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It's important for devices to have internet connectivity so the manufacturer can patch remote exploits.
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It's important for devices to have internet connectivity so the manufacturer can patch remote exploits.

Nextcloud claims Google is being anticompetitive

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Nextcloud provides an open-source collaboration platform called Nextcloud Hub, which includes file-sharing and syncing features. The company has written a blog post explaining that Google has revoked a critical permission from the Nextcloud Files app for Android that allows it to sync files to Nextcloud Hub.

Google is stating security concerns as a reason for revoking the permission. This is hard to believe for us. Nextcloud has had this feature since its inception in 2016, and we have never heard about any security concerns from Google about it. Moreover, several Big Tech apps as well as Google's own still have this. What we think: Google owning the platform means they can and are giving themselves preferential treatment.

Despite multiple appeals since mid-2024, Google has refused to reinstate the permission, blocking automated Nextcloud file uploads for millions of users.

The Nextcloud app available via F-Droid does not have this limitation, but the post notes that that is not an option for many users.

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A comic about a smoke detector

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Anachronym Challenge

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I have to pay with paper money.
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Linoleum flooring
Shellac varnish
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Mechanical pencil lead
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dlwright
80 days ago
Not quite the same, since it was only ever graphite. That's a different list. Like Cotton Candy.
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I have to pay with paper money.

Tariffs

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[later] I don't get why our pizza slices have such terrible reviews; the geotextile-infused sauce gives the toppings incredible slope stability!
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ChristianDiscer
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Incorrect analogy – More like;
1) You want a pizza made from another region.
2) However, you must sell them some your ingredients before it can be made.
3) They charge a “tariff” to protect the income of their local farmer’s for other ingredients. You’re willing to pay the “tariff” because you like your ingredients better.
4) The pizza maker sells you the final pizza with a standard sales tax but no tariff
5) You paid the higher price and they made money from the tariff.

Trump is charging tariffs to increase the costs from other regions for several reasons. A) To negotiate down tariffs from other regions. B) Lower tariffs mean you pay a lower cost for your special pizza. C) To whittle down our regions deficit. D) and/or To increase local “ingredients” growth at lower cost for you.
sirwired
83 days ago
The analogy Randall posted was perfect. It’s based on that ridiculous chart the president displayed showing “tariff” rates all over the world allegedly imposed on the US. It was not, in fact, the average import duty charged, or any number even tangentially related to it, like indirect tariffs through subsidy. Instead, it was ( Trade Deficit / Import Value ) This produces a number that has nothing whatsoever to do with tariffs at all. Let’s say NowhereStan exports $1B of gold every year to the US, but gets all their material needs supplied by LocalRepublic, except for $1M a year of US bourbon, imported duty-free.In the real world, the tariff imposed by NowhereStan on the US is 0%. Using Trump Math, it’s 99.9%. This “We just don’t happen make to something the other party wants to buy, so we should punish them for it.” is what the strip is making fun of, not the general concept of tariffs.
bluebec
82 days ago
You (someone in the US) wants a pizza with ground beef on it. However, the US doesn't have enough cattle to meet demand for ground beef (true fact), so the US imports extra beef to meet demand. You (the person wanting the pizza with ground beef), pay an extra tax because the beef on your pizza was imported. The producer of the beef does not pay the tax. The importer of the beef pays the tax and passes it along the supply chain until you eventually pay for it. Now you're being taxed extra because the US Government (Trump) wants to claim it's being tough on the world while completely failing to understand how economies and tarrifs work. Tarrifs in the end make things more expensive for end users. How much extra is your car, computer, phone, clothing, shoes, medicine and food going to cost you?
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Explains with stick figures, XKCD goes to the heart of the matter of tariffs and STILL manages to make a joke!
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The line break after "The President is mad" is absolutely perfect and frankly the sentence could have ended there just fine.
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Finally, a way to explain it that my wife can relate to.
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[later] I don't get why our pizza slices have such terrible reviews; the geotextile-infused sauce gives the toppings incredible slope stability!

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Child

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Click here to go see the bonus panel!

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Ohh, you meant a romanticized well-behaved child in a permanent state of the kind of wonder actual children achieve three or four times a year.


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