- hekkleNo, the permissions are very granular compared to Stock Android. I can't remember all of them from scratch, but by way of example Graphene allows for 'contact scopes', which sets permissions for which contacts you will share with each app, rather than a blanket "you can access all of my contacts" that Android has. I know when I tried it last (this was more than a year ago mind you so it might have changed), if you didn't give Amazon access to all contacts it somehow knew and refused to work.
- Just ease of use on a small screen really. I don't use it too much anymore anyway, I'm in Australia, so Amazon's not as big here as it is in the US. We mainly use Ali-Express or Temu, because those apps deliver from China, which is close and more convenient for here, relative to the US.
- Fair enough, it does make sense that they will maximise their profits where they can, I'm just saying that it (the app not the website) refuses to work unless you provide it a full scope of literally every permission available. Maybe it has more to do with attestation, and verifying that you are not a scammer, than stealing and selling data?
- If you want to find which apps are the worst at this use GrapheneOS. Amazon flat out REFUSES to work unless it has unfettered access to everything.
- > Prospective station wagon buyer: "I know what you say is true...but...er...I don't know how to maintain a tank!"
> Bullhorn: "You don't know how to maintain a station wagon either!"
Literally every conversation I have had with people where I have tried to get them to use Linux :').
- Akchooally, if you want to get specific, in computer science terms it is referred to as a tack, not a hyphen or an n-dash.
- While this is a good thought.... Do you really trust the Government to implement a cryptographically verified assertion correctly, and not track which website is making the request, for which individual at what time, and then cross reference that with newly created accounts?
- The only constant is change -- Heraclitus
- > The argument isn't really AI versus non-AI, it's quality work versus shoddy work.
Unfortunately, that's not how most people make decisions on what to purchase. It's all about bean counting; what is cheap, vs what is expensive. Don't believe me? Why is Trump currently putting tariffs on foreign countries? Because it is cheaper to manufacture there, are their products better than American ones? No, but they're cheap.
- > Sotomayor said [to] Cox. "You didn’t try to work with universities... You could have worked with a multi-family dwelling... You did nothing".
Like YEAH, of course, they were not obligated to do anything under the DMCA, they were not hosting the material in question. Also, just because Sony sends you a letter alleging someone who is using your service is doing something 'illegal', doesn't mean they are. Why should Cox bear the burden of an investigation when there is no legal requirement to do so?
I wonder if this precedent is set, will that mean they are required to shut off Open AI's internet, when I put in a DMCA complaint that they pirated my IP?... Nah, American Law only applies to the poor.
- You're right, you may want some features but not all of them. That is why firefox provides the flags for you to turn features on/off. You mention that a user might wast "TLS 1.3, WebP, some security fixes, etc". I would argue that if a user knows what these are, they are capable of working out a flag.
- The compose key and Ctrl+K in Vim both assume the use of Linux, or janky 3rd party software. Compose is the same argument I have already covered with Windows, you need to enter a cryptic key-combination into the keyboard, which is not intuitive.
As for the Vim argument, I'm struggling to work out how to use Vim to type on here? Perhaps you could shed some light? I suppose you could yank-put it, but I fail to see how that is less effort than copy-paste, the other argument I already covered.
- As bad as this sounds, and I do agree with the author that appointing an ex-Meta exec to the Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) position, is ridiculous. I think it would be fair to also say that the agreement she signed would be unenforceable in Europe. In fact, the author even admits it is unenforceable in the US
> The clauses in Wynn-Williams contract are very similar (if not identical) to the clauses that the US National Labor Relations Board ruled unenforceable
It is definitely still a concern that she (potentially) has stock options in the company, since she will be unwilling to make any decision that could adversely affect her nest egg.
- > Have all the people parroting "dash means it was written by ChatGPT" never used a word processor?
Probably not, this is "HACKER" News, if I type two n-dashes on a website, I EXPECT two n-dashes, otherwise things like HTML comments would break the page.
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- You do realise there are AI checkers online. https://www.zerogpt.com/ assesses this content as: 27.49% ChatGPT
While this writer obviously had a lot of input into the model, they even state (or more accurately according to zerogpt, ChatGPT wrote this whole paragraph) "The writing process should be highly iterative", so they have added their own flavour into the writing, but it is still, (probably not for much longer) but still obvious when this is used.
- It has nothing to do with literacy, the em-dash simply is not on the standard US QWERTY keyboard. This means that people who purposefully use it, either have to copy-paste it from somewhere or (if they-re on Windows), use "Alt + 0 1 5 1". This is very obviously not a natural behaviour that 'literate' people use when they write.
- If you don't want new features, don't upgrade it, what in the non-sequitur is this? I get the argument that it SHOULD be OPT-IN rather than OPT-OUT, but that would require annoying pop-ups every upgrade that explains the new features and ask if you want to OPT-IN. That is more burden on the developers and will annoy more users than benefit.
If you are concerned, they do have what is called a 'changelog' that will explain all of the new features and how to switch them off if you like.
- Putting the flags in Firefox just seems logical not "Hostile Design". Yes, there could be an easier way to turn it off, such as a menu item, but the flags need to be there first before the menu entry can exist.
The author claims to be an "IaaS engineer", surely, he can figure out how to write a firefox plugin, that can do what he wants, and use that to help non-technical users, and if it becomes popular enough will probably effect the change he wishes to see.