henfredemars

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[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 4 points 35 minutes ago* (last edited 33 minutes ago) (1 children)

You’re going to drive a half-ton, lifted, child-killing machine and you’re gonna like it!

And make payments for 108 months.

A proper small car would sell like hot cakes, but they just don’t have the profit margins and is a regulatory problem asking too much from their small and simple frames/engines.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 2 points 36 minutes ago (1 children)

I’ve seen a partial solar eclipse and the coolest thing is what it does to shadows. There were little crescent shapes all over the ground, the gaps in the leaves of trees forming pinhole cameras.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 1 points 40 minutes ago

This is true. The effects aren’t merely economic. Our criminal leadership is a distinct threat to health.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 5 points 41 minutes ago

It would’ve been far preferable to simply not wake up from that surgery.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 4 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Yes, and how do the buyers get in there? This looks rather impractical. If the buyers are the people in the boats, they already have what they can buy, so they wouldn't be here.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 1 points 11 hours ago

PWA rant incoming.

The context of your question reminds me of why I had to leave app development -- it's a race to the technological bottom. It's a real damn shame that PWAs work so well because it points to distribution and consumer reach to be the real limiting factors in writing a great application rather than infrastructure and code. It shouldn't have to be this way, but it is because we don't want to write an app for every platform separately. However, when we do this, we lose something and that is the vision for how the OS developer intended for applications to operate and interact with the rest of the system. It's a gap-filling technology that makes up for the lack of consistency between platforms that just never sat very well with me. It's something that shouldn't need to exist, but it does to fill an important role that could be designed out of an ideal system.

Rant over. Think I will label this as a rant at the beginning of the comment before wasting readers' time.

We need Android because at some point an app needs to interact with the real system. This could be through a library or some kind of native plugin. Sure, we could accept it's proprietary all the way down in the system, but that would be a dark world to live in, indeed. We could live without it, but we should care.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 3 points 12 hours ago

Golden parachute primed and ready to bail, sir!

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 37 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

Reddit needed you more than you needed Reddit. The moment you are slightly less efficient advertising money, they told you to hit the road. When people tell you who they really are, you should listen.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 7 points 12 hours ago

Say hello to slightly more, temporary shareholder value!

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 31 points 12 hours ago (9 children)

That’s precisely the goal. It’s a great way for Russia to kill Americans without firing a shot. It is one of many ways they’re doing this.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 113 points 13 hours ago (11 children)

One is none. People get sick. Shit happens. Unsafe practices.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 18 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

They cannot take back the open license code. Only the future work is closed.

 

I often manually choose English every time I post, but do I actually have to do this? Does this affect the ability of other users to view my posts, or am I wasting my time by taking this extra step on most posts and comments?

 

Google can't make a move in 2025 without veering into the realm of generative AI, and the release of the Pixel 9a is no exception. Curiously, the AI experience on this phone may not match what you've seen from the company's high-end smartphones. Google has confirmed to Ars that the phone's lower memory prevented it from implementing the full suite of Pixel AI features. You can still talk to Gemini by holding the power button or opening the Gemini app, but the on-device Gemini Nano model has seen a downgrade on the 9a.

 

A new study reveals that thousands of Android apps covertly collect location data using Bluetooth and WiFi beacons, allowing continuous tracking and profiling of users without explicit consent.

 
 

Phone makers need to collectively decide how we approach SIM cards going forward. The current state of eSIMs is an absolute mess, so we either need to ditch the idea of the eSIM-only future, or the big companies need to partner to solve this once and for all.

 
  • Android 16 is on track for its June release, a departure from Google's usual August releases.
  • Google's President of the Android ecosystem confirmed to Android Police it's on track for its target.
  • Google has switched to Trunk Stable development, allowing it to release Android updates earlier.
 

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite promises big things for late 2024 and 2025 flagship smartphones. From a new custom CPU to unrivaled graphics performance, photography, and enhanced AI capabilities, it’s the chip that claims to do it all, and, for the most part, it does. However, our initial impressions of the chip have been tainted by exceedingly high temperatures when placed under stress.

 

According to our source, those purchasing the Google Pixel 9a will get Fitbit Premium for 6 months, YouTube Premium for 3 months and Google One 100GB for 3 months. This is similar to the freebies that Google offered for the rest of the Pixel 9 series.

I feel like this isn't all that interesting news though because I thought trials were commonly included with new Android phones.

 

This is merely a small blurb. Here's the (nearly) complete text of the article (no real need to visit the page):

Qualcomm says Arm is no longer threatening to take its chip architecture away.

”Arm recently notified us that it was withdrawing its October 22nd, 2024 notice of breach and indicated that it has no current plan to terminate the Qualcomm Architecture License Agreement,” Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon said on today’s Q1 2025 earnings call. (Qualcomm reported record quarterly revenue, and Amon says Snapdragon now has 10 percent share of $800-plus Windows laptops at US retail.)

Sounds like the chip licensing drama is coming to an end, although it's hard to know what agreements went on behind the scenes to call off the giants' battle.

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