To make matters worse, this is an Operating System level requirement, which means it has more permissions than any other piece of software you run

That’s not a given, it could easily be implemented as a normal application with normal permissions, that the OS starts when needed.

Different in that it’s not an AI model, it’s just a tool you can use to run AI models like Claude.

You seem to be under an impression that the actual notification that you see in the notification shade of your phone must go through FCM. That is not true. There are no external services involved in generating notifications on Android, apps can just show notifications by themselves.

What FCM is used for is sending a wakeup call to an app. The naming is confusing, but the “notification service” is not sending a notification in the sense of what you see in the notification shade. It is notifying an app of an event. The app can then react in any way it wants, possibly by creating a notification for the notification shade. But the notification you see in the UI of your phone didn’t go through FCM.

Some apps do (or can be configured to) indeed send “empty”/blank notifications which just notify you that you’ve received a new message from an app, but not from whom, or what the message contains.

And this is a completely separate thing. Yes, you can configure apps to not show details in notifications, but that has nothing to do with FCM. It only controls what the app does locally, when generating the local notification, after FCM is no longer involved (if it was involved in the first place - many notifications don’t need it, for example a notification from a timer app).

If you get a push notification on your phone, everything you see in that notification must by definition pass through the push notification service.

This statement is easy to disprove in another way too. FCM only supports sending up to 4KB of data, and yet you can get a notification with high resolution images. Which also shows that no, things you see in the notification didn’t have to pass through the push notification service - the local app got the data and prepared the notification by itself, possibly after being woken up to do so by FCM.

Local, on-device apps don’t need to go through FCM or any other servers to show notifications, apps generate notifications offline.

Same goes for Signal, it doesn’t ask FCM to deliver a notification, it asks to deliver a wakeup ping, and then the Signal app gets the message and generates a notification locally.

That’s what the article calls “key sources”. There are many more below (Mara bar Serapion, Suetonius, The Talmud, and more under “minor sources”).

There are so many sources that there is more evidence for his existence than for any other person living at the time.

This article mentions at least 14 independent sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sources_for_the_historicity_of_Jesus

You are of course free to dismiss all of the sources and have your own opinion, that’s perfectly fine, but do acknowledge that you would be going against established scientific consensus.

Definitely enough for a whole separate Wikipedia article to list them all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sources_for_the_historicity_of_Jesus

That’s incorrect. Virtually all scholars agree that Jesus was a real historical figure, based on many non-religious sources.

Of course most of the stories about him are made up, but the scientific consensus is that he existed.

Never used it. I just apply on a given company’s website, after finding out about the job on various job boards. I’m not even sure where LinkedIn is supposed to come into play?

I like your ideas, they would be a better replacement than just “installing”.

It is, but sadly I don’t think Android Authority and other publications will be convinced. We should still try though.

I said in my first comment it would have to be “installing from outside the Play store”, otherwise it wouldn’t have clear meaning.

Yeah exactly, and we reached all the way back to my original comment: you can’t just replace “sideloading” with “installing”, without adding additional clarification.

I’d just call all of that “installing”, “sideloading” doesn’t really make sense here. Importantly you already specified how you installed in each case, so it’s perfectly understandable whatever verb you use.

Correct, but what do you propose? In your terminology installing from the Play Store is “sideloading” and installing directly is “installing”. But surely you agree that if an article was titled “Google makes installing apps on Android harder, but sideloading will be as smooth as before”, everyone would understand the opposite of that.

Yes that’s what I’m saying, it’s “installing” regardless of where you get the app, so if an article wants to talk about something concerning installing apps from outside the Play Store, they can’t just say “installing”. That would be incorrect if the things they talk about don’t concern installing from the Play Store.

So you need a different description than just “installing”.

E.g. in this example the article title couldn’t be “installing changes are next”, it would need to be something else.

“Installing” is not a drop-in replacement for “sideloading” without changing the meaning of what you say.

Yeah, but installing from the Play Store is also installing, and “sideloading” is shorter than “installing from outside the Play store”, so I’m not sure this is a winnable fight.

Legitimate criticism aside, I found it funny they underlined “receive data from internet” among the other scary permissions.

That’s the one thing a news app presumably should be doing

Which is?

Believe it or not, you can do two things at once. Some people are interested in space, some in geology. That’s fine.