The apps have nothing to do with the current administration. All these permissions were already in place before the current administration. It’s easy to verify this by looking at previous versions of the apps. HN has created a narrative that everything the current administration does is bad.
Ah.. I'm glad it's just a narrative then, and that there are in fact just as many good things to report and that America is not rapidly becoming an authoritarian state.
You're completely out of touch. If one thing the admin does is good for anyone but they and their cronies, even if only by accident, it is a total coincidence.
When a coworker leaves the company and I inherit their work, I am given a little bit of time to acclimate and understand the projects they were working on.
If it turns out a secret was exposed in production, or we're exposing PII in logs, or storing CCs or passwords in plain text, there's a certain time frame in which the blame shifts from my coworker for introducing it, to me for not catching it.
So where was that outrage before the current administration? The comments in this submission mostly blame the administration. I verified older versions of the apps and found that the wide permissions were there prior to Trump, and now suddenly it’s "hey, but he did not fix it!" This is hilarious, don't you think?
> I verified older versions of the apps and found that the wide permissions were there prior to Trump
This pretty much insinuates Biden (and Trump v1, and Obama, and Bush) didn't fix it.
And the commenter aren't wrong when they blame the administration. They wouldn't be wrong to blame previous administrations either. But the previous administrations aren't in power right now.
> And the commenter aren't wrong when they blame the administration. They wouldn't be wrong to blame previous administrations either. But the previous administrations aren't in power right now
They are wrong. The current administration did not make a call to widen the permissions or make it intentionally overly broad.
> This pretty much insinuates Biden (and Trump v1, and Obama, and Bush) didn't fix it.
Why do you believe the president is responsible? Could be just a lazy contractor.
> The current administration did not make a call to widen the permissions or make it intentionally overly broad.
Maybe not. But are they not responsible for an app that literally markets itself as the official federal govt app? If Meta sold FB to me am I not responsible for the algorithms that I now own, that perpetuates misinformation?
> Why do you believe the president is responsible? Could be just a lazy contractor.
Obviously the president is not deploying code. But doesn't mean the president gets a free pass. If I did shitty work for my employer and deployed a rootkit to production, I get fired but my employer is still responsible. If they want to be absolved of responsibility, they can always unpublish it while they get stuff fixed and acknowledge the issue.
An app published March 27th has no prior-administration version history. The other 7 apps in the piece span back to Obama the article treats this as a bipartisan failure.
As I've said, facts or meaning no longer matter. There are numerous cases where Trump blamed Democrats for something he did during his first term or took credit for something positive that the Biden administration did. HN does not create a narrative, people are free to post their opinions here.
As an European, the political situation in US has never seemed reasonable to me, and been on a mostly downhill slope for a long time. It has certainly gotten way way worse with the current administration though.
Thanks! The project is still early stages, haven't had a chance to get the app signing set up - right now the easiest way to get started is using the web interface via docker compose.
+1 I can’t even delete my old stuff on HN. I don’t own my comments here. In contrast, I can go ahead and delete any of my Facebook posts or comments from 10 years ago. In a way, HN is more hostile than Facebook.
That's the nature of HN though, there's nothign hidden taking place behind scenes, cookies, etc.. Everything is in plain sight. That's one of the reasons many people have anonymous handles on HN, they just don't disclose personal and stay anonymous. There are some people who do not care at all and post thier real identity as well as links to their personal websites, and such. There's a way to track someone using stylometry but that's an entire different story though...
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