Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun - eviltoast
  • dan@upvote.au
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    2 months ago

    Document? Sprinkler app. Web Page? Sprinkler app. Installing from a source other than Google? Oh you better believe the sprinkler app can do that.

    Android apps tell the system which URLs they can open. If you click a Google Maps link, it can prompt you to open it in the Google Maps app. It sounds like whoever created the sprinkler app misconfigured the app and it’s saying that it can open all URLs, not just the URLs it cares about. They probably read a tutorial about how to make a webview in Android and didn’t know what they were doing :)

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      2 months ago

      Almost certainly. If the guy who was making yandere simulator was tasked with a sprinkler app, it wouldn’t be much worse than it currently is.

      I don’t know shit about fuck when it comes to programming, but I know bad programming when I see it.

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        2 months ago

        I don’t know shit about fuck when it comes to programming, but I know bad programming when I see it.

        Thanks for this! I often wonder if non-programmers can see this. Such horrible programmers. And embarrassingly low bar for company outsourced it.

        Some find it scary that AI might take programmers’ jobs. I like to think that it’s these type programmers being replaced, and I’m kinda keen on having that.