The app ID is com.google.android.verifier, which I assume will be used for the upcoming developer verification program for installing 3rd party apps.

Starting September 30, developers (signing authors) need to be verified from Google to distribute apps in the following app stores:

• Google Play Store
• Honor App Market
• OPPO App Market
• Samsung Galaxy Store
• Transsion Palm Store
• vivo V-Appstore and
• Xiaomi GetApps

only in the countries of Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand.

F-Droid is not included for this time.

It is planned to be rolled out globally across all markets/app stores by January of 2027.

Relevant sources:
https://developer.android.com/developer-verification/guides
https://keepandroidopen.org/

I used App Manager (io.github.muntashirakon.AppManager) for the screenshot; you can use your regular 'Installed Apps'/'Apps' menu to see if it's been rolled out automatically for you as well.

From Rendy Shuya

Camouflaged Burrowing Owl - Aug 2026 - Alberta, Canada

From Cheta Chua

Tawny Fish Owl Nanling National Forest Park, Guangdong, China

One of the biggest owls in the world and 50% taller than our own eagle owl!* This owl feeds primarily on fish, our PH Eagle Owl apparently does the same but this is the first time I've ever seen an owl in the water!

OM1-MKII with OM 100-400MM F 5.0 - 6.3 II

f6.0 | 6400 ISO | 1/20s handheld

*They're referring to the Philippine Eagle Owl if that wasn't clear, NOT the Eurasian Eagle Owl you probably pictured. Photographer is posting to a Philippine birding group. Here is the Philippine Eagle Owl, which is their largest owl.

Size comparisons of the Philippine Eagle Owl, Tawny Fish, and Eurasian Eagle:

PEO: 16-20in/40-50cm
TFO: 19-24in/50-60cm
EEO: 24-30in/60-75cm

From Birding Iran

Omani Owl (Strix butleri) in east of Iran.

Amir Kouhestani found the first record of this species for South Khorasan Province in Nehbandan on June 12. Omani Owl has a vast distribution in Iran and probably it breeds in Afghanistan too.

So, I normally don't like sharing anonymous posts from essentially anonymous sources, but I couldn't find this pic shared anywhere else, so it's at least not obviously stolen, and it lead me to some interesting reading, do I'm going to share anyway.

I didn't get to read this paper in full yet to verify the claims, but it does seem a short paper was published about previously undocumented territorial expansion of both the Omani Owl and the Brown Fish Owl to Iran.

The interesting bits I saw include name changes for both owls and concerning the timeline owl the discoveries.

One suggestion is to change the name Omani Owl to Golden Owl, as it was named when it was thought to only be in Oman. The other is to name the subspecies of Brown Fish Owl to the Western Brown Fish Owl. It seems they were in the Iran area around 1900 but then went locally extinct, but are now back.

I also saw mention the owls were photographed around 10 years before they started being publicly noticed. The original photographer of the oldest known modern picture was not aware of what a rare bird they had captured in the country. I thought that was a fun fact.

I think Omani (Golden?) Owls look very unique and they're pretty rare, so I just felt like searching for some info on them.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.jeena.net/c/korea@lemmy.funami.tech/p/432676/regular-historian-vs-korean-historian

The Trans+ Solidarity Alliance (TSA) is calling on trans people and allies to join a mass lobby of Parliament next month, as campaigners seek to keep pressure on politicians over trans rights and legal protections.

The Mass Lobby for Trans Equality will take place at the Houses of Parliament on Wednesday, 9 September from1-5pm, with organisers encouraging participants to meet their MPs face-to-face and demand action.

Lyndsey Peebles, 67, pleaded guilty to sending messages of a “grossly offensive, indecent, obscene or menacing character” between 29 September and 20 October last year.

Court papers said the messages concerned the victim’s gender and were sent to cause distress, with the charge aggravated by prejudice relating to transgender identity, as reported by The National.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/51088785

‘Never seen this level of objection’: Scotland pushes back against datacentre boo

In short:

Last year three police officers arrested an Aboriginal teenager at gunpoint, pulling him off a bus before realising he was not who they were looking for.

A report from the Commonwealth and ACT Ombudsman has found the 17-year-old was searched inappropriately following his arrest.

What's next?

The ombudsman made eight recommendations, five of which were accepted in full by the AFP and ACT Policing, with three accepted in principle.

Completed (pending moderation at time of posting): https://pcpartpicker.com/b/hXFgXL

Parts list: https://pcpartpicker.com/user/yakko_at_feddit.uk/saved/#view=dcMhmG

Built this to keep me doing anything I want until computing gets cheap again, riding out the AI bubble and all. Wanted to build something for decades, always ended up compromising with prebuilts. No more!

Runs on Linux Mint (basic b to my core), does everything I ask. Renders video 10x as fast as you can watch it, plays anything.

The mobo is actually a Sapphire B850M Wifi but that wasn't in the list. Sorry!

Getting everything to fit was a nightmare. I had to use a low-profile fan for part of the AIO's length due to a piece of the motherboard's radiators extending into that area:

I also had to get an extender to make the GPU fit vertically, since it's the size of a freaking cereal box. But I've got the GPU sipping directly on ambient air, and I've configured the rear fan as an intake so the motherboard gets plenty of cool air too. Everything vents out the top. So far not much dust inside, I think I've got the positive air pressure neatly dialed in.

The LCD cap is running my own handmade graphic. Pretty happy with that, vid: https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/cce310aa-58f0-4867-b444-14d225a627bb.mp4

I also built a custom phone cradle for the USB retro phone I make work calls with. The stone is lapis lazuli.

Named this one Twinkling Titanite for the colours. All of my computers are nicknamed some variation of Titanite, this might be the end of that trend. Nowhere to go from here unless I build a data centre (Demon Titanite lmao).