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by grishka 7mo ago
So then let it be such that only 0.001% of people will use smartphones.
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by grishka 7mo ago
And that's fine I guess? It's important that there are banks that are too huge to go online-only. It will be easier to comply for other industries. From my initial example, for event tickets, they wouldn't care much whether t
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by grishka 7mo ago
My intuition is that it should only apply to businesses that have a physical presence, or need it to do their job. So, for banks, that would be only those with branches. We also have one of those online-only banks (T-Bank, ex Tinkoff), it&#
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by grishka 7mo ago
It's also very much optional in Russia as well. Everywhere still takes cash, everything can be done on paper. And speaking of air travel, most airports actually require a printed boarding pass. IIRC you can use an electronic boarding
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by grishka 7mo ago
Of course businesses that wouldn't make sense without technology, like Uber, food delivery, or anything else that is an app anyway , would be exempt. I'm talking more about things that used to work without the internet for decade
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by grishka 7mo ago
For example, me posting this comment is pushing for it a tiny bit. Some organization like the EFF could campaign for something like this. Making algorithmic social media unappealing could help too.
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by grishka 7mo ago
Some people don't want to be taught about some things because they don't care enough about them. I was told a story as a kid about a grandma that didn't want to learn to read and write. It's the same thing here — there
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by grishka 7mo ago
If we, the tech-savvy people, start pushing for it, it may have a chance of succeeding. On the other hand, if we take your defeatist approach, it's an absolute certainty that nothing will change.
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by grishka 7mo ago
People themselves will decide. Same way they decided whether they wanted to buy a computer in the 00s. It's just that those who decide to not have internet banking should not be disadvantaged by the society compared to those who have i
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by grishka 7mo ago
Android has about 2/3 worldwide market share and it hasn't had anything like this before. Many people, myself included, chose it exactly because it allows the installation of modded, pirated, or otherwise non-store-worthy apps.
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by grishka 7mo ago
My version of that is to ask yourself what this app could notify you about and decide based on that. What could a game notify you about? Nothing, probably spam. Deny. What could a social app notify you about? Interactions with your content
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by grishka 7mo ago
No, why should I? I'm not proposing to "change society to 15 years ago", my idea is more selective. It's more like "do a thorough review and restore all the mechanisms that made the use of smartphones and internet o
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by grishka 7mo ago
If you think about it for as long as I did, you will find that the moment everything went sideways is when general-purpose computing devices started having their initial bootloader in the mask ROM of the CPU/SoC. Outlaw just that , sa
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by grishka 7mo ago
Your analogy doesn't work here. Going to a restaurant is like using an app store. Installing apks is like cooking at home. Nothing stops you from cooking a meal that will get you sick. Now imagine that every restaurant in your city is
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by grishka 7mo ago
Sorry, I keep forgetting that LLMs are a thing. But I disagree because many people, especially tech-savvy people, can't possibly trust any communication that has the hallmarks of slop.
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by grishka 7mo ago
These restrictions already don't apply to something you install over adb, so there's already that. But that still considerably raises the bar for things like apps made by sanctioned entities , for example, most Russian banks.
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by grishka 7mo ago
There's quite a gap between this sort of opportunistic scamming that's happening all over the world and targeted multi-year campaigns that probably require the resources of a nation state.
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by grishka 7mo ago
Have you read my comment in full?
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by grishka 7mo ago
I'm assuming good faith and giving them the benefit of the doubt. Of course it might be that they want more control. In addition to controlling the world's most popular web browser and the world's most popular search engine
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by grishka 7mo ago
Not sure how it works in countries that didn't go through 80 years of socialism, but I assume that you're saying that in those countries, your salary is required to go to your bank account and can't be paid in cash. Then you
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by grishka 7mo ago
Which is exactly my point! This is exactly the thing that desperately needs to be undone.
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by grishka 7mo ago
If you mean things like Shizuku or local adb connection through Termux, it's quite an awkward process to set up even for someone like me who's been building Android apps since 2011. Like, you can do if you really really need it,
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by grishka 7mo ago
At this point I'm convinced that there's something deeply wrong with how our society treats technology. Ruining Android for everyone to try to maybe help some rather technologically-hopeless groups of people is the wrong solution.
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by grishka 7mo ago
Also because they can spam you with notifications through the app and that surely makes some chart go up. As someone with meticulous notification hygiene, it's always surprising to me just how many people allow every app to send notifi
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by grishka 7mo ago
It's well established that machine learning excels at solving classification problems, or those that can be reduced to one. It saddens me that we're wasting so much of that potential on those stupid stochastic parrots that solve a
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by grishka 7mo ago
For a nuclear option, delete C:\windows\system32\wua* or move these files somewhere else.
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by grishka 7mo ago
I'm too young to have used it myself but from what I know it was huge in Russia in the 90s.
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by grishka 7mo ago
I thought about that recently while researching how VCRs work before attempting to fix one. I didn't even think about seeing the actual video signal, I was just curious what the diagonal lines and control pulses on the tape look like.
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by grishka 7mo ago
This is 1970s tech, so of course there was no compression. It's basically a composite video signal etched into the medium. Every revolution of the disc is one full frame (or two fields). So when you look at it, the adjacent grooves rep
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by grishka 7mo ago
It blows my mind they used AI to generate a couple paragraphs worth of rather nonsensical text. It would've taken them about as much time to just write something sensible by hand.

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