NoProvider2Push is a good call! Haven’t paid attention to that, thanks!

Yeah, as I said earlier it wasn’t completely clear to me if this was only a question about push notifications or just all-round play services replacement. That is why I also mentioned SunUp which uses UnifiedPush.

“Criticize”? How dare you! 😂 It was only intended as light ribbing as far as I’m concerned, I fully acknowledge the “foolish” part.

You mean worse?

TBF, that should be the conclusion in all contexts where “AI” are cconcerned.

I’m not sure what you’re asking. There is microG that spoofs Play services to apps. That’s been around for several years.

You can also find open source push notification apps on f-droid. Some of those might require a self hosted server, while for example Sunup uses Mozilla’s server.

Whether those work on your device probably depends on your ability to root it 🤷

It looks like it’s a Webfinger implementation to parse the ActivityPub user URI. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35750312

The @user@instance.tld format has become a convention across most if not all ActivityPub platforms. In the end the software will look up https://instance.tld/user anyway.

I agree that having Gold back seems a little unoriginal, even pandering to nostalgia. His 15th Doctor theme is inspired, but unless we get a narrative reason for all the music from 2005-17 that has been recycled into the past 1½ seasons… I’ll have to say he’s phoning it in.

Akinola was a welcome change of pace, especially his take on the title theme. The incidental music during Thirteen’s run was a little too much like video game ambience loops for my taste. Sometimes it seemed to just be there to fill in silences?

But it’s not their call as composers how the music is actually used, I guess. And Akinola’s score definitely made that era stand out with its own sonic identity. I would have preferred something new and fresh for Gatwa’s run, too.

Meta will want to normalize these

Of course they will; it worked so well with Google Glass.

“Federated” — why? My immediate questions are: What purpose does federation serve in this context? How are song lyrics like Mastodon updates or Peertube videos?

Federation is great for some purposes, but not for all.

Hmm, at 02:10 they’re shooting a scene of Conrad with Ruby’s mothers in Carla’s kitchen. I don’t recall that from the final episode, am I blanking on something here?

coming off of an election in Canada

Oof, yeah. It does hit home, doesn’t it? As I understand it, your election ended less terrible than could be expected, though? But we are going to struggle through this polarised climate for a good while yet, I’m afraid.

Ha, maybe not. But his influence was entirely based on his media savvy, so I’d think producing watchable video would be in that toolkit.

Oh, also — if you’re entering a facility with a chest-mounted GoPro to expose what goes on in there? Don’t cover the camera every time you raise your weapon, moron.

I may not know much about weapons, but I’ve seen enough found footage films to know that entire livestream was a waste of time.

Wow, that was a bold, twisty episode. So much so, the story felt a bit convoluted: if Conrad and Ruby’s relationship had been seeded as a subplot over a few episodes maybe it would have worked better?

I did appreciate the midway turn, heartbreaking as it was. Conrad being such a tryhard up to that point was starting to grate, and it actually felt like a relief that it was an act he put on. Not that I prefer the face behind the mask, but them’s the knocks.

The commentary on “do your own research”, fact resistant online personalities cut hard. This is the Years and years Russell T Davies writing that also bubbled under the surface of “The giggle”. [Edit: I only realised hours later that the episode is written by Pete McThighe… A worthy improvement over “Kerblam” and “Praxeus”]

It was also good to see how it works out (or in this case, doesn’t) having a secretive defense organisation with a huge shiny tower in the middle of London. In our media environment, some idiot with a webcam is going to ask all the wrong questions about it and spread conclusions based on conjecture.

In this context, Kate Stewart’s reaction felt justified in the moment, but you have to ask yourself how streaming that to the world improved UNIT’s public standing… She did reveal herself as an authoritarian, if a compassionate one at that, and it should give us pause as viewers.

I did like the scenes with Ruby’s homefront matriarchy — Cherry is MVP in any episode she appears in! — and I would just like to see more of that brought-together family relation to ground Ruby more? But I’m happy with what we got, if I got my way this could have become another full Ruby season… and I do prefer the Belinda version we have instead.

The Doctor’s appearances were scarce but meaningful to me. We needed to see Ruby and UNIT without him, but also to acknowledge that he isn’t always coming to the rescue. That last scene with an entirely unrepenting Conrad showed the limits of even the Doctor’s ability to talk his way out of a situation.

What can you do when compassion and empathy simply bounces off the person you’re trying to reach? That is a very real and current question, and I’m sort of glad that the show didn’t try to answer that neatly for the sake of a feelgood ending.

Quick notes I jotted down while watching:

Mel’s on her way to Sydney. Something’s happening in the harbour

Oh, the harbour — that spot Between the Land And the Sea, you say? Mel is confirmed for that spinoff then, I suppose.

Jordan, you’re with me.

Ouch! It was nice knowing you, random extra who is suddenly named. You may have been a conspiratorial nutjob mole, but nice all the same.

Have you met Belinda Chandra yet?

That’s one big question from the season opener answered, then. It was Conrad who (in a bit of a bootstrap paradox) set the Doctor on Belinda’s trail. All things considered, it’s a bit odd that the Doctor didn’t make the connection when they met a Conrad in 2007. Let’s see if we get to revisit any of that toward the finale.

Have you tried the Wayback machine?

Companies like OpenAI built “Super AI”

Let me stop you right there. No they didn’t, and at this rate they never will. What we have is shit “AI”, and if your solution to that builds on more shit “AI”, you’ll end up with a Jurassic Park sized midden.

Everything past that first false premise is best read as satire.

Same here, unemployed workers are workers too ✊

Right, it was the local filesharing part (like at a W/LAN party) that I wanted to recommend pirate box for, so I overlooked the other functions 🙂

Either way, bookmarked your GH repo for future reference, excellent project!

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