Sominemo

Not leaving Twitter just yet, but I'm on Fediverse (Mastodon): @Sominemo@collar.place @Sominemo" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">collar.place/@Sominemo I'm also on Telegram, GitHub, Instagram (drawings), and wherever else under @Sominemo handle (except FA lmao). Not going to cohost because its UI makes my eyes bleed.

@matt_w_forsythe @AndroidDev Having to wait at all is still bad. Again, a scammer will call back, but how do I remind a curious user to install my FOSS app if they are a first-timer? And why would they bother with it at all if they just wanted to, say, crop an image, and they want it now.

@Sominemo @AndroidDev To clarify, the 24 hr wait is to change system settings. You do this 1x. After the settings take effect, you can install apps from anywhere you choose just as today. Pro-tip: Change your devices settings before enforcement goes live and you won't have to wait to download.

📣 Sideloading is here to stay. Users will be able to install apps from unverified developers via a new advanced flow, which includes safeguards that stop scammers and maintain choice. Learn more about how Android developer verification is evolving → goo.gle/advance-flow

@sumitsahoo @AndroidDev I'll also note that Apple's sideloading implementation for EU is so bad that it is basically useless.

@sumitsahoo @AndroidDev You can still get yourself into a bad situation on iOS. The perceived security of iOS is mostly marketing, there have been slip-ups on App Store too. Instead of giving control to a greedy corporation, explore alternatives. Or at least demand a true neutral party.

@sumitsahoo @AndroidDev A scammer will call the next day and remind you about themselves. A FOSS app you were curious to try won't.

@sumitsahoo @AndroidDev As history shows with Google Play, Google is not reliable as a "neutral party" to judge developers. The scammers will adapt, will slip into Google Play, I predict this will not decrease them by much. But this kills competition to Google Play for any genuinely curious users.

@AndroidDev It's like saying iOS is giving you the choice of sideloading because you can self sign apps so they can work a few days. You are increasing friction to the point where the alternative can't compete, this is NOT choice.

@AndroidDev A user needs to install a legitimate app to do something right now, is presented with choice of wither installing an app from Google Play, or having to wait 24h to install a FOSS app. Google Play wins, user choice inhibited. FOSS apps are likely not gonna be using google certs.

@AssembleDebug Yay Google used AI slop as a blog picture. Doesn't sound good at all for distribution freedom.

Google is introducing a program that makes sideloading qualified app stores even easier. Google's new Registered App Stores program will provide a more streamlined installation flow for Android app stores that meet certain quality and safety benchmarks This Registered App Store program will begin outside of the US first, and we intend to bring it to the US as well, subject to court approval.

@DrGlitchyTV It's the same person who was spreading misinformation about blur on Android and then admitted they "did not do a full research" (proceeding with a few course-corrected but still wrong claims). They either don't learn or it's indeed intentional

Basing all of your hate against Microsoft on WebView2 and React Native seems incredibly illogical so here was my experience for comparison: Office365 No, they didn't rewrite Office in TypeScript. File explorer and the notification center This statement is a blatant lie. The file explorer and the notification center are not electron. I have attached a video¹ of this experience on my personal system running a 3060ti and i5 14600k with 32gb of DDR5 ram. For context here are the results from Steam hardware surveys². The most used GPU for Jan 2026 was the 4060. Taskbar and Menu Neither the taskbar nor the start menu are built in React (or any web/javascript framework). The only portion that does use React is the "Recommended" section of the start menu that can be disabled. Also what ads? Press the Win key, screenshot it and circle in red what you define as "advertisement". Copilot forced in While I agree copilot in notepad is unnecessary, it’s also shoved way in the corner. I haven’t gotten any pop ups asking me to use it and it wasn’t until recently that I realised it was even there. I don’t use paint so I can’t speak to its effects there but I imagine it offends a great number of artists. Windows Search Reindex your files. You had the smarts to write this tweet you can easily press a button to reindex your files. Or get this: remember where you put the files. Naming your files in a format where you can’t remember their purpose is bad practice anyway. Widgets Section Performance SteamWebHelper at idle uses more resources. The load you're seeing is it initializing things but after the first 2-3 seconds it drops. For an apples to apples comparison, log the resource load of apps starting up. I have attached 3 images in the thread. One is the startup load³ and one its while its closed/not visible on screen⁴. Task Manager Forloop does not define what "dosen't work" means. I suspect this is intentional since there have been no major bugs other than one that was recently that has already been resolved. As far as I can tell Task Manager has been funtioning the exact same. Support forums Those people aren't employees you know that right? Anybody can comment and provide "solutions" to the forums. If you think someone is being intentionally malicous, report them. It should also be noted that the average user ALSO dosen't know what Win32 is. Some troubleshooting steps that may seem like common sense to us may as well be sorcery to the majority of Windows users. Your comment section I have attached an image of as many comments as my sizing fits. The default size for most users is much larger and they will generally only see the checkmarked responses upon opening the tweet. It dosen't shock me that the first 4 comments which are checkmarked are negativity clickbaits (since hating on Microsoft is basically free likes) and the next 2 which are all non checkmarks provide either USEFUL SOLUTIONS or provide imporant context. I have observed that most "privacy" creators (on all platforms but especially on X, YouTube and LinkedIn) tend to mislead (or lie) about the products that they support or promote. Unfortunately this is what the technology industry has come to: Who can lie better. One lies for sales the other lies for clicks. Some lie for the companies some lie against the companies. While I understand the gist of the original post is "AI in production is bad" and to some extent I agree that its bad if unmoderated, this dosen't automatically write off all existing work as "AI" just because you don't like it. Unverified performance assumptions are just that. To proclaim that one users degraded performance will be reflected on all users is malicious at best and disinformation at worst. Just test it yourself.

