henfredemars 9h ago • 100%
Previously they used library injection and redirection techniques, but the new runtimes are basically containers.
henfredemars 19h ago • 100%
My understanding is the Android team is run almost like an entirely separate company from the rest of Google.
henfredemars 20h ago • 100%
A feature—a bug, is it not?
henfredemars 2d ago • 100%
At the same time, great viniculture nations like Italy are having to adapt to the waning popularity of red wine, as younger drinkers opt for trendy craft beers and fizzy whites — or swear off alcohol entirely.
And if that’s not enough to contend with, winemakers face a third misfortune right now that’s been far less explored, one that arguably poses a greater immediate threat: the soaring cost of their debts.
henfredemars 2d ago • 100%
Hilarious. I love it. Literal string memory scanning and not considering the implications of everything happening in the application.
henfredemars 2d ago • 100%
If it makes you feel any better, HR concluded that this long interview hazing process is no better than doing one interview. We still do 5 interviews anyway because it makes us look more prestigious and other companies expect us to do it.
henfredemars 2d ago • 100%
Life is full of cycles. I’m traveling these days but I’m still here.
henfredemars 2d ago • 100%
I’ve been to interviews that were literally scams. Nah man you have to provide the good faith effort on your end too.
henfredemars 3d ago • 100%
Well, yes of course. They are really stupid tariffs.
henfredemars 3d ago • 100%
Native titles will execute in 'Steam for Linux runtime 1.0 (scout)' by default, instead of the legacy runtime environment. This behavior is consistent with Steam Deck and promotes better compatibility across all Linux desktop distributions.
henfredemars 3d ago • 100%
My main is also Linux but my wife has a MacBook she still prefers. Still trying to find a good way for her to run a few games.
henfredemars 4d ago • 100%
He’s just too old for the job.
henfredemars 4d ago • 100%
I believe you meant to write genius.
henfredemars 4d ago • 100%
I like ASM because it can be delightfully simple, but it’s just not very productive especially in light of today’s tooling. In practice, I use it only when nothing else will do, such as for operating system task schedulers or hardware control. It’s nice to have the opportunity every once in a while to work on an embedded system with no OS but not something I get the chance to do very often.
On one large ASM project I worked (an RTOS) it’s exactly as you described. You end up developing your own version of everything a C compiler could have done for you for free.
henfredemars 4d ago • 100%
Step 6 extort developers
henfredemars 4d ago • 100%
I collect mechanical manual and automatic wrist and pocket watches, and the design looks so cheap and inconsistent.
It’s like you took a basic cheap-ass dress watch with no spirit or direction, stamped some diving watch face parts onto the surface, dumped it in yellow paint and glued on fake diamonds.
I’m showy but I’m minimal? I’m functional but I’m aesthetic? It’s like mixing together all the paints, smearing the canvas. It doesn’t even have the beginnings of a nice watch. It has no understanding of kinds of watches or what kind of watch it wants to be rather a collection of unrelated watch parts.
It’s a watch that says you have no taste.
henfredemars 4d ago • 100%
It’s so sad too. I just visited a concentration camp and memorial in Germany with plaques highlighting the evils of facism and thought to myself wow, there it is, in my home country (US). And I hope we don’t continue to get worse.
henfredemars 4d ago • 94%
“Public service workers – teachers, nurses, firefighters, and more – are the bedrocks of our communities and our country,” Biden said in a statement.
It’s true. Its not just a debt forgiveness, but it’s an investment in our own collective futures.
henfredemars 4d ago • 100%
Time to get on the air!
henfredemars 4d ago • 100%
That’s also important information for targeting vulnerabilities. If there’s no reason to share that info, it should not be sharing it.
www.androidauthority.com
This article goes into more detail about how these new measures will actually work compared to the blog post earlier this year from Google. Namely: 1. Enabling the OEM unlocking setting will no longer prevent FRP from activating. 1. Bypassing the setup wizard will no longer deactivate FRP. FRP restrictions will apply until you verify ownership of the device by signing in. 1. Adding a new Google account is blocked. 1. Setting a lock screen PIN or password is blocked. 1. Installing new apps is blocked.
android-developers.googleblog.com
> In this post, we’ve discussed the technical details of how we are restructuring memory in Android to get faster, more performant devices. Android 15 and AOSP work with 16 KB pages, and devices can now implement 16 KB pages as a development option.
Save a few words. Make life easier. How can this possibly go wrong?
I have a large DVD collection containing lots of niche titles that don’t appear to be on any public tracker. I would like to share my love of these films with the world. I have access to a server that’s online 24/7 with a symmetric link and no data cap. My plan is to use a docker container with a web transmission instance to seed all of my material through a VPN provider (for my own safety). My server was last rebooted 200 days ago; I intend to rack lots of uptime seeding with my server. I have technical skills and I can ensure I’ll have an open port to accept connections. Questions: what steps should I take to protect myself in seeding these DVDs? Is there a guide or some recommendations you can provide to get the best quality out of the many hours I’m going to spend ripping? Is it possible to trace the DVD reader that made the rip? Are the cool kids still uploading torrents or is there a better technology I should be using? Overall, I have plenty of content to share, but I don’t want to put myself at risk when I do.
