The DMA has never been about privacy. It’s about fair competition.

Pretty sure F-Droid has more than twelve users.

> the DMA sets certain requirements which determines whether features can ship in the EU

They can ship any feature they want, as long as they give users the option to choose alternative implementation of the feature.

Yes exactly, in accordance to the DMA.

"Compliance" isn't a thing without regulation.

> Opening up all access to control the phone to some random app the consumer installed seems super dangerous.

Do you never install software on your desktop computer?

Hashing everything based on the byte representation breaks when you have a type where equality does not imply byte equality. Such as… floats (+0 and -0 are equal, but have different byte representation).

Depends on the use-case, hashing can also be used for checking integrity/change in which case you exactly want the behavior that only bit-exact-equality is desired, even for arbitrary structs. Maybe that's somewhat niche, I mention it as I have such a use-case actually.

Depends on whether they have one of the bosses that judge employees’ quality by the number of lines written.

> you can choose to send them an automatic "Happy Birthday" message on their birthday at a specific time.

Nothing says “AI enthusiast” more than automating away social interaction.

Haha yes.

It probably should message YOU rather than the person who's birthday it is, so you can send something personal.

Also coming up, automated wedding/funeral attendance by your personal humanoid robot designed to look and sound like you.

> It probably should message YOU rather than the person who's birthday it is, so you can send something personal.

We already have that. It’s called a calendar app.

In Germany Google stopped syncing contacts with the calendar due to data privacy concerns...

That seems to be only a Google thing and they haven’t mentioned which law they think is forcing them to do this, co just using different contact/calendar apps should do the trick.

Nothing says "I don't care about neurodivergence" more than someone complaining when I build tools and processes to help me interact with the world better.

> I don't understand what "human-made" means.

Thankfully, the website answers that. If it’s too long for you, you can ask an LLM to summarize it.

"generative AI cannot be used in the creation of the project"

How do you know that any of the frameworks you are using aren't generated by AI? Personally I think the whole proposition is silly.

Writing code by hand costs me zero money. If I were to use AI, I would have to pay thousands of dollars. How does that make more sense economically?

How much time does that investment free up for you to work in other areas with more impact than simply pressing keys and entering code by hand?

I enjoy pressing keys and entering code; I find it to be the most efficient way to communicate with my computer. Why would I not spend my time doing something I enjoy?

I thought you were talking about economic efficiency, not maximizing enjoyment. You can do anything you want with your time if you're not worried about economics, but that sort of contradicts your original statement.

> assemblers, code generation, compilers, JIT. Or really, just writing bytes that can represent machine code, P-code, or bytecode.

All of these things have something in common that LLMs don’t. They behave in a predictable, documentable (and usually documented) way.

Compiler optimizations are pretty unpredictable.

But you can, in principle, understand a compiler. Also they're made by the same people who use them. Did blacksmiths get mad when they invented the first anvils?

While optimization may be done in unpredictable ways, it does not (by definition) change the effective behavior of the program. If you write a program to calculate prime numbers, it will always calculate prime numbers, no matter how the compiler optimizes it. If you tell an LLM to write code to calculate prime numbers, you are at the mercy of chance. (Maybe not for such a simple program, where the solution is directly in the training data, but you get the idea.)