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by blueg3 21d ago
When Google started, Beowulf clusters were all the rage. So it wouldn't be a big conceptual leap at all. But productionizing it is serious work.
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by blueg3 3mo ago
If you use the nonnull attribute, the assertion will be optimized away.
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by blueg3 4mo ago
That's AI Overview, just like it says at the top of the box. AI Mode in that screenshot is the tab to the left of All.
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by blueg3 4mo ago
The term has kind of degraded, because people started marketing that "end-to-end encryption" is the "right" answer. Encryption in transit means that network intermediates can't read the data. The two endpoints of th
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by blueg3 4mo ago
AIUI, this is relatively rare, and is because of DXVK on games that use old DirectX APIs.
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by blueg3 4mo ago
It certainly could. Buying a better GPU improves your graphics performance and that's basically unrelated to the area where a sandbox impacts performance. Killing your web browser is probably just lowering memory pressure? Sandboxes ad
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by blueg3 4mo ago
Usually when people complain about Denuvo, they're talking about Denuvo Anti-Tamper, which (perhaps surprisingly) is not a rootkit.
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by blueg3 4mo ago
Only a relatively small (but popular) subset of games use anticheat. Most games -- including the one in this article -- could theoretically run in a sandbox.
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by blueg3 4mo ago
Google is mostly interested in abuse that happens beyond the scale of how many $30 phones you can buy.
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by blueg3 4mo ago
They said "capable of Play Integrity attestation". It's a weasel statement. If you have GMS, you're capable of performing PIA attestation, you just might fail. So it's strictly true, but doesn't tell us anythin
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by blueg3 4mo ago
It's not vapor if people actually have access to it, which they do.
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by blueg3 4mo ago
Most software in the world has little novelty. You don't really need the source code.
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by blueg3 5mo ago
If you don't pay for it, you don't get much in the way of quota. Earlier on (okay, until recently), Gemini CLI's quota management didn't work very well. Antigravity tends to have better quota management behavior.
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by blueg3 5mo ago
While I get that there a lot of ads -- particularly if you search for something with the intent to buy -- I tried out both of your example queries. "sofa beds": Popular Products section (5x2 grid of chips) Reddit link: "Are s
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by blueg3 5mo ago
This is, annoyingly, because bare noun phrases as a search term are highly correlated with an intent to buy. You get completely different results if you search for "what is a sofa bed" instead of "sofa bed". I say it&#x2
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by blueg3 5mo ago
This feature only exists for phones with Google Play Services, so yes.
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by blueg3 7mo ago
That's pedantically fair. I broke up a longer statement: > That users won't be able to install what they want and that they would need a google account to install apps It was split up because "need a Google account to inst
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by blueg3 7mo ago
There's a lot of misinformation here. > I guess it means the Play store will be the only way to install an app No, non-Play stores will still work, but developers will need to register a developer account with Google that is tied to
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by blueg3 8mo ago
A Gemini query uses about a kilojoule. The brain runs at 20 W (though the whole human costs 100 W). So, the human is less energy if you can get it done in under 50 seconds.
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by blueg3 8mo ago
In my experience, people don't really care about rooted devices and non-stock Android -- if those devices are actually phones in the hands of human users. The big fraud vector is running emulators in datacenters or skipping running the
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by blueg3 11mo ago
I don't think Google is expecting anything here. They run Big Sleep to find security vulnerabilities in projects they care about. It seems -- mostly from reading this issue's details -- that the finding is pretty high quality. Onc
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by blueg3 11mo ago
If this is an acceptable solution, just run a modern uncertified Android instead.
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by blueg3 11mo ago
> Correctly Android users were able to install packages and now cannot. Not only has nothing happened yet, but this is also untrue.
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by blueg3 11mo ago
It is the latter. The app has to be signed, and the signer has to register "real" identity with Google. Approval of the app itself is not a part of the process. Yes, sideloading will still be viable from known developers. Probably
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by blueg3 11mo ago
> Given that both of these things are obviously true, it seems like a pretty obvious solution is to just have a pop up that has a install at your own risk warning whenever you install something outside of the official app store. It is an
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by blueg3 11mo ago
Not only will sideloading via ADB continue to work, installing from most other third-party app stores will continue to work. The developers on the Amazon, Samsung, and Epic app stores won't have a hard time with the developer verificat
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by blueg3 11mo ago
I realize F-droid has an understandably strong opinion here, but this writing is disingenuous. From the post: > Regardless, the term “sideload” was coined to insinuate that there is something dark and sinister about the process, as if th
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by blueg3 11mo ago
They hired a bunch of former Chrome engineers, so...
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by blueg3 11mo ago
PayPal doesn't cost significantly more than what a small online place can get from other payment processors. It's something like 3% + $0.50. That's also not much more than what a small business can usually get for in person c
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by blueg3 1y ago
Bard came out shortly after ChatGPT as a prototype of what would become Gemini-the-chatbot. There were other, less-available prototypes prior to that.

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