Google could already flag these apps as malware or whatever. What developer verification does is enable Google to detect polymorphic apps.

I suspect that this is less driven by users and more driven by institutions. Banking trojans distributed via sideloading are a big problem. Banks are unhappy that their users are getting their shit stolen because some other app is squatting on 2fa codes or whatever. They'd rather that their apps are not installed alongside apps that are more likely to be malware given that there isn't a private channel for auth codes for the vast majority of users.

F-Droid is a teeny store and requires extra steps like open sourcing such that it is not an appealing vector for malware authors.

Either you want to target the Play store so that you can get a wider install base but need to deal with tighter controls or you want to distribute flagrantly malicious stuff to people for banking trojans or whatever via social engineering to get them to sideload. F-Droid doesn't help with either of these things.

> requires extra steps like open sourcing such that it is not an appealing vector for malware authors

So choosing FLOSS protects you from malware.

It can, sure.

Don't worry, the governor of phillidilly told me that Trump's mental acuity scores are top notch.

Trump has been the protagonist of US politics for ten years. Maybe this "actually he really has this all planned out" idea was viable in 2017. But in 2026? We've got years and years and years of examples of how Trump makes decisions. He is not playing 4d chess.

The gatekeepers for the humanities are not the academics. The gatekeepers are the archives and the funding bodies.

AI won't be terribly effective at helping somebdoy publish novel history if they aren't willing and able to go to a bunch of archives all over the world and dig through physical boxes.

In comparison, I see this issues in fewer than 1% of the changes I review. Because when it happens you can effectively teach people to stop doing it.

why would a humanoid robot be preferable to one designed for the specific tasks at hand?

maybe humanoids because tools already designed for human likes? if you send specialised robot it cannot use wrench or climb a ladder... you have to redesign everything

There are currently no wrenches or ladders on mars.

Was it equally grave when Colin Powell did the same thing?

Yes. That man lied us into the Iraq war. He is a traitor.

my standard for criminal acts is also whether i don't like the guy.

Tons of groups rage at trans girls in high school sports, to the point of sending bomb threats. This wont stop at the olympics.

Isn't the solution simple? People have the freedom to think themselves to be whatever they are, but for established rules, they can either choose to comply or not participate.

Just because a person identifies them as x, doesn't automatically mean other people have to be forced to accept them the same way. Just have a separate section for trans people in high school, separate for biological women etc.

The whole point of women's sports is arbitrary, and just as much as people should respect the freedom of a person to identify themselves as whatever they want to, the same people should respect the arbitrary rules of women's sports.

The issue is the people who want the world to be forced to accommodate them without consent.

People said the same thing about racial integration.

As for a separate league for trans women... there are frequently like a couple dozen trans women athletes in an entire state. How exactly will that work for a separate league?