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Guy smoking cigarette while looking at phone, with a horrified expression

close up face shot of a floradinn

a cropped picture of the very top of the aforementioned machine

freedom motif from deltarune

baby caracal flopping its ears

Screenshot of Firefox settings page:

Browsing data

Websites are currently using 6.7 GB of disk space.

Screenshot of dialog box in KDE Plasma desktop:

Welcome Center

Plasma has been updated to 6.7

Screenshot of README, highlihgted text: "Hold/right click on interaction buttons to use another account"

Screenshot from above article:

The productivity paradox inspired many research efforts at explaining the slowdown, only for the paradox to disappear with renewed productivity growth in the developed countries in the 1990s.

4chan thread:

"There's a reason fantasyslop is a term."

"It's not a term. You just attach the word slop to everything you don't like or is vaguely popular"

Calvin's dad from the Calvin and Hobbes four-panel "all things are either" comic

Screenshot of Google search results page for Danny Drinkwater

screenshot of windows desktop with virtual keyboard

screenshot of game

Excerpt from quoted post:

When nothing is happening, Valve is quiet.

When something is happening, Valve is also quiet, but the quiet has mass.

This quiet has mass.

You can feel objects moving behind the wall.

Quelle semaine hein?

Mais capitaine, on est mercredi...

Mastodon post by Koen Hufkens, PhD, reading:

The slow death of the power user.

"This isn’t an accident. This is the result of two decades of deliberate, calculated effort by the largest technology companies on earth to turn users into consumers, instruments into appliances, and technical literacy into a niche hobby for weirdos. They succeeded beyond their wildest expectations"

https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/

the top of saul goodman's head

Comment on a pull request by a censored user:
"I would not mind it defaulting to on, if it actually works: not only for Copilot, reliable listing the actual model versions used, differentiating between agendic creation and input completion. Being able to reference a session log, helping with logging the evidence needed to get indemification protection. And commit message preview for human."

8 👍, 27 👎, 1 🚀

Excerpt from linked article:

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Excerpt from Soulja Boy's Crank That

Soulja is heard saying "You"

A slide titled "AMD's Asynchronous Shaders". In the bottom right corner is a card that reads "Async Shaders ON". It has been edited to have a picture of Dean Norris as Hank Schrader from Breaking Bad superimposed, and a blue circle over his picture with an arrow pointing to the aforementioned card

useless machine built using create aeronautics

theknot search page for donald trump showing wedding results for trump and putin, trump and biden

Screenshot of the "Developers" section in the mentioned article

screenshot of section from github page for bluesky-social/pds

cat sitting on lap being patted from both sides and meowing

"Oops all berries" cereal box edited to say "Oops! All Tomorrows" with a picture of one of the creatures from the front cover art crudely pasted over the captain's face

Screenshot of text, highlighted: "This must be explicitly enabled by a compile-time option to be used."

kde printer icon

Picture of the archeological artifact, the antikythera mechanism

comic panel with a captain smoking a pipe and saying "Imagine"

unregistered apps, and wish to proceed"
Box subtitle: "Once you confirm you understand the risks, you're all set to install unverified apps indefinitely. You'll still see a warning for safety, but you can just tap 'Install anyway'"

A diagram of three boxes stacked horizontally. The heading is titled "Advanced flow for power users to sideload apps from unverified developers"

Step 1: "Confirm you aren't being coached". An image of three buttons is visible: "Yes, someone is guiding me", "No one is instructing me", and "Cancel"
Box subtitle: "This is a quick check to make sure that no one is coaching you into turning off your security. While powers users know how to vet apps, scammers often pressure victims into disabling protections."

Step 2: "Restart your phone and reauthenticate". An image of some text and a button is visible. The text says "Security delay required", subtitled: "Because this setting reduces your device's security, a delay is required to continue". A button below reads "Restart your device now to begin the security delay"
Box subtitle: This cuts off any remote access or active phone calls a scammer might be using to watch what you're doing.

