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  • The vast majority of malware isn’t delivered via play store because of the existing measures and protections they have. Same reason you see very little app-store-based malware on iOS. DISCLAIMER: YES MALWARE EXISTS ON APPLE HARDWARE PLEASE DON’T SHOUT AT ME. Talking specifically about anything installed via first party stores on both platforms.

    Their main issue is this: dumb people install apks from spurious website and infect their phones. The least controllable and most pervasive factor here is the intelligence and knowledge of the user which cannot be controlled for by Google. So by eliminating the ability to exploit this entirely, it will eliminate that specific vector.

    It’s a sledgehammer solution that naturally comes with many downsides like disrupting intelligent and knowledgeable users that just want to hack around with FOSS and such.

    Google is relying on It being too expensive for malware creators to have to guide each individual user through adb installation and usage process just to get access to their phone. Most scammers only do that level of interaction to extract actual cash/gift cards from the target.

    I am personally and directly affected by their decision in many negative ways, but I’m not so dense as to not understand why they’re doing it.

    /corpodronespeak

    EDIT: bots help Xitter maintain inflated usage figures which justify people’s jobs, share prices, etc. Bots are a feature, not a bug.









  • Try it with lyrics and see if you can achieve the same. I don’t think "we’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas!” is the appropriate attitude from LLM vendors here.

    Sadly they’re learning from Facebook and TikTok who make huge profits from e.g. young girls swirling into self harm content and harming or, sometimes, killing themselves. Safeguarding is all lip service here and it’s setting the tone for treating our youth as disposable consumers.

    Try and push a copyrighted song (not covered by their existing deals) though and oh boy, you got some splainin to do!



  • In those cases broadcasters take one of two roads:

    1. Don’t broadcast it - many extreme sports are simply not broadcast by many, many broadcasters.

    2. Properly mitigate the risk to an acceptable level - this is done frequently for sports and other media. This is the reason you can watch Jackass and Dirty Sanchez even though the risk of death for many stunts is non-zero.

    Once the death occurs though, they can only rely on their demonstration of #2 here to offset legal culpability. They are also then generally bound to remove the material and not re-air (in this case, Kick did make the content available again for whatever reason)

    It seems like this is the road the defense will take in this particular case is to prove the death (illegal to air if preventable) was not caused by the preceding consensual torture (legal to air, seemingly).