That’s already how it functionally worked for each major release

Here’s their previous strategy: https://web.archive.org/web/20220917195332/source.android.com/docs/setup/about/codelines

Google works internally on the next version of the Android platform and framework according to the product’s needs and goals

When the n+1th version is ready, it’s published to the public source tree

The source management strategy above includes a codeline that Google keeps private to focus attention on the current public version of Android.

We recognize that many contributors disagree with this approach and we respect their points of view. However, this is the approach we feel is best and the one we’ve chosen to implement for Android.

As far as I can tell, this would really only affect QPRs, since the public experimental branches that get made after they throw the next release over the wall is going away

Oracle happened to it

All the devs went to LibreOffice after that

I agree, but the wording of that is imprecise…

Google reimplemented the same API (which should be legal) but “use” sounds like they called Oracle’s implementation of the function

Oracle tried to argue that writing your own virtual machine with the exact same same interface as theirs (even a clean room reimplementatio, or an improved version) was copyright infringement

If Oracle had won, it would likely have killed things like OpenJDK, WINE, Proton, Rosetta, etc. and would have made licensing around OpenGL/Vulkan very confusing (for a few examples)

In the default configuration of iDevices, the US already can

This seems more around the UK wanting to spy on its own citizens more easily

A safe would make more sense for an encrypted partition or directory

Bug report:

version 7.x removes nomenclature for current distros using alternative userspaces, such as musl + busybox (Alpine)

Need an extended term for these situations, or “Linux distro” should be reverted to version 6.x

Hardware. There’s a load value predictor that guesses the value of a load from memory

https://predictors.fail/

Matrix as a protocol, and the official client is Element.

I’m baffled Signal didn’t support transferring chats… I thought it was supposed to be easier than Matrix

It’s magnetically attached and can be used wirelessly, so the thumbnail is showing off that feature

Maybe it’s a generational thing, or geographic thing?

My wife was born in a village near Xi’an, and lived there for ~22 years

She isn’t into fengshui, and doesn’t adhere to any major superstitions (I guess other than you have to keep your belly button warm 😂)

Maybe that’s an Android thing?

My wife uses douyin on an American SIM all the time. She had to get someone from the mainland to type a pin for her when she first installed it, but there wasn’t any hardware based attestation on iOS

It also says

ChatGPT responded with information already publicly available on the internet and provided warnings against harmful or illegal activities.

So without the article comparing the search terms to what the person would have found typing into google, it’s quite pointless to hand wring about AI

Transfer speed isn’t part of this regulation, but yeah, making it clearer on the box the max power output on chargers and cables would be a good continuation of the requirements

I agree, but at least requiring USB PD, as it’s written, will at least give you 240 watt USB-C charging if they offer higher than 240 watt charging through a proprietary standard

Manufacturers are allowed to add supplementary charging standards on top of USB-C PD, and the commission is required to review the landscape every 5 years to see if a new technology is better than USB-C that should be adopted in the future

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv%3AOJ.L_.2022.315.01.0030.01.ENG&toc=OJ%3AL%3A2022%3A315%3ATOC

Jobs was specifically against the App Store when the first gen came out

It was added as an update to the first gen after the 3g came out

https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/07/10/the-revolution-steve-jobs-resisted-apples-app-store-marks-10-years-of-third-party-innovation

The iPhone 3g would be the first modern “smartphone” from Apple; before that it didn’t allow adding more applications, same as the “dumb phones” before it. It just had a capacitive touchscreen and a better web browser

Even then, the batteries weren’t glued in and it was significantly easier to replace

Not to be too conspiratorial, but isn’t that a pretty good indicator that Meta capitulated and put a backdoor in WhatsApp for them?

We only get 200 GiB for that price in the USA - I was surprised they offer so much more over there

Wait - you can get 1tb for £2 there?

I wouldn’t mind as much if it was that price.