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abrahamon Pixel 11 Pro Fold

Just a note that the 12GB nerf only applies to the base storage version of the pros.

abrahamon Antigravity 2.0

Antigravity 2.0 was released in May

https://antigravity.google/blog/introducing-google-antigravi...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48196838

abrahamon How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)

> Google’s obviously fake excuse for killing their RSS reader (declining usage)

What's obviously fake about that?

abrahamon How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)

I liked Google Play Music a lot but like any Google product it had a lot of issues. Still way better than YouTube Music.

abrahamon Texas wins court order to suspend domain name for violating age-verification law

> You wrote this in the passive voice

I used the language of the link.

> The explicit tube site Pornhub is now blocked in 25 U.S. states

I had assumed that the states were blocking Pornhub but reading between the lines in the linked article it does imply it's not the states are not applying technical blocks.

abrahamon Texas wins court order to suspend domain name for violating age-verification law

According to this pornhub is blocked in 25 states including Texas.

https://mashable.com/article/pornhub-blocked-states-2025

abrahamon Developers don't understand CORS (2019)

By default cookies are sent for cross-origin requests. The SameSite cookie flag that lets sites control this was only shipped in Safari the year before this blog post was written so it would have been hard to depend on it yet.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Guides/Coo...

abrahamon Ask HN: Due to spam on GitHub, what platforms can I move my projects?

Limiting the number if PRs per person also just launched.

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-06-17-limit-open-pull-req...

abrahamon Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone

GrapheneOS doesn't fit the criteria of the list.

https://grapheneos.org/faq#preinstalled-devices

abrahamon GitHub is sinking

GitHub launched a new status page Dec 2018[1]. It doesn't appear as if any history before Oct 2018 was ported over.

[1] https://github.blog/engineering/infrastructure/introducing-t... [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20181211191456/https://www.githu...

abrahamon GitHub having issues [resolved]

They get posted to the incident log (https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/n07yy1bk6kc4) for example https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/lcw3tg2f6zsd.

There are also monthly availability reports: https://github.blog/tag/github-availability-report/

abrahamon Pick Your Agent: Use Claude and Codex on Agent HQ

There is an implicit planning mode

https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/tutorials/plan-a-project

abrahamon More Mac malware from Google search

> After running it, macOS immediately started asking for multiple permissions, which in hindsight was the big warning sign.

From what understand of MoltBot, I would expect it to ask for a lot of permissions. I guess maybe they are prompted closer to configuration time in the actual app.

abrahamon GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source

It might make the maintainers of if the rest of the pie vigilant for dependency spam that would cut into their end.

abrahamon Inside CECOT – 60 Minutes [video]

Just to clarify for anyone reading. 404 does not have a paywall. They have an account wall. Some articles require you to be signed into a free account to read.

abrahamon Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10

Generally, you don't have to open settings. The the built-in share menu from a file has quick share as an option and if someone shares something with you, you'd get a notification.

abrahamon I just want working RCS messaging

Signal has had a backup to a file you can do any you want to for years.

abrahamon I just want working RCS messaging

They've probably expanded support since the initial announcement

abrahamon I just want working RCS messaging

Signal recently introduced cloud backups. https://signal.org/blog/introducing-secure-backups/

abrahamon Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking

eSIMs are nice in that you can install an app and it can activity service immediately. You don't have to go to a store or wait for a physical SIM to be mailed to you.

abrahamon Stealing from Google

The users are going through an OAuth flow and creating an account. Presumably they are agreeing to a ToS as part of that.

abrahamon Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets

It's been 2 years https://signal.org/blog/new-features-fall-2023/

abrahamon F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/9764949?hl=en

abrahamon F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree

The opt-in security feature is blocking all installs from outside the play store.

abrahamon F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree

> What a scam android has become.

An optional advanced security feature targeted at non-typical users doesn't seem like a good indicator of this statement.

abrahamon Signal Secure Backups

WhatsApp offloads the storage to Google/Apple.

https://faq.whatsapp.com/481135090640375

abrahamon Researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up in everyday speech

Not to boast but this will surpass many an intricate topic and you should strategically delve into it before it garners meticulous attention.

abrahamon Show HN: JavaScript-free (X)HTML Includes

Browsers only implement XSLT 1

https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2025/08/22/no-google-did-...

abrahamon Show HN: JavaScript-free (X)HTML Includes

For a long time web components generally built on four standards:

  - Custom HTML elements
  - Shadow DOM
  - HTML imports
  - HTML templates

https://korban.net/posts/elm/2018-09-17-introduction-custom-...

Eventually it became clear some browsers were not going to implement and the design of HTML imports was better handled be ES modules.

https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/127482/on-wha...