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by pja 4748 days ago
OpenPDroid style fine-grained app permission control has already been explicitly rejected by Steve Kondik. See https://jira.cyanogenmod.org/browse/CYAN-28

He expanded on his reasons in a Google+ post: https://plus.google.com/100275307499530023476/posts/iLrvqH8t...

I'd love to see a privacy focused fork of CyanogenMod personally. Time to person-up† and do it myself perhaps :)

† Is there a non-gendered equivalent to man-up?

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> Is there a non-gendered equivalent to man-up?

Yes, it's "man-up". "Man" is, like it or not, a reference to the species there.

In that context it is literally a reference to traditional male behavior (that could be expanded as expected male behavior in response to adversity).
? no it isn't, and even if it was that would still be sexist