App stores shouldn’t have to register at all. If nothing is done about Google’s plans to require developer registration to release apps, then their monopoly will be stronger than ever.

Agreed; I was just disagreeing with the article’s implication that the U.S.'s involvement in Ukraine under Trump has been in any way beneficial.

Ukraine has been a forgotten war in the eyes of the U.S. ever since Trump became president; he doesn’t care about a conflict unless there’s something in it for him to gain.

Trump knowingly and willfully put their lives in danger.

At least with Proton VPN, it seems that some VPN servers are blocked while others aren’t. Trying with one server worked, while another resulted in a 403 Forbidden error.

Seems like the solution is to just change VPN servers until you find one with an IP that isn’t blocked. Otherwise, the Torrentio configuration page shows the following message, and Torrentio itself can’t be used in Stremio:

If you use Torrentio with Stremio, Torrentio blocks VPNs, though I don’t know why a VPN block would be impacting one platform but not another.

We’ve known Trump is a liar since long before he ran for office, that’s not news.

Truth Social is not indie, and an indie Nazi is still a Nazi.

Because it’s still officially called the Department of Defense; only Congress can rename it.

More broadly, it illustrates the administration’s use of illegal boat strikes and regime change as a foreign policy tool.

Windows Central shouldn’t be parroting the U.S. government in mislabeling the Department of Defense.

People need homes, schools, hospitals, businesses, and infrastructure, not a football stadium.

I’m guessing they geoblock Europe to avoid needing to comply with the GDPR.

Agreed; Discord is trying to lull people into a false sense of security as a means of convincing them to stay, in the same manner that Reddit gave limited API access to apps like RedReader to stem the tide of users leaving for platforms like Lemmy.

Beyond age verification, if Discord is scanning a user’s messaging history to determine what their age is, one can only imagine all the other data valuable to data brokers that they are extracting from it too.

“Too late” isn’t even relevant anyway, they’re still doing it, so everyone should still be leaving.

I wouldn’t call it a backslide—that implies policies actively getting worse—more of a slowdown.

There’s websites with paywalls that even Bypass Paywalls Clean can’t bypass. In cases that it can, it sometimes just fetches the article contents from archive.today.

That doesn’t mean an alternative shouldn’t be found, but we also shouldn’t pretend that nothing is being lost by losing access to unpaywalled sources. For practical purposes, a paywalled source means no source for most readers, unless a non-paywalled alternative can be found to replace it.

While archive.org is good and more trustworthy than archive.is, it isn’t as useful for bypassing paywalls.