personalized ads. Meta will probably still try a range of dark patterns to keep users from making that choice.
To avoid syncing my calendar and contacts to the cloud, I'm using wireguard as a always on VPN on my phone, to connect to a locally running CalDav/CardDav server. Wireguard on Android can be setup to only affect specific apps, so my DavX app is the only one using the VPN.
You might be interested in https://radicale.org/v3.html.
Runs on my odroid board with 26mb memory. The documentation is particularly good. I've used it as a replacement for the Synology CalDav and CardDav services.
It's very easy to install and does not require a DB. As a bonus, it stores everything as files which can be read and edited manually. It does require python.
But it really seems like an own goal if true.