This is very bad advice given that this CVE allows DCE.
Unless you are someone with significant security experience (which most HNers don't have), do not roll the dice with out-in-the-wild exploits, especially given how most people rely on their smartphones to a significant degree.
That doberman site feels kind of sketchy. It doesn’t say anything about the hardware required or how someone would integrate this. Also it says it’s free but then one of the five top level pages is the SLA which says it doesn’t apply to free plans. I really don’t understand if this is just a random landing page that someone created to gauge interest or what.
The statement is almost certainly made in jest, since it is obviously untrue. Sometimes adding silly artificial constraints can be a fun way to spark creativity.
When I was an undergrad at Georgia Tech, one of my intro computer science classes had us implement something in brainfuck. Turns out college kids are quite comfortable with swear words.
I do! Pretty sad that IronPython isn’t a thing anymore, especially now that I’ve actually had to learn Python for machine-learning related reasons. At least .net did get the dynamic data type out of its brief interest in these.
If I can't run F-Droid and termux and all that, I have no need for Android supposed freedom. I'll just use an iPhone (it would be the first time!), minimize my use of mobile platforms to the maximum extent I can and stick with Linux laptops.
I'm currently researching Android alternatives, including Librem and Jolla C2, and I'm skeptical that those will be compelling. It's just so sad.
I’ve been daily driving a Librem 5 for two years. It’s not compelling, but I’m surprised at how little all those tiny inconveniences matter in the long run.
I think we tend to underestimate our ability to get used to stuff.
If both phone OS's are going to be the exact same on user choice then you might as well compare the two on their merits and this is not a comparison Android wins.
Part of the reason AI agents and MCP work is because AI can programmatically at runtime determine what plug-ins to use. Without the AI part, how does the host app know when to call a MCP server function?
That only works for the MCPs your app knows about, which is not that great. The usefulness of a plugin system like MCP is that an app can automatically use it. But MCPs are literally just a function, with some metadata about what it does and how to invoke it. The only thing generic enough to figure out how to use a function given only this metadata seems to be an LLM. And not even all of them, only some support “toll calling “.
I’ve never seen Waymo be cheaper than Uber/Lyft, but then again the audacity of them charging more even when they are driverless made me stop bothering to check pretty quickly.
One of the selling points of Uber over taxis has always been that you don’t have to tip. I get that some people are excessively generous but it’s absolutely not required.
If you’re the kind of person who is willing to pay more for a fancier car, good for you. I take the bus if it could just get me from point A to point B in a reasonable time, Uber is a last resort that costs 10 times as much as public transit, at least in San Francisco. It’s disgustingly, offensively expensive. And somehow Waymo charges more? Absolutely ridiculous.
I don’t think the acquisition has closed yet, maybe this is still useful for a leverage/negotiating perspective. And it was almost certainly something they were working on before the acquisition anyway.
I do think that’s an overly cynical way to look at this though.
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