I don't know why stories about this app are making the rounds these days; maybe because people think the name is cute?
https://github.com/yjeanrenaud... has been around for a while, and similar apps for a shorter time.
A developer can't sign (and then distribute) an app for an applicationId that is not associated with their account.
For a software-only Android solution, check out https://techblog.bozho.net/wir...
DeepSeek starts writing: “The famous picture you’re referring to is known as “Tank Man” or “The Unknown Rebel.” It was taken on June 5, 1989, during the Tiananmen” before a message abruptly appears reading “Sorry, that’s beyond my current scope. Let’s talk about something else.”
Bloomberg reports that like all other Chinese AI models, DeepSeek will censor topics that are seen as sensitive to China. The app deflects questions about the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests or about whether China could invade Taiwan. It will give detailed responses about world leaders such as the United Kingdom’s Sir Kier Starmer but will refuse to say anything about China’s President Xi Jinping.
Yes, it's happy to also bash the Bad Orange Man, but criticizing Winnie the Pooh is right out:
It can be easily detected whether an app was installed through the Play Store, and an appropriate action taken, if one were so inclined. I don't submit my app to 3rd party app stores, but I do allow it to run if it was installed through one, or through sideloading. I don't mind the Chinese using the app, probably the biggest market where Play Store is not available.
What I don't allow are reverse-engineered copies of my app, recognizable because they're not signed with my developer certificate. Those mostly ripped the app part, added something to the layout that display ads, and put it back together. That's an immediate termination
What we really need is a modern WHOIS protocol that provides structured data in a computer-parseable format
I always thought RDAP was supposed to be that new and improved replacement, but I'm not hearing much about that lately.
All pro-Agile and anti-Agile discussions aside, it would be easier to take this seriously if the upshot of it wasn't:
A study commissioned by company A, which invented methodology B, finds that methodology B is better than methodology C.
That was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If it was completed in the proposed time, it would be the first to become operational.
... sinking Chinese cities. Maybe that's in the linked Science article (which I can't access).
+1 on all of your points. Well said
For starters, it's quite slow compared to, say, Vivaldi. Even the big update a few years back (Quantum? or something like that) that was supposed to be a big improvement only improved speed a bit; not nearly enough to tempt me to go back to it.
Firefox is still slow compared to Vivaldi - the supposedly big improvement a couple of years back didn't make things much faster. I think that matters more than extensions at this point. Vivaldi is pretty good for blocking ads and trackers, and I don't see extensions as a big reason to switch back now.
Killing off Windows Mobile/Phone made sense to me, but why they killed the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... devices I didn't understand. Those were just getting going, and would have given Microsoft a platform for their apps and services, while retaining compatibility with Android.
There just has to be a connection to the newly announced common marketing platform the European giants have recently formed, and which has been approved by the EU: https://ec.europa.eu/commissio.... That one, of course, is all about GDPR-compliant marketing and advertising. Curious to see what this one will be about.
"I've finally learned what `upward compatible' means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes." -- Dennie van Tassel
