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New comment by zb3 in "Revert camera sound implementation in 26Q2"

zb3 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:26:51 +0000

Regarding the "feature" itself - it doesn't protect you from creeps as they can remove the speaker anyway.. it only annoys normal people who want to take photos in Japan.

Revert camera sound implementation in 26Q2

zb3 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:24:19 +0000

Article URL: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/e78bddb354dc719b8efe437030e4e5869e5cae60%5E%21

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571779

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by zb3 in "Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers"

zb3 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:33:20 +0000

That was nearly a year ago because chrome with extensions then arrived, but I did verify it was caused by RAM (usage was growing as FF was loading these tabs in background), then I did set some tweak in about:config which made the issue a little less severe (open in new tab didn't start loading them), but it still crashed if I then manually switched tabs, FF did not unload previous ones despite running out of RAM.

New comment by zb3 in "Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers"

zb3 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:28:43 +0000

LineageOS 22.2 which is Android 15, but yes, the device originally came with Android 9.

New comment by zb3 in "Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers"

zb3 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:46:14 +0000

It's not about the number of (possibly sleeping) tabs, it's about how FF doesn't manage those active ones to prevent the app from crashing.. try opening 10 instagram profiles (via open in new tab) in the web browser.

I told you all that Chrome doesn't crash, FF does + pages work much slower.

New comment by zb3 in "Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers"

zb3 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:43:19 +0000

Man, I backported freezer v2 cgroup implementation into 4.4 kernel so these cached tasks are suspended, don't tell me how Android works please :)

New comment by zb3 in "Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers"

zb3 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:47:10 +0000

Stop suggesting this Firefox crap which is not only much slower but it also can't even properly manage RAM usage on mobile, leading to app being killed on my low-RAM device, chrome can deal with it even though that's a "desktop" version with extensions for a much newer high end device.

Restricting webRequestBlocking (but it's not going away, just needs a policy extension) and synchronous executeScript did in practice make adblockers unreliable though.. I partially worked it around by using a custom extension that uses the recent userScripts API..

BTW, it's not possible to inject scripts to workers like a ServiceWorker or to replace it's content (DNR let's you redirect but this redirect breaks SW origin + it's visible when you disallow redirects), but MV2 was no better, chrome extensions never had advanced capabilities for ad blocking, a bug about not being able to access POST data via webRequest was open for 10+ years and will probably never be fixed.

But still, firefox is not the alternative, even WebKit is much better.

New comment by zb3 in "CrankGPT"

zb3 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:13:35 +0000

Well, I assume this isn't real, but.. I'd want to know the actual number - how much more (than in the demo) work'd we need to do (energy to produce) to actually power a CPU/GPU which could use real small on-device models..

I really want to know, no matter how big that number unfortunately is.

New comment by zb3 in "Ford CEO's Right to Repair Comment Should Make Every Car Owner Uncomfortable"

zb3 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:18:57 +0000

CEOs will only pursue profit, unless they are afraid of the consequences, seems most people forgot about that. We need more Legislation.. and Maybe some national heroes..

New comment by zb3 in "PRC-linked influence operations are targeting AI debates in the US"

zb3 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:47:07 +0000

By freedom you mean freedom to invade other countries? Then don't be surprised those other countries fight back.

New comment by zb3 in "Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos"

zb3 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:37:53 +0000

What an annoying company, I wish it didn't exist..

New comment by zb3 in "Claude Fable 5"

zb3 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:53:04 +0000

> If you take avoiding cyberattack uplift seriously as a goal

This "uplift" risk obviously excludes the US. The goal of this is that the US bandits (like NSA) will find exploits and attack other countries (classic US behaviour), but these other countries can't be allowed to defend against these attacks. NSA/CIA thugs are "trusted", foreign defenders in sanctioned countries will of course be "untrusted".

New comment by zb3 in "What it feels like to work with Mythos"

zb3 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:44:02 +0000

Was the condition of being granted early access to this castrated model writing a post praising it?

New comment by zb3 in "India's surprise baby bust"

zb3 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 01:04:04 +0000

> The purpose of life is reproduction

There's no "purpose" of life, it just happens, it's physics.

> I am a very successful and wealthy entrepreneur

So now imagine you're not, and your life sucks because of such "successful and wealthy entrepreneurs" sucking all the wealth.

If your life is shit, you naturally don't want to make it even shittier just so you can produce people whose life will also be shit (thanks to the class society). Since we stopped forcing people to do this, they're naturally excercising their will.

But your wealth depends on them reproducing, so that's a nice middle finger they gave you by not doing so. You're concerned? You should be, that's the message.

New comment by zb3 in "India's surprise baby bust"

zb3 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:56:39 +0000

I'm so happy people are rejecting your masochism (assuming your comment is not sarcastic) and are not falling for this scam of suffering anymore.

> We need more bold people, people who aren't afraid to suffer because they see the light at the end of the road.

At "the end of the road" there's only death, so it's pointless to suffer just so you can make more people which will also suffer.

New comment by zb3 in "South Korean forums will need to scan every images with AI censorship tools"

zb3 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:23:00 +0000

Do they specify a particular model? Is that model public?

New comment by zb3 in "Muxcard, a DIY credit card size computer"

zb3 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:47:08 +0000

NFC, with the smartphone, but the smartphone would not need to be trusted, it would just relay encrypted + signed data.

New comment by zb3 in "Are blue zones real? Answering that question is harder then ever"

zb3 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:40:47 +0000

The page immediately reminded me of that "What is a Dickover" post :)

New comment by zb3 in "MAI-Code-1-Flash"

zb3 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:46:05 +0000

So it's not an open model while not being much better? Meh.

New comment by zb3 in "Muxcard, a DIY credit card size computer"

zb3 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:11:48 +0000

__This__ is where all those trusted app parts should go - a smart card with e-ink display that can provide high security assurance level and where I won't mind that it's locked down because it has only one purpose.

__Not__ to my smartphone, effectively preventing me from modifying the system in the name of security. A banking app can use a card like this and on the display I could for example see where a transaction would go and then I could accept it, possibly even with a biometric identification.

This would enable me to keep my smartphone customizable and banking apps secure at the same time.

[apologies for the rant]