thymos
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- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan 1 day ago:
Thanks, that’s good to know! If I do ever decide to release an app, I’ll definitely look into this.
- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan 2 days ago:
This is something I worry about all the time as well, especially since I’ve started to learn how to code and experienced how easy it is to mess up and send a list with all registered users to everyone opening a page. (This was in a test environment.)
As a user, there is no proper way I know of to verify an app’s security. Most apps are closed source, but even if you could view the code, what would you look for?
Both Apple and Google have a verification process for apps that are published in their app stores, but if these worked, we wouldn’t see this happening.
There are academic researchers working on apps and privacy as well, but it’s not like you can ask them for a report on an app you’re thinking of installing.
I think it basically comes down to trust. Check if a developer has messed up in the past and how they dealt with that, that sort of stuff. And for dating apps there is this interesting article: privacyguides.org/…/queer-dating-apps-beware-who-…
It’s a long read (haven’t fully read it myself yet) and it paints a bleak picture, but that’s the world we live in today.
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 2 weeks ago:
From the article: “Even after completing the tasks with AI, the developers believed that they had decreased task times by 20%. But the study found that using AI did the opposite: it increased task completion time by 19%.”
I’m not saying you didn’t save time, but it’s remarkable that the research shows that this perception can be false.
- Comment on Simple Blog options? 1 month ago:
I just wrote a few lines of PHP and put my posts in a SQLITE database. Simple, built to last and no dependance on others.