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I just installed tiktok for the first time on my Android device and it asked for no permissions and even let me use it without creating an account. How is it getting photos and videos on my device?

Normal practice is a prompt-on-first-attempt: when you click on various things, it'll ask; I've never given it access to anything, and so I get a prompt asking for permission to see my contacts about once a week.

Original blog post that the article was seemingly based on https://security.googleblog.com/2024/03/vulnerability-reward...


If you mean the existing H-1B lottery, see sibling comment linking the Forbes article which says "However, attorneys say attempting to reorder the H-1B lottery from highest to lowest salary by regulation, as the administration has discussed, would be unlikely to survive a legal challenge."


There’s nothing in the constitution preventing legislators from altering H-1B regulations that I know of. What kind of legal challenge are you referring to, exactly?


I don't think this article will age well.


Remains one of my proudest contributions to Chromium https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/25...


The lasting legacy will be persuading everyone that installing apps should have its own scary word like "sideloading" rather than just "installing".


I think you're talking about Chromebooks.


Unfortunately they are also proprietary, spyware-laden devices, that cease to be updated for no good reason after 5 years.


Can't wait for hacker news to find out about --enable-features and --disable-features.


Sure, you can use the enterprise policy:

https://chromeenterprise.google/policies/#DefaultJavaScriptJ...

And this existed before SDSM... in fact SDSM depends on the code landed in Chrome that backs this policy.


Agree with the article but, to me, demonstrates the reason why governments and regulators (and taxation authorities) make a difference here. E.g. if fossil fuels get a 200% tax then maybe nuclear/fusion (fission now) becomes more viable.

Have to concede that wind and solar seem pretty good now, if combined with good grid-wide battery technology.


Let's say good grid-wide energy storage technology - generating hydrogen or ammonia, pumped storage, whatever works. Lots of technologies, and none as challenging as fusion...


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