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by selectively 5mo ago
You posted a giant, AI generated block of junk science.
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by selectively 5mo ago
Anonymous in terms of it not being possible to derive the real world identity of the human from the value, sure. Anonymous in terms of providing no durable way to ban that human from the platform? No.
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by selectively 5mo ago
Social Media is not a thing at all. Social media is a website. Websites are not health or unhealthy. Food is healthy or unhealthy. Websites are light and potentially sound, not something with health effects.
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by selectively 5mo ago
An attestation-like system to detect humanity at time of post is absolutely for useful online spaces in the era of AI slop. The writing style of the author is very annoying.
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by selectively 5mo ago
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by selectively 5mo ago
Google will not accept prepaid cards for verification. Google's identity requirements serve basic security needs and are fine.
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by selectively 5mo ago
GitHub is fine.
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by selectively 5mo ago
Yup. The specific scam here is built upon preventing the victim from talking to trusted individuals. A cooldown breaks the spell. Complex, multi-day pig butchering stuff is not what Google is going after here or would have any hope to defea
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by selectively 5mo ago
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by selectively 5mo ago
Google's identity verification system relies on multiple factors, not solely drivers licensees or other national identity documents.
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by selectively 5mo ago
This is correct. The people who will refuse to pay $25 and sign their stuff are people with a political objective, not businesses.
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by selectively 5mo ago
The way you give your non-technical friends an APK and they just install it is by you signing it.
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by selectively 5mo ago
Yes! That is because banking malware is specifically what is being targeted here: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/android-de...
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by selectively 5mo ago
Well, the very good news is that Google is not seeking your trust. You have no say at all. This is the new system, it benefits actual real people over HN commenters and you will just have to deal with it. Google doesn't have the abilit
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by selectively 5mo ago
Scammers cannot talk people past a 24 hour wait. This attack is built upon pressure and operates at a scale that makes stealing many identies, building different-enough apps to avoid getting flagged by Google and signing them all non-viable
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by selectively 5mo ago
Yes. That attack is a very real attack. The attacker gets access to the victim's phone and sideloads additional apps that appear to be the victim's legitimate banking application. The victim logs into it and sees a fake balance (a
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by selectively 5mo ago
Revocations are for apps being malware and nothing else, much like macOS Gatekeeper (Apple doesn't even revoke certs used by Warez groups to sign cracked apps). Automated bans can be an issue, but that's an edge case. Google alrea
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by selectively 5mo ago
Google doesn't want millions of people to have every cent of their money stolen. This measure is about making it harder to pull off a specific type of scam that is plaguing South East Asia. No conspiracy. For actual information on the
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by selectively 5mo ago
F-Droid is not a safer app repository: https://privsec.dev/posts/android/f-droid-security-issues/ And most Android banking malware is distributed through unsafe sideload installs (as opposed to much safer Gat
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by selectively 5mo ago
Those developers will pay $25 for identity verification and have no issues.
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by selectively 5mo ago
Howard Zinn was a hero.
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by selectively 6mo ago
Political posturing that will never actually occur.
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by selectively 6mo ago
Yes.
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by selectively 6mo ago
Open Control Panel. OneDrive is in it. Click the 'Uninstall' button. Then click yes.
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by selectively 6mo ago
It is on by default as of the last time I went through new Mac user setup, which was during....Sequoia, I think.
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by selectively 6mo ago
Nope. This is an officially supported function, required under law. Edge WebView remains present for functionality that requires it.
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by selectively 6mo ago
The way iCloud Desktop works is that it uploads your stuff to the cloud, using your iCloud Storage quota. The way that OneDrive works is that it uploads stuff to OneDrive, using your Microsoft 365 storage quota.
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by selectively 6mo ago
OneDrive seems pretty clear to me. It works identically to the way the same functionality works under macOS.
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by selectively 6mo ago
When an awful post gets botted to the top of HN and I see it, I will call out the awful post if I so feel like it.
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by selectively 6mo ago
Open the screen where you remove apps and click the uninstall button.

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