Is this about/a problem with iOS or Android or both? The linked post only talks about iOS.

I’m surprised they can include remote requests [by consequence of remote URLs] in notifications.

hhttps://

I think I have to decrypt this url before I can open it

/edit: I did it! I was able to decrypt it!

https://faq.whatsapp.com/414631957536067/

But of course when implemented into law, it gets softened up and exceptions get added for when it’s […]

Notably, it’s not like laws can weaken human rights without cause. The laws are balancing one human right against others. For the state to ensure fairness and safety to its citizens, it has to - at some point inevitably - violate other human rights. (Locking up criminals because they are a danger to other citizens.)

There’s really no way to prevent attempts to control or interpret rights differently or weaken or balance them differently. That’s politics.

The sad thing is how repeatedly, such policies and changes get pushed repeatedly, despite repeated concerns being raised and the proposals being rejected. But there’s nothing “stronger than human rights” that you can do to prevent them.

Any attempts like “you can only propose such a law every 2 years” could be circumvented one way or another. But maybe something like that could be worthwhile. The bigger problem, though, may be how press represents them, and how lobbying orgs can lobby and push agendas without much transparency or elected representation.

In the bottom notes, they link to their Quantifying the cost of RTO, which is a worthwhile read too, with visualized numbers.

One candidate we placed in the past told us they wanted $90k. We advised them not to say that number, because it’d get them filtered out. They ended up getting hired for close to 200.

Crazy

an Android Linux translation layer called Android Translation Layer (we never said developers were good at naming)

wth is that jab?

I like descriptive names on products.

Should they have called it koalupetta?

I uninstalled badger back when Firefox released cookie isolation. No need to learn about tracking cookies when they’re either blocked in the first place, or isolated meaning no cross tracking.

The beginning of Aperture Science

This talks about one issue. You seem to be confident that this one case is representative of the whole FOSS space? I am not.

Can you elaborate how it would be much easier in closed source software? Because as far as I can see, it’s different. In most cases, you need an actual person instead of an online persona, pass interview and contracting, and then you’re still “the new guy” or Junior in the company or project. It’s not like closed off from public eyes means anyone can do anything without any eyes.

At the end, pointing to their Bugzilla issue tracker

I’ve always found Bugzilla incredibly inaccessible. It’s so overloaded, so complicated, so noisy with unrelated and irrelevant things. It always baffled me how projects use it and keep using it, and especially projects like Thunderbird and Mozilla, for such a long time.

I regularly use bug trackers, to report, comment, or work on. When I see Bugzilla, in most cases, I give up/leave right away.

Consequently, I find it ironic that they point to Bugzilla at the end.

That being said, I think this video is a good intro to accessibility, common issues, and study findings.

How do you guys view Bugzilla as an issue tracker, bug tracker, and work task tracker?

One file, almost 7k lines of code.

https://github.com/microsoft/BASIC-M6502

This assembly language source code represents one of the most historically significant pieces of software from the early personal computer era. It is the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC Version 1.1 for the 6502 microprocessor, originally developed and copyrighted by Microsoft in 1976-1978.

Was there ever a reason to use OpenOffice after LibreOffice split off?

Baffling that the chain did not immediately respond with “we introduced new rules requiring all our stores not to allow smart glasses or other recording devices in their treatment rooms”. Seems so obvious, yet we see nothing like that in the article.

Are you attempting to indicate D much better than Nim or from D to Nim?

Feature richness as a user, documentation as a developer.

If you want to talk about possible risks to your supply chain, a single maintainer that’s grossly underpaid and overworked. That’s the risk. The country they are from is irrelevant.

Total nonsense.

A good open-source maintainer won’t act maliciously, even when underfunded, until they are forced to.

A FOSS project that is underfunded has its own problems. But if it becomes unmaintained, you can take over or react. The other risks are assessable.

Russia is an oppressive regime that continuously attacks other parties through hybrid warfare. Who knows what environment and pressures the maintainer is under? The more important the project is, the more value it has as an attack surface.

How can they think and publicize “nah, underfunded is more important”? And even going further than that, claiming the country is irrelevant?

I have difficulties finding open-source references in the article!? Where is it?

If you want to talk about possible risks to your supply chain, a single maintainer that’s grossly underpaid and overworked. That’s the risk. The country they are from is irrelevant.

Total nonsense.

A good open-source maintainer won’t act maliciously, even when underfunded, until they are forced to.

A FOSS project that is underfunded has its own problems. But if it becomes unmaintained, you can take over or react. The other risks are assessable.

Russia is an oppressive regime that continuously attacks other parties through hybrid warfare. Who knows what environment and pressures the maintainer is under? The more important the project is, the more value it has as an attack surface.

How can they think and publicize “nah, underfunded is more important”? And even going further than that, claiming the country is irrelevant?

AdGuard

I’ve used AdGuard Public DNS for quite a while, until I found out it is tied to Russia (Russian developers, attempts to hide that fact). When I looked into alternatives, they don’t have such a strong branding, but they do exist. Smaller, public good DNS services with ad block lists integrated.

I am using dnsforge.de now.

Protect your Android device

personalDNSfilter

Notably, on Android, you can change your DNS settings in the system network settings. While installing an app is more convenient, you don’t need to install an app to change DNS resolution.

It’s mainly an issue of the teaser text not matching the page content and title, and Lobsters not being obvious that it’s an alternative social platform.