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by binkHN 4y ago
> ...Apple and Google demand 30% cut of all transactions happening in the apps that run on their OS. While I too think 30% is ridiculous, Google is the only one of the two here that allows for alternative app stores and side loading. Yes
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From the bottom of the article: > As Android migrates away from C/C++ to Java/Kotlin/Rust, we expect the number of memory safety vulnerabilities to continue to fall. Here’s to a future where memory corruption bugs on Andro
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Wow. The effort here is amazing—sad Apple won’t provide for more assistance. If it wasn’t for this project, OpenBSD on Apple silicon (thank you kettenis@!) likely wouldn’t exist.
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For what it's worth, I find the Google Assistant better than Siri, but not much better. The functionality of the product hasn't improved much since it was delivered, and this includes the "smart" speaker hardware that th
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> What I want from Alexa: “Alexa, do this” Done. For what it's worth, this is largely how the Google Assistant works from my "smart" speakers.
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From the article, because the title is purposefully vague: > The Massachusetts Department of Public Health conspired with Google to secretly install a COVID-19 tracing app onto more than 1 million Android users' devices without thei
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Thanks! To be honest, I’m not sure what change, or series of changes, finally lead to the app getting approved. As for keeping the permissions that the app has, well, let’s just say, after reading too many posts about developers running i
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by binkHN 4y ago
It's not just with Intel. Apple has 2 years on Qualcomm as well as their phones also have significantly smaller batteries compared to their Android counterparts.
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by binkHN 4y ago
As a little side project I wrote an Android app and went through similar turmoil—guess I can’t feel too bad for myself when the cofounder and lead developer of “~100” apps runs into similar issues. In this vein, I too wrote a similar story
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by binkHN 4y ago
I made something somewhat similar. It too uses text and call logs to make decisions. It's called CommuniqAI and it can be found at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.mtc.ga .
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Maybe they’re trying to hire all the FAANG developers that are getting laid off?
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Similar? The US law focuses on how federal agencies acquire and review OSS software—the EU law throws bureaucracy across the entire OSS landscape.
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This kind of reminds me of when encryption became a munition in some countries—development moved to countries where encryption wasn’t outlawed. Something tells me a bit of a brain drain will happen if this comes to fruition as groups will
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OpenBSD, in general, has better Wi-Fi support than the other BSDs. Not as good as Linux, but improvements are made regularly.
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I'm in a similar space. I love OpenBSD for it's simplicity and consistency, but, to my way of thinking, it's missing to much to act at a modern desktop replacement. To that end, I've started running ChromeOS Flex on the
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Yay—wish they did this sooner. Anyone know if this is one of those “we will give you a royalty-free license to use our patent for this if you promise never to sue us?”
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> ...crypto is just relearning the basic lessons of finance that banks and corporations learned decades ago. To my way of thinking, they’re not relearning anything—they’re specifically using lessons learned from history as a playbook to
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Because it’s not “cool” anymore and it was left to languish for many years? In addition, many, and better, languages have come out since it was cool. The de facto replacement for Java is Kotlin, or at least it was until Oracle started car
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by binkHN 4y ago
So, future crash to $75000 in 2026?
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> This can be really disheartening if you are single though. I started to lose my hair earlier than I cared, so I started cutting my hair rather short to deal with it. I met my partner around this time, but we were both in other relation
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Todd is a saint for the work that he does here. Ultimately, like many other OpenBSD-related decisions, sudo was replaced by doas because of all the security-related issues with the code. Oftentimes, OpenBSD will replace a very functional so
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Yes
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I concur, but carriers do weird things. Some of them will want you to purchase a more expensive plan to get that “feature.”
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Nice—never knew about this. How would you compare the coverage and speed to T-Mobile? Does it come with Wi-Fi Calling? Looks like it supports hot spot usage.
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My Pixel phone has largely solved this for me. The built-in Call Screening is stellar and I don’t get bothered by robocalls much anymore because of how well the phone handles these.
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This is one of the main reasons I stick with Android, both as a user and as a developer. At this time, Google is still slightly more lenient than Apple is on what apps can do, and this allows my phone/tiny computer to be more functiona
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by binkHN 4y ago
I have a somewhat related story regarding the first Android app I ever created. It practically drove me to give up on Android development. https://medium.com/@daniel_11666/331c98270ec4?source=friends...
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From zero to 10M lines of Kotlin(engineering.fb.com)
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I don’t know if Windows on ARM has a future, but, IMHO, almost anything that encourages more happenings in the ARM ecosystem is a benefit—the whole world has gone mobile, and its longer battery life takes the cake over its more powerful x86
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Do you have a list of the affected brands?

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