I’m pretty much the definition of an Apple fanboy - every device in my house is Apple (because the hardware works, is reliable and it works together). That said, I have one windows machine for work and my AirPods just don’t work with it.
You are mistaken. Merchants are allowed to round to the nearest 5 cents and you can’t do anything about it (except pay by card). Of course, budget stores like Lidl and Aldi still use them but any other corporation is not going to care.
Thanks for the correction. So only the part about legal tender was correct, which is probably what I was confused with. The relevant part:
> The one and two cent coins will remain legal tender, and retailers can choose whether or not to participate. The Netherlands cannot declare the smallest coins worthless on its own in Europe; this must be arranged in Brussels.
CI/CD are used for deploying to all kind of environments. For production, the triggers are different. Instead of deploy on PR merge, you would define the trigger as tag creation.
Now when you make a release mauanlly on github, it will create a tag which in turn would trigger deployment.
I’m interested to hear which country forces a cookie banner for any cookie, because the EU only requires it for tracking cookies and this website does net specify whether it’s used for that purpose.
I’ve created websites with a cookie banner “because it’s required” even though there were no cookies involved. The idea that every website needs a cookie banner is more hurtful than the cookie banners themself.
I rarely if ever put a cookie notice as the sites I tend to work on are only going to have 1 cookie for user sessions which is essential functionality and thus cannot be opted out of. It doesn't collect/store/share data so it's not something that needs the opt out banner.
It's still stupid though as most of the sites I do absolutely still track certain activity, it's just done server side.
It took a little while but YouTube has stopped recommending shorts after doing exactly this. They still appear in my subscription feed but it’s less bothersome because they’re from channels I actually watch.
> As others have also observed, permissions such as MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE have been rampantly abused in the past, often in horrific ways.
The lack of consideration for this point in this thread scares me. The amount of data that can be taken from a device through a permission like this is likely huge and it’s not just about “protecting users from themselves”. I wouldn’t feel safe enabling it for any app, and while syncing all data on the device sounds very useful, it’s a damned if they do, damned if they don’t scenario for Google.
So scary that I don't know how billions of people in the world manage to have the right to use whatever software they want to access "all" the files in the file system of their computers (PC/mac) and that the civilisations have still not yet collapsed...
Google simply needs to add "I'm an adult" functionality to their phones. I know the author of this app and trust them, I know the functionality I want and I accept the risk because I'm a grown adult and can make my own choices.
But why? Just for the odd app that can't be bothered to use the new API?
Even if you trust the app, if there is a vulnerability in there, the Android sandbox provides an additional line of defense. Most apps don't have defenses of their own, the only apps that self-sandbox are web browsers.
Then don't enable it, no need to take away my ability to do so. Granular permissions are good (especially when the app can't reliably know they were refused), providing I have the ultimate control.
> it’s a damned if they do, damned if they don’t scenario for Google.
Did they consider my scenario above - where the app doesn't know it was not granted a permission?
> especially when the app can't reliably know they were refused
That's the problem. Android didn't do this even though it was obviously what is needed. Android apps can easily tell what permissions they have.
I think Google prioritised UX over power and security here. They were presumably scared about people accidentally clicking the "Silently deny" button and then getting confused when the app didn't work. Big missed opportunity.
