Yeah if this goes ahead I'm going back to my feature phone
Readit Newsnabogh commented on Google Pixels are no longer the AOSP reference device 9to5google.com/2025/06/12... · Posted by u/tripdout
Okay so we just need another company to release a nice phone and release the device tree right?
nabogh commented on AOSP project is coming to an end old.reddit.com/r/Stallman... · Posted by u/kaladin-jasnah
From https://calyxos.org/news/2025/06/11/android-16-plans/ -
> Google did not publish any device-specific source code for supported, modern Pixel devices.
> In previous years, Google released full device trees alongside new Android versions. This allowed developers to build and boot AOSP on Pixel hardware relatively easily.
> With Android 16, only the platform/framework code has been released. The device trees are missing, at least for now.
> This means AOSP 16 cannot currently be built or run on any recent Pixel device easily just using official source. It’s unclear whether this is a delay or a policy change. Either way, it seriously disrupts custom ROM development and our porting efforts.
That's awful. I bought a pixel because the ecosystem around alternative android roms was healthy. This seems to change that.
Why can't I just get a general purpose computer in my pocket? Why is everything so hostile? I am willing to pay!
nabogh commented on An update on Mozilla's terms of use for Firefox blog.mozilla.org/en/produ... · Posted by u/ReadCarlBarks
> The reason we’ve stepped away from making blanket claims that “We never sell your data” is because, in some places, the LEGAL definition of “sale of data” is broad and evolving. As an example, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) defines “sale” as the “selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer’s personal information by [a] business to another business or a third party” in exchange for “monetary” or “other valuable consideration.”
THANK YOU California for this definition of selling data, which is accurate, and representative of what people think of when discussions of selling data come up.
> In order to make Firefox commercially viable, there are a number of places where we collect and share some data with our partners
Ok, so that’s pretty straightforward. According to CA and other states Mozilla is collecting and selling your data. Which is exactly what everyone is upset about and means exactly what everyone thought it meant.
I was under the impression that selling anonymised data would also fall under this category. Either way we need more transparency here.
nabogh commented on "No, we are absolutely not prepared to [fork Firefox]" codeberg.org/librewolf/is... · Posted by u/toastedwedge
Dumb question but why /do/ browsers move quick? Surely we are nearing feature complete. Is it just the complexity of the task? I'm sure there are lots of awful bugs.
nabogh commented on A mouseless tale: trying for a keyboard-driven desktop lwn.net/Articles/1005332/... · Posted by u/signa11
So many good options here.
Vimium is the gateway drug to the fantastic qutebrowser (more integration and customisation, scripting, based on qtwebkit/engine).
I just want to say thank you for mentioning qutebrowser. I'd never heard of it before and I'm now hooked.
nabogh commented on Windows 10 begins one-year countdown to end of support theregister.com/2024/10/1... · Posted by u/LorenDB
Where do you people get this "daily standup" idiocy from? Maybe I'm too old for this crap, but you can't get anything meaningful done in just 8 hours, and if you can, what you did is definitely not worth wasting time talking about.
I feel like you have to be a literal code monkey that needs to be guided on almost a method-level to get any productive plus out of daily "standup".
This hyper-corpo "agile" garbage should have been dead and buried a long time ago. As someone who has worked professionally as a coder for over a decade, one, at most two meetings a week is what's reasonable. Anything above that is a giant red flag, most likely means you don't trust your people, and reeks of shady business practices like rotating (hiring & firing) junior devs so you don't have to pay for seniors.
It's nice to chat to real people for 15 minutes sometimes? Such a short meeting shouldn't feel very disruptive.
I've written a bit of CUDA before. If I want to go pretty bare-bones, what's the equivalent setup for writing code for my AMD card?
The problem is that most normal people (HN is not normal - mostly for the better) don't even understand what sideloading is - let alone actually care.
How can we fix this?
(aside from making people care - apathy enables so many political problems in the current age, but it's such a huge problem that this definitely isn't going to be the impetus to fix it)