This is an ass-covering response to school shootings, because some of the shooters have expressed their intent before.

A strip search obviously isn’t necessary even if it’s a credible threat; a metal detector wand and basic pat down is more than enough to ensure someone doesn’t have a gun. This wasn’t a credible threat though, and a chat with the school counselor would have been the right way to handle this.

Snapchat’s automated detection software picked up the comment, the company alerted the FBI, and the girl was arrested on school grounds within hours.

Someone should tell the kids about Signal.

As for monitoring on school computers, that seems OK to me if it’s disclosed to the students and parents in advance. What’s problematic is the responses, which seem much more focused on ass-covering than student welfare. I imagine most 13 year olds have made jokes about killing people once or twice and any adult with common sense would be able to tell they’re jokes.

Not Lemmy, unless the post tags a community.

Yes, but Musk makes inappropriate offers to impregnate women regularly, so this isn’t surprising.

My Rockchip 3399 powered former Chromebook (now running proper Linux) from 2017 runs Gnome smoothly with Wayland, not with Xorg.

That’s reasonable to directly compare with phones from 2017; it’s slower than a Pixel 2. Mine actually benchmarks a little slower than the reference board linked here.

It isn’t working as it should be if it doesn’t run smoothly on more powerful hardware, but it’s not necessarily a matter of the end user “doing something wrong”. Sometimes it takes effort to get a particular combination of hardware and software to run smoothly even though it should work.

A flashlight is literally one of the simplest electronic devices there is

You might be surprised at everything going on inside a modern flashlight. I’ll grant that it’s probably easier to find room for extra seals around the port than in a smartwatch though.

If you mean a USB-C port in general, they can be made waterproof. If you mean something specific to putting one in the most compact form factor possible, that might be true.

That sounded too weird to be true yet it’s true. The problem seems to be that it generates some HTML to wrap the attached audio file, does voice to text, and doesn’t escape an ampersand, which trips a firewall.

It’s bad UX that it fails silently there too; at least the recipient should get some sort of explanation.

They also didn’t win sideloading on the IPhone, which would have benefitted users and open source projects. The outside payments they did win will benefit commercial developers (with some price drops for users).

Sending a message should never fail silently, so that’s an improvement, but fuck whoever decided this.

They don’t have to offer backroom incentives to the sort of organizations that want to use attestation. That would be a good future target for antitrust courts, as I’m pretty sure Google’s primary motivation to add it was Amazon launching a phone in 2014 without Google services. Amazon didn’t need Google’s help to fail at that, but perhaps the next company to try was dissuaded.

As Apple recently discovered, willful noncompliance with the antitrust court is a bad plan. Google will probably be wary of backroom deals in the short term.

If you’re a citizen of an EU country, you should contact your politicians to tell them not to, maybe they won’t.

It only has to pass once, and they keep trying.

Oh, no doubt they would if they could. I’m not saying they’re more ethical than Google; I’m saying they’re less powerful than Google.

Still ironic though that Epic games is the main proponent, but yet they do the exact same thing on their store paying for exclusives.

The tactic only becomes illegal when it confers the ability to exclude competitors from the market.

Google has successfully excluded all meaningful competitors from the Android app distribution market. Even big companies like Samsung and Amazon have been unable to operate a profitable app store. Epic is not likely to exclude competitors from the game store market in the near future.

From the article:

developers can opt out if they don’t want their apps to be available more widely

So it won’t affect that.

This is typical of forum software. Some have access controls, but they’re at the admin/moderator level.

Matrix is commonly used for public, discoverable rooms, much like IRC or Discord. Perhaps it’s not good for that use case, but the author seems to wish it was.

An effective spam prevention approach is a basic feature of any public communication service that reaches a certain size. Perhaps keyword filtering as the author suggests isn’t the right approach, but some rate limits would help:

• Private messages from a new contact could notify just once until approved instead of once per message.
• Servers could limit the number of outstanding message requests, with a low limit for new accounts.

Google pushed out competitors using partnerships only they could afford, then intentionally made search worse so people would see more ads.

Be the change you want to see

On my flashlight review website, every article links to a corresponding post on !flashlight@lemmy.world and displays comments from there.

Not much links to it. It’s really rare that I see a blog, social media, or non-fediverse forum post link to a Lemmy post. That sort of thing still matters quite a bit to search engines.