That’s a good idea. They could probably do something similar for the audio.

They’d have to code around the rest of the animation and audio effects, but the size of that code would certainly be smaller than the rendered audio and video.

Video codecs mostly work by tracking movement, predicting which pixels will change, and striving to only encode the pixels that actually change or change dramatically. In other words, compression looks for patterns.

All of that goes out the window when you try to compress static. There are no patterns. It simply can’t be compressed. This isn’t a matter of the algorithms not being good enough. It’s a fundamental limit of information theory.

Anything fancier amounts to embedding the intro into the compressor as a well-known pattern. And at that point, you’re better off just caching a 4K version of the intro as a standalone video file directly in the app.

Motorola has been in the tracker game since way before Air Tags.

I remember getting a Bluetooth tracker with my Moto X circa 2014. Back when Tile dominated the market.

RIP Fuchsia

The article says all phones Android 9 and up are in on the network.

But I was under the impression that enrollment in the network was still rolling out? Anyone have details on the current state?

To me, this just sounds like the network isn’t rolled out fully yet (or that NYC residents don’t use Android, which seems suspect) rather than a failing of the device itself.

In addition to questions of end-of-life, Existentialism also deals with questions of purpose-of-life. Which can be mind racking even if you’re not afraid of death.

Still not super interesting questions to me though.

I was gonna say this.

Existentialism is kinda boring IMO. But the philosophy of language, knowledge, and ethics are all super interesting.

Queen Latifah (Dana Elaine Owens) got her start as a rapper in the 1980s and began acting in the 1990s.

She is probably most known for her roles in Chicago, Hairspray, Bessie, and the Ice Age series.

These days, she stars on the CBS drama The Equalizer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Latifah

Damn. I never knew that these were mammals…

I assume it will still be possible to enable the APIs with adb.

So this will mostly affect users in that in-between skill level where they know how to use a third-party app store (or how to download and install apps from a file browser) but don’t know how to use adb. I’m not so sure how big that segment is. Probably pretty small.

For the group of users who are tech-illiterate (the common case), this is actually a very welcome change for malware prevention.

Yeah. If I want to search “nearby” or anything else geographically, I’ll just open the Maps app or the Search app.

The Phone app is simply the wrong place to put this.

This is a case for the cube rule!

That banner image is Android Automotive, not Android Auto.

• Android Auto is an application on your phone that displays on the car’s infotainment.

• Android Automotive is when the car’s infotainment is running Android directly.

Ah, fuck. I got caught in the trap

Buying new hardware engineers in Taiwan, after laying off hardware engineers in the US a couple weeks ago.

Sounds like offshoring to me.

EDIT: This is not recent news. Nevermind. Move along.

That happened 10 years ago…

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[Y]ou don’t have a specific gravitational field sensor in your body per say.

I’d argue that the vestibular system in your inner ear qualifies as a gravitational field sensor.

Yeah, but what about the metric shit-ton?