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tripdout··on The Rabbit R1 is probably running Android and is powered by an Android app
You can CTRL-F here https://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.per... for "signature" and view permissions that are only granted to apps signed with the platform key, i.e. built into the system image as part of the AOSP build process.

There's a good number that might be useful for the R1.

tripdout··on Bytecode VMs in Surprising Places
Also Tiktok's backend:

https://www.nullpt.rs/reverse-engineering-tiktok-vm-1

tripdout··on A leadership crisis in the Nix community
On one hand, I struggle to think that people might actually care about switching "master" to "main", as opposed to making wider improvements to inclusivity.

On the other hand, I don't have a strong attachment at all to naming a branch "master" and can easily rename it without a second thought.

tripdout··on A leadership crisis in the Nix community
I think Nix is much simpler and more suited for software packaging than Scheme.
tripdout··on A leadership crisis in the Nix community
I really don't see the problem with accepting sponsorship money from Anduril. Rejecting it just results in less improvements and exposure for Nix.

They're going to continue to use Nix either way, and in the same way that the community can fork Nix because they're unhappy with the sponsorship, so can Anduril - and their fork might just be private.

Defence companies and all sorts of other companies that people might disagree with heavily use open source projects.

tripdout··on Nearsightedness is at epidemic levels – and the problem begins in childhood
Do these work on 20-year olds?
tripdout··on When do we stop finding new music?
Spotify's song radio / artist radio does this. There's like/dislike buttons and it just plays you different related songs.
tripdout··on When do we stop finding new music?
What???
tripdout··on I nearly died drowning
The whole time I read this, I kept thinking she was only underwater for 20-30 seconds, maybe a minute max, and thinking that that's doable, because I couldn't even imagine what it's like to be trapped upside-down for longer. A few minutes underwater? Without even a breath before going under? Wow.
tripdout··on The project to migrate Android to Bazel is cancelled
Harder than using Soong + Ninja + Kati together?
tripdout··on The project to migrate Android to Bazel is cancelled
They already moved away from pure Make in Android 8, wonder if that was just more urgent or the migration to Bazel is just harder?
tripdout··on Better adb shell
Titanium Backup has been working fine for me to backup and restore various apps. Are there features missing or problems with TB's implementation on modern Android versions?
tripdout··on Zooming User Interface (ZUI)
There's a Wayland compositor called Newm [0] that uses a similar approach [1].

0: https://github.com/jbuchermn/newm?tab=readme-ov-file 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otMEC03ie0g

tripdout··on Code search is hard
Is it true that teams don't do branches in source control at all? Just publishing a CR?
tripdout··on Kobold letters: HTML emails are a risk
Yeah the links from Proofpoint are unique to you, so however you visit it you still get tracked
tripdout··on Average worker now logs off at 4 p.m. on Fridays
From my experience there's always more tickets you can pick up.
tripdout··on Timeline of the xz open source attack
But you can build the code yourself, and verify that your hash is the same as theirs, meaning the binary is the same.
tripdout··on Average worker now logs off at 4 p.m. on Fridays
How do you do that? Are you able to complete all your tasks in just over half the time? Aren't there meetings after lunch. What about coworkers trying to contact you during (the rest of) their workday.
tripdout··on Writing Gnome Apps with Swift
Is this the only declarative way to write desktop app UI? (Maybe Kaitlin multiplatform, but not sure how that works on Linux). I mean GTK/Qt
tripdout··on Show HN: I made a cheap alternative to college-level math & physics tutoring
I'm in 3rd year CS and I almost never go to office hours for my CS courses, because a lot of the time I don't have something specific to ask.

I go to lecture, don't understand the material, and then review my notes & the slides at home, working through the examples until I understand them.

If I get stuck on something, I typically just keep trying until I understand it, instead of stopping, remembering what I don't understand and asking it in office hours 2-3 days later, and then potentially getting stuck on something else later on in the proof/example.

Typically what I lack is is a more general understanding of the entire proof/example/algorithm instead of small individual details, and I really need to sit down with it and go through it instead of another quick re-explanation by a TA where I have to say "yeah, makes sense" before I've had enough time to think about it.

tripdout··on Notes on EndeavourOS
He's probably dual booting.
tripdout··on Nix is a better Docker image builder than Docker's image builder
Hey, also wanted to thank you for android-nixpkgs - it's great
tripdout··on Nix is a better Docker image builder than Docker's image builder
>I've already broken both of them enough that I had to reinstall from scratch in the past (yes yes - it's supposed to be impossible I know)

Could you mention a bit about how they broke? I'm curious to see how that state looks, as from my perspective switching to a previous configuration seems to cover everything.

tripdout··on Hackintosh is almost dead
There's no GPU acceleration is there?
tripdout··on Ibis, a federated Wikipedia alternative
Doesn't even display properly on mobile - can barely read the page.
tripdout··on Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix
I think the ability to run services is really what separates Devbox from other related Nix-based dev-env solutions.

Essentially taking what you get from the NixOS-specific configuration.nix options (like for example `services.mediawiki.enable = true`) and letting that be per-project, per-directory, is super useful.

tripdout··on Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix
Does this save environment variables and aliases defined in the Nix devshell?
tripdout··on Show HN: Flox 1.0 – Open-source dev env as code with Nix
The more powerful version search that Flox (and other dev env solutions built on Nix) have compared to the regular Nix search is super useful.

Glad that all these different companies are exploring more ways to use Nix and hopefully improvements can be shared throughout the ecosystem.

tripdout··on CS 6120: Advanced Compilers: The Self-Guided Online Course
I favorited this last year and still didn't get around to it. But from what I saw of one of the videos, it looks really good, super interesting stuff.
tripdout··on Google Messages RCS is blocked on rooted, custom ROM Android phones
Remember when Google cared about the "open handset alliance"
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