I recommend reading this publication from Denys (Radis) Prokopenko — Commander of Azov Army Corps.
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/columns/2025/07/14/7521623/
The question is not when World War III will start. The question is whether we are capable of recognising its course and structure before it reaches its decisive phase.
Anthropic or not, the recent streak of supply chain and also targeted attacks got me packing into VM.
Now I run all devtools and install packages only inside the VM and either connect Zed / VSCode via ssh or run terminal ide inside the VM.
No host mounts whatsoever, all communication Host to Guest strictly through git.
People should not reinvent the wheel. FOSS Android has already solved many problems which Linux always will have, by design.
Non-preemtive scheduler which doesn’t take app usage into account will drain battery fast. Non-managed app platform is always a security risk.
The absence of a single app framework will always lead to a zoo. Any average Gnome installation bring all KDE and vise versa because different apps use different GUI and Desktop convenience libraries.
Google is trying to kill Android by moving more and more core functionality from OSS into proprietary services.
We need to fight back through forks and legislations. Android has started as a Linux phone 15 years ago? And has already solved a ton of inherent problems.
It is illegal to keep deleted profiles
No, this is have enough canned food scenario.
If the money would wipe out from the economy, that is less money for everyone. First round of bankruptcies will also wipe out contractors and debt issuers of the bancrupted companies, and so on. Mass layoffs. People cannot afford restaurants, or car washes, more businesses out, more mass layoffs.
In 2001 tech bubble the money haven’t been lost. Virtual valuation dropped sharply. But the economy recovered in a year.
This is like 2008, money have been poured into concrete and silicon chips. They were spend, gone for good. It will take a few good years to recover if the bubble would burst.
I’m missing artisanal, carefully crafted software from before LLM times. Microsoft Teams, Eclipse, Elastic, Lotus Notes even, and every website, well-thought and carefully optimized, taking its 30 second to load carefully picked handcrafted ads with broken CSS and color palette causing epileptic seizures. But sure.
Software has been horrible for the last 20 years.
Photoshop slop was replaced by AI slop. LLMs have replaced software bootcamps.
Here’s Tom with the weather.
Mainstream phone as in “I don’t need to debug it via terminal”
The issue I’m pointing at: safe, long battery life, snappy maps while driving is what took AOSP more than 5 years.
It would be very unfortunate to discard all that work and start from scratch.
From the pure technical standpoint, AOSP is better in every way. Fully managed runtime gives better control over resources scheduling, better app sandboxing. Battery life. Uniform hardware support.
All obstacles for it to be open were artificially made by lawyers.
Like Jolla runs Android emulation layer. Same Android but without its benefits.
I made a full comment in this thread. The bottomline is
It all takes years.
Linux phones are around for enthusiasts since Nokia N900 (which was/is a masterpiece) — yet nothing is remotely close to a mainstream phone.
Flatpack is only a piece of the puzzle. I remember in early Android version, an app could increas gyroscope query frequency (i.e. a racing game demanding precise phone tilt), then crash and the gyroscope would drain battery within hours. And again — this is only one example.
The ecosystem must grow — to this day, I cannot set Immich as my default gallery app on LineageOS. So I take a photo, and can’t immediatelly look at it. And Android is already mature. There must be a standard and secure way of exchanging calendar events, notes, photos. Developers must adopt this new ecosystem — it takes years.
The best option we have right now is to pressure Google to allow alternative to Play Services and also sponsor AOSP development outside of Google. There are numerous Linux distros, including commercial ones, I don’t see why we can’t have numerous Android flavors.
It took 6-10 years for Android to take shape.
On Linux, every app has full access to your browsing history, clipboard (passwords), photos with geo-tags, music, list of other installed apps, contacts. Unrestricted battery and network access – it’s a tracking paradise. And all it takes is one supply chain attack on npm install with typical 4000K dependency packages
I’m surprised to read the whole thread and nobody mentioned that TorBrowser is the goat for daily anonymous browsing.
This is a very good point. I was reading “Extreme Ownership” and one of the point they were making: a 5-star manager makes 5-star team and vise versa. I called it a BS back when I was reading. But afterwards I got a new manager that threw the amazing well-oiled high-performing team in a dumpster in 6 weeks. Half the people quit within a month (it took me longer because of the vacation lol)
The alternative is a literal Nazi posting racist cartoon depicting Obama as monkey, not to mention a few murders here and there, and a promise to deploy armed Gestapo to watch the election. But worry not. You prople did very well not woting for a weak candidate.
Alas, you have a strong one now.
If you’d replace the word ‘flattened’ with the specific term ‘unwrapped’ it’s starting to make even more sense.
Conveniently you forgot to mention a short list of terrorist groups financed by Iran.
Here you go
Revolutionary technologies of the '80 make me appreciate modern programming languages and especially tooling much more.
In general, ‘classes’ declarations were done with macro. I don’t remember the exact code — something akin to
BEGIN_CLASS(A, Parent);
CLASS_MEMBER(a...)
END_CLASS();
The project had started before C++ existed, and the switch would be too costly. It’s not just OOP part, also reflection mechanism with bindings to the homemade scripting language, and multi-platform UI library. It was a gem of its time.
I wouldn’t call it a shit show, they were first in E2E encrypted collaborative messaging platforms and get all the hits. Moderation turned out to be incompatible with E2E encryption. People kicked out of channels can still decrypt because keys revocation hasn’t been made.
Matrix server is a resource hog and a mess, and the protocol has never took off to spark alternative implementations.
Encryption doesn’t scale well for big channels.
They got many things right, but got crippled by many things they couldn’t possibly predict.