idunnololz
@idunnololz@lemmy.world
- Comment on I just learned this existed 1 week ago:
It’s not. It’s real.
- Submitted 1 week ago to [deleted] | 9 comments
- Comment on Aspergers officinalis 3 weeks ago:
Damn. You beat me to it.
- Comment on How do you reconcile staying sane while keeping yourself up-to-date with the news? 5 weeks ago:
I block news from all social media. Then I chose 2 news networks I thought had decent reporting and wasn’t too bias. Every morning I read news from the 2 sources and that is ALL the news I consume for that day. That’s it.
- Comment on Can you believe it? 1 month ago:
What if it was my cake day on Lemmy though?
- Comment on generous carreer 1 month ago:
Persons of land*
- Comment on ice treat 1 month ago:
No, at -15 it turns green /s
- Comment on North Korea and South Korea isn't working. Let's try West Korea and East Korea instead. 1 month ago:
Political compass Korea
- Comment on Beercicle 2 months ago:
I had an aluminum can explode the same way.
- Comment on Beercicle 2 months ago:
more like me when i get woken up by a loud bang sound from the kitchen.
- Comment on "Almost out of shampoo, better add it to my shopping list." 2 months ago:
What about “welp, time to poop”?
- Comment on Somebody 2 months ago:
Guys. Is poutine shrexy?
- Comment on I wonder 2 months ago:
(It’s an EV and I forgot to charge it)
- Comment on Seriously, it was all the rage back when I joined my first instance. 2 months ago:
Taylor swift
- Comment on Just one more 2 months ago:
Even if its not I know LA has crazy traffic from being in it
- Comment on Vibe coding is to coding what microwaving is to cooking. 2 months ago:
- Comment on A story old as time 2 months ago:
“I wish both my arms were broken”
- Comment on Suggestion 2 months ago:
What’s wrong with lollies. I love sucking on them.
- Comment on Opinions on the internet 2 months ago:
I think hurting children is wrong.
I think hurting children is wrong, so children should be euthanized to ensure they experience as little pain as possible. /s
- Comment on I'm still not sure how to do this actually oh wait maybe... nope. 2 months ago:
Most of the produce bags here have handles. I found that the meeting place where the “handle” meets the “bag” to be the easiest spot to separate. I just rub the bag between my fingers in that area and usually it only takes a single rub for it to separate.
- Submitted 2 months ago to [deleted] | 7 comments
- Comment on What is something you like to tell people? 2 months ago:
Computer
- Comment on Shed Sheeran 2 months ago:
Get out of my shed
- Comment on As you are doing it you never realize 2 months ago:
Am i really going to go buy a dvd burner and a stack of blanks out of spite?
- Comment on testing how this site handles videos 2 months ago:
Yay it works on Summit :D
- Comment on If AI was going to advance exponentially I'd of expected it to take off by now. 3 months ago:
You can call it an LLM.
- Comment on ULPT: The Math Department does Not have Ethical Review 3 months ago:
N > 1
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 3 months ago:
Do you think Return of the Obra Dinn would belong alongside these or is that game too flawed by comparison?
- Comment on Google Play’s latest security change may break many Android apps for some power users. The Play Integrity API uses hardware-backed signals that are trickier for rooted devices and custom ROMs to pass. 3 months ago:
Time to get downvoted to oblivion.
I see a lot of people questioning why Google would do this and the answer is pretty simple.
Google created a tool a long, long time ago which was meant to make sure traffic from a device was “legit”. This tool is 100% optional and app developers can use it if they would like. However, the tool was easy to bypass, so over the years Google has been making the tool harder and harder to bypass.
So why is Google doing this? They are doing this because they don’t want their tool to be bypassable. Their tool is worthless if it can be bypassed.
The tool in question here is the Play Integrity API (previously known as the SafetyNet Attestation API). This is a tool that is offered to app developers that app developers can take advantage of if they want. The selling point of the tool is if you have operation in your app that is critical, you can try to prevent some abuse by verifying that the app is running on a “trusted build of Android” and that the app itself has not been modified from the original. That’s all the tool does.
This isn’t a new API. This isn’t something Google is trying to force app developers to use. No. From Google’s point of view, they are just making sure their tool does it’s job properly.
As for why companies might choose to use this tool, a big reason is because Android is a huge target for fraud. Apple has locked all their stuff down so it is much harder to commit fraud on iOS (not impossible though). Although Apple offers something similar, there is generally less fraud coming from iOS devices vs Android. It’s the double-edged sword of having a more open platform.
Companies are obviously not going to be happy to be the target of fraud so they have to weigh their options. Either they block a small percentage of their users that are possibly legit by implementing Play Integrity API or they risk losing a % of their income to fraud.
Now you can disagree with the tool’s job, I’m not trying to argue whether the tool is good or bad. That is extremely subjective, but hopefully this answers why Google is making this change.
- Comment on Fediverse Social Media Guide 3 months ago:
According to this I should join GNUSocial.
But that sounds like a site for opinionated prick who can’t keep your mouth shut.
No thanks.
