I searched “waydroid aurora store crashing” on DuckDuckGo a while back and found a thread that said it was a regression in Aurora Store v4.3 and that v4.2 works. I’m not sure how to download old versions of apps from F-Droid though.

What you showed in that video is AuroraDroid which is an alternative frontend for F-Droid and distinct from Aurora Store (which is a frontend for the Play Store). Do you have the actual Aurora Store also?

I think bundling it might be unique to the Waydroid FOSS image. I recently set up Waydroid with GAPPS rather than with FOSS (because AuroraStore still won’t run on Waydroid, grrrrrrr) and it didn’t come with it.

(Side note, if you figure out how to get Aurora to show a list of apps in Waydroid x64 without instantly crashing, I will love you)

Wait, since when does LineageOS include F-Droid? I remember having to download it myself using the built-in browser the last time I tried it.

I think they addressed that point pretty clearly. The author says that just because the user experience of sticking your hand into your kitchen and instantly receiving food is fantastic, doesn’t mean that letting someone you don’t know live in your kitchen and only eating what they decide to make you is a good solution, especially since it means you couldn’t use your kitchen (which I believe is a metaphor for your smartphone) for anything else even if you wanted to. Further, those who believe it’s a good solution because it is free and its user experience is good only believe this because they have never known anything else. The author also explicitly states

So that’s the dialectic here. I want people to not have to know about tech stuff. I’m not into the tech-for-tech’s-sake lifestyle. I want it to be easy to use. You just tell the computer what you want and it happens, no need to point and click, let alone configure and make. That’d be great. And hackers and modders could add features and share them and everyone would benefit.

But it’s got to be free, free for reals. Open source, and either decentralized or democratically governed.

The author, I think, is saying that while user experience is a nice goal to pursue, it means nothing if it isn’t open source, and you can’t go around the carefully-crafted VC-funded fancy-but-restrictive UX if you have the skills to do so. Perhaps it is a reach to say that the author prioritizes open source over good user experience, but I don’t think so, and even from the most pessimistic reading of those two paragraphs the author views them as at least equal.

you quoted but reworded (why?).

I quoted and reworded it because I was on mobile and couldn’t copy paste from your comment without a lot of hassle, and didn’t want to retype everything you had typed word for word. Didn’t mean anything by it.

I… these are all good points, but… did we read the same article?

Article seems to ignore that FOSS projects tend not to have the budget to create the UX that VC-funded projects can. … I find prioritizing UX over sharing of source code to be misguided.

The author specifically calls attention to this exact point:

If a weirdo guy moved into your kitchen and blocked you from grabbing a spoon whenever you wanted and instead rented them out to you provided you only ate the gruel he provided, the people who would be most able to see the absurdity in that would be be the people who remember what it was like before. Those who grew up with that system would be “whaddayamean? This is super convienient. I just stick my hand in the kitchen and a spoonful of gruel is shoved into it. Like it, love it, want more of it”. They’d be like “people who don’t have a spoon guy are so gross and so dumb. What the heck are they even? Doing rifling through their own cutlery drawer like some sorta eggheads”.

Of course they can. Dictionaries are not the Bible. They exist to describe how words are used, not how they should be used. Words’ meaning changes over time (“gay” meant “happy” in the 20th century, to use the tired example) and new words get added to the dictionary every day (most dictionary websites have little blurbs showing words they’ve recently added). Dictionaries have historically, and continue to, change in response to how people use words, not the other way around. If your entire argument rests on the dictionary definition of the word “protest” not explicitly mentioning that to be considered a protest, something must be disruptive, it’s not a very good argument.

It also fails to consider that methods of convincing people who would rather simply ignore the issue to care about it that are not disruptive are few and far between.

Ah yes, the massively disruptive tactic of checks notes saying genocide is 1) bad and 2) happening prior to playing a piano piece. You’re right, he’s really crossed the line this time. How can he ever expect to garner support like that?

He’s almost as bad as the people with megaphones and signs marching and repeating chants!

And when exactly did “people turn it into” that? The purpose of a picket line is to be disruptive, and people have been doing those for over a century.

The point of protest is literally exactly that. The point of protest is to make the message impossible to ignore.

Is that 3DS jailbroken? If not, you totally should.

Ymal Markup Ain’t Language

Come on. Be realistic. Chrome has 70% browser market share and people are already used to tacking “Reddit” onto the end of their search queries to find useful information. If anything this will have no effect besides steering people towards Google.

Zettlr does this reasonably well. It doesn’t do it by default, though, you have to turn it on in the settings

LLMs are predictive associative token algorithms

Ah, so they produce parts of words instead of whole words at a time. Totally different.

with a degree of randomness and self reflection.

And they’re hooked up to random number generators so if you give it the same input twice you’ll get different output. Totally makes it smarter.

A key aspect is that anything can be a token

…much like predictive text. Rarely will you find one that doesn’t suggest punctuation on occasion.

they can self feed their own output

…much like predictive text.

as well as output control input for other algorithms.

Oh, so you can tell it to suggest certain tokens more or less often. How fancy.

It remains to be seen whether the core of human intelligence is much more than that.

I mean, I’d say the ability to visualize things and reason about scenarios it hasn’t experienced before are a good start.

Bit by bit Proton is slowly becoming Brave

Oh boy, I can’t wait to see what has already happened to streaming services happen to search engines!

Where did I say that? Of course we should vote blue. But let’s not delude ourselves into thinking they already agree with us on issues we’re going to have to protest for.

in answer to your question, this leak is almost certainly fake

I tried to visit the site again when I saw your comment and discovered the DNS record had disappeared between when I wrote that comment and now. Fascinating. It must have been taken down and the change took a while to propagate. Judging by the fact that I could see anything at all before my ISP’s nameserver got the memo, the 404 page that was there seems to still be up even though the DNS record that got you to it is gone – wish I had thought to nslookup it when I still could. If I had to take a guess, though, it probably resolved to the same IP address as the twitter.okta.com domain.