Amju Wolf

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Amju WolftoTechnology@beehaw.orgMore Google Spyware to Enjoy!
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    2 months ago

    Wouldn’t be surprised if it also did automatic scans for CSAM or some other BS like that. The article’s conclusion is really funny, too:

    In any case, it’s nice to see Google delivering some new safety features in its Messages app. Hopefully the company publishes documentation on how Android System SafetyCore works so other messaging apps can implement their own version of Sensitive Content Warnings. Google Messages is popular, but there are certainly other messaging platforms that could benefit from this tool.

    They are quite the optimitsts. Oh and yes please, put the spyware in more apps! We aren’t tracked enough!



  • Seems you’re right. I tried a few subs when the original comment was posted and they didn’t work but now they seem to be back.

    To be fair, it’s still a good thing to remember that it takes like one press of a button to kill a shitton of communities a lot of people care about.





  • Amju WolftoLinux@lemmy.ml*Permanently Deleted*
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    Yeah, it’s also that “it just works” now, and one undisputable (though unfortunately self-fulfilling) advantage of Windows is that chances are if you do encounter an issue you’re not the first one and someone has already solved it.

    Being an early(ish) adopter of anything like that is always a bit of a risk and pain.



  • I mean, kinda? Sure, there are fixed costs per customer, and it ultimately doesn’t matter if one guy has access to (and uses) a 1Gbps versus 1Mbps service… But when you have millions of customers that you want to serve those speeds to reliably, there’s an insane difference as you need way more expensive equipment and stuff.

    And yeah, more bandwidth has gotten cheaper. But again - for such a critical service, it should be very cheap and minimum speed isn’t really a factor. So if they could make it 1/3 cheaper by cutting the speed to 1/5, that’d be a win for a lot of people.



  • My point is, don’t get causation and correlation mixed up. Sure, in this case, it also happens to be somewhat better for the environment. But it would never happen if it also wasn’t more profitable, which it undoubtedly is.

    It’s partly not even about the price of the chargers themselves; it saves even more in “hidden costs” like just the fact that now you can have a single SKU for the whole world (or large parts of it at least) instead of keeping 10 different ones (per phone variant). Stuff like having to keep way less stock variants for RMAs, much simplified shipping, etc.