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mysteria commented on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android 9to5google.com/2025/08/25... · Posted by u/kotaKat

goda90 · 15 hours ago

I'm curious if GrapheneOS or other custom Android builds would be able to avoid these restrictions reasonably.

Obviously this is going to impact the supply of apps, since the market share of custom Android is smaller than even the market share of people willing to sideload or use an alternative store on a mainstream Android phone. Many developers might quit the game.

mysteria · 14 hours ago

The problem with custom ROMs is that many government, banking, and similar apps don't run on them without workarounds. Some of those apps also consider this as a TOS violation as well.

mysteria commented on Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android 9to5google.com/2025/08/25... · Posted by u/kotaKat

mysteria · 15 hours ago

The article didn't say much about the account approval process, but from the looks of it Google will be able to arbitrarily accept and revoke applications as they see fit. So much for an open platform, bring forth the gatekeeping!

Personally I would be fine with unsigned apps requiring the user to click through a notice before install, or having a setting to toggle to enable unsigned apps. Windows does something similar to this where unsigned binaries get a pop up warning but signed ones are executed immediately.

mysteria commented on Show HN: Clearcam – Add AI object detection to your IP CCTV cameras github.com/roryclear/clea... · Posted by u/roryclear

rkagerer · 2 days ago

Axis cameras are great. Their product support is awful.

mysteria · 2 days ago

For used cameras I don't expect to get any form of official support. IMO their documentation is clear and they provide software updates for 7 years.

mysteria commented on It is worth it to buy the fast CPU blog.howardjohn.info/post... · Posted by u/ingve

hulitu · 2 days ago

> I've seen more and more companies embrace cloud workstations.

In which movie ? "Microsoft fried movie" ? Cloud sucks big time. Not all engineers are web developers.

mysteria · 2 days ago

There are big tech companies which are slowly moving their staff (for web/desktop dev to asic designers to HPC to finance and HR) to VDI, with the only exception being people who need a local GPU. They issue a lightweight laptop with long battery life as a dumb terminal.

The desktop latency has gotten way better over the years and the VMs have enough network bandwidth to do builds on a shared network drive. I've also found it easier to request hardware upgrades for VDIs if I need more vCPUs or memory, and some places let you dispatch jobs to more powerful hosts without loading up your machine.

mysteria commented on Show HN: Clearcam – Add AI object detection to your IP CCTV cameras github.com/roryclear/clea... · Posted by u/roryclear

waschl · 2 days ago

Anyone can recommend a good quality camera without spyware and ideally open sw stack. I am willing to do it myself with little soldering etc. that’s one rabbit hole didn’t enter yet

mysteria · 2 days ago

It's not open source but used Axis cameras are pretty cheap and have rtsp and onvif support. Those mostly come from commercial installs and can be configured offline using a web interface.

mysteria commented on Monitor your security cameras with locally processed AI frigate.video/... · Posted by u/zakki

mysteria · 21 days ago

This is worth mentioning but a GPU or TPU is not required if you have a small number of cameras and set up your detection zones right. I use a low resolution/framerate MJPEG substream for detection to reduce the amount of decoder effort and use h264 only for recording and viewing. Openvino is the recommended choice for CPU recognition and it's much faster than the default Tensorflow detector.

It only uses around 20% CPU on a 6 core VM (running on a Ivy Bridge Xeon) with two cameras.

mysteria commented on My bank keeps on undermining anti-phishing education moritz-mander.de/blog/my_... · Posted by u/cheesepaint

ToucanLoucan · a month ago

The company we use for our yearly mandated training has a cybersecurity "class" which tells you not to click links in emails (which is good advice!).

Three guesses on how you log in to the service.

mysteria · a month ago

My bank tells me via email to not click on links in emails and to directly visit their homepage instead. That's fine, but that email itself contains a link to their fraud prevention page (to learn more) and another link to log into their online banking service.

Do as I say, not as I do.

mysteria commented on Mercury: Ultra-fast language models based on diffusion arxiv.org/abs/2506.17298... · Posted by u/PaulHoule

ronbenton · 2 months ago

>Do companies not just double their CI workers after hearing people complain?

They do not.

I don't know if it's a matter of justifying management levels, but these discussions are often drawn out and belabored in my experience. By the time you get approval, or even worse, rejected, for asking for more compute (or whatever the ask is), you've spent way more money on the human resource time than you would ever spend on the requested resources.

mysteria · 2 months ago

This is exactly my experience with asking for more compute at work. We have to prepare loads of written justification, come up with alternatives or optimizations (which we already know won't work), etc. and in the end we choose the slow compute and reduced productivity over the bureaucracy.

And when we manage to make a proper request it ends up being rejected anyways as many other teams are asking for the same thing and "the company has limited resources". Duh.

mysteria commented on Proton joins suit against Apple for practices that harm developers and consumers proton.me/blog/apple-laws... · Posted by u/moose44

andrepd · 2 months ago

That's an excellent point. I use Android LineageOS with no google apps. The amount of bullshit that I, a literal computer science PhD, have to put up with to somewhat avoid the more pernicious parts of the monopoly, is insane. Critical and even mandatory parts of my life (banking, government services) require me to engage with google in one way or another.

Non-technical people have absolutely no hope.

mysteria · 2 months ago

I actually put up with Lineage for many years before it got so bad that I had to switch to an iPhone. Before 2020 many apps still worked fine with it. All my computers are Linux and I self host everything, but I just couldn't risk an account lockout or a broken bank app.

Honestly I wish there was a legal requirement for those services to provide full access via a relatively open platform (like a web site), not a mobile app.

mysteria commented on Cloudflare to introduce pay-per-crawl for AI bots blog.cloudflare.com/intro... · Posted by u/scotchmi_st

mattlondon · 2 months ago

This is where Google wins AI again - most people want the google-bot to crawl their site so they get traffic. There is benefit to both sides there, and Google will use it's crawl-index for AI training. Monopolistic? Perhaps.

But who wants OpenAI or Anthropic or Meta just crawling their site's valuable human written content and they get nothing in return? Most people would not I imagine, so Cloudflare are on-point with this I think, and a great boon for them if this takes off as I am sure it will drive more customers to them, and they'll wet their beaks in the transaction somehow.

Bravo Cloudflare.

mysteria · 2 months ago

Even before AI was a thing some websites would deny all crawlers in robots.txt except for the Googlebot for the same reason.

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