Android henfredemars • 2 weeks ago • 96%

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 henfredemars • 4 weeks ago • 98%

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.

The Monkey's Paw henfredemars • 1 month ago • 91%

Save a few words. Make life easier. How can this possibly go wrong?

Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ henfredemars • 1 month ago • 100%

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.

Android henfredemars • 2 months ago • 97%

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.

Android henfredemars • 2 months ago • 100%

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.

Android henfredemars • 2 months ago • 88%

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.

My Little Pony henfredemars • 2 months ago • 90%

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.

Android henfredemars • 2 months ago • 99%

www.androidauthority.com

> After Linux reduced LTS releases from 6 years to 2, Google has committed to supporting its forks for 4 years.

Android henfredemars • 3 months ago • 94%

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.

Firefox henfredemars • 3 months ago • 100%

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.

Android henfredemars • 3 months ago • 100%

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.

Fuck Cars henfredemars • 3 months ago • 98%

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.

No Man's Sky henfredemars • 3 months ago • 100%

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!

Android henfredemars • 3 months ago • 94%

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.

The Monkey's Paw henfredemars • 4 months ago • 100%

I wouldn't have Chrome installed if it weren't for those crappy school and government websites that refuse to work on anything else but Chrome.

My Little Pony henfredemars • 4 months ago • 85%

www.deviantart.com

Handle with Care.

The Monkey's Paw henfredemars • 4 months ago • 100%

It would be so much more convenient for the both of us, and then he could go outside, anywhere, whenever he likes.

Showerthoughts henfredemars • 4 months ago • 96%

I wonder how many thousands of spam bots have tried to connect to the servers and send email using text ripped from these pages federated across numerous domains. And they can’t just block one website. They’d have to individually block every node if they want to crawl the web for email addresses to steal. I hope it’s a real thorn in their side.

Showerthoughts henfredemars • 4 months ago • 98%

You’re indoors in the sense that you’re protected from the weather and the elements, and the cave could even have some kind of covering or entrance area that could be considered a door or doorway. People have built homes in caves. Is caving an outside, inside activity?

My Little Pony henfredemars • 5 months ago • 77%

Almost a month without a new post? Can’t have that. Have a cute clip!

Amateur Radio henfredemars • 5 months ago • 100%

I don't know many hams nor do I chat with the same hams on a recurring basis, and my wife is only tangentially interested in radio inasmuch as it makes me happy, so I thought I'd be the life of the party and post about the best day on the air I've had yet. My aim is to share my enthusiasm with the world. I've been a ham for about a year. I'm young (experience-wise) and still learning. Until this weekend I've been using a portable whip on my balcony combined with my President Lincoln for 10 meter contacts. My antenna mounting situation was awfully complicated, so I often left the antenna mounted several days at a time such as on the weekends. This finally bit me when the fine women who were feeding the squirrels next door moved out. The squirrels went ballistic and destroyed my antenna along with wreaking havoc on the rest of the neighborhood. They chewed through the loading coil and the coax! Preposterous. I cannot imagine what they thought to gain from doing so. Nevertheless, it put me out of commission for a while. I think the math behind magnetic loop antennas is really cool, and I don't have much space, so I decided to try the Chameleon F-loop as my next antenna, the base model. Wow, did I have so much fun today! Tuning was tricky because of that high Q and narrow bandwidth, but I didn't realize how active the airwaves could be when you can hear clearly. My reception was so much better because my noise floor seems to be lower with the mag loop compared to the whip. I also enjoyed the directionality of the loop, giving me a new property to play with to get the best reception. Thanks for reading!

The Monkey's Paw henfredemars • 7 months ago • 100%

I really don't want to go into work tomorrow.

Android henfredemars • 7 months ago • 95%

www.androidauthority.com

This sounds like a nice step towards modernizing texting, but it's a shame that Messages doesn't have an open RCS API to encourage broad adoption across messaging apps.

My Little Pony henfredemars • 7 months ago • 75%

Been thinking about giving it another go just for some casual fun. I read that the developers still maintain it and the little silly animations are adorable. Is it a *good* game? Not really, but it's cute. Please excuse the YouTube link as I understand it's taboo around here, but I can't stop giggling at that animation and this community can always use more love.

My Little Pony henfredemars • 9 months ago • 80%

Source: https://www.derpibooru.org/images/3258472

Ask Android henfredemars • 10 months ago • 100%

On many operating systems, I can create audio loopback devices to feed audio files into another app as if it was coming from a microphone. I can also tee off audio going out to the speakers. Is there an app that lets me redirect audio devices to perform the equivalent of connecting audio inputs and outputs on Android? Note to moderators: while such a feature can be used for piracy, that is not my goal, and there are better methods if I was trying to be nefarious. I want to use it to feed audio samples from soundboard apps into my active phone call without having to play the sound effects through the microphone. I'd also like to use it to directly supply the output of an MP3 into another app that records my voicemail message for better quality than can be performed by simply recording through the microphone.

Android henfredemars • 11 months ago • 97%

Google claims that privacy is a priority, and perhaps it is, but we can't deny there's an essential conflict of interest between protecting your privacy and Google being an advertising company. Recent events in this space include Google's new [Ad Topics framework](https://blog.google/products/chrome/get-know-new-topics-api-privacy-sandbox/), which purports to offer users more control. I feel it's an improvement over cookies, but having my device participate in tracking me is backwards. After all, my device should be protecting my privacy first, not implementing features to track my behavior. Data "nutrition labels" in the Play Store are a step forward by encouraging proactively a discussion about how user data is processed and used. On the other hand, recent attempts at DRM for the web in Chrome remind us that the main vendor behind Android doesn't always have user interests at heart. Is Android doing enough to keep your data safe? If not, what steps could reasonably improve the situation? In sharing your opinion, please take care to distinguish between Google the company and Android the product. While related, given Google may have privacy issues in one line of business doesn't necessarily define privacy practices on the Android platform. Also, another interesting angle includes what's best for you versus what's best for users as a whole. For example, a privacy feature, to be successful, needs to be reasonably understandable by most users and offer a net benefit without complicating the platform for casual users.

My Little Pony henfredemars • 1 year ago • 100%

youtu.be

Really love this browser game, and it seems to be quite popular overseas from my USA perspective. It's amazing how expressive they made the characters. Post 14/14 of my favorite MLP links. This will be my last post for a while and for this series. I feel like I'm the only one posting here, and I don't want to dominate the community activity. I still love Lemmy. I'll be around!

My Little Pony henfredemars • 1 year ago • 100%

youtu.be

I heard that old memes are popular on Lemmy! This one is truly moldy. Post 13/? of my favorite MLP-related links, mainly featuring videos.

My Little Pony henfredemars • 1 year ago • 100%

youtu.be

Post 12/? of my favorite MLP-related links is this bizarre creation based on 3D models of those low quality Walmart MLP plushies. The audio is not in English, but it's not important to understanding this video. I mean, if there's anything to be understood about it.