Huh. So this is a Blog.

Twenty-something she/her

[viralfrog]

[computationalcalculator]

[mrfantom]

Google's new Advanced Flow is Another Step Towards Killing Android

After the terrible addition of forced Developer ID Verification, Google is now introducing yet another ingenious idea to combat scams; named Android Advanced Flow, it puts in place additional steps and hoops for the user to jump around if they want to install applications from outside of the Play Store. This new mechanism - which replaces the simple and logical "Install Apps From Unknown Sources" which we've been accustomed to - consists of tedious and unnecessarily long 10 steps:

Enable Developer Mode by tapping the software build number in About Phone seven times

In Settings > System, open Developer Options and scroll down to “Allow Unverified Packages.”

Flip the toggle and answer a scare screen confirming that you are not being coerced

Enter your device unlock pin/password

Restart your device

Wait 24 hours

Return to the unverified packages menu at the end of the security delay

Scroll past additional scare screen warnings and select either “Allow temporarily” (seven days) or “Allow indefinitely.”

On the next scare screen, confirm that you understand the risks.

You can now install unverified packages on the device by tapping the “Install anyway” option in the package manager.

Although it helps reduce scamming of tech-unsavvy individuals, it is an overkill approach, and the idea that Google is closing the Android ecosystem more and more overshadows their good intentions in caring for its users. Between this change and developer ID verification starting next year globally, most users will not bother to go through all the trouble to install an app that is not from the Play Store. Which is precisely what Google wants.

[aweekoftodays]

Keep Android Open | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 20 Feb 2026, Week 8 F-Droid core During our talks with F-Droid users at FOSDEM26 we were baffle

If you want more resources that independent app developers are severly worried about this and our future

Open Letter to Google Regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Third-Party App Distribution

Here's an open letter of major independent app developers who are fighting against this

Here's why this particularly bad and if you truly believe this is the same as every other breach of privacy that has come before, then you have already fallen for their propaganda. You can fight back, stop laying there and taking it

Have they really taken so much that you truly believe you're helpless? Take responsibility for the society you are born in, there is no other way things will change

Your phone is about to stop being yours. In September 2026, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.

[aweekoftodays]

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93 DAYS UNTIL LOCKDOWN

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[indigozeal]

[crabussy]

sometimes I have to stop myself from posting shit like "who made replacing a bike chain so erotic" because I remember the number of people who see my posts and I have to take a step back and reconsider my choices. sometimes I have to hide my true and sincere thoughts in a post about how I'm not posting them because it is funnier this way

[crabussy]

artist's impression

[crabussy]

whatever. it's just reaching between all its delicate parts to wrench out its guts with lots of sweating and straining. while it's upside down and immobilised. and then it's just taking the slick and shiny new chain and feeding it gently through gears and between metal before pulling it taut until the derailleur is extended and the chain clicks into place and can no longer be removed. I; think I'm bicycle. I mean bisexual

[crabussy]

forgot what website I'm on apparently. peace and love on pervert planet

[catchymemes]

[agnosticians]

Smack in da Middle 2022 finals: Tarnished vs. Turdpedo

Crazy game, would highly recommend.

[teaboot]

Am I the mom friend? Absolutely not. But what I AM is the "prepared for any situation" friend, and THAT bears wisdom I can pass on

Step 1: Cargo pants, or purse, fanny pack, cool jacket, backpack, etc.

Step 2:

Folded-up plastic bag

Tweezers

Chapstick

Small knife

Lighter

Band-aids

Hand sanitizer

Hard candy

Travel-size Tylenol

Needle and thread

Safety pin

Bus fare

Charger

Pen/flashlight combo

Sticky notes

Granola bar

Tampon

Pad

Mini multi-head screwdriver

Zipock of tissue

Bottle opener

Hockey tape

This can be a lot to unload and re-load if you're a cargo pants person, but if you like me are not really a purse person I highly recommend either a cool jacket you can sew secret pockets into or a spare water bottle you can grab 'n' go whenever

I share this because being the guy who always has The Thing You Need is the best feeling in the world and I think more people should experience it

[literary-illuminati]

I forget if there's some in-universe explanation for it (very possible, given the setting), but just suddenly had the thought that the Watch uniforms all being dyed black is just an utterly ruinously expensive flex on the rooks' part, isn't it?

