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If you curios how it's done check here: https://infinite-scroll.com/
Interesting. I'm wondering what the benefit of infinite scrolling would be for the site owner. Wouldn't an article site like this want the user to click as many links within the site as possible to re-generate ads?
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If you curios how it's done check here: https://infinite-scroll.com/
Interesting. I'm wondering what the benefit of infinite scrolling would be for the site owner. Wouldn't an article site like this want the user to click as many links within the site as possible to re-generate ads?
Any Android announcement that seems useful or valuable is always several years away for most of the Android devices in use.
I read another article about “Project Mainline”, which is about getting security fixes quicker to devices directly from Google. That one also had a similar statement.
If Google spent a little less effort on tracking and advertising, and more on making the platform secure and consistent across more devices, that’d be good for everybody (since low priced phones are mostly Android, and are used by people who cannot or do not want to spend a lot of money).
This [1] is an old talk by Christopher Soghoian that still rings true today (with added privacy goofs by Google revealed in the meantime).
[1]: https://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_soghoian_your_smartpho...
I wonder about the due process implications for this at, say, a traffic stop. If you hand a police officer your phone to show them your driver's license, is that implicit consent to search your phone? Will the ID-showing mode be special in that it will allow the holder to see the ID, but the rest of the phone will remain locked? I like that they're looking for ways to make it so you still have access to ID documents…
I wonder about the due process implications for this at, say, a traffic stop. If you hand a police officer your phone to show them your driver's license, is that implicit consent to search your phone? Will the ID-showing mode be special in that it will allow the holder to see the ID, but the rest of the phone will remain locked? I like that they're looking for ways to make it so you still have access to ID documents…
They mentioned there are ways to access the ID in different ways if needed, i.e. you could allow NFC'ing the ID even if the phone battery is dead, so they will probably have a way to access the ID without unlocking your phone entirely. Kind of like how you double-tap the power button to turn on the phone camera, but you can't access the phone's photos without unlocking.
It's weird to see all these crutches and half-assed fixes instead of lobbying and other work done to fix the ID situation in the US. It's really unfathomable to me how big of a problem identity theft and unauthorized access to digital systems for a regular citizen is. Especially compared to what for example Estonia has built, where I really do not have to worry about that issue - I have to have my ID card (or my mobi…
A link to the ISO Standard Google is waiting for approval on: https://www.iso.org/standard/69084.html
Examples of organizations working to solve identity problems, rather than compound them:
It's weird to see all these crutches and half-assed fixes instead of lobbying and other work done to fix the ID situation in the US. It's really unfathomable to me how big of a problem identity theft and unauthorized access to digital systems for a regular citizen is. Especially compared to what for example Estonia has built, where I really do not have to worry about that issue - I have to have my ID card (or my mobi…
There might have been some efforts that I'm unaware of but that I haven't heard of them suggests they didn't get far. It doesn't help that there's not yet an elegant, eloquently defined notion of what such a system should be that an advocate could point to and say "see? this will solve all your problems". We got hucksters yelling blockchain but that's a different thing.
It's weird to see all these crutches and half-assed fixes instead of lobbying and other work done to fix the ID situation in the US. It's really unfathomable to me how big of a problem identity theft and unauthorized access to digital systems for a regular citizen is. Especially compared to what for example Estonia has built, where I really do not have to worry about that issue - I have to have my ID card (or my mobi…
There are a ton of individuals and big companies in tech working through standardization bodies to create an identity layer for the internet, that no single organization is in control over. Google is not among them. A link to the ISO Standard Google is waiting for approval on: https://www.iso.org/standard/69084.html Examples of organizations working to solve identity problems, rather than compound them: https://www.w…