It's kind of like how people who buy lottery tickets help pay for our schools.

I used to use honestly quite a bit and then noticed how unnecessary it was (does it ever improve a sentence?) and how overused it is on Reddit.

I've also pretty much dropped just from my vocabulary when I'm talking about an alternative way to do something.

There are a bunch of people here who are university students and Hamas support isn't as low as you might think on western campuses.

Hamas support or Palestinian support?

Something like 7 iOS phones are sold every second of the day and there are even more Android phones sold. The number of people who care about this issue is far too few for any kind of boycott to be noticed by the handset makers. The only option is to appeal to Google's sense of what's right.

In the time it took you to read this comment, 200 phones were sold.

Highly technically knowledgeable people are more influential in this sphere than the average consumer. If developers hate your device and love your competitor, that's a real problem.

It's not clear to me what the net outcome is.

I've mostly owned Android devices but for my family I've always recommended iOS devices because they are more locked down.

> The problem with mandatory developer registration, is that it gives Google and Governments the ability to veto apps.

Don't they already have that power?

You can download any APK you like on the internet and run it without google/gov getting in the way

No they don't?

No, that is one reason why they are pushing for these changes.

No judgement whatsoever, but for almost everyone they too will think, no big deal you only install software through stores right? Nothing changes for them, in fact they can't conceive of an alternative anymore.

That's true.

How can you judge if Google's plan is a good one? Add up the harms caused by the new rules and weigh that against the reduction in harm and see where the balance is?

I have a hard time believing the net outcome for the overall Android community would be negative.

I wonder if after services like 23andMe became popular and millions of people found out they have the Alzheimer genes, did donations towards brain research rise?

What are they? I've read about basic lifestyle suggestions (diet and exercise), but I consider that the baseline. What can be done beyond that?

Lots of good info here: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11771116/

Look up some of the more recent treatments - many of which will get better with time. That's why detecting Alzheimer's early is a big deal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lecanemab

I’ve never thought of blueberries as a nootropic before.

Is this similar to what you can get with Doxygen?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxygen#/media/File:Doxygen-1....

That would be my question too...

> The algorithm has no idea what to show you.

If you run into somebody you don't know, your first instinct shouldn't be to start showing them porn.

I don't use Facebook but I do use YouTube and their recommendations are horrendously bad for me. So many AI videos.

For some reason last night it thought I wanted to see bogus videos of porch pirates stealing a package that's actually a glitter bomb. I clicked through to the comments and the top comment was something like "Who are these AI videos for?" and the response was something like "Me. I know they are fake but I like seeing thieves get what's coming to them."

Mike Judge is a prophet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWfOMeLk6m0

Facebook still knows what websites you've been visiting, even if you haven't logged in for eight years. The Facebook Pixel tracks page visits, and it's easy to join your Facebook account to your browsing history if you ever log into any website using your email address. Assuming you are usually using the same computer or IP, the user profile could be pretty detailed. It's actually surprising they don't do better here.