Friday, August 23
Daily News Stuff 23 August 2024
What If Edition
What If Edition
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- What if the very people you trusted to accurately represent reality lied to you constantly? That would be bad, wouldn't it? (The Verge)
Why, yes, The Verge, that would indeed be bad.
Tech News
- Apple continues to take half of all income from developers who choose not to sell their applications on Apple's own App Store. (The Verge)
Do you want me to side with the communist tyrants of the EU, Apple? Because this is how you make me side with the communist tyrants of the EU.
It's so blatant that even the commenters at The Verge are debating it.
- The Litespeed Cache plugin for WordPress has a critical vulnerability that grants admin access to everyone. (Bleeping Computer)
At least WordPress has advanced so that it doesn't often do this without plugins.
- The HMD Skyline is a phone that can be opened with a single screw and you can even replace the battery. (The Register)
iFixit rated it 9/10 for repairability.
It's a mid-range rather than high-end device but that's just fine.
The one downside is that it's rated water-resistant rather than waterproof. Don't take it swimming.
- The founder of fintech company Synapse that recent imploded with $160 million of other people's money has raised $11 million to start a new robotics company. (Tech Crunch)
What could possibly go wrong this time?
- DNS is cached. (Julia Evans)
Uh, yes. We know.
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Hello, I guess. Is this the tech thread for tonight/this morning?
(When you're working the night shift/night watch "today" kind of becomes a strange concept. "Tonight" is the 22nd. And the 23rd.)
(When you're working the night shift/night watch "today" kind of becomes a strange concept. "Tonight" is the 22nd. And the 23rd.)
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at Friday, August 23 2024 06:12 PM (gHSfI)
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"If you do keep using a Skyline into the Android 16 era, you may need to root it yourself and install a replacement OS, which is far beyond the abilities of most end users. We have also yet to see any confirmation from HMD that it will provide any assistance with unlocking the device's bootloader."
Probably the biggest thing that would hold back users from using custom roms is that the people who write them aren't really good at writing clear, easy-to-follow instructions. There's a lot of "oh, 3 steps back, if x doesn't work, do y". I used to play around a lot with custom ROM installations until Samsung added Knox to their phones and made it harder.
Not being clear about how to unlock the bootloader is troublesome, too, although sometimes it's as easy as flipping a toggle in the Developer options (and being OK with that potentially burning a fuse so that you can't undo your changes and put a stock ROM back. This really only matters if you're using apps that refuse to run when that happens, like (IIRC) Netflix and some banking apps. But that's not a documentation issue.)
Probably the biggest thing that would hold back users from using custom roms is that the people who write them aren't really good at writing clear, easy-to-follow instructions. There's a lot of "oh, 3 steps back, if x doesn't work, do y". I used to play around a lot with custom ROM installations until Samsung added Knox to their phones and made it harder.
Not being clear about how to unlock the bootloader is troublesome, too, although sometimes it's as easy as flipping a toggle in the Developer options (and being OK with that potentially burning a fuse so that you can't undo your changes and put a stock ROM back. This really only matters if you're using apps that refuse to run when that happens, like (IIRC) Netflix and some banking apps. But that's not a documentation issue.)
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