Comment on Google's plan to restrict sideloading on Android has a potential escape hatch for users
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2 days agoIt’s the technical term that defines the process of transferring files not from an external networked device - downloading - or to an external networked device - uploading - but between two local devices - sideloading.
It’s over two decades old, you downloaded an mp3 from napster, and then sideloaded it to your player.
ideonek@piefed.social 2 days ago
And companies ofted do it. Thay recoined jaywalking to put the blaim of the accidents to pedestrians and take away the road from them. They change what littering means in attrmpt to delute the responsibility for polution... We are better than that this time, right?
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 days ago
How do you suppose that works, exactly?
ozymandias117@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I assume you’re unaware of the concerted advertising campaigns by auto manufacturers to take public streets away from pedestrians, including things like
missedhistory.com/…/lobbying-trick-blamed-pedestr…
“Jay” had started as a word for drivers driving on the wrong side of the road
debrabernier.com/the-history-of-jaywalking-in-the…
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 days ago
Maybe try to stay on topic?
So jay-walker seems appropriate, does it not?