@twintumansky @GoogleDesign Well, as the article says, Material unfortunately doesn't work with additive light displays, they've tried it.

@GoogleDesign Material design was so goated. Why you guys chose this transparent display stuff instead is beyond me. I understand evolving, but this ain't it. One of material design's essence was interactive solid light weighted colors which gave products at Google a distinctive flavour.

We had to throw a few print-based design patterns out the window in order to make something intuitive for a transparent display. One of our biggest challenges? Light-based displays can't show black! Glimmer tackles this by optimizing surface colors, adding black for contrast and crisp white for “on-surface” content. Learn more → goo.gle/glimmer

@evowizz The way some people just confidently talk about stuff without ever scrutinizing themselves when search engines are in a click away, I am speechless.

Yeah soooo... This is full of lies. That's crazy. "android doesnt have native blur" -> Android does have native blur since Android 12. "its because it has weak native c++ developers" -> Well you don't need to be a c++ dev because blurs are natively supported. "telegram was made by native cpp, renders everything in a canvas" -> Telegram does use cpp, but its entire UI is made with... Android Views. This is easily verifiable because Telegram is open source. Here's an example of a *View* that extends Android's FrameLayout ViewGroup (a subclass of View) #L91" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/DrKLO/Telegram… "i love telegram devs for this, they write fast, scalable code," -> Telegram has one of the worst source code out there, with the famous ChatActivity.java file, that GitHub cannot display due to its size of 2.38MB, and nearly 45 THOUSANDS of lines of code, with barely no comment. The complete opposite of scalable. github.com/DrKLO/Telegram… "android ui doesn't provide ANY customization, just use Views and you are done" -> The reason we can rely on Views so much is specifically because Views are highly customizable. You can use Canvas, it supports Shaders, Shadows, and many other awesome features. "thats why telegram app on android HAS real live background blur and samsung's oneui doesnt, which takes screenshot and blurs it instead" -> Telegram, once again, uses Views, which support shaders, and that is how they blur content, and how they "support" liquid glass. And Samsung is using the exact same way to blur various UI elements depending on devices (just like Telegram). Here's the source code from Telegram's implementation of liquid glass that relies on RenderEffects. #L22-L24" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/DrKLO/Telegram… "swift ui is made over c/cpp and kt android is made over java, has very less apis for devs while swift has everything to make development easy and have lot of possibilities" -> You can write Swift UI without writing a single bit of CPP. This entire tweet is full of lies. That's crazy.

@MishaalRahman I didn't mind it until I realized the dot is also displayed when I watch a video in full screen, and it is getting very distracting with some apps constantly accessing location in background. I'd think hiding the dot in full screen would be an acceptable tradeoff.

📍Android 16 QPR3 finally lets you see exactly which app is tracking your location Android 16 QPR3 adds a blue icon in the status bar that you can tap to see which apps are accessing your device’s location. More details👇 🔗androidauthority.com/android-16-qpr…

@wtsdev That's a lot of complexity they have and I wonder how many resources Discord would care to spend to implement it, even if you try to publicly humiliate them into doing it, considering it's treated as a non-issue by the upstream.

@wtsdev Discord pushes many builds every day, has a hot build switcher (for testing, and I assume for A/B testing too), and they use a custom updater that can apply delta updates to native libraries and web code. I'm curious if all of this can be made to work with ASAR Integrity.

Discord is right here. There is not a keylogger in Discord. But it's fairly trivial to inject one into it from another application installed on your Mac. This stems from Discord's choice to store some of its JavaScript in an unsecured manner, allowing for it to be modified. /1

A love language.

@uwukko @sephr @isareksopuro @f4micom also at least currently pixel-embedded SynthID is server side only with limited access and rate limits, they're probably afraid to make it more easily removable, so not sure when we'll get it locally, if ever.

@sephr @isareksopuro @f4micom yeah but there'd be huge overhead from running it all the time i think

hope you all are ready to do this for the rest of your life

@Maksiu129479 @ajaybabu252000 @app_settings Technically Material spec explicitly allows you to change component shapes to meet theming and context requirements. But it is not the default, fair. #9794d45f-c6d1-4c3f-99e4-12fb88a5e9ca" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">m3.material.io/styles/shape/c…

@ajaybabu252000 @app_settings It is a FAB and either way it doesn't matter, it should've been less rounded.

the Google Photos app on iPhone now has this extremely cursed tab bar that combines Liquid Glass and Material UI 💀

@ZegodoAtlantis @drago999765 @razeyonx @immasiddx SynthID is imbedded in pixels, not metadata, and from my testing, even a bunch of harsh compression, re-upscaling, denoising, and taking a screenshot of that, still may retain the watermark.

@drago999765 @razeyonx @immasiddx well of course it will literally anything that wipes the metadata will get rid of it

I already found a way to bypass Google's AI Image Detection via SynthID. 😭