An Unreal Engine app that just renders a Chromium page as far as I understand. Essentially using their own version of Electron made using the guts of one of the most complex game engines. Truly an unholy abomination.
It probably doesn't though. Obviously it's closed source making it harder to tell what's actually happening, but there's nothing stopping security analysts from looking at network usage and such. I would imagine that Google doesn't install a keylogger on every Android phone, not out of the goodness of their hearts, but because they don't want the bad publicity and lawsuits when it would inevitably be discovered.
New York really needs to get their shit together. They have the most anomalous memory zones of anywhere in the country. I don't even get the logic of running the metro in a deja vu area. If this continues, they risk a mass memory incident where the entire city gets forgotten. Hell, I don't even remember the name of my cousin who lives there.
One of Discord's targets is web, and I don't think there is another good UI toolkit that could maintain that target with easy feature parity. Some UI toolkits like Godot (which is a game engine) are capable of targeting web using a canvas element, but that's probably not going to be as performant or as native feeling as a standard website. They could also use a separate code base, but then there would be large feature parity issues. They could also drop the web target, but that might make it harder for users who don't have permission to install software or use Chrome OS.
I feel like Discord is one of the examples where Electron makes sense. If only they allowed third party apps so desktop users who don't care about having every feature can have a better experience.
Reference to the video game Baba is You. I haven't played it but it but you essentially reprogram aspects of the game by moving blocks around. From what I understand, to win you must move whatever block "is you" to whatever block "is win" the player made itself "is win" leaving nothing for "is you" heanse being "youless" a pun on this meme normally saying clueless.
It's a bit annoying that the Reddit mods are reopening the community after moving a bunch of people elsewhere. Now we have a Raddle, Lemmy, Discord, and Reddit 196 each with different moderators.
Considering the Reddit has almost 50 times the number of subscribers as the Lemmy, I would assume that will be the most popular one, though we will probably have a higher percent of active users.
I would hope that eventually the different mods of the different 196s could do some form of cross-site collaboration to have unity between the 196s but I don't know what that could entail. Maybe the next 196 r/place could shout out the Lemmy community for example.
Going to Lemmy to complain about "left-wing extremists" is kind of funny especially since the instance's only real political stance is promoting gay/trans rights.
Please use this official mascot for Calckey because it's funnier 
196 is by far the largest local community here, make sure to check out the other ones to help support the blahaj zone. Also, blahaj.zone hosts a Calckey instance which is like a Twitter alternative that can communicate with Mastodon. The Calckey seems to be under stress due to Twitter being down and a flood of new users, so be patient I guess.
Great design everybody.
The Raddle 196 has been obsessed with Brickposting, so I decided to bring that here.
“If you’re a politician or a business owner, you are accountable to your constituents. So a politician needs to be elected, and a business owner can be fired by its shareholders,” he said.
“And I think, on Reddit, the analogy is closer to the landed gentry: The people who get there first get to stay there and pass it down to their descendants, and that is not democratic.”
Pro-business people always have the craziest ideas of democracy. Does he really believe that shareholders making decisions is, in any way, democratic??
Also possible (and likely) that the people making the remake didn't get the joke.