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brookmg··on Meta is banning people from advertising after running ads for Python and Pandas
They won't change this unless some huge government body forces them, unfortunately. The market just follows the big players and there is nothing we can do. Something like EU should step in.
brookmg··on Software firms across US facing tax bills that threaten survival
Damn, what are they thinking right now?
brookmg··on Google Bard waitlist
Use VPN. It was easy to trick and get on the waitlist.
brookmg··on Google Bard waitlist
You're not missing anything. The thing is crap and they know it.
brookmg··on APKTool: A tool for reverse engineering Android APK files
APKTool is amazing and have used it before to check the security on some apps. But it doesn't do much when it comes to apps made using flutter as the code is stored in a binary form. Wish if they consider adding a way to decompile that as well.
brookmg··on How Telegram Messenger circumvents Google Translate's API
Is it just me who thinks this is a work of a junior or intermediate dev to show a POW? I am sure they are working on some internal service to be used for translation but just worked on it fast to make it a 2021 feature.
brookmg··on Tencent deploys facial recognition to detect minors gaming at night
I wish for the world not to go this direction
brookmg··on Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats
They removed the "don't be evil" motto.