I’m developing a cross-platform desktop/mobile application for Windows, Linux, macOS, and Android.

My company already has an official digital certificate issued by Telekom. It is recognized for legally binding electronic signatures and document signing. In other words, the state recognizes the certificate and the identity behind it.

Yet that apparently isn’t enough for the major software platforms.

Apple wants an annual developer fee if I want normal macOS signing/notarization and distribution without scary warnings.

Google wants developers inside its Play Store ecosystem for normal Android distribution and updates.

Microsoft expects software publishers to use its accepted code-signing trust infrastructure, which usually means paying a commercial CA or using Microsoft’s own signing services if you want Windows to recognize the publisher without warnings.

So my question is: Why are these companies allowed to create their own private definition of “trusted developer,” even when a developer already possesses a legally recognized digital identity certificate?

I understand the technical argument that document signing and code signing are different certificate purposes. But from the developer’s perspective, the result looks like this:

“Your identity is legally verified, but we still won’t treat your software as trusted unless you participate in our approved ecosystem and, in many cases, pay.”

Why isn’t there a vendor-neutral mechanism where a legally recognized organizational certificate can establish publisher identity across operating systems? Is this mainly about security, liability, PKI design, platform control, commercial incentives, or some combination of all of them? And more importantly: what prevents Microsoft, Apple, and Google from abusing their position as platform owners to turn “trust” into a paid gatekeeping mechanism?

Gaming. I'm in my 30s and the 30s was the age bracket I've heard where few can carry on gaming through, because it has a tendency to die here. I piss away so much time doing other things that gaming just takes a backseat. I'm not even married or have kids.

I want to just delete my Discord, FB, Reddit, Second Life and other social sites so I can just be focused on myself. But I can't because the guilt of seemingly deserting those I have left, will be hard to deal with.

Maybe they are, maybe they aren't, share anyway.

I'm trying to de-Google, and that means finally getting off of Gmail. I need a new email address for shopping/corporate spam. Where should I park all the emails I get about coupons, shipping updates, new product features, policy changes, etc.?

Considerations:

-I don't want to just give all my shopping data to another big AI company. (So, not Outlook/Microslop.) I don't want a provider that will sell my data to third parties, either. These emails don't need top-level privacy protection, but random third parties don't need to know whether I buy cheap or expensive shoes.

-I'd like to use email aliases for different companies so I can figure out who's the leak if I start getting emails from an unexpected source. (Although maybe that can be a separate service from the email provider?)

-I don't care what country the email provider is based in. I don't care if the CIA can theoretically find out what shoes I buy, I just don't want businesses giving me higher "personalized" prices because of those shoes.

-I'd prefer to stick with a free email provider if possible, but maybe that's not compatible with the first point, IDK.

Suggestions, please!

What was your motivation for seeking out non-mainstream platforms? Why did you choose this platform?

For me it's time signatures in music. I grew up playing instruments, played in several orchestras, etc. But no matter how many times someone tries to explain time signatures to me, it makes no sense. I don't understand why people place such importance on it. To me, notes have a pitch and a duration, maybe some dynamics. That's it. I don't understand why people try to needlessly complicate it. It doesn't give you anything.

My wife will hear a song and go "Oh neat, it's in 5/8." And I'm like "How tf do you know that, and why does it matter?"

I've been writing reviews since my Reddit days, and I posted a couple here on Lemmy (primarily Mecha anime). However, since I can't post for reddit for reasons I don't want to into detail for and since Lemmy is too small, I'm thinking about just making my own website to post reviews on. So should I go for it? What should I know before doing it?

Like the Romans used to drink from lead cups. Something like that.

(it appears that the moderator is removing any replies with which he disagrees. It might be a piefed issue. But all the removed replies are top level and upopular. Stranger coincidences have happened I suppose.)

For whatever reason I've never been a huge chatroom person, but the recently renewed conversation over Discord's identity verification system has got me thinking once again about free, open, and community-run alternatives--with Matrix being the one that I think stands out the most.

For those who aren't familiar, for better or worse Matrix isn't a 1:1 clone of Discord (like you mostly see with Stoat or Fluxer), but an open protocol for federated messaging and voice chat. Instead of a centralized service run by any one company or group, Matrix is a lot like email or "the fediverse": a network of different servers, run by different people, communicating with each other using a single protocol and visualized through various apps (like Element or FluffyChat).

