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by mehhh 7y ago
The actions Google has taken over the last 3 years are far different than in the past. Something is wrong with the organization as a whole. Last week, Google donated to the Salvation Army[1] here in Seattle (a group that fights against LGBT
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by mehhh 7y ago
The App store version is almost certainly using MPLv2, which is a file based copyleft license. Much weaker than GPLv2.
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by mehhh 7y ago
There are plenty of reliable, free DDNS providers like https://dns.he.net that do not require rolling your own or hardcoding your global API key into a script on a questionably trustable single board computer.
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by mehhh 7y ago
If you have citations of GPLv2 or GPLv3 apps that are in the App Store, I would be highly interested. As far as I can discern, Linphone is provided in the App Store under a proprietary license, VLC had to relicense as LGPL, and GNU Go is st
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by mehhh 7y ago
> An app analysis tool shows that this app––MFsocket.apk––gains ROOT access to an Android phone Source: https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2019/07/spyware-used-on-phones...
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by mehhh 7y ago
I would not want to develop a new application in C++, both Google and Mozilla decided it was bad enough they had to write better languages (Go & Rust), and the speed at which I can write things in Python, Lua or another lanugage is much
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by mehhh 7y ago
Where are they gathering it from? Seems overpriced for reality compared to census data and friends that have recently leased in both areas. Seattle definitely is more expensive for a 1BR than either ex-urb: https://www.seattleti
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by mehhh 7y ago
Edited both comments, should be fixed now
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by mehhh 7y ago
The app has root, it can easily break out of the APK and ensure reinstallation just like other Android malware does. Factory resetting might work if the system partition is not modified, but that covers only a portion of Android devices.
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by mehhh 7y ago
SaaS and Entertainment as a service are the replacements, hence Apple Music and their new streaming service. This is also why AT&T, Verizon, Sinclair and Comcast have spent the last half decade buying media companies.
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by mehhh 7y ago
VLC had to relicense to LGPL to make that happen: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VLC_media_player#History
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by mehhh 7y ago
I wonder how Spider Pro does with Facebook, Linkedin, Whitepages and others that try their best to block scraping but still have an introductory free to view webpage...
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by mehhh 7y ago
There is a huge practical difference between being temporarily infected and permanently having malware embedded in your phone. The former is fixable with a software uodate from a company that actively looks to secure your phone, while in th
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by mehhh 7y ago
Of that I am not certain, but Apple has banned VLC and many other apps, and continues to ban any GPL code from the app store: https://www.fsf.org/news/2010-05-app-store-compliance
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by mehhh 7y ago
That was the main idea behind Pyre-Qt, but dynamic media resizing is not well supported in Qt unless you pull in a web view (at which point you've recreated Electron). https://pyre.chat One fork of Pyre does this using a we
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by mehhh 7y ago
Qt development using Python is similarly painful, I end up drafting things up in Qt Creator, taking that code and amending it to work in Python. The tooling for Qt needs help, I feel like this is a huge reason why shovelware Electron apps a
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by mehhh 7y ago
The business model is outdated, Safari purposefully being a laggard with no alternatives on iOS will eventually bite Apple in the butt, it is just a question of when. Both the Music industry and Apple seek to maintain their control and thus
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by mehhh 7y ago
Apple is the one holding up Web Push on iOS at this point, Chrome, Firefox, Edge and a number of other browsers support it: https://caniuse.com/#search=push
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by mehhh 7y ago
China forces the Uighurs and anyone who visits their region (Xinjiang) to install malware on their Android: https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/294389-china-is-installin... Banning sideloading forced China to use iOS ex
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by mehhh 7y ago
Chinese nationalism? Cause this is definitely not the words of an American Patriot, at best it could be viewed as rutheless capitalism, Pinkertons and all.
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by mehhh 7y ago
There are a number of interesting use cases for PWAs, but part of Apple's fear is (potentially) many of their clients will migrate to PWA only, reducing App Store revenue severely. Apple also loses all code auditing and screening, mean
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by mehhh 7y ago
Wow, literally "Fuck you, got mine" mentality here with all its ugliness on display! So if it makes you a buck, a billion people should suffer under the rule of a despot?
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by mehhh 7y ago
Those numbers look very inaccurate. A 1 bedroom in Kenmore, WA for $1700 is the median? I find that really hard to believe, unless that is the median price for a unit built in the last 5 years in Kenmore. Ditto for the Puyallup, WA median 1
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by mehhh 7y ago
SDOT is trying to build it, did the recent injunction a few weeks ago get cleared?
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by mehhh 7y ago
Have you seen Dice's latest billboard advertisement recently? It says "Who can afford to live in Seattle? Programmers!". For most of Seattle proper, its a sad but accurate statement.
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by mehhh 7y ago
He would be far from the first Ballardite to work hard to fight progress. IIRC there is a whole exhibit at the Ballard Locks on people who moved to Ballard and Fremont to "escape the city", under the premise that 45th would never
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by mehhh 7y ago
Salmon Bay Sand & Gravel has done everything they can to block the missing link from being built. I just want a usable bike trail to Golden Gardens, rather than the fragmented mess that is bike lanes in Ballard currently :c
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by mehhh 7y ago
Your still burning significant CPU resources and turning that RAM on (rather than power gating it) to run Electron apps in the backgrohnd, hence why it tanks battery life on laptops.
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by mehhh 7y ago
Kings School, all Catholic run schools (which are the majority of the private schools in the region) and the other various religious schools have this clause. My neighbor was fired over it and had trouble finding work at other private schoo
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by mehhh 7y ago
Private schools are a 10k to 15k pay haircut in Seattle, most require a morality clause that makes being LGBTQ+ a firable offence, and the vaccination rates are appallingly low compared to public schools. Seattle's Catholic Schools are

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