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Elvis Chidera
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Elvis Chidera's personal blog at elvischidera.com covers programming, productivity and culture. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 27 times, most often “Building a Distributed Android Remote Testing Platform”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link this post on Android wallpaper images and privacy. The one comment discusses the tradeoff between privacy restrictions and other concerns in Android development.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Building a Distributed Android Remote Testing Platform2 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-12-06
What Hacker News says?
I don't think other concerns are less important to "privacy" concerns. Each restriction just makes certain ideas/project impossible or less ideal [1]. Honestly as an Android dev, I will prefer devices come with these restrictions by default. Then there should be a "I don't give a f*ck" button in the device developer options settings. The option can be hidden behind 10 screens. Audit rails can be added. Anything but…
Comment linking /2020-11-23-building-distributed-android-remote-testing-platform/
on “Android wallpaper images can threaten privacy”Submitted The Design of Everyday Things – Book Summary and Notes as a story · 289 points
HN discussionSomething similar (in terms of using idle smartphone time) that I worked on in past is running automated tests on a distributed network of mobile devices. Stopped working on it but the code is open source and I wrote about it a while ago: https://elvischidera.com/2020-11-23-building-distributed-and...
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