Readit NewsPhantomBKB commented on Jack Dorsey texts Elon Musk, March 26, 2022 twitter.com/techemails/st... · Posted by u/boulos
Welcome to the eternal september of HN, missed the beginning of HN you could have conversation even with CEOs.
People want openness, transparency, freedom, participation regardless of whether they are CEOs or not. Now HN's got it.
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BSNL still on ipv4
PhantomBKB commented on Plink: Create epic music together with friends and strangers plink.in/... · Posted by u/paulkrush
This is absolutely gold! Whoever made this wins the internet
PhantomBKB commented on India drafts rules to stop developer mode and side loading of apps egovstandards.gov.in/comm... · Posted by u/MthN
4.3 (E)
> (i) Mobile phone security shall not allow to download unregistered and non-verified third-party Apps in mobile phone.
> (ii) Developer mode option should only be available on engineering sample phones only. Engineering sample phones shall be made available based on special request to the phone manufacturer.
Gotcha, thanks. I was looking in the wrong pdf
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PhantomBKB commented on India drafts rules to stop developer mode and side loading of apps egovstandards.gov.in/comm... · Posted by u/MthN
This only talks about data privacy, not sideloading apps and does not even mention developer mode
If this works it's pretty much the equivalent of a mandatory state ID on every online interaction. If it doesn't work very well, then it's going to be that, plus the risk of randomly being flagged.
As a society I don't think we have anything to gain from it; it's certainly tech that's put of Pandora's box, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't use all our cultural/legal means to prohibit/control it.
Anyone in their basement could build this today, but it only becomes a problem if that person has control over police and intelligence forces. Which means the potential for good regulation is bigger than with other tech.
Edited to add point about regulation