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by plst 3mo ago
Another problem, AI allows many people to submit PRs that may look viable with very low effort. So you get a lot more code to review, often submitted by people who are not actually familiar with the codebase. So they may not even be able to
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by plst 5mo ago
You mention nuance and good faith, but on your profile, and on your website, you claim to work on Android at Google. Previously on Google Play. I don't see that mentioned in your comments about this issue, I do think it matters a lot.
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by plst 5mo ago
I don't really understand your argument here, isn't Google's announcement also entirely one sided? I also don't see any "discussion" of disadvantages of their solution in their announcements. For example, the &
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by plst 5mo ago
They then end up paying more by buying five awful low-range phones that each last a year instead of one mid-range that will last more. No, I would rather everyone paid more for a phone. I find it hard to believe that the difference in price
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by plst 6mo ago
Yet somehow they are not too dumb to get a driving license or operate a gas stove. I would argue that operating a car is much more complicated than operating a smartphone. At some point, if you are unwilling to learn basic facts about your
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by plst 6mo ago
I think Google is trying to solve the problem at the wrong level - people do not really understand their computing devices enough to understand the risks, they never had to learn or were taught how to use such devices, they were only told i
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by plst 6mo ago
I do believe that. Pointing out that I live in the EU was completely unnecessary, I meant that I live somewhere in the EU, I didn't really mean to compare it to the US.
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by plst 6mo ago
Why the snark? Did I misread? I don't often buy a new car, do you? I really don't understand what your last sentence means. I don't even think this a fair comparison, it's more like keeping the old car just in case or fo
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by plst 6mo ago
How many people are gullible enough right now to plug a phone to a laptop over USB and execute an exe on an operating system with no sandboxing at all? ADB even seems to work over webusb. (at that point you may as well give up on hacking th
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by plst 6mo ago
It was possible for many decades already, budget and maintenance-wise. You can at least accept a credit card as an alternative. Yes, it's not perfect, but the fully digital alternatives also have drawbacks, as pointed by OP.
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by plst 6mo ago
Yes, I read the linked article. Yes, the city made this decision. The decision could be reverted. I understand that this is a type of thing the OP (top-comment in the thread) is wishing for. I don't see the "impossible" in m
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by plst 6mo ago
What do you mean by impossible in this case? Can't you just have the coin-operated parking meters back? Where I live, in EU, parking meters even take cards. EDIT: I guess "just" is doing some heavy-lifting, so I won't ar
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by plst 7mo ago
> because you are annoyed about some temporary problems I mean, all problems are temporary, time is money etc. etc. And there are signs that suggest that some of these problems (namely freedom to run your own software) are not going to g
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by plst 7mo ago
> I'm arguing that a curation process that includes security review is likely to produce a more secure set of software I actually totally agree! There is no external entity users can rely on to make sure apps they download are legit
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by plst 7mo ago
> but that's what we have now, and it's not working. My entire point is that education is the opposite of what we have now. That users are not expected to understand or know anything about IT technologies they use. Not the case
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by plst 7mo ago
> how is a UI designed that doesn't fuel incompetence? I'm specifically talking about UX ("how a user interacts with and experiences a product, system, or service"), not necessarily UI. > how does it do that? (i am
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by plst 7mo ago
Think about it the way you think about reading the fine print on agreements you sign. These can also have bad consequences. But I guess not reading the TOS is another wide problem, also fueled by companies like Google.
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by plst 7mo ago
Sure, but I don't think decreasing chances of scam-by-app on Android by some minuscule amount is in any way comparable to prescription drugs.
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by plst 7mo ago
I really don't think that's a cultural difference. I also grew up and live in the EU. What Google wants just does not solve the problem in any way. And it's also not actual regulation, just new TOS from a company many are bas
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by plst 7mo ago
To add to that, I think it's important to point out that the problem of people not understanding how to safely use their devices is in big part caused by technology companies racing to get widest adoption everywhere, both in terms of l
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by plst 8mo ago
Assuming the owner gave the shop the pin. If so, the shop can already steal a lot of data from the phone. Why bother with persistent malware at this point? You already have to trust the repair shop with your data. Installing persistent malw
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by plst 1y ago
I don't find the laws unjust in any way. Apple did everything they could to take half of the smartphone market, and to me it's totally understandable that the EU government may want to limit their power over this market. > in t
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by plst 1y ago
Their rights to license stuff they sell should not be unlimited, that's the entire point. I understand that your second sentence refers to the fact, that the limitation is only in EU. Businesses have to respect local laws. Laws often m
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by plst 1y ago
> I replied to someone else in the same vein but having had a garmin watch in the home there was nothing that it would have done better if it was able to work with Apple's proprietary stuff Maybe to you. Garmin watches cannot respon
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by plst 1y ago
> Can't reference a leak or incident specifically, but when Foxconn (a massive company with 3/4 million employees) had workers jumping from their dormitories and installed "suicide nets" the headlines were always &quo
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by plst 1y ago
> So basically all the stuff that makes apple devices actually measurably better has to be opened up so that some rando can make a half hacked together attempt at compatibility? Only the interfaces and protocols. This is not the interest
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by plst 1y ago
Disney owns the land and their intellectual property, Apple does not and should not own devices and software they already sold. Especially not by imposing artificial software restrictions.
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by plst 1y ago
> EU has defined Apple (but not Google(!)) as a "digital gatekeeper" Could you explain what you mean? The following article lists Alphabet as a gatekeeper. https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/gatekeepers_en
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by plst 1y ago
And it really shouldn't be this way. Everyone is tricked into believing that they own devices they bought. And we are somehow supposed to accept that the abilities of the device can be reduced after we bought it just because the vendor
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by plst 1y ago
Can someone who actually understands the topic explain to me (or link good resources) why/if what they do is useful to anyone? Or are they literally just in the business of making money? (anyone except themselves of course. I'm

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