https://lemmings.world/u/cm0002 posted on Mar 7, 2026 20:19
“Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future” is a new report from Forbrukerrådet. The report itself is a light read: it’s in English, and while it is 100 pages long [PDF], it is in fact enjoyable and even amusing – we laughed quite a few times when reading it. For one thing, it contains a surprising number of puns and the occasional starred-out swearword, such as “Do androids dream of electric s***.” A stodgy bureaucratic report this is not.
Truly a brilliant move by Iran. Hit them in the pocketbook.
I’m actually shocked that rich oligarchs aren’t sitting their pants about this war - their fortunes are far more fragile than the wealth of the past.
By injecting a prompt into a GitHub issue title, which an my butt triage bot read, an attacker was able to install OpenClaw onto 4000 developer’s computers. But it could have been used to install any npm package - the sky is the limit.
Hmm, the fear that everyone was concerned about when Microslop injected Coslop into it’s latest acquisition is coming to pass. Glad I didn’t start my first project on a compromised GitHub.
Interesting, sounds good. But, from the article…
Does anyone remember when you could simply unclip, remove and exchange laptop batteries with just your fingernails?
Pepperidge Farm remembers…
How are they as actual laptops?
I got a Lenovo Yoga years ago and while the insides were decent for the money, the build quality was plastic crap.
I’d be interested to hear how the more flagship and business focused offering stands up.
for those not familiar with Mark Pilgrim, he is/was a prolific author, blogger, and hacker who abruptly disappeared from the internet in 2011.
The era of the 30 percent app store cut has ended.
[Google] tried unsuccessfully to have the verdict reversed, but then Epic came to the rescue. In late 2025, the companies announced a settlement that skipped many of the court’s orders.
Epic leadership professed interest in leveling the playing field for all developers on Android’s platform. But US District Judge James Donato expressed skepticism of the settlement in January, noting that it may be a “sweetheart deal” that benefited Epic more than other developers. The specifics of the arrangement were not fully disclosed, but it included lower Play Store fees, cross-licensing, attorneys’ fees, and other partnership offers.
The best option for people in other countries that believe in freedom and justice (in the true sense, not in the American polemical sense) is to get rid of all American platforms. At least in tech, there isn’t a single major US platform that’s not involved in open criminality (and even crimes against humanity) and/or have an outright malicious attitude towards customers.
Another option would be full white-labeling with transfer of regional IP (copyright, trademarks, patent - everything) and any key operational infrastructure. Essentially, the US HQ would have zero control over of the platform and would get a small fee and that’s it.
One small step forward, under the shadow of Google’s looming threat to crack down on the concept of self-ownership of any device with that cute little robot logo. For independent developers still publishing on the Play Store, this is, for the moment, better than nothing.
The settlement affirms that developers in the Play Store will be able to steer users to other forms of payment. This is what got Fortnite pulled from the Play Store (and Apple App Store) back in 2020. When developers choose to use Google’s billing platform, they’ll pay lower fees as well.