drewfax

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by drewfax 7d ago
Nothing surprising here. AI is a tool just like an IDE, debugger, etc. All the regular tasks like coding, testing and review still holds true. Developer is still responsible for their work. Reviewer is responsible for ensuring code quality
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by drewfax 11d ago
That's how the system or browser should be configured. Secure by default and any insecurity must be an opt-in. But Google won't do it because their websites are JS heavy monster trucks and millions of websites run their tracking s
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by drewfax 12d ago
That is the point and business of Quad9. It's not their fault for you not knowing what Quad9 is. I don't want my family to get malware from sketchy websites. Quad9 offers a simple solution for these usecases. I'll take the fa
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by drewfax 14d ago
So other projects are not supposed to critize Google? Graphene's focus is on security and they complain about lack of security in your products. Seems valid to me. Also security and using non-Google OS are not niche usecases. I'm
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by drewfax 22d ago
Credit card usage has been increasing in India. Source: https://bfsi.economictimes.indiatimes.com/articles/credit-ca... Besides, NPCI has introduced merchant transaction fee for UPI now causing decline in UPI transacti
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by drewfax 1mo ago
New generations don't 'browse' web anymore. They 'consume' YouTube, Instagram, Android TV and other walled gardens. These generation don't even know they could change contents being displayed on their device to
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by drewfax 1mo ago
That's why Brave probably built an in-built adblocker written in Rust. Works great on both desktop and mobile.
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by drewfax 1mo ago
Now they are doing it to Android with mandatory developer identity verification and Play Integrity. I wonder how those engineers sleep at night.
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by drewfax 2mo ago
How would it work? Isn't it easy for the authorities to check the list of users on the device?
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by drewfax 2mo ago
I suspect this is either some ground work for planting a future backdoor or a noob who found out there's a ~/.cache directory.
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by drewfax 2mo ago
Is this a joke I don't understand? Aren't Android apps sandboxed? How does these two commands supposed to make my phone fast for 50 years? rm -rf ~/.cache/* 2>/dev/null rm -rf /data/data/com.t
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by drewfax 2mo ago
Yes, UPI works. But it's a terrible system for privacy and autonomy. It has so many intermediaries, requires phone number and linked to person's identity. It should not be called a peer-to-peer payment system in anyway. It is cont
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by drewfax 2mo ago
I too use ASUS RT-AX53U. Decent hardware. But stock firmware was terribly slow. IPv6 didn't even work. I heard OpenWrt when I searched how to fix the stock firmware. Flashed it and never turned back. Now, OpenWrt is a critical infra in
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Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection(f-droid.org)
1734 points by drewfax 3mo ago|746 comments
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by drewfax 3mo ago
Similar experience. I bought an ASUS router and enabled IPv6. It slowed down everything down. Immediately flashed OpenWrt on it, IPv6 works like charm. It's usually bad configuration done by the router vendors. It doesn't mean IPv
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by drewfax 3mo ago
That completely goes against what they're working towards. I understand why you would want to root your own phone, but GOS is targeting highest security standards and root ain't one of them (for good reason).
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by drewfax 3mo ago
Some things Mozilla could have done correctly: - Kept Rust and sold best-in-class tooling like IDEs to enterprises. - Polished Firefox OS and distributed apps in their store for a 1% commission. - Kept Servo and made the most
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by drewfax 3mo ago
Firefox OS was a brilliant idea. Imagine cross platform and open apps based on HTML/JavaScript that feel native and polished. 2026 would have been amazing if Mozilla executed it right.
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by drewfax 3mo ago
Extensions were why Firefox was so popular among those considered 'abnormal.' Chrome just copied the idea. VPNs, Pocket, and sync services are all great features; it's their implementation and execution that is so poor. All M
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Firefox adds Google Play Integrity checks for it's AI features(bugzilla.mozilla.org)
6 points by drewfax 3mo ago|4 comments
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by drewfax 4mo ago
I tried building a cross platform shared library. I still couldn't get GHC to generate the library with Haskell's Runtime (RTS) statically linked. Tried multiple AI models and nothing could make it work. Eventually gave up after a
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by drewfax 4mo ago
Thank you for being on our side Mullvad. I'm using Mullvad through Tailscale. It's been an awesome combination for my self-hosting and privacy needs.
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by drewfax 4mo ago
GPL v3 specifically requires the vendor distributing the GPL v3 components to allow the user to change the software on the end user device. This means no more locked bootloader. We would have had choice to install custom Android distributio
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by drewfax 4mo ago
I wish Linus had adopted GPL v3. He had the power to stop this madness from big tech, but he sided with them. It just reveals that he never fully understood the reason for the existence of GPL in the first place.
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by drewfax 5mo ago
This feels like a PR stunt by Anthropic. We understand, Mythos is a great model. But please stop unneeded publicity for the sake of IPO.
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by drewfax 5mo ago
One man controls entire country. Yet we call that freedom and democracy.
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by drewfax 5mo ago
> make sure partners understood this Since when they were partners to Micro$lop? First, it's thug like behavior taking the ability to run code on our own computers without their approval. Second it's even more evil justifying t
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by drewfax 5mo ago
GrapheneOS is doing lot of things right in this regard. Robust permission system adopted from AOSP and hardening by default in every imaginable way. Things like hardened malloc, storage scopes are excellent security features. Malware cannot
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by drewfax 6mo ago
What do you mean by persistent configs? OpenWrt always preserved the config between upgrades.
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OpenWrt 25.12 Stable Release(forum.openwrt.org)
56 points by drewfax 7mo ago|3 comments

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