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by zb3 11mo ago
> This EU law has made security far worse. I don't get it. Why not release it now and start the timer now? Shitty OEMs would get in trouble (not Google) and that would be a fantastic outcome. Am I missing something?
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by zb3 11mo ago
Note these are not the same as the Android "device trees" they stopped publishing with the Android 16 release.
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by zb3 11mo ago
I'm just presenting my exotic point of view - since that developer verification would only be needed to run apps on the "stock OS" (which I consider bad), then deliberately excluding it could promote using LineageOS/Grap
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by zb3 11mo ago
I'd agree because I'd feel the same :) As to relevance to the article - I'm not cheering that much because if Google made "stock OS" even worse then maybe more users would flock to LineageOS/GrapheneOS which wo
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by zb3 11mo ago
I have to admit I couldn't even understand this problem, because for me the "stock OS" is already unbearable and I'd simply never be able to use it - I've never used it for more than a hour..
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by zb3 11mo ago
> There are many possible reasons and instead they should be continued to be encouraged to find proper mental health counseling There are many possible reasons, that's why they should be PROVIDED with help, not "encouraged to s
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by zb3 11mo ago
Requiring a particular app for something that could be achieved by scanning a code (displayed on a screen) is bullshit. And let me guess - then they'll use Play Integrity API so that you cannot fly if you're not using Google certi
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by zb3 11mo ago
Hmm, do Samsung executives/developers actually use this stuff at home? Does the author who wrote this BS piece actually leave those ads enabled?
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by zb3 11mo ago
> It’s one thing to be talking about suicide or assisted suicide because you’ve decided it’s right for you and your situation. And that's what the site is for. They could improve by blocking all countries where there's free acc
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by zb3 1y ago
No, because I know that "agents" are token burning machines - for me they're less efficient than the chat interface, slower and burning much more tokens. I'm not surprised that AI companies would want me to use them thou
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by zb3 1y ago
Damn, I was about to clone this but it's now taken down :(
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by zb3 1y ago
In case you want to save sources with the ability to fetch all possible lazy chunks, last year I made a tool to do exactly that: https://github.com/zb3/getfrontend (note it won't work on apps.apple.com because app
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by zb3 1y ago
Tangentially related, but last year I've made a tool to recover original sources from web apps which expose source maps (with the sourcesContent value present), including enumerating all lazily loaded chunks: https://github.
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by zb3 1y ago
They're about to make a new phone: https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/next-gen-jolla-phone/23882
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by zb3 1y ago
It seems you missed my main point - the whole point is to fight for this right to reflash a custom ROM, because they're slowly coming for that too. First Play Integrity, now no AOSP releases and more vendors disabling bootloader unlock
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by zb3 1y ago
Which particular thing you consider inconvenient or even annoying? You can even install Google Play there. I see just one minor tradeoff - no face unlock.
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by zb3 1y ago
Well, I'd rather verify myself with the government identity than accept a stock OS that literally woke me up with a fake message promoting Gemini despite me spending almost 2 hours turning every possible privacy-invasive setting off. T
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by zb3 1y ago
It physically disables USB ports when locked which significantly reduces the attack surface + can be configured to automatically reboot.
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by zb3 1y ago
Another great thing about GrapheneOS (besides security) is that Google Play Services can be installed without elevated privileges and even in a separate profile which can't run in the background. This makes the phone suitable for both
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by zb3 1y ago
I remember back in the day you could just use the alert function in a while(true) loop and that would be enough to render Internet Explorer unusable :)
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by zb3 1y ago
They're exremely tight-lipped on this.. many people asked using multiple channels but no response for months.
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by zb3 1y ago
Raw root access isn't what I'd want apps to have.. it's that the Android permission system deliberately limits what the user can consent to, the rest is for "system apps" and to install those you need to unlock boot
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by zb3 1y ago
It's not implemented by them because they refuse to implement it. Apple for obvious reasons, but Mozilla's stance disappoints me.
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by zb3 1y ago
Even better - adb can run in browser thanks to WebUSB: https://app.tangoapp.dev/ (not in Firefox though, thanks to Mozilla's stance)
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by zb3 1y ago
Yes (but see my comment about the permission system), however, the future of bootloader unlocking and AOSP is uncertain... :( With one switch, one nasty update (disabling bootloader unlocking on Pixels), Google could kill GrapheneOS..
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by zb3 1y ago
Note that the Android permission system is designed so that you are not in control by design, some permissions are "not for you" and only for "system apps" which you can't control. This gives Google and device manuf
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by zb3 1y ago
I don't want "coding for white guys", if I could decide, I'd want for example "coding for people who work manual labor jobs living in rural America" (I live in Poland so it's not directly about me). It see
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by zb3 1y ago
You state no details.. but things like "girls who code" sound discriminatory. What about outreach to people who can't learn to code for example because they're not wealthy enough?
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by zb3 1y ago
I hoped these were builds with H264 support.. but if you just publish these Google-provided builds they don't have it..
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by zb3 1y ago
Journalism might have a "bullshit content" problem on its hands.

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