lurtbancaster
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Comment · 7 days ago
Invalid deployment target. Your app targets iOS 9.0. iOS apps must target iOS version from 13 to 27.2 to be uploaded to App Store Connect or submitted for distribution.
Comment · 1 month ago
Link to the EU Kids Act leaked proposal: https://drive.proton.me/urls/7FGQYQ01Y0#tWUq468D53Nj
Link to EU Kids Act (no longer leaked, it may have changed): English PDF: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELE...
Other languages: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A...
Comment · 1 year ago
> Pretty sad to have to install a tool like that to get security on a platform that is used by billions of users.
You click on a banner ad inside an app, and if you have Intent Intercept installed, it won't immediately register as an "impression" and take you to wherever the banner has been programmed to take you to by default. Since Intent Intercept also affects the ad industry(of which Google is a big part), I don't expect Google to build a similar less-nerdy tool into Android by default.
> Installing random tools to hopefully get more security, though is risky also. Hopefully that tool doesn’t get compromised as it is privy to all intent activity.
Intent Intercept is open source(Apache License 2.0 https://github.com/k3b/intent-intercept) and its release binaries are hosted on F-Droid, arguably the most trusted Android "store" for Free and Open Source apps. So I'm not too worried.
Comment · 1 year ago
> ad tap (just clicking an ad, potentially a misclick aiming for a tiny X button, with no Install button even visible on screen)
> AppLovin’s X’s are unusually tiny, so mis-taps are especially likely
This is why I use Intent Intercept - https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.k3b.android.intentinterce...
It tells me exactly what's about to happen from my tap(accidental or intentional), and gives me the option to undo my tap.
Every privacy/security conscious Android user should have Intent Intercept installed on their devices already.
Comment · 2 years ago
Having watched the video in its entirety, it is an FAQ in a powerpoint presentation format. It's not a rambling FAQ video.
There are several slides in the video that would not translate well to a text/image only blog post. It's technically possible, but I think it would look bad.
Fortunately, Ross Scott's voice is very "speed up"-friendly. I finished watching in under 25 minutes.
It would behoove several people who've had questions in this thread[1] to watch the video.
Comment · 2 years ago
Title needs changing to "Uncovering Every Lie in MKBHD's Apple Propaganda Video".
Comment · 2 years ago
Question for rsync users on linux. Does your rsync preserve creation times --crtimes ?
I'm aware ext4/3 filesystems don't store creation times. But I want to use rsync on Linux to sync files between an NTFS(supports creation times) and a Btrfs partition(also supports creation times) without losing the creation times.
Currently rsync just sets the creation time to the modification time on the destination directory. Which is not what I want.
When I use `--crtimes` I get a "This rsync does not support --crtimes (-N)" error.
Weirdly, just using `cp -a` works. But it doesn' t have any of the checksumming and differential copy bells and whistles of rsync.
How do you rsync on linux while preserving creation times(on supported file systems)?
Comment · 2 years ago
Admittedly my only exposure to the Secure Scuttlebutt Protocol(SSB) is through manyver.se [1] - a FOSS private(optionally) social media app. And the syncing issue you mention has been one for me too. Sometimes it's even worse - it fails to sync entirely until another app restart. Maybe this is a manyverse issue, maybe a SSB issue. Either way, hitherto at least, it doesn't seem reliable.
If there are alternative ways to have an offline(over Wi-Fi/bluetooth, not internet) social media/messaging app, that works on both Android and ios, please do let me know.
Thanks.