Hacker News: yaro330

New comment by yaro330 in "Keep Android Open"

yaro330 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:57:28 +0000

The advanced flow is perfectly reasonable and I'm 100% sure there will be Magisk based bypasses for it if you absolutely require Google services + APK installs. The percentage of people installing legit 3rd party APKs is miniscule compared to the number of elderly scammed by these shitty apps. Glad Google is taking steps to close this security hole. Just wait the damn 24h you impatient "poweruser". 100% sure that there won't be a full lockdown or an extension of the timeout cuz this is gonna close most, if not all of the holes for these shitty apps.

New comment by yaro330 in "Keep Android Open"

yaro330 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:52:50 +0000

How is this unreasonable? This is to prevent cases where people are told to urgently install the app while on a call, so the call has to be broken and person has a day to actually do something about the call.

Are you that zoomer brained to not be able to wait a day to install your APK?

New comment by yaro330 in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

yaro330 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:47:56 +0000

Seriously? Not even the DOD partnership?

New comment by yaro330 in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

yaro330 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:02:18 +0000

Oh boy. They don't host these ads, there are plenty of ad providers that happily do though, outside of Google businesses (Meta). Google also isn't one homogenous business, Android people don't have direct access to the ads people.

This is about scams because 99% of all apk installs come not from basement power users installing cracked apps, but from the older people that are all too trusting to the internet that they're browsing.

New comment by yaro330 in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

yaro330 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:13:21 +0000

No real counter argument? Do better HN

New comment by yaro330 in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

yaro330 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:47:23 +0000

A lot of you have never seen your loved ones get some shitty app on their phones and it shows.

New comment by yaro330 in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

yaro330 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:29:52 +0000

You live in a bubble. The roles are inversed. This is "ruining" Android for the 0.001% of power users that install .apk files and improving it for the huge chunk of population that are still getting hit by malicious ads that try to push app installs onto you.

New comment by yaro330 in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

yaro330 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 08:43:25 +0000

Just a few days saw a post about LLMs being excellent at reasoning because they're not limited by the language, sure buddy, now walk your fucking car.

New comment by yaro330 in "Changes to Android Open Source Project"

yaro330 — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 15:46:16 +0000

No, neither of them register as a blip on the usage stats and both have, and will continue having, priority access through OEM partnerships.

New comment by yaro330 in "Changes to Android Open Source Project"

yaro330 — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 15:44:48 +0000

It's not that difficult, plenty of ROMs exist, and analogues of all the apps exist as well.

New comment by yaro330 in "I'm a laptop weirdo and that's why I like my new Framework 13"

yaro330 — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 21:16:51 +0000

See for yourself: https://www.ifixit.com/News/96998/from-0-10-to-8-10-microsof...

New comment by yaro330 in "I'm a laptop weirdo and that's why I like my new Framework 13"

yaro330 — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 21:09:25 +0000

AMD USB4 is a joke. Every unplug is a gamble with amdgpu driver, you might get a working system, you might not, same for suspend-resume cycles.

New comment by yaro330 in "I'm a laptop weirdo and that's why I like my new Framework 13"

yaro330 — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 21:07:44 +0000

Apparently Surface laptops come with stellar repair guides now, and they improved repairability greatly. MS doing something nice for once?

New comment by yaro330 in "I'm a laptop weirdo and that's why I like my new Framework 13"

yaro330 — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 21:02:54 +0000

As someone not swimming in piles of cash, I can't bring myself to get a framework laptop. Ironically enough, new ThinkPads, which are on sale pretty regularly, end up being much nicer, solidly built, more performant, and with an awesome warranty, even in my shithole region.

New comment by yaro330 in "Google confirms Android attacks; no fix for most Samsung users"

yaro330 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 09:57:37 +0000

They do have their own fork, they just don't have any of the security infra that google does. So they "rely" on Google for that.

New comment by yaro330 in "Google confirms Android attacks; no fix for most Samsung users"

yaro330 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 09:43:14 +0000

Forbes as always top notch journalism, what does Samsung have to do with Google updates and why are they indirectly blamed for Samsung's slowness?..

New comment by yaro330 in "Google confirms Android attacks; no fix for most Samsung users"

yaro330 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 09:41:22 +0000

Elaborate please. PI on its own is just an insurance API for banking and similar apps to ensure that they can do secure compute on the device. It can also be used to check if the device that the app is running on is a genuine Android device, since no VMs or custom ROMs can pass hardware integrity.

New comment by yaro330 in "GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches"

yaro330 — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 22:12:10 +0000

It's nowhere near that. Pretty sure even modules are signed by Google.

New comment by yaro330 in "GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches"

yaro330 — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 22:10:38 +0000

> It's quite surreal how unsafe the standard Android

Well that's untrue. I'd even venture to say that with how many OEMs there are it's insane how safe Android is. Google for one updates their devices for 7 years since Pixel 6, they can't control OEMs who might have ~10 people working on their devices.

New comment by yaro330 in "GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches"

yaro330 — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 21:43:33 +0000

Yep. And GrapheneOS's changes to the kernels of devices they ship are laughably small, 20-30 commits at most. I don't think they even do any basic CVE checks on any of the source code.

Fuzzing, actual security analysis - all those things are done by Google.