Did you know you can put a whole game inside of a push notification

Post by Andrew_nenakhov » Sat, Apr 10, 2021, 9:55 PM UTC

varenc wrote: post #39

tomrod wrote: post #32

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> Since they broke VoIP background notifications, developers have no way to reliably perform silent delivery of information to device. Surely you mean fixed , not broken, as absolutely no one should be delivering information silently to a device they don't own.

I’m with you. Story time: Years ago the Signal app would silently wake up in the background, upload 20MB+ of my contacts’ photos, and then shutdown and do it all over again every time I received a silent notification. Due to my membership in a few large groups this was very often. The result was gigabytes of cellar data usage in a week. Fortunately my experience was rare because I both had a lot of contacts with phot…

Post by TeMPOraL » Sat, Apr 10, 2021, 10:38 PM UTC

kitsunesoba wrote: post #40

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #36

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> as absolutely no one should be delivering information silently to a device they don't own. That's a very very very shallow thinking. You are advocating to break the internet. You are destroying every internet protocol that ever existed. They all silently deliver information to devices you likely don't own. Actually, we wouldn't need these dirty perversions with notifications if we had a proper background mode for a…

> Actually, we wouldn't need these dirty perversions with notifications if we had a proper background mode for apps. Like, you know, proper computers had for maybe 60 years. It's worth noting, however, that desktop and laptop PCs have a surplus of energy relative to mobile phones, so it's no big deal if there's a bunch of processes running in the background doing their thing… usually , anyway, because on PCs it's als…

Post by masom » Sat, Apr 10, 2021, 10:55 PM UTC

TeMPOraL wrote: post #43

kitsunesoba wrote: post #40

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> Actually, we wouldn't need these dirty perversions with notifications if we had a proper background mode for apps. Like, you know, proper computers had for maybe 60 years. It's worth noting, however, that desktop and laptop PCs have a surplus of energy relative to mobile phones, so it's no big deal if there's a bunch of processes running in the background doing their thing… usually , anyway, because on PCs it's als…

Or, give people easy to use task manager that shows background processes, with big buttons labeled "kill", and "kill and keep down". Android doesn't have anything like it either. It's my number 1 complaint about smartphone experience ever since I bought my first one: the phone actively refuses to give user insight and control over what's running on their device.

Post by cooperaustinj » Sun, Apr 11, 2021, 12:22 AM UTC

chmod775 wrote: post #44

lupire wrote: post #22

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A web browser displayed dynamic content all the time and is considered safe.

No. Nowadays you should still disable JavaScript as well as video playback in your browser if you want to be safe. There was a brief period some years ago where browsers looked "pretty safe", but we have quickly backtracked by stuffing JS and browsers full of new APIs that are creating new vulnerabilities. Edit: Yes. Downvoting will surely reduce the amount of CVEs. https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=ch…

Post by m-p-3 » Sun, Apr 11, 2021, 12:39 AM UTC

kitsunesoba wrote: post #40

Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #36

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> as absolutely no one should be delivering information silently to a device they don't own. That's a very very very shallow thinking. You are advocating to break the internet. You are destroying every internet protocol that ever existed. They all silently deliver information to devices you likely don't own. Actually, we wouldn't need these dirty perversions with notifications if we had a proper background mode for a…

> Actually, we wouldn't need these dirty perversions with notifications if we had a proper background mode for apps. Like, you know, proper computers had for maybe 60 years. It's worth noting, however, that desktop and laptop PCs have a surplus of energy relative to mobile phones, so it's no big deal if there's a bunch of processes running in the background doing their thing… usually , anyway, because on PCs it's als…