Does this mean sideloading is going away on Android? Absolutely not. Sideloading is fundamental to Android and it is not going away.

This statement is untrue. The developer verification decree effectively ends the ability for individuals to choose what software they run on the devices they own.

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Wikipedia’s summary definition is:

the transfer of apps from web sources that are not vendor-approved

By this definition, Google’s statement that “sideloading is not going away” is simply false. The vendor — Google, in the case of Android certified devices — will, in point of fact, be approving the source. The supplicant app developer must register with Google, pay a fee, provide government identification, agree to non-negotiable (and ever-changing) terms and conditions, enumerate all their current and future application identifiers, upload evidence of their private signing key, and then hope and wait for Google’s approval.

I’m glad to see this bullshit called out.

I swear they must have literally typed “Trump nazi propaganda” into the AI prompter.

Good deal for him. He ponied up $0 of his own money.

Billionaire transcends all other identities.

A trans billionaire (if it was ever allowed to happen) would be a shitbird by default.

Account 2 days old.

One post, and it’s a link to sell me something.

I don’t know about spam or scams, but this is not the kind of user I want more of on the Fediverse.

What kind of services?

I’m having trouble imagining what’s possible and worth hosting for friends and family.

Dream vacation? What?

Dis is de wae.

Flood the feed with a million twinks and AOCs and Republican Congress will coom itself until early retirement.

What’re the top two ?

TL;dr of the article :

1. They keep your private key on their servers.
2. Their implementation allows for AITM attacks.
3. It’s closed source.
4. There’s no perfect forward secrecy.

This secret stays between you, me, and Elon.

I hope politicians use the hell out of it, so we can see what they really think when it gets (inevitably) hacked in a few weeks.

This is why “manual sort” is so good.

I want all of files in alphabetical order except that one, please.

Agreed.

Not every nutcase is running on get-money-get-out logic.

Some people are just looking for a bad time and have decided they’re going to make it your problem.

Different kitchens will have different responses depending on turnover and how much rage they’ve (collectively) they’ve accumulated.

Subway? They might just hand it over because they don’t care enough.

Waffle House? 100% you are getting a beat down.

Oh that’s what it was supposed to be.

I thought it was a new species, like the rage zombies from 28 Days Later.

What’s up with mbin’s API?

In case you, like me, were wondering wtf stingrays are (besides a type of fish). This is from their report :

Cell-site simulators, also known as “Stingrays” or IMSI catchers, are devices that masquerade as legitimate cell-phone towers, tricking phones within a certain radius into connecting to the device rather than a tower.

Cell-site simulators operate by conducting a general search of all cell phones within the device’s radius, in violation of basic constitutional protections. Law enforcement use cell-site simulators to pinpoint the location of phones with greater accuracy than phone companies. Cell-site simulators can also log IMSI numbers (unique identifying numbers) of all of the mobile devices within a given area.

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The fact that government agencies are using these devices without the utmost consideration for the privacy and rights of individuals around them is alarming but not surprising. The federal government, and in particular agencies like HSI and ICE, have a dubious and troubling relationship with overbroad collection of private data on individuals.

I don’t know who that is.

Can someone link me a screenshot of his tweets ?

That one interview (YouTube short).