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In what statistical universe could it have played out like it did?
Any random one, just as it's possible to flip a coin and get heads a few times in a row.
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Isn't that just swiping left and right on the bottom of an iOS device? (Switches between your current app and last app for reference)
Swiping back to the reader won't close the browser tab.
iOS has Safari Services for when an app wants to support visiting a 3rd party site (so you don't want a WebView) without leaving the app.:
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52428a0ae4b0c4...
As you can see a clear "Done" button, that's straightforward enough. Hit it and you go back to the app.
But even better, you can promote it to a normal browser tab by hitting the Safari button at the bottom!
That will transfer the tab to Safari with a transition to make it clear now you are in Safari can use the app switcher to go back and forth.
It's a great example of how the SDK baking explicit back handling into components ends up being better than a generic "always goes back" concept apps have to implement.
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Ironically Android has something similar called Custom Tabs but they're not widely used for multiple reasons: https://medium.com/@vardaansh1/use-chrome-custom-tabs-they-s...
I'm also not sure if they support promotion to a browser tab natively, I'm guessing you have to add your own UI to close it and fire off an intent for the system browser
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It wasn't. He was simply stating what he saw and why that made him uncomfortable. It wasn't even remotely off-topic. This is a RELEASE banner/promo website for the product. He discusses that. It seems just like censorship, and that's cool. I understand the requirements to keep narratives flowing. But we'll all end up in an echo chamber, unable to admit when we feel like something feels wrong. You keep using words lik…
We don't care about "narratives" - we're just trying to have an internet forum that doesn't destroy itself in the obvious internet ways, and the principles of how we try to do that are well-established. As I said, this wasn't a borderline call. If you familiarize yourself with the rules ( https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ) and the moderation practices here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dan…
I understand. I've seen several cases where you've moderated unfairly in order to maintain some form of status quo, where the quo is just an opinion that we all have to share.
Familiarised myself with the rules long ago, but it doesn't really matter since anything that someone might get upset at is suddenly hovered within there.
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>they're forcing an extremist view on diversity I don't know why they're doing it. But there is an agenda and this is how they do it.
What's the agenda?
I don't know why they're doing it. But there is an agenda and this is how they do it.
Try reading.
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One doesn't have to dream. Flashing a rom on google-branded phones is so simple, a non-tech person can follow a 5min youtube video to do it. The Nexus 6 from 2014 can have the latest android running on it - not just security updates. And unlike an iphone, it has a build that disables some eyecandy that keeps it actually usable and fast. As I understand it if you run the last supported ios on an iphone 5s, with all th…
Can you run banking apps on custom roms? The Barclays app refused to run on mine a few years ago, but maybe something changed since.
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No, I’m talking about the Linux kernel. You can check this for yourself. Take a look at the roms distributed on LineageOS as the example project and see if they include kernels that are up to date in any way. For older phones outside of vendor support, those kernels will always be out of date. Some diligent LineageOS projects are known to incorporate some open source kernel fixes sometimes, or grab newer blobs from o…
Good points. Though I'm a bit confused by your reply. Are you saying that LineageOS folks do not always or, at least, mostly use the latest AOSP common kernels for their relevant ROMs (as opposed to "some open source kernel fixes")?
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We don't care about "narratives" - we're just trying to have an internet forum that doesn't destroy itself in the obvious internet ways, and the principles of how we try to do that are well-established. As I said, this wasn't a borderline call. If you familiarize yourself with the rules ( https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ) and the moderation practices here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dan…
This isn't race grievances though. It's marketing grievances... on a product that we're discussing. I understand. I've seen several cases where you've moderated unfairly in order to maintain some form of status quo, where the quo is just an opinion that we all have to share. Familiarised myself with the rules long ago, but it doesn't really matter since anything that someone might get upset at is suddenly hovered wit…
Your statements about moderation are inaccurate in ways I think I just addressed.
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Good points. Though I'm a bit confused by your reply. Are you saying that LineageOS folks do not always or, at least, mostly use the latest AOSP common kernels for their relevant ROMs (as opposed to "some open source kernel fixes")?
I don’t know. I’m saying that custom rom use kernels that make your phone work. In the best case that involves shipping 1) the driver and firmware blobs the vendor provided while supporting the phone and 2) a kernel that is binary compatible with those blobs. Because of how Linux works, in the best case (2) is an old kernel of the same major version as the vendor shipped with the phone, with maybe some security fixes…
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That’s all great - but don’t lure people too much into a false sense of security. While your Nexus 6 may run a shiny new version of Android, underneath it runs a crusty old 2017 kernel full of holes of different sizes. The community is great, but vendor support remains important. LineageOS and other projects can’t fix things in kernels they can’t compile - they can only provide security updates for open source compon…
> underneath it runs a crusty old 2017 kernel full of holes of different sizes > LineageOS and other projects can’t fix things in kernels they can’t compile I think that you're wrong on this, that is unless you decided to use term "kernel" above too liberally, referring to all software running on a device. AFAIK, alternative Android images, such as LineageOS, include relevant - and quite up-to-date! - AOSP common ker…
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> You do not have to use iCloud Photos either. If you want your photos to upload in the background, iCloud Photos is your only choice on iOS. Not so on Android. This makes backing up photos to a server privately on iOS essentially unusable. This kind of crippling anti-privacy pro-Apple-profits design permeates iOS. You cannot even install an app on your device without giving Apple your billing details and letting the…
> If you want your photos to upload in the background, iCloud Photos is your only choice on iOS. Nope. Background App Refresh has allowed any iOS app to update data between the server and client in the background for more than half a decade. Apple has discussed scanning photos uploaded to the iCloud Photos portion of their cloud service in the future, but nothing is scanned now. Google has been scanning everything in…
All the other privacy-invading criticisms remain, making iOS an awful choice for privacy.
I still don't know why you're comparing iOS to Google. As I've already explained, that is the wrong comparison. I can use my own services on Android. Apple is planning to scan photos in iCloud (and already does in mail) and only hasn't because their services are still so basic, so it is just as bad as Google in that respect but only temporarily better due to incompetence. My own server does not scan and review photos and never will.
