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Baldr

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Mobile software engineer.

  • Samsung Galaxy update removes Android recovery menu tools, including sideloading

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  • Surely they will never stop trying, and the challenge will get certain people really worked up to be creative in how to do it.

    Remember iOS used to have a huge community on hacking the phone. The interest slowed down after Apple sort of implemented the features people used that for. iOS is certainly more secure nowadays, but there’s no shortage of vulnerabilities being constantly discovered, and with vibe coding apparently being integrated even large companies, I suspect more and more dumb vulnerabilities will be looming just waiting to be exploited.

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  • There was a time Google were orders of magnitude better than anyone else. Now with Google basically just pushing ads at the top and SEO articles taking over, the other search engines aren’t worse.

    In any case, I find that DuckDuckGo is already enough for 90% of my searches and hence it’s my default. This simple fact made my dependency on Google very low nowadays, basically Gmail and Google Maps are the main thing I still use.

    I only fall back to Google Search when I want something more tailored to my country news, something in my language or when I’m searching for something around me (like a store, business etc. which are all on Google Maps). These other search engines seem to be good mostly for English content and struggle to filter for things like “This search should be about country Y”.

    I’m a practical person, so I don’t resort to extremist views like “100% free of Google”, but I guess these little gestures compound over time. Recently I’ve been also changing some services to use a different email (a private one) other than my Gmail address, just to avoid centralizing everything on Google, and so I’ve been effectively diversifying the services I depend on, which is good.

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  • Yeah, the current versions of Android and iOS already mitigate this by allowing you to select just a few photos to give permission.

    But if you think about it, most users don’t really understand this permission thing. They think it is an app thing, not an OS thing. Many times I’ve seen people online ask “what prevents the app from saying X and doing Y?”.

    I think apps should never get permission to the whole user library, and any permissions given should be temporary.

  • Linux phones are more important now than ever

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  • That says you’re already way beyond the non tech savvy user.

  • Linux phones are more important now than ever

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  • I’ve been thinking about this and I wonder if Linux can have more success if we have pocket computers that gradually add phone functions instead of trying to have phone hardware work with a system that isn’t made for phone-like experience in general.

  • Tech CEOs Praise Donald Trump at White House Dinner

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  • These men are more than powerful enough to go against Trump

    I wouldn’t say that, remember a CEO is just a position. If any of them goes against Trump, they can easily be replaced. Except maybe Zuck.

    “I want to thank you for setting the tone such that we could make a major investment in the United States,” said Cook, referring to Apple’s pledge to put $600 billion into US manufacturing. Given that Apple made that commitment under threat of crippling tariffs on smartphones

    Also interesting to see that this has created a political divide:

    Former White House strategist Steve Bannon had a conniption over the dinner earlier in the day. He dedicated a significant portion of his speech Thursday at the far-right National Conservatism Conference to attacking Big Tech “oligarchs,” and during an episode of his podcast he claimed the person who arranged the dinner should be “perp-walked” out of the White House. article

    I think none of these people are happy to be shown in public as weak and submissive, but they must have been told to play the game.

  • Tech CEOs Praise Donald Trump at White House Dinner

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  • When the scene is open to the public, you can already know it's all a theater.

  • Tech CEOs Praise Donald Trump at White House Dinner

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  • Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can survive

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  • Best thing is that it works flawlessly on the mobile apps as well, and Wikipedia also has a 1 million most relevant articles or so, which is just a few gigabytes.

  • How a Single Line Of Code Could Brick Your iPhone

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  • That was an interesting read.

  • Arch Linux Officially Arrives on Windows Subsystem for Linux

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  • Maybe you mean the opposite to wine? The 1st WSL (called V1) was a sort of simulation of the Linux terminal, but wasn’t too compatible. The current version (V2) is a full virtual machine that kind of shares the network and file system automatically, so it can run basically any Linux command line tool.

  • US judge rules how Google Play must change following monopoly ruling

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  • “Android is open and Google Play is not the only way to get apps”

    I feel like Google never completely blocked apk installation on Android so that they can use this argument whenever it is convenient.

  • The Trouble With TikTok Is Getting Old

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  • Encyclopedia Brittanica wasn’t designed to be addicting and offer misinformation for one.

  • 7 Must Read Tech Books for Experienced Developers and Leads in 2025

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  • Huh? It seems to me these are all books about technical skills.

  • I wrote an ebook on GNU awk with hundreds of examples and exercises

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  • Also AWK is made to be fast, right? I suppose doing something in CPython in a non efficient way might not be noticeable with a bit of text, but would show up with a large enough data stream.

  • Google will develop the Android OS fully in private, and here's why

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  • They can’t close the source code as long as they use the Linux kernel, right? Besides, Android is popular among other companies because they can customize part of it as they see fit.

    This change isn’t really that drastic, because Android never really followed the open source way of doing things. The article even explains that this won’t change much even for ROM developers, since they’re not creating releases based on “work in progress” branches.

    Really the only difference is that Google will spare the work of merging two separate branches often and solving conflicts that might as well be turning into a nightmare as the code base has grown.

  • Switching to linux for newbies.

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  • Switching to linux for newbies.

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  • Yeah, just a note, basically these Linux distros are the same at their “core”, but what differs among them is mostly about the software they have and the way they’re managed.

    So you have distros that offer only open source software in their repository, some include proprietary drivers. Some distro families will have some differences in the path of certain folders, different families use different formats of their packages (which include the actual binary of the software together with the metadata about how to install them in the system), although a purely Linux binary should be executed in any Linux distro. Some offer more guidance during installation and setup, some offer a more “raw” experience that force you to chose every little detail, and so on.

    Another difference is in their philosophy of how the packages and dependencies are made available. Distributions such Arch Linux and its derivatives always offer the latest versions of each package, reason why they’re called “rolling release”. Distributions such as Debian offer a specific version that’s “frozen” and tested thoroughly until a new version of Debian is released with more updated software.

    Some say a rolling release distro is better for gamers because you always get the latest features and performance improvements, but they’re naturally less reliable than a stable distro.

    So I’d say the important thing is to understand the trade-offs so that you can choose the best thing for you. And also there’s no downside of experimenting different distros in a virtual machine, for example.

  • iOSProgramming @programming.dev
    Baldr @programming.dev

    Apple to require Xcode 16 and Sonoma 14.5 to submit to the App Store starting on April 24, 2025

    developer.apple.com /news/upcoming-requirements/
  • Swift @programming.dev
    Baldr @programming.dev

    Safer Swift: How ~Copyable Prevents Hidden Bugs

    arturgruchala.com /safer-swift-how-copyable-prevents-hidden-bugs/
  • Java @programming.dev
    Baldr @programming.dev

    Java users on macOS 14 running on Apple silicon systems should consider delaying the macOS 14.4 update

    blogs.oracle.com /java/post/java-on-macos-14-4
  • Android Development @programming.dev
    Baldr @programming.dev

    Meet “Y-Charts”: an Opensource Jetpack Compose chart library

    medium.com /ymedialabs-innovation/meet-ycharts-an-opensource-jetpack-compose-chart-library-2568aeac19fb
  • Programming @programming.dev
    Baldr @programming.dev
    2021

    Font size is useless; let’s fix it

    tonsky.me /blog/font-size/
  • Android Development @programming.dev
    Baldr @programming.dev

    The beauty of Kotlin type system

    kt.academy /article/kfde-type_system