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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Yes, that is absolutely correct.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I do in fact use unrefined, brown cane sugar, although I have not tried panela specifically.

The one I use pretty much looks like this:

It's an organic fair trade brand, but I'd have to look up where it is imported from.

As I said, I can't imagine making it with any other kind of sugar any more. Sorghum seems like an interesting idea, might have to experiment with that.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The key to amazing banana bread is to make it with soft, brown sugar. The stuff that is clumpy, glistening with moisture, reminiscent of molasses. It adds so much to the flavor. And actual nuts, of course.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

It's not like Bluetooth started demanding location permissions, the conceptual model of the permission was revised: having access Bluetooth means an app could determine your location via a form of lateration.

In earlier versions of smartphone operating systems, this was not transparent to users lacking the technical background, so Bluetooth also requiring location access is actually an attempt at making users aware of that. I'm not an iOS developer, so I can't comment on iPhones, but on Android versions prior to 11, having access to Bluetooth meant an app would be able to determine your location.

Today, you can require the permission ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION, which expresses that your app might use Bluetooth to obtain location information on Android. Also, if you're just scanning for nearby devices to connect your app to, but don't want users to be confused why your smart fridge app needs to know your precise location, you can declare a permission flag (neverForLocation) and Android will strip beacon information from the scan results, better asserting your intentions.

So, overall: no, there is nothing nefarious going on, it was always possible to determine your location via Bluetooth, and the update to the permission model was an honest improvement that actually benefits you as user.

Now, there are still plenty of shady apps around, and apps that are poorly written - don't use those.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

They really had the gall to mention the benefits for families moving in.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What's a good way to financially support artists directly, without involving shady corporations, and without resorting to piracy?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

This, however, is about diagnostics, i. e. annotating delete with a reason (message) to express developer intent when deleting a function, not about memory management.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I wrote some allocators for IBM's JVM eons ago, I get that. As much as I hate Java, I wish it would be related this time.

Unfortunately, I was talking about the Joe Rogan Experience.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Deezer also doesn't host JRE and they didn't provide a platform for literal nazis, so advantages all around.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I lift and I sew. Fuck that noise, you do you.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

You mean the company that had a feature in place that allowed law enforcement to request and access video footage from your devices without obtaining a warrant first?

As expected, their security measures were also found to be lacking.

Yeah, no thanks.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

NewPipe stops working whenever Google updates YouTube with a breaking change that NewPipe needs to integrate then, e. g. renaming parameters, changing URLs and the like.

NewPipe has been steadily working for years, with the expected interrupts as they have to play catch up with YouTube. That typically only lasts a few days, sometimes hours, though.

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