Step 3: "Come back after the 24-hour wait and verify". An image of some text and a button is visible. The text says "Security delay complete", subtitled: "You can now continue to change this setting". Two buttons below are available: "Continue" and "Cancel"
Box subtitle: There is a one-time, one-day wait and then you can confirm that this is really you who's making this change on your device via a biometric authentication (fingerprint or face unlock) or device PIN. Scammers rely on manufactured urgency, so this breaks their spell and gives you time to think.

Step 4: "Enable the settings and you're ready to install apps". A set of radio buttons and a checkbox are stacked vertically. First radio button reads "Turn on temporarily", subtitled "Instating unregistered apps will be allowed for 7 days". Second radio button reads "Turn on indefinitely", subtitled "Instaling unregistered apps will be allowed indefiniely. Not recommended." A label reads "Confirmation", and below it a checkbox that reads "I understand and accept the risks from

twitch pinned message by Erarg: "Patience fans be like Not yet"

scared emoji at desk looking at pc

"Mario loves you" meme

Super Mario: "those games are very cool" > "Mario loves |himself|"
charlie twymam: "mario why do you love |yourself|"
> Super Mario: "because |I am beautiful flowers|"
> Super Mario: "Mario loves |me| very much"

In the background is a drawing of a nuclear explosion with the words "TRUTH NUKE" written at the top. A png of Gaster is imposed on the right side of the image

screenshot of article:

The advanced flow is a myth (for
now)

In late 2025, a wave of relief hit the tech community
when reports suggested Google was backing down.
The company mentioned a potential "advanced
flow" that would allow "experienced users" to
bypass these restrictions and accept the risks of
unverified software.
However, the coalition led by Keep Android Open
warns that this was a tactical distraction. According
to internal findings from the F-Droid team, no such
bypass mechanism is currently in development, and
no feedback has been sought fromoutside
stakeholders.
As it stands, the official documentation still points
toward a total lockdown. Until Google provides
concrete evidence of a frictionless bypass, the
community is operating under the reality that
sideloading as we know it is dying,

Edit of a screenshot from the TV show "Dexter". Rita says "Dexter spends all his time in a laboratory, for god's sake!"

A picture of Dexter from Dexter's lab (different show) is superimposed in the top right corner, with a red circle and arrow pointing at the subtitles

Recording of a 3d graphical scene. Four balls appear momentarily, in the same color scheme as the Google Balls image. A few seconds later they drop to the ground and begin rolling. The camera moves over the spheres and orange cubes drop onto the balls, causing them to begin rolling

Screenshot of baby sheep from new Minecraft snapshot 26.1-snapshot-2

glass marble

Note
Google has announced that,
starting in 2026/2027, all apps on
"certified" Android devices will
require the developer to submit
personal identity details directly to
Coogle.
Since the developers of this app do
not agree to this requirement
Obtainium will no longer work or
certified Android devices after that
time.
Go to https://keepandroidopen.org/
for more information.
Vote that in the short term, it may
continue to be possible to install
'unverified" (non-compliant) apps
through an "advanced flow"
process that Google has promised
to implement after broad backlash
to their announcement, but they
have not detailed how this would
work so it is unclear whether it will
truly preserve user freedoms in any
practical way
Okay

Oppeinheimer, from the movie, sulking pensively with his hand to his eyebrow

Screenshot of iOS homescreen containing two apps next to each other: "Find My" and "Files"

Popup open in Dolplhin showing a search box and a list of actions

Superintendent Chalmers taken aback

grid of shortcuts to minecraft bedrock edition, and bedrock edition preview. the normal edition's icon is shaped like a grass block, the preview edition's icon is shaped like a dirt block. they are arranged so as to represent minecraft terrain from the side.

oh yeah, also on kde plasma

baby pukekos approaching camera with jaw harp music

the rot from rain world