chaircat

Wow that seems like a strange permission to have as default. It doesn't seem like very many apps have a legitimate need for listing other installed apps unless I'm missing something.

How are they managing to do this? Surely it requires a permission in Android to access the list of installed apps, right?

That's an axiom that people always just themselves by their intent and others by their actions.

This leads to excuses for themselves and harshness on others until proven otherwise.

I've been trying lately to internalize my understanding of this to fight my natural impulse to fall into this universally human trap. Basically, be a kinder person by judging the actions of others by considering plausible reasons they may have had for doing something that rubs me the wrong way. Also the opposite, and being understanding when someone flips out on me for something I did because they don't have access to all of my mental state that led me to that point.

There are a lot of bed frames that are solid, though, including the one I use at home. If it causes any ill effects on the mattress I haven't observed it personally.

I recall Dorsey publicly coming out in support of Elon's Twitter well after the sale. Maybe there was no ethical conflict for Dorsey and he likes what he sees.

Yeah, maybe all of this wouldn't have happened if the equity was split among the employees.

This is an astonishingly well written, nuanced, and level headed response. Really on a level I'm not used to seeing on this platform.

I don't think waving away being a Luddite just by saying so makes it so.

I can't think of a single angle of principled moral theory that makes this okay. Vandalizing or stealing someone else's property they paid for. Hurting both the restaurant and the customer by depriving them of their food. Holding back progress on an invention that can reduce the need for humans to engage in a type of work that is hard, dangerous at times, and low paid.

From a purely rational on paper view, it doesn't look terribly different than saying vandalizing or stealing from delivery vehicles driven by people isn't wrong. What possible justification could there be for this view besides Ludditism fuck robots?

Unsolicited notification spam ads is in pretty poor taste for a major brand. Doesn't seem wrong to me to infer their sales department is getting desperate if they're resorting to that.

Again, just anti consumer bullshit spearheaded by Apple and gargled by Samsung.

Samsung was actually one of the later Android manufacturers to drop it is my recollection.

I used to do this. I thought it was awesome but I was literally the only person I ever knew who did this. It was not a popular thing to do.

That's fair as a definition of genocide, though it isn't the way I'm used to understanding the word.

Precisely because of the differences though, I'd also find it in poor taste to make comparisons been the Canadian genocide against indigenous peoples and the Holocaust.