"Exclusive: Google will develop the Android OS fully in private..."

Looking again at https://www.androidauthority.com/google-android-development-aosp-3538503/ I really think that was a PR piece, e.g. #Google's PR firm put together the story for #Android Authority. Its got all the markings, the "Exclusive" part, the uncritical eye "Google is simply consolidating its development efforts into a single branch", minimizing harm to custom ROMs, "custom ROMs will largely also see little change" etc

When was the last time you've properly used the camera on your Android?

No I'm not talking about the camera which points at the scenery, I'm talking about the camera which points straight to your face 24 hours a day every time you pick your Android up.

¿Well? I'm waiting.

About 990 out of 1000 people will answer this wrong.

The only proper way of using that camera is making sure that it can only record images of your face when you absolutely want to

That means that you need to put a piece of electrical isolation tape in front of the lens of the camera and it should be like that for most of the day.

Any other manner means that you do not know anything about securing yourself and about protecting your identity.

Do you consider it normal to have a barrel of a firearm pointed at your face 24 hours a day?

The question is rhetorical

Now please follow suit and do like I have done it for decades;

The only time when the camera is pointed at me, is when I want to; if I don't I either cover it, or shove the person who puts the camera in my face in such a manner that they drop it immediately, or else!

Current expected state of Xiaomi Redmi Note 12S

POST sequence loops

¿Is there a chance it'll recover?

@RL_Dane @Timpostma

For the third time my Xiaomi Note Android went through the reboot loops (still occuring)

No apparent obvious trigger this time.
As the last two, I will stabilize the phone but a new one is now a high priority

"pitfalls"

TechCrunch: Some startups are going 'fair source' to avoid the pitfalls of open source licensing

https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/22/some-startups-are-going-fair-source-to-avoid-the-pitfalls-of-open-source-licensing/

OpenAI Quietly Scrapped a Promise to Disclose Key Documents to the Public - From its founding, OpenAI said its governing documents were available to the public. When... - https://www.wired.com/story/openai-scrapped-promise-disclose-key-documents/ #business/artificialintelligence #closedsource #business

One Less Binary Blob - Open-source software has gone a long way into making modern technology the way it ... - https://hackaday.com/2023/12/07/one-less-binary-blob/ #softwarehacks #closedsource #proprietary #binaryblob #opensource #espressif #firmware #wireless #driver #esp32 #wifi

»Zeiten ändern sich:
Microsoft hilft bei Linux-Installation«

Nun ja, M$ hat Windows schon über ein Jahrzehnt nicht mehr intern als erstes prio Software & Produkt ihres Unternehmens deklariert. Außerdem ist die Diskussion um Win & M$, für oder gegen Linux nichts neues und Werbung. Außerdem ergibt Linux auf Win viel User-Nutzung-Einblick für M$ & Dienste.

https://www.heise.de/news/Microsoft-hilft-bei-Linux-Installation-9333190.html
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_Dang_ this is... legitimately dangerous.

Bambu X1C and P1P started printing while owners were asleep

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/16/23064592/bambu-print-asleep-cloud-outage

Well done, #Ubuntu - with Ubuntu Pro, you've finally achieved your walled garden. Delightful move that you've walled in some key packages (such as ImageMagick) that many people rely on but probably don't even know they are there. Force-installing snapd - a virus I've spent many hours trying to extirpate - is the real bubblegum in the hairdo.