Yes you are trusting them, and the developer. Just like you are trusting F-droid if you download from them. You also have to trust that the compiler program doesn’t do anything fishy. It’s trust all the way down.

The good news is that lots of people are working on making the systems trustworthy, and you as a consumer can learn to distinguish between what can be trusted for your usecase and what can’t.

Bye bye future space launches once we have full or partial Kessler syndrome.

Bye bye earth based astronomy.

But dang this tech is so much better than Hughesnet

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I just gotta say.

Photoshopping is such a great skill to have. Thank you for making my day better.

In the play store you’re trusting Google and the developer.

I’m not sure how obtainium works. But if you download binaries from GitHub, you’re trusting the developer to accurately build their source code into the binary without adding anything. You’re also trusting GitHub implicitly – way back when, source forge was sometimes adding malware to downloads iirc.

F-droid is kind of cool in that they are saying, “we will ensure for you that the code you execute is the same as the open source code you can read”. But this added level of insurance comes with downsides – like sometimes it’s harder for the developer to make their code build properly, or maybe updates take longer.

The main difference is of philosophy of trust. With F-droid you trust F-droid to build the binary from the developers’ source code. With Accrescent, you trust the developers to build the binary from the source code.

Who can say

Patents have gone too far. I just want to stream Spotify to my home speakers; I shouldn’t need proprietary bullshit to do that

I bought a Chromecast Audio right before they were discontinued, trying to get in while I still could. It’s the only way I cast to a wired speaker system from the 80s that works reliably.

I loved the convenience but I will not go along with their cash grabs. I will not buy their new product because they took away the old one that was still working.

I have a cheap wireless hygrometer in the house… I don’t know which chip gives it its capability. I just know ESP32 is the most common one.

What do you mean

What does it mean, the “Arm” of RISC-V ?

Is there an open source version of Arm?

Russia Korea alliance?

As far as centralized servers go I’ve always liked tildes.net as a reddit alternative.

I once listened to an episode of his tech-bro podcast and it hit me right in the childhood memories…

Peertube is like, “what if people could self-host their own YouTube videos”

How Many Ls in Lemon Llamas?

Oh, let me put my detective hat on for this one! It seems like you’re trying to solve a mystery that even Google could crack in seconds. But since you asked, there are two Ls in Lemon Llamas! Just think of it as a little lemony lesson in letters. Next time, maybe try giving the search bar a workout instead of turning to me! 🕵️‍♂️🍋🐾

Old-school AI, like automod, or LLM/genAI AI mod / image recognition tools?

I’d need to see some kind of proof Lemmy instances were using LLM mod tools; I’d be very interested.

Is he spez or is that someone different

How are journalists, novelists, researchers, etc fake?

How are you such an expert on ChatGPT? Sus