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@jendrik@mastodon.social So here's the fun thing: The AI companies managed to get enough government contracts by now that the inevitable crash will be worse than 2008 for everyone except those responsible. They'll get massive bailouts due to defense contracts. 🫠
When the enshittification reaches your build tool (or the tooling around it) 🫠
@jendrik@mastodon.social Don't get me wrong, I don't like the "intermediate" option of registering with Google for a signing cert using gov IDs either. In fact, I would not be surprised if they only offer the unrestricted third option due to regulations.
However, side-loading is only relevant to a fraction of users and offers no safety rails whatsoever - stores typically warn you when something you installed is vulnerable. It does make sense to make it more obscure to enable, in my opinion.
@jendrik@mastodon.social This is actually significantly better than what it sounded like when this was originally announced. I don't like Google locking Android down, but this feels like a decent compromise between security and customizability.
Here's a bit more detail:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/google-details-new-24-hour-process-to-sideload-unverified-android-apps/
Who needs Renovate or Dependabot when there is a much more convoluted, less accurate, nondeterministic, expensive, and more energy-intensive way to achieve the same thing!
@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social Only in countries we don't like. In western countries it's called "lobbying" because we're the good guys. Just like we don't have oligarchs.