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I'm in that thread trying to PR or take over the package :')

I actually had a zoom meeting with the guy who made it. He seems like a nice guy but yeah not a good situation.

I think my PR even got merged but a release never got made.

Any numbers on exactly how much safer the average user will be? How many scams are we stopping here? I don't know anybody outside of technical people who install apps outside the playstore. And what can a malicious app do exactly? They're sandboxed

Some sort of middle ground should have been found where the unpublished package is still accessible as an archive or something. I'd much rather get my package broken than get hacked

Definitely wait at least a few months if you've not already. There are legal risks with these kinds of things and some orgs move slowly.

"Like the team that decided I need to pay $150 a year to sign software to put in the app store, or whatever jerk put RFID tags on the water filters in my fridge like a sort of drinking rights management. Good technologists should be interested in cryptography and the power it brings, but also be careful about what they might set into motion."

> Google's latest concession makes the sideloading controversy a big nothingburger.

It's really not. Try to realise that it's not meant to be Google's phone and they shouldn't be "letting" me do things

I agree with you but the whole thing makes me uncomfortable. We're definitely making it easier for these security conscious companies to do vendor lock in if we encourage passkey use.

Hey Omar! I met you briefly in Grenoble many years ago. I hope you're doing well.

I only recently watched this series and found it very entertaining. But I never expected it to be very accurate. It's definitely been dramatized for TV. I definitely didn't get an anti-nuclear sentiment from the show, I mostly think they were trying to portray a negative view of Soviet Bureaucracy.

I actually write down the secret for all my totp codes in a notebook as a backup

Yep I have been in one group for years then in the last month I start getting spam emails from comments on the group

We need another os in the market. A duopoly just isn't competitive enough. Too bad the cost of entry is so high.

Yeah if this goes ahead I'm going back to my feature phone

Okay so we just need another company to release a nice phone and release the device tree right?