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Ghoelian @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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What prevents Linux from being installed on mobile devices?
  • Nothing prevents you drom installing a linux os on an android phone, provided someone made a rom for your device. It's just not very useable due to proprietary drivers. Ubuntu touch exists for example, but on most phones you can't even use the cellular antenna iirc

  • Be careful.
  • Yeah, all this behaviour leads to is more annoyances for the people who do know what they're doing. People should really learn how the devices they use every day work, which includes stuff like the command prompt. Not necessarily how to use it, but at least what it is and what it can do.

  • Apps can now block sideloading more easily and force downloads through Google Play
  • McDonald's was just an example, the point is most apps don't need to do that at all.

    I do happen to know how payment systems like that work, and thankfully those are all cloud-based, the only thing the app does is start transactions and check with the server if they're paid. If they implemented it well, as I suspect a big corpo like McDonald's probably would, their own order screen also checks server-side if orders are paid. Not much you can do from the app side to mess with that.

  • Found: 280 Android apps that use OCR to steal cryptocurrency credentials
  • There’s no indication that any of the apps were available through Google Play.

    So it's just users installing untrusted apps to their phone?

    scour infected phones for text messages, contacts, and all stored images

    They also can't do that without the user explicitly giving the app permission to do those things, unless they found an exploit or something, but the article doesn't say that.

    Also, why would you have images with passwords in them on your phone anyway?

    People really should know better nowadays than to do any of this shit. Every step here is preventable by the user just thinking about what they're really doing.

  • General Programming Discussion @lemmy.ml Ghoelian @lemmy.dbzer0.com

    Dependabot alternatives for non-github hosts?

    I'm really bad at keeping my dependencies up-to-date manually, so dependabot was great for me. I don't use github anymore though, and I haven't really been able to find a good alternative.

    I found Snyk, which seems to do that, but they only allow logging in with 3rd party providers which I'm not a big fan of.

    Edit: seems like Snyk also only supports a few git hosts, and Codeberg isn't one of them.

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    Occasional slow loading and gateway timeouts

    The past few days I've noticed occasionally dbzer0 loads extremely slowly, or even hits a gateway timeout.

    Is it just me or is the instance having some trouble keeping up?

    Seems like it's only the front-end that has trouble loading, as I could still navigate next pages just fine while a different tab was busy timing out on load.

    Also another thing I noticed is sometimes while it's still loading, the title of the page will be about a different post altogether. Not sure if that's related, sounds like just a caching issue to me.

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