[coruscantknave]

I do remember the in-universe handwave being something about the Watch having a utter monopoly on some snail species that can be used to make a black dye (with this also being a source of funding for the Watch)

[gwennafran]

The Watch having monopoly - and being the only one using this exact black colour - not only is great PR and explaining the big use of black.

But if you think the Discord had not obsessed over this for years before the reveal, and spent way too long obsessing over the snail the moment it was introduced (ignoring the actual chapter plot for that week), you don't actually know the Discord patreon channels. XD

Anyway, the Watch having uniforms at all is a giant absurd flex in it's own. This really was not a standard of the Renaissance. At all. To the point where it's kinda moving into one of fantasy elements of Pale Lights.

Colouring them all black in a special super limited tone only they can use is just extra flexing on top.

[misscammiedawn]

Common misconception is that the shy and introverted period where a person joins a new group is them waiting to take down their walls and show their real personality.

In actuality it's the period where the shy and introverted person who chooses their words very carefully is studying the group with Terminator vision studying all their habits and downloading them.

The point where they "open up" is when they feel they can seamlessly fit in and emulate the group dynamic.

[flutterbyagain]

I feel like someone has just exposed me.

[crazy-brazilian]

[puppygirllaika]

#if the portals don't share a reference frame then there's sound logic that gets either answer unfortunately#it isn't properly defined and the vibes can lead you to A or B being correct

wait no please explain, how could it be A? like, genuinely, what is the chain of reasoning for that?

[agnosticians]

If the orange portal keeps moving afterwards, it's pretty unambiguously B. But as soon as you have accelerating portals, things get weird.

This video has a well animated explanation of why: https://youtube.com/watch?v=IhEaw3Kuhf0&t=14m57s

[sad-fire]

what they dont tell you about being touch starved is that even after a lot of cuddling you need more and more and more and

[soapdispensersalesman]

I can't stress enough how much I miss StumbleUpon

[zevveli]

StumbleUpon once sent me to a supercut of Lion King, Lion King 1 1/2, and Lion King II, the main edit being that the scenes of Lion King and Lion King 1 1/2 were interspersed so that they happened in the order they actually happened.

[redpandarascal]

stumbleupon not existing anymore can be directly traced to a dramatic decline in my mental health, I could do a thesis on it.

[musashi]

bestie stumbleupon very much still exists its just called cloudhiker now. i use it all the time.

[lesbiassoon]

mini compilation of suggestions from the replies:

The Bored Button - "Press the Bored Button and be bored no more."

The Useless Web

Cloudhiker - "Discover the most interesting, weird and awesome websites of the Internet" (not really a rebrand, it's a different person running it but they have the same intention in mind)

Astronaut.io - "These videos come from YouTube. They were uploaded in the last week and have titles like DSC 1234 and IMG 4321. They have almost zero previous views. They are unnamed, unedited, and unseen (by anyone but you)."

Marginalia - "This is an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed."

