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  • Cool I guess, but why? What's the use case? Are they trying to bridge the gap between ChromeOS and Android? I know they're inspired a lot by DeX, which is awesome, but as far as I know that mode is mostly for like desktop-like browsing. Not really for development, which is what you'd use a Linux VM terminal for.

  • I was definitely more excited for this project when they didn't randomly abandon it for over a year and a half unannounced. Also spell check is still non-functional. That feature seems like a requirement, otherwise it'd be an amazing keyboard. In fact, I'd say it would be the best.

  • Tldr for those who are confused, since Android already does support side loading and even seamless updates for third-party app stores (like Droid-ify, etc), these are mostly legal changes.

    Basically Google can't force Google IAP as the only method of payment in apps anymore, can't block companies from advertising how to find them on non-Play Store android app stores. So good changes overall.

    Also when you download third party apks, on Android, while it's still relatively easy to do, it does give bit of a scary warning saying security issues are on the user for doing so. This creates the assumption that Play Store is the only secure way to get apps on Android, and the OS gives all sorts of special security exceptions to the Play Store for that. Obviously other secure app stores can exist, so this can be seen as an anti-competitive method since Google is exempt from their own scary apk install message.

  • What is he talking about, public WiFi can easily poison and monitor your DNS requests (most people don't know or use encrypted DNS), and there's still tons of non-https traffic leaks all over the place that are plain text. Even if encrypted, there's still deep packet inspection. VPNs can mitigate DPI techniques and shift the trust from an easily snoopable public WiFi to the VPN's more trustworthy exit servers.

    This guy really needs to elaborate on what he's trying to say when the cyber security field very much disagrees with this stance. I'm not a huge fan of Proton, but they aren't doing anything wrong here. You should use it for public Wi-Fi.

  • Wow what an incredibly xenophobic and hateful headline.

    Also from the author himself:

    The studies used to support these data, however, are controversial. This is in part because they may have considered only specific population groups or a small sample size per country.

    What productive and enlightening kind of discussions were you expecting with that headline, OP?

  • I'm very glad I got it out of my system when I was younger and was debating on Reddit over the stupidest of shit

    Now I'm too busy irl, and if comment replies aren't productive or entertaining to me, I just swipe them away and forget they ever existed.