But for as much as Matrix feels like the fediverse in spirit, to me it also feels very separate from the fediverse, like it's not a part of the "same conversation", so to speak. The ethos is similar. The background is similar. The mission is similar. But, despite that, I feel like I don't see as much overlap between fediverse communities and matrix communities as I would expect.

Maybe it's purely because of the near-ubiquity of Reddit and Discord in modern net culture, but it seems pretty common to see Reddit communities that advertise links to Discord communities. Whereas it seems a lot more rare for "threadiverse" communities to advertise links to Matrix communities. Which leads me to my question...

What do you all think of Matrix?

Have you been aware of it? Have you tried it?

Are you an active Discord user? Are you an active Matrix user? If so, what do you like/dislike about it? If not, why not?

Broadly speaking, do you think there is value in what Matrix is doing? How do you see it fitting in with the rest of the Fediverse?

Of course kids should eat healthy, but a quick web search seem to disprove that higher calories snacks have a negative effect. Papers I found are https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0195666390900519 and https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S003193840200882X

School goes as far as preventing the kids to eat their snack if it's not a fruit or a vegetable which I find excessive, as many healthy snacks exist today that still contain some (more) carbs (the two papers are even about candies...)

Are there some studies out there for what would be an optimal snack (both health and performance wise)?

For me: I am one of the foremost experts on Team Fortress 2 video recording/editing and automated clip gathering within tf2 specifically. Even more specifically within the context of competitive play but the knowledge applies to casual play as well.

I have always done some kind of work out in my life, however, as of the last two years i’ve stopped caring about it and had no interest in it. I did swimming from 4 to 14 years old, and from 14 to 16 i went to the gym pretty constantly, but now as an 18 year old i don’t do anything. I’ve found myself missing swimming, but mostly just giving up on the gym because i stopped finding enjoyment in it. However i am well aware that i should probably do something, it’s just very hard to want to do it in the first place. I don’t really care about being strong or handsome, but i’ve always been overweight since i was a little kid and even tho i’m on a diet, i struggle with losing weight and the advice is always “go to the gym”. How do YOU manage to find motivation to work out?

Do you use a brown bag, or do you have an actual lunchbox? Is it insulated? How much food do you bring, and what types of food?

Thanks in advance, I'm super interested by this type of relatively mundane stuff.

For myself I usually bring some kind of sandwich in a paper bag, nuts/dried fruit in the bags they come in from the store, and tea in a thermos. All of those things in my backpack.

Or refuse to buy

EDIT: Solved.

It's a melody called "Playmates."

This is a melody from a music box I remember as a child but I can't find out what it's called. I pieced together what I could remember using an online music box music maker program.

Do you recognize this melody?

Here is my best guess at music notation:

A#4-G4-G4-A4-G4-F4-A#4-D4

F4-G4-F4-F4-C5-A4

F4-G4-F4-F4-D5-A#4

A#4-A#4-A#4-A#4-G4

G4-A4-G4-F4-A#4-D4

F4-G4-F4-F4-C5-A4

F4-G4-A4-A#4

Forgive the crudity of the recording. This was made after I spent an hour or so piecing together what I could remember. I am not musically inclined.

All the sound sample websites failed to help me surprisingly. ****

Admittedly a risky crosspost, but cannot find conflicting community rules. I believe the possible discussion justifies it.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/peertube@piefed.blahaj.zone/p/999813/what-s-stopping-you-from-using-peertube

Or 'What is PeerTube lacking that you simply cannot do without?'

I believe it's a safe assumption that fediverse users want to move away from the monopolies and closed gardens so often associated with video streaming, and yet it's not a task that's ever been made easy. Maybe an ounce of inspiration is the cue we need, and so my question to you is; What's Stopping you from using PeerTube?

Also, if the area became a National Park, what compromises might need to be made in the park and how would it alter existing infrastructure?

How would militaries and governments react ??

Writing a short story and was going to have a cartel in it

A counter question to the guy who posted a similar question few hours ago, cause most of the answers weren't helpful for someone like me, who doesn't have much money😅.

I'm a going as a social butterfly. I got a cute rainbow monarch wing cape thing at the renfair and I am going to print social media logos and tape them to a shirt. It's cheap, cute, and funny lol.

and if they are does that mean they are constantly being raped for years like do they like it or are living a living hell every day?