[no-one-offical]

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[totally-cis-offical]

I used to love take me to a useless website

[contextfreepatentart]

[xalatath]

SMOKED SALMON IS THE ONLY THING THAT NUMBS THE PAIN

[voidandradiance]

the most disorienting thing thats ever happened to me was when a linguistics major stopped in the middle of our conversation, looked me in the eye, and said, "you have a very interesting vernacular. were you on tumblr in 2014?" and i had to just stand there and process that one for a good ten seconds

[booksandchainmail]

#i was in a car with a linguist i had never met before the car trip and like half an hour in he looked at me#after i finished describing a geology thing that was happening out the window and asked if i'd ever spent much time on tumblr#the fuckor of it all#and then we spent six more hours driving#it sure does leave linguistic markers! i'm not sure i'm good with it (tags via @thoughtsformtheuniverse)

[issela-santina]

it is one thing to be a linguist and another to be a linguist who knows enough of 2010s Tumblr to spot one of its enjoyers

[lierdumoa]

Oh! @meret118 see above comment! The use of the word "enjoyers" instead of "users" or "bloggers" -> You left a comment a while back asking, "Does this just mean vocabulary words? Other than blorbo and sweet cinnamon roll etc, I can't think of what a Tumblr accent would be." I almost never see anyone use the word "enjoyer" anywhere outside of tumblr, but I see it on tumblr fairly frequently.

Another one is the verb "perceive" i.e. "don't perceive me" "I am perceiving" "I am being percieved." That's something that feels very specific to tumblr parlance.

There's the thing where people on tumblr have an emotional reaction to something and instead of, or in addition to telling you how they feel about it using emotion words, they will narrate a fictional action in the present progressive tense. "I am gnawing at the bars of my enclosure "I am kissing you on the mouth" "you are going into the soup" "you are getting all of the awards"

I once saw someone use that response format in ... I think it was a restaurant review, or a doordash review, or something like that. It was very unexpected seeing it outside of a tumblr post.

There are a lot of other tumblr linguistic quirks I can't currently remember off the top of my head, but I'll instantly recognize them if I see/hear them outside of tumblr. It's always a bit startling to see them out of context.

[pacificnorthwhore]

[i-wear-the-cheese]

when I was in university one of my modules was about internet slang and for our grades project we had to compile and analyse a small database of 100 words used by a specific community of our choice. I chose tumblr and that's how I stumbled across Gretchen McCulloch's research and discovered that yes not only did tumblr have its own vernacular and syntax (as @lierdumoa demonstrates), it was at the time a crucible of slang and memes probably unrivalled by any other part of the internet. and it's stayed that way! even the very title is McCulloch's book because internet is an example of this specific phraseology.

sadly my project is lost due to the website being wiped from the university database after graduation and my then laptop having a major hardware failure. backup your backups people! but the crux of the entire module was that the internet is full of communities using language not only as jargon for specific purpose but also to signal membership in said community. I even wrote a bit about non capitalisation and punctuation useage as a visual cue on tumblr and how including information in the reblog body or the tags indicated different levels of importance or intimacy of thought

I am holding the side of your face and looking deep in your eyes and telling you that love is stored in the syntax, and that we are rotating words together all at once as we all nod at their new and baffling meanings. if the devils sacrament be tumblr then the devils gospel is our collective voice. thanks for coming to my tedtalk

[weirdchristmas]

I am being perceived.

[catchymemes]

[thenightisland]

people trying to insist a fandom is tiny when it /only/ has a few thousand works on ao3 meanwhile my current fandom is a sixteen book series and has several hundred fewer works than goncharov, a movie that, and i cannot stress this enough, doesn’t even exist

[feathersandblue]

#measuring the size of fandoms based on their goncharov index#this has been a useless text post you may now resume your normal programming#rote has a goncharov index of 0.63#for perspective ofmd has an index of 26.5#spn’s is 360.8#the cosmere is 2.26 for a fantasy book comparison#i am very normal

The Goncharov Index, everyone.

[sebarial-the-economist]

The teacher in me can’t resist the temptation to explain.

Goncharov Index = # of fics on AO3 for your fandom ÷ number of fics in on AO3 about Goncharov.

At current count Goncharov has 835 fics.

Meanwhile, the cosmere is up to 3780, so its current G.I. is 4.52.

[agnosticians]

We can use dBs for this because it's a ratio :D

So the Cosmere has an index of 6.56 dBg