this is the primary (official) reason why most banking apps require an unrooted device, and check that the bootloader hasn’t been tampered with. they don’t really care what you do with your phone, but a custom ROM doesn’t have to comply with the usual official checks and balances, and so theoretically could be malicious.

the bank “trusts” the official OEM rom, because the OEM rom belongs to a company that can be “controlled”. ie. pressured into ensuring apps are safe, etc.

the bank doesn’t trust the open source rom, because it isn’t “owned” by an entity that can be controlled.

a reason lots of companies don’t like open source, is because"who do you sue when something goes wrong?". closed source isn’t any safer, but at least you know who to sue when it breaks.

this was an excellent article. I’m old enough to remember being impacted by these events.

I’m not in Munich, but I remember trying to embrace OpenOffice, and telling my wife how pissed off I was that Microsoft wasn’t following it’s own open source document standard.

I remember Google killing XMPP, and there’s also the more recent examples of what Facebook has done to WhatApp, Instagram, and the other potential competitors that got buried.

oof, this comic hurts so bad it’s funny.

beehaw disabled downvotes, but other instances haven’t. the sidebar said disabled downvotes encourages more active discussion, and prevents unpopular opinions from being silenced by a flood of downvotes. they want people to engage by saying “i disagree with you, here’s why” instead of passively downvoting and moving on.

you should be able to see you the upvotes on your comments though.

some incorrect answers get upvotes ironically, often when the correct answer seems obvious. but I guess it depends on the type of question, and the sub

Even in corporations that are committed to a good culture of kindness, you can still find opponents who won’t hesitate throw you under the bus in order to further an agenda.

Using active tone in corporate is risky, because office politics can accuse it of being aggressive/hostile in order to block a policy. They don’t necessarily care that the messenger winds up getting written up by HR and sent to sensitivity training.

I find myself being very careful about then tone of my emails after getting caught in the crossfire between two warring factions. Passive tone is less likely to come back to haunt you.

I really hate having to navigate office politics, but it is what it is.

“There will be a cake reception for all test subjects upon successfully launching the app. We promise you will like it”

lamenters

this is the most redditish comment I’ve seen so far.

remains to be seen if that’s a good thing or not, but I did chuckle over the familiar joke

you realize you can still view the communities without logging in, and decide whether you vibe with it.

also, I noticed quite a few instances had pinned posts introducing the instance to new people and telling them about what the instance stood for.

hol’ up, comparing their reading comprehension to that of a carrot is an unfair insult to the average carrot.

and how exactly is the comparison? is it one carrot per person, or can a single carrot out-comprehend the whole lot?

multitasking. look and post

this is a good way of describing it. it’s been so many years since the early internet, that I didn’t even recognize it why the vibes felt familiar. but now that you mentioned it, yes, it’s exactly the early internet vibes. and I didn’t even realize I was missing them. I’ll be sticking around too

I think the corollary in lemmy world is, if your instance admin won’t support your needs, then you simply start your own instance that you can run as you see fit.

a little more work and learning curve involved, but much more resilient in the long run

law of averages: everywhere there’s large numbers of people, we’re bound to run into people problems

but I’m optimistic that this community will help to self moderate to weed out the bad actors. I’m also hopeful the toxic cesspool will self congregate in their own instances, and leave this one alone.

agreed. what I like about lemmy is the federated community run aspect of it. it will be much harder for corporate overlords to infiltrate and corrupt, as there isn’t a central organization/entity they can buy to gain control. or, that’s the theory anyway.