Huh. So this is a Blog.

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.

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

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

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93 DAYS UNTIL LOCKDOWN

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

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.

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 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)."

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.

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

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