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by phh 3y ago
init could chose to launch every process in a new mount namespace, which would break this. I have no idea whether it does that, it probably doesn't, but my point is that as long as it's not released and open source, it's not
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by phh 3y ago
As an author of an old root for Android, and of a modern generic custom ROMs, and other Android OS stuff: The title is, and forever will be wrong. When we say you're root in Android, you're actually root. You can actually do whate
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by phh 3y ago
That's beautiful. I'm impressed we can compute related components on a world map so fast. The interconnections everywhere are beautiful. If this data is reliable, you can go from west europe to east china with just 3 changes (larg
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by phh 3y ago
> If they're going to release a new flagship every year, how does that make them any better (from a sustainbility POV) to the morally and ethically bankrupt companies they're competing with? By removing many reasons for you to
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by phh 3y ago
AFAIK They have the best track record of upgrading Android smartphones, across all their models. Most of the upgrades they are doing it largely themselves beyond what SoC-vendor provides. It's not extremely difficult (though Google mak
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by phh 3y ago
It's a carrier, it connects you to the internet. Why isn't "I haven't connected to my account in months" the expected state?
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by phh 3y ago
> The LGPL is also an interesting one. People tend to think it's less strict then the GPL. However it has a clause which says you need to provide the means for someone to change the LGPL library and reintegrate those changes in your
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by phh 3y ago
Actually Termux:X11 /is/ a wayland compositor. But it is so minimal that the only working client is Xwayland.
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by phh 3y ago
Something like that: pkg install proot proot-distro ; proot-distro install ubuntu ; proot-distro launch ubuntu
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by phh 3y ago
For people who want to go down rabbit holes, you can get very far with this. I ended up with UT2004 [2] (Windows version) running on my smartphone (complete stack was Termux => proot => ubuntu => box 86 => wine => Zink (Andro
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by phh 3y ago
I think that this is kinda like the lamp => transistor change. The immediate usages are not revolutionary, moving from lamps to transistors in amplifiers didn't change everything overnight. First products with transistors were barel
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by phh 3y ago
> Somewhat related, I think the Apple Silicon MacBooks will end up replacing many people's old ThinkPads someday thanks to the work from the Asahi team. (A bit early right now, especially if you have one newer than an M1.) That soun
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by phh 3y ago
Yet another innovation thing that Web Environment Integrity (and SafetyNet) (will) hinder.
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by phh 3y ago
> But in many countries you already have to show ID to buy a SIM card. I can buy a SIM card that gives internet pretty much everywhere around the world with bitcoin with silent.link. Granted you don't get an IP matching the local co
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by phh 3y ago
Make browsing the internet possible only on CPUs allowed by Apple, Microsoft, Google. So no RISC-V just yet, and even when RISC-V will be supported by them: No competition allowed in CPU. Make browsing the internet possible only on SoCs all
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by phh 3y ago
> And yet I am still tempted to add this 204 service, but maybe then I also don't have internet on my phone anymore because it keeps believing it's behind a captive portal when the service is offline Try it. Normally Android wi
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by phh 3y ago
> Not in France, where retirement fund is a nation-wide socialized entity, which was the core of this debate. Private pension funds are close to non-existent here ; i personally cannot name a single person doing that because the public m
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by phh 3y ago
Yeah no. Google Messages (almost) always go through Google services, not carriers. They are definitely their own platform.
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by phh 3y ago
Context: IMS means VoLTE + VoWifi (+ other stuff), which is how you do calls and SMS over LTE, which is mostly "just" SIP This move of Voice and SMS to an IP protocol is IMO pretty interesting for opensource community because it m
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by phh 3y ago
Anecdata: France has a few encrypted channels, and except that there is a monopoly on those channels [1] I think it's quite fair. They take like a sixth of the available bandwidth. That being said I understand the uproar is about chann
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by phh 3y ago
> HDCP is broken already. IMO this encryption can be interpretated as "you are supposed pay to view this channel". They could have foregone encryption with just a flag except that it would be trivial for any Aliexpress atsc hdm
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by phh 3y ago
The electromagnetic spectrum is used by many private companies, like carriers. Would you want to disband that as well, and make it free for everyone to use? (I'm a huge proponent that all infrastructure should be public, but I still th
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by phh 3y ago
You can't reasonably sign broadcast. Encryption is done at 188B packets to be robust to packet loss. That being said that argument is still BS because the attacker can just send a non encrypted signal.
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by phh 3y ago
There is chrome.google.com and www.facebook.com in the list. That's pretty cool. I'm not saying they are wrong, chrome definitely allows you to decode drm-encombered files, but uh...
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by phh 3y ago
As far as I know, that's wrong? You must "target" newer OS versions (to prevent loopholes as you mention), but you can still have whichever "min" OS version you want.
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by phh 3y ago
Looks like I mis-explained. There is no need to port newer Android versions on older devices. My point was literally that it doesn't make people keep their devices longer.
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by phh 3y ago
As a software engineer who spend the vast majority of his time on (successfully) putting newer Android versions on the vast majority of older Android devices: Yes the hardware is the bottleneck. This pains me, because what I can do is softw
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by phh 3y ago
> People want buzzwords, not working software. I'm pretty sure this doesn't generalize that well. I would say that people who don't use every day the product they are buying prefer buzzwords, but it's less true for pe
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by phh 3y ago
WebXDC sounds fun, could you tell more about the use-cases you found?
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by phh 3y ago
cf sibling's comment: You need to factor-in credit's price. I've been looking for a flat near Paris for 2 years, and sure the prices are lowering. But still, the cost (either total cost, or percentage of my salary) for me inc

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