An alternative to Google Play Store for Android users who want to access the normal app ecosystem without running Google Play Services or other Google binaries on their phones. It violates Google's TOS.
It doesn't. There is an option to log in anonymously, which uses one of several dozen "dummy" accounts operated by Aurora maintainers to sign in. As of late these dummy accounts have been getting rate limited, leading to anonymous aurora sessions not working as expected.
A commonly suggested workaround is creating your own personal dummy account used for nothing but signing into Aurora. Google first rate limiting Aurora's dummy accounts and then beginning to instaban personal dummy accounts is significant because it represents an escalation in their efforts to force all Android users into proprietary walled gardens (Play store).
I have no idea, but I guess it doesn't really matter. If you start sending massive amounts of spam through gmail, does it matter if you did it after logging into the site with your user/password or through oauth api access or through smtp?
Well, as an app store, it pretty much has complete access to your degoogled phone, but (until recently) it defaulted to a pool of shared google burner accounts that were only used to download software.
That's one part where I actually think it works the way it should: for instance chinese makers probably don't keep any single trace of Google stuff in their builds, and they sell pretty big volumes.
Relatively speaking the bigger the company the better the job security. Nothing is ever risk free. But a job at a large pubco is way more secure than a job at a random startup with 6 months of runway.
It was exactly the same a generation ago. unless you’re referring to industries that used to have strong unions 3-4 generations ago or something.
A generation as in 20 years ago? Are you sure you want to claim that those people had job security? 3-4 years later, those people would be out of a job.
40 years? Lets see what Volker was doing to maintain that position.
60 years? Now you're getting to a place that the term might have made sense. But only in this place, and only if your entire career lasted less than 15 years.
80 years? Well, we're in a war, don't know how much that counts for job prospects but a military career is a career.
I lived through the dot bomb 22 years ago and was unemployed for 6 months. Had to move to another city to find work. It's been this way since probably the beginning of the 1980s. Neoliberalism brought in by Reagan and reinforced by Clinton (and everyone since) killed that world.
The rust belt was rusting since before Reagan. From a well-paid secure middle-class [added: blue collar] jobs perspective it was the loss of all those union jobs to foreign competition that made that lifestyle a lot harder. I wouldn't blame any specific president or individual.
Dot bomb was a specific nuclear winter for tech which I personally only managed to get through, albeit with not great earnings through the 2000s, with great fortune as I landed something new almost immediately. The broader economy was much less affected just as tech was less affected by 2008.
