I don’t use SwiftKey, just tested it because you shared a tool for doing it and claimed it was able to subvert Android permissions.
You probably didn’t actually disable the permission – like I said, the idea that an app could get around system-level permissions like that, in a way you could plainly observe would be headline news. It would be astounding that you somehow uncovered something that massive.
I’m sure there is a way to make signing the CLA part of the pull request process on Github. I’ve been asked to do it. Not sure how Github works nowadays, maybe it was part of Github or an external bot.
And I don’t agree with the other people here. I think having complete copyright makes some things easier. And if you do an open project, maintain it for years, do 99% of the work… You’re allowed being paid with the contributions.
Mind there are other licenses than just the GPL. You could just pick a MIT license / Apache / BSD instead and maybe you don’t need the contributors to sign over their copyright anymore, because these licenses cover pretty much everything and transfer it to everyone, including you.
I don’t know if this helps, but if you use DuckDuckGo as a default search engine in your browser, its easy to look things up on Wiktionary using !wt. And yeah, Wiktionary is awesome and very underappreciated.
Looks like Miracast and Wi-Fi Direct aren’t just some software you can tack onto a product. It’s a certification for a product that has proper software and hardware support to handle these tasks.
You can find some implementations of Android TV devices that have Miracast capabilities, such as the Nvidia Shield. Other than that, youll have to find another device that is certified for it.
I see. I thought all it would need would be a Wifi Antenna, seeing as almost any phone or laptop can act as a Miracast sender, but it seems it’s more complicated from the receiver side. Then that means that all the proprietary apps either don’t work and outright lie that they “act as miracast receivers”, or they implement their own protocols?
No, I haven’t found such an app yet, all those that claim to do so fail on my device, so I guess they really require something more hardware-side. There are some that work with their own proprietary apps, but I guess they have their own protocols and the performance is not great anyway.
having layering(hope that the right word for a group of text, icons and symbols) issue where icons and symbols go missing or get replaced by square boxes
Like my USB mouse working with any computer, I used to be able to pick up a phone and text anyone on the planet without having to check which app they’re on. Sure there are the ‘de facto’ apps, but these vary by country and social group. The reason for the proliferation of the third party apps lies squarely on the proprietary, ckosed protocols by each of them and viral growth during the early days when the telcos were still figuring out data-based text and voice - players were playing up their features like ‘security’ and ‘privacy’ and creating the walled gardens as you mentioned. The current leaders grew due to rapid adoption and a person’s social clout. Just try dating nowadays in Asia, where multiple texting apps reside on a typical phone. Don’t kid yourself - the messages mentioned earlier serve only the marketing goals of each app and just lock you in with FOMO or the hassle of switching. The companies don’t give a shit about your privacy, as long as they can monetize your data, feed and activity.
RCS, to me, wants to take us back to industry standardization, so any provider can follow the standard and immediately be connected to everyone, instead of having to deal with different platforms, protocols. An iphone should be able to communicate with an Android and all the flavours without degradation or the color of the bubbles. Sure, the current implementation of RCS is google’s, but the standard is not. Hopefully, managed by a (neutral) standards body, the shortcomings people point out will be patched and adopted by the app developers. Desired featured will be folded into the standards and make their way into then apps. This, again to me, while slower, is preferable than being tied to the whims of a provider, e.g. Whatsapp, iMessage and telegram, does away with the market fragmentation (not competition) and gets rid off all the artificial bullshit like blue/ green bubbles, security lapses and image degredation between apps.
What about the time they fired their artists and then immediately wrote a blog post congratulating themselves for making AI art from a model trained on the ex-employees’ art. Inspiring.
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