They don’t have to offer backroom incentives to the sort of organizations that want to use attestation. That would be a good future target for antitrust courts, as I’m pretty sure Google’s primary motivation to add it was Amazon launching a phone in 2014 without Google services. Amazon didn’t need Google’s help to fail at that, but perhaps the next company to try was dissuaded.

As Apple recently discovered, willful noncompliance with the antitrust court is a bad plan. Google will probably be wary of backroom deals in the short term.

If you’re a citizen of an EU country, you should contact your politicians to tell them not to, maybe they won’t.

It only has to pass once, and they keep trying.

Oh, no doubt they would if they could. I’m not saying they’re more ethical than Google; I’m saying they’re less powerful than Google.

Someone who voluntarily sits through an hour-long presentation clearly cares enough to take some kind of action.

Still ironic though that Epic games is the main proponent, but yet they do the exact same thing on their store paying for exclusives.

The tactic only becomes illegal when it confers the ability to exclude competitors from the market.

Google has successfully excluded all meaningful competitors from the Android app distribution market. Even big companies like Samsung and Amazon have been unable to operate a profitable app store. Epic is not likely to exclude competitors from the game store market in the near future.

From the article:

developers can opt out if they don’t want their apps to be available more widely

So it won’t affect that.

Here are six topics you can probably do in about ten minutes each.

• Password manager
• Avoid password reuse
• Basic phishing prevention
• Adblocking (be sure to mention private DNS on phones to block ads in apps)
• Reasons to prefer websites to apps
• Scam recognition (if there’s time - the concepts are similar to phishing)

I’d mention Firefox in the adblocking section, but getting them to use anything will be a big win.

I’ve seen a similar demo before HTTPS was ubiquitous that just showed everyone’s passwords on a projector.

This is typical of forum software. Some have access controls, but they’re at the admin/moderator level.

Matrix is commonly used for public, discoverable rooms, much like IRC or Discord. Perhaps it’s not good for that use case, but the author seems to wish it was.

An effective spam prevention approach is a basic feature of any public communication service that reaches a certain size. Perhaps keyword filtering as the author suggests isn’t the right approach, but some rate limits would help:

• Private messages from a new contact could notify just once until approved instead of once per message.
• Servers could limit the number of outstanding message requests, with a low limit for new accounts.

It’s not unusual to feel tired when sick. It’s a particularly common symptom of COVID-19.

That’s interesting given the office he’s seeking has very little power to do something about it.

I’d be OK with more guys nobody has heard of winning elections.

His opponents are a crook, a sex pest, a Republican, and a guy nobody has heard of. That ought to be an easy win in NYC.

You mean I shouldn’t sign up for an account with somebody else’s chatbot using credentials traceable to me and confess crimes to it?

In the USA, there’s a ground in that the neutral wire is connected to ground. Devices that take advantage of this have a slightly broader neutral pin that won’t fit into the hot pin.

I’ve been shocked with both. I can confirm 230V hurts more. Neither is likely to result in a medically significant injury with this kind of shock though - just momentary discomfort.

I like the USA type-A plug. That’s probably not a popular answer since I see lots of comments about safety features in the other plugs, but my focus is on convenience.

The plugs are small, making it much easier to design folding-plug devices like this one. It also means that cords don’t have a bulky knob on the end, and splitters and power strips can be smaller than other plugs - much smaller than Schuko type-C or UK type-G.

The most common objection is that it’s possible for live pins to be exposed when a device is partially plugged in. That’s true, and most people who grew up around them has been shocked that way once. Few have been shocked twice, as the lesson to be careful with electricity usually forms a lasting memory.

How to make everyone sick in one easy step.

More broadly, there’s a cultural problem where coming to school/work/etc… with a contagious disease is seen as virtuous toughness instead of immoral endangerment. I thought the coronavirus pandemic would change this attitude, but evidently not.

Not much links to it. It’s really rare that I see a blog, social media, or non-fediverse forum post link to a Lemmy post. That sort of thing still matters quite a bit to search engines.