Termux is an Android terminal emulator and Linux environment app

Re:Termux is an Android terminal emulator and Linux environm... by drpixie on Saturday April 29, 2023 @10:56PM (#35759340)

I'm sure security is part of the reason for the ever increasing locking-down of android ... but I'm more sure it's an excuse and that security FROM the user is a huge factor in google's thinking.

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Re:Termux is an Android terminal emulator and Linux environm... by rektide on Sunday April 30, 2023 @01:34AM (#35759917)

I agree & I don't.

I'm sure that being an app store owner exposes you to the absolute worst just most constant stream of really really awful people doing the worst things, like, forever & ever.

There are some warped incentives too, for sure. But I do think Occam's razor explains why app stores get to be worse & worse & worse: because they are responding to horrors.

I'd love to see some better mechanisms for trust emerge. Software as it is is basically unobservable. You grant or don't grant some permissions & otherwise have no idea what's actually happening. So app stores are the only arbiters of trust.

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