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by consteval 1y ago
While this is true, many, many apps use private APIs. Even apps that don’t need them. One common use case is prevent an app from being debugged or run on certain devices - you can achieve that through private APIs. Even innocuous apps like
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by consteval 1y ago
For the thrill
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by consteval 2y ago
The responsibility can, and should, be spread between all responsible parties, not just concentrated at the end-point. This requires a reframing of how responsibility is thought about in the US, but we do think this way sometimes. We kneeca
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by consteval 2y ago
Yes, restrict global traffic and further fuck our economy for… the economy? At this point, you lot aren’t advocating cutting funding because it will help us. You understand it won’t. You’re advocating it because you desire to hurt others. T
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by consteval 2y ago
80% of the workforce being culled without any recourse or processes? If I got a “tell me 5 things you did last week” email I would throw my computer through the window. I’m sorry, that’s beyond toxic. That’s radioactive culture. I understan
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by consteval 2y ago
From what I’ve seen flatter (not flat) company structures have less politics and a healthier culture. When you get into the 7, 8, 9 layer manager hierarchy at a software company is when things have really gone to shit
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by consteval 2y ago
Emulator means something pretty specific, it’s a ground-up piece of software with similar functionality. Not a PS emulator.
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by consteval 2y ago
I don’t know, pretty much all production software I’ve ever used has made a distinction between export and save. Because export takes compute and can change the output, not all formats are created equal. Saving in the internal format is pro
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by consteval 2y ago
The fundamental problem with UI/UX is that it’s so heavily dependent on your audience, and most software caters too disproportionately to one audience. New users want pop ups, pretty colors, lots of white space, and stuff hidden. Exper
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by consteval 2y ago
It is toothless, but you need a lot of stars to align for this to work out. I mean, all it takes is a few people with a head on their shoulders and a commitment to the constitution to stop this. This has been a lot of wealthy individuals an
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by consteval 2y ago
> Agreed. Amazingly good, in fact. Sometimes I wonder how we can sustain such level of amazing income Other jobs are getting fucked much more severely. Most industries have bled their labor dry, to the bones. There’s nothing left, they’v
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by consteval 2y ago
I agree, this is true of every employee. It is leadership’s responsibility to make sure the labor they’re allocating is going towards the big picture. If it’s going straight into the trash, that’s not the labors fault - they do what they’re
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by consteval 2y ago
Voluntary is a tricky word. Choice isn’t binary, in fact it’s not even discrete. They’re subtly, in millions of ways, most predating the Internet, manipulated into making that choice. And, more importantly, believing they willingly made tha
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by consteval 2y ago
We’ve successfully kneecapped many industries that we figured out where gander onto society. For example, tobacco. No ads, you can’t smoke anywhere. The result? Way less smoking! And we’re all in agreement that’s a good thing. Ads are priva
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by consteval 2y ago
This is where tech arrogance comes in. We very much like to believe we’re the zero. Judging by how much hyper-consumerist behavior I see in myself and my coworkers, we’re not. Everyone is constantly buying shit they don’t need and then just
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by consteval 2y ago
It’s not that people don’t care, it’s that consumerism is a stronger force than that care. Which makes sense, consumerism is the backbone of every consumer-focused capitalist economy. Our greatest power is literally not buying things. But p
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by consteval 2y ago
Technology also attacks this front, through mass surveillance and disinformation. Which is really what we’ve been seeing in the past 20 years. More and more, the focus is shifting to the “source”, the human minds who demand change.
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by consteval 2y ago
Also important to note, most of the riots I have seen don’t start with the protesters escalating. It depends on the country, but based off of what I have seen, it is almost always the authority who escalates. Often, there is preemptive and
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by consteval 2y ago
I don’t think you need to be a rocket scientist to realize loud noise = hearing loss. Just intuitively, I know many people with degraded hearing from concerts. And that hearing is gone, that’s how hearing loss works. I think the people who
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by consteval 2y ago
I don’t think this is true. In order for the media to consider something a riot there has to be some violence. Gone are the days of print media, we expect videos now. But it’s trivial for police to incite violence. We saw it all the time in
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by consteval 2y ago
I believe USB security keys are covered under a different API. But even then, you can use this argument against it. When this type of USB access is allowed, it gives phishing attacks even more power. Now, you’ll click prompts for authentica
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by consteval 2y ago
I’ve heard both opinions at the same time because they’re both true. A technical audience will actually read prompts and understand what they’re consenting to. I, for one, actually read cookie prompts and will say no to as much as I can. Mo
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by consteval 2y ago
Even if you believe the government is inefficient - which is just that, a belief - you can’t support DOGE. Again, they’ve fired people at the office of government accountability, which are the inspectors who literally ensure tax dollars are
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by consteval 2y ago
1. Okay, and this is somehow better than, say, Uber, making approx -500 million a year every year for a decade and a half. 2. Firing people isn't what this is about? Or you blind or just dishonest? The only action DOGE has taken has be
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by consteval 2y ago
> Like a government agency has no self cleaning mechanism like a cooperation has. What? No. 1. Unlike the private sector, the public sector is built on hard budgets, not speculation. They don’t balloon up like your typical money-burning
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by consteval 2y ago
Well the hate is now mostly because it’s used as a speculative security to run scams.
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by consteval 2y ago
In Tech, most layoffs seem completely unrelated to company performance, profit, or revenue.
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by consteval 2y ago
We also never gain any time from productivity. When sewing machines were invented and the time to make a garment went down 100x, you didn’t work 15 minutes a day. Instead, those people are actually now much poorer and work much more. What w
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by consteval 2y ago
They did, with crypto. The environmental cost of, like, a website is minuscule in comparison.
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by consteval 2y ago
I think it’s both progress and a problem depending on the application. Yes, innovation, but it’s also why people continue to do heroin. The human brain is easily manipulated, easily hacked.

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