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You're both right

On the other hand, are you implying that human call center workers are accurate with what they tell customers and that when they make mistakes the companies will own up to them and honor them?

Awesome

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/todays-firefox-blocks-third-party-tracking-cookies-and-cryptomining-by-default/

2019

https://www.mintmobile.com/plans/

https://www.mintmobile.com/plans/

All plans include unlimited talk and text.

Instead of implementing systems that are not vulnerable to attack, they are just removing the people who know how to attack.

"attack US critical infrastructure" is security

Valid point. I think the issue is that we know there is no good reason for China to have that data, and we know that they are hostile, so it's an easy decision.

This is basically nationally enforced "security through obscurity" which is dumb as fuck.

Yes

I mean, to be fair, both are extremely bad and should be stopped, but a hostile foreign country gathering data and pushing propaganda on your citizens IS worse than you or non-hostile foreign countries doing it.

I haven't read the article at all (I plan to) but this basically confirms everything I have assumed as an outsider for years now.

...what? Use a VPN -> download the APK. Not hard.

APKs are signed so you can easily know if they were tampered with.

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I believe Java is the best option for this type of application

Why?

Rust's speed is a cherry on top. The main reason to use it is its language design / correctness guarantees.

I've been programming for several decades and understand nuance and subjectivity vs objectivity when it comes to this, and strongly believe Rust is just objectively much better than Java as a language.

One example is that Rust doesn't have null while Java does. The creator of null gave an excellent talk called The Billion Dollar Mistake about why null was such a bad idea, and said languages shouldn't not have used it. Instead, the alternative he gives is what Rust does.

Things like this are actually hugely important.

Also, Rust was "most loved" language in the StackOverflow developer survey for eight years in a row for a reason.

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-admired-and-desired-programming-scripting-and-markup-languages

Other than Sublinks, I have never seen anyone post about how they really want to work with Java.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/mormon-church-multibillion-investment-fund-sec-settlement-rcna71603