9to5google.com
Article refrains from drawing conclusions, instead presenting the data. Android is doing better at moving users to newer versions, but the overwhelming majority of users don't have the current Android OS version nor the previous version, combined.
www.androidauthority.com
Bullet points stolen from the linked article: * Code suggests the satellite connectivity feature on Pixel devices could be called “Pixel Satellite SOS.” * We’ve also found a clue suggesting that the feature will be offered for free for two years, which would match Apple’s current offer on the iPhone 14 and 15 series.
www.techspot.com
I want to share this post because I was disappointed to see this popular smartphone cracking tool works very well across Android versions and devices while iPhone enjoys relative security. The graphic also shows premium devices specifically are vulnerable to their tools, so one cannot argue that the problem is funding or cheap devices getting owned because of dumb changes by the vendor -- premium devices fare not much better. Even Google controlling the hardware and the software of their Pixel line remains vulnerable to data extraction while the latest iPhone versions aren’t. To me, this sounds like the state of Android physical security might be inferior. Why? What can be done to fix this? Perhaps is it because Android is more popular globally so they get more work targeting Android? It could also be coincidental that at the time the documents leaked, the iPhone stuff was being finished up and there is actually not that much difference if you have an attacker who has lots of time and money. EDIT: Removed wrong information. EDIT: Added more material for discussion.
So much pony on [the canvas](https://canvas.fediverse.events/)! Where are all you guys and gals coming from? MLP has always seemed fairly quiet on the fediverse, but the proof is in the pudding, apparently! It warms my old, nerdy heart.
www.androidauthority.com
> After Linux reduced LTS releases from 6 years to 2, Google has committed to supporting its forks for 4 years.
AI-generated Summary: A new leak suggests the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 4, featuring an Adreno 830 GPU, will support frame interpolation, allowing games like Genshin Impact to run at 1080p 120 FPS. Frame interpolation, similar to Nvidia's DLSS and AMD's FSR, increases framerates by adding artificial frames but can cause input lag and visual artifacts. This feature might also be available on older Snapdragon models via firmware updates, potentially enabling AAA PC/console games on Android. My take: Fascinating that this feature could be supported on mobile, but I'm personally not convinced that there are many mobile gamers pushing the hardware. Most mobile gamers are very casual, and even Apple has trouble getting consumers to take AAA games on mobile seriously.
Google Earth is almost not usable in Firefox. I’d like to ask for suggestions from the community because I really don’t want to use Google Chrome where it works great. I’m on Linux Mint, an Ubuntu derivative.
www.androidauthority.com
Points taken from article: * Android 15 is adding a built-in mechanism to protect your device from “juice jacking” attacks. * Charging will be allowed when lockdown mode is enabled in Android 15, but USB data access will not. * Juice jacking is a largely theoretical problem you don’t really need to worry about, but it’s still nice that Android will protect you against it.
I’m not sure if an opinion piece is appropriate here, so please let me know if this doesn’t fit the theme of the community, and I’ll avoid sharing such thoughts in the future. I’m extremely frustrated with the car centric culture in my area. I live about 25 miles west of a quarry. Every day I watch trains go up and down the railroad mostly carrying gravel. This railroad stretches for several hours by car in each direction, connecting several large cities and even passing a few tourist attractions, and despite our traffic congestion problems there is little interest in trying to use this rail for actual people. One company moved in and started running a new passenger rail service. Within a few weeks, we had protesters at the railroads complaining that drivers don’t understand railroad crossings. I saw posters about how trains were killing residents when drivers park on the tracks and get hit. I don’t understand! Where do you think the train is going to go? They don’t exactly come out of nowhere. They follow the tracks! And we’ve always had trains passing through our town before. At a later local election a candidate ran on the premise that they’re going to protect home values and our children by reducing or eliminating the number of trains passing through our town. This candidate did win our local election and sadly they succeeded in cutting down on rail investment. Fast-forward a couple years later. Passenger rail stations were built at the endpoints of this rail to ferry tourists. I drive parallel to this rail on the way to work several times per week for almost 45 minutes each way, 20 minutes of which is heavy traffic. I get to enjoy watching people ride the train while there’s no stop anywhere near my house because our local government has sided with homeowners that a passenger rail station is “simply too dangerous.” I would have to drive over an hour to the nearest passenger rail station to ride the train, and I can literally see the tracks from my apartment. Every time I see that train I feel bitter. I could save so much money if these boneheads would have let them build a train station in our town. Absolutely ridiculous! The train is there. The rail is there. I don’t understand why a train is such a personal, existential threat to your way of life.
www.nomanssky.com
Surprised nobody has posted about the new expedition. I learned about the last one from Lemmy, so I'm returning the favor in case someone else learns about it from me. Six weeks remaining!
www.theverge.com
AI Summary: Google Messages will support texting 911 via RCS starting this winter, offering features like location sharing and read receipts. This upgrade improves emergency texting which is already supported by over half of US dispatch centers. Google collaborates with RapidSOS for enhanced responder info. This announcement precedes Apple's expected RCS support in iOS 18, aiming to broaden RCS adoption.