Comment Re:Sadly even $20 is too rich for me. (Score 1) 23
For a software-only Android solution, check out https://techblog.bozho.net/wir...
Submission + - DeepSeek AI Refuses to Answer Questions About Tiananmen Square 'Tank Man' Photo (petapixel.com)
An anonymous reader writes:
DeepSeek starts writing: “The famous picture you’re referring to is known as “Tank Man” or “The Unknown Rebel.” It was taken on June 5, 1989, during the Tiananmen” before a message abruptly appears reading “Sorry, that’s beyond my current scope. Let’s talk about something else.”
Bloomberg reports that like all other Chinese AI models, DeepSeek will censor topics that are seen as sensitive to China. The app deflects questions about the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests or about whether China could invade Taiwan. It will give detailed responses about world leaders such as the United Kingdom’s Sir Kier Starmer but will refuse to say anything about China’s President Xi Jinping.
Yes, it's happy to also bash the Bad Orange Man, but criticizing Winnie the Pooh is right out:
Submission + - A New Open Source Solution for Advanced Threat Detection From ClamAV Creators
tkcl writes: Contextal Platform is a new open-source threat detection and intelligence solution built by the original creators of ClamAV. Written in Rust, it takes a context-driven approach to analyzing security threats, allowing users to develop situational scenarios using ContexQL, a dedicated language designed with flexibility and performance in mind. These scenarios draw on global context, metadata, relationships, time, anomalies, content, and other factors to trigger specific actions.
The recently released Contextal Platform & Console 1.2 adds QR code processing to strengthen phishing protection, responsive UI for seamless mobile experience, and performance enhancements. Contextal Platform is fully open-source and available for anyone to use or extend. Installation and updates are quick and easy with the official images for x64 and arm64 (Linux/Mac). More details can be found on the project’s website.
The recently released Contextal Platform & Console 1.2 adds QR code processing to strengthen phishing protection, responsive UI for seamless mobile experience, and performance enhancements. Contextal Platform is fully open-source and available for anyone to use or extend. Installation and updates are quick and easy with the official images for x64 and arm64 (Linux/Mac). More details can be found on the project’s website.
Comment No need to use a Google API for that (Score 1) 56
It can be easily detected whether an app was installed through the Play Store, and an appropriate action taken, if one were so inclined. I don't submit my app to 3rd party app stores, but I do allow it to run if it was installed through one, or through sideloading. I don't mind the Chinese using the app, probably the biggest market where Play Store is not available.
What I don't allow are reverse-engineered copies of my app, recognizable because they're not signed with my developer certificate. Those mostly ripped the app part, added something to the layout that display ads, and put it back together. That's an immediate termination
Comment Re:Not a technical vulnerability (Score 1) 21
What we really need is a modern WHOIS protocol that provides structured data in a computer-parseable format
I always thought RDAP was supposed to be that new and improved replacement, but I'm not hearing much about that lately.
Comment Possibly true, but can't be taken seriously (Score 1) 265
All pro-Agile and anti-Agile discussions aside, it would be easier to take this seriously if the upshot of it wasn't:
A study commissioned by company A, which invented methodology B, finds that methodology B is better than methodology C.
Comment Not the first to break ground (Score 4, Informative) 242
That was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If it was completed in the proposed time, it would be the first to become operational.
Comment The NPR article does not mention "rapidly"... (Score 1) 69
... sinking Chinese cities. Maybe that's in the linked Science article (which I can't access).
Comment Re:8 GB isn't enough for me to use more ... (Score 1) 465
+1 on all of your points. Well said
Comment Re:Mobile letting it down (Score 2) 239
For starters, it's quite slow compared to, say, Vivaldi. Even the big update a few years back (Quantum? or something like that) that was supposed to be a big improvement only improved speed a bit; not nearly enough to tempt me to go back to it.
Comment Too little, too late (Score 1) 25
Firefox is still slow compared to Vivaldi - the supposedly big improvement a couple of years back didn't make things much faster. I think that matters more than extensions at this point. Vivaldi is pretty good for blocking ads and trackers, and I don't see extensions as a big reason to switch back now.
Comment They should have kept the Nokia X series (Score 1) 119
Killing off Windows Mobile/Phone made sense to me, but why they killed the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... devices I didn't understand. Those were just getting going, and would have given Microsoft a platform for their apps and services, while retaining compatibility with Android.
Comment About marketing and advertising, probably (Score 1) 15
There just has to be a connection to the newly announced common marketing platform the European giants have recently formed, and which has been approved by the EU: https://ec.europa.eu/commissio.... That one, of course, is all about GDPR-compliant marketing and advertising. Curious to see what this one will be about.
Comment Re:Pascal? (Score 2) 81
It was possible to use Assembler and Pascal together, so low-level stuff was possible.
Comment Re:Too much churn for no reason (Score 1) 77
The major Android releases are too rapid
They happen yearly, just like on iOS, and have approximately the same number of what you call "sufficient value" features.
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