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Confusingly the proper term for England, Scotland, Wales, and NI is country individually, the UK is a country of countries. They should probably be called states but they never hav…

I've come to the conclusion that I actually really like Android as an operating system, the internals seem remarkably well thought out and ideal for the mobile use case (so long as…

Pretty much, my car doesn't have navigation built in but supports android auto. I've tried a phone mount before but the experience is so much worse when it's not integrated with th…

AOSP allows the internet permission to be denied per app (hence LineageOS and Graphene exposing it), it's just most OEMs ROMs don't expose it, you can draw your own conclusions fro…

For me to fully drop google someone needs to create something compatible with Android Auto in my car, it doesn't sound like a big deal but that's a big enough thing for me to need …

It also solves the issue of potentially not knowing when the author died, with a fixed period (the number isn't so important imo so long as it's sane), a work is out of copyright x…

Don't underestimate the argument of "just to be on the safe side". Someone running a business who doesn't know a lot about cookies will often just put a banner on as an easy arse c…

I gave up on it years ago when they killed off 3rd party clients, I have to say it doesn't seem like I've been missing much. The rare occasion I do need to see something on it, it'…

Could this be used to unlock bootloaders on typically non unlockable phones? If so this could be one of the best things to happen to Android.

I'm trying to use lineage at the minute, but xiaomi has made it next to impossible to even unlock the bootloader on my phone, and even then I'd likely need to move at least one of …

I'd personally rather have E2EE and periodically back things up to an encrypted hard drive so any losses aren't catastrophic, but I am probably more cynical than most in my trust o…

Thr one solution I see to that is sponsorships, the number I've heard is they typically pay 10x the ad revenue of a video, and this wouldn't be affected by the platform, just the v…

The starter motor turns the engine in a defined direction, this acts as a turning force directly on the crankshaft so it doesn't matter where the crankshaft is. The pistons only st…

AOSP has network as a regular permission for apps, so on Lineage at least (idk about Graphene as I haven't used it) you can disable network for any app including google play servic…

The PKGBUILD files specified npm as a dependency, so it would've been installed prior to installing the malicious file, so not having npm is by no means a guarantee.

To be fair in this case it looks like npm was used as a way to run arbitrary code in a way that wouldn't look out of place immediately in a PKGBUILD file. All of this could have be…

Tools exist (e.g. pkgctl) to allow you to test building and installing the package on a clean image to catch these kinds of things, maintainers should really be using these before …

In my experience as someone who rides a bike with hydraulic disc brakes and drives frequently, they really don't stop very quickly. I pretty much always am more confident I can sto…

You say it requires a little acclimatisation, but the caller may well just not know anyone with that specific accent/have never had the chance to acclimatise to it other than this …

Presumably on Linux at least apps could just expose a DBus API? The machinery for this is already in place as far as I can tell.

The whole thing with GPL code seems like a mess and surely couldn't be set as actual precedent, right? It is totally infeasible for me to check every single GPL project on every co…

It sounds like the real solution to this is to be able to control permissions at an OS level for network per app, as you would be able to do if you had root access. I have no idea …

The difference I see there is any line in a C codebase could have these issues, whereas in Rust they're specifically marked as unsafe sections, with the language having a clear lis…

What all these breaches tell me is that personal data should not be required, and especially not stored unless absolutely necessary. I cannot verify how my data is treated once it …

If anyone's interested in this the book "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" is rather revealing of the sheer scale of this.