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That is completly unrelated to security. But just to tease your goal post move action, 99.9% of people using Android don't care about using git on their phones, and even if they would. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aor.pocket...
If you only bother with what software people care about why allow installing code outside of the browser? That would much more effectively eliminate security vulnerabilities.
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It doesn't matter where the users are getting the software when the threat model implicitly trusts the OS vendor and makes it difficult for users to install the OS themselves. Android phones ship with malware installed as root often with no methods for removing it.
I don't consider OEM bundles malware, a practice that goes all the way back the early days of home computing. https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/games/james-bond-007-action-... http://www.bambi-amiga.co.uk/amigahistory/bundles.html
Congrats on reverting home computing back to the amiga days then.
I have walked into target, bought androids, pulled them out of the box and connected them to the network over which they would immediately proceed to download gigabytes of malware from the play store.
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#163Fascinating to see how much is 'inspired' by Apple's design and Microsoft's for the document app. I'd feel dirty in so blatantly copying someone else's design, but Huawei doesn't share those concerns. Maybe for good reason.
“Good artists copy, great artists steal”
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#164Fascinating to see how much is 'inspired' by Apple's design and Microsoft's for the document app. I'd feel dirty in so blatantly copying someone else's design, but Huawei doesn't share those concerns. Maybe for good reason.
Somebody at Xerox PARC thinks the same about Jobs and Gates every day.
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#166I'm welcoming any competition to the app store duopoly.
I'm excited about Ubuntu Touch [1] as well. It's open source and hopefully does integrate well with Ubuntu Desktop. Would like to see a "Ubuntu App Store" as well.
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#167The only possible explanation for the way Huawei design their UI is to try and trick the non tech savvy into thinking they're buying something that runs the same software as Apple products.
I've bought Huawei phones and tablets in the past. I don't care one whit about the default UI. Samsung's sucked for years before OneUI. LG Mobile (RIP) wasn't good either.
The best part of Android is that you can make the interface look however you want.
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If you only bother with what software people care about why allow installing code outside of the browser? That would much more effectively eliminate security vulnerabilities.
Indeed, https://www.google.com/chromebook/chrome-os/
Ok, well now I can't do most of the stuff I was doing on GNU/Linux without doing it on a machine that someone else is hosting. So that's still a step backward.
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>It's basically the report button on github. No, it isn't. The report button for github goes here.[0] A github hosted feedback/review system. The link on gitee goes here[1]. A website ran by "Central Information Office Network (National Internet Information Office)" , Beijing. If you can't spot the difference in methodologies then I'm not sure what else to say. [0]: https://support.github.com/contact/report-abuse?cat…
Countries have different rules, the world is a diverse place. I know that's hard for some to accept but it's how it is. Is having a button to report crime on your website some horrible end-of-the-world moment? Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, etc. all have these buttons on their site and often don't report actual crimes occurring on their platform to the police in order to protect themselves. Gitee is simply providing a l…
> Countries have different rules, the world is a diverse place.
Some countries have democratic governments, others have illegitimate ones. Some rules are totalitarian, others are not.
> Is having a button to report crime on your website some horrible end-of-the-world moment?
That it isn't literally the worst thing possible is hardly a convincing argument.
> Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, etc. all have these buttons on their site
Incorrect, as you've just been told.
> A UK man on youtube taught his dog to salute and got arrested for it because people reported it.
A Nazi salute. I guess you forgot that detail.
> A pregnant woman in Australia was thrown in jail for organising an anti-lockdown protest on Facebook.
I don't know the context but that sounds pretty bad. But how does it excuse the CCP?
> The people who decry the oppression in China, also actively support the suppression of opposing views and jokes back home. Maybe we aren't so different after all.
1. It makes a difference what views you believe should be suppressed. Trying to protect democracy and rule of law is fundamentally different from trying to protect the CCP autocracy.
2. The set of people opposed to the CCP autocracy isn't actually identical to the set of people who "support the suppression of opposing views and jokes back home".
> If you want to rant about Chinese laws without hiding behind the pretext of mobile OS discussion, make a proper HN thread about it or write a blogpost mate.
Why, because you want their "rant" to be less visible?
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China is copying sure but SELLING FOR LESS. Why is Xiaomi in second place now in Europe? Because their phones are cheap. They are the IKEA of smartphones.
which is great. Few companies have done more for the wallet of ordinary people than IKEA.
So there used to be basically 2 classes of furniture in IKEA. The first is the cheap, university student priced stuff that would break after a year or 2. However this was OK because it was not expected to last ages. Then they had their "higher" class stuff that was made of real wood etc that would last 10+ years easily. What I feel has happened in the last 10 years is that the "higher" class stuff has lost quality and is now made of the same crappy material as the cheap stuff.