Contributing to AOSP is already difficult. Now patches wrt stable branch will lead to more conflicts as stable gets older.

Why are parts of Android developed in private? It typically takes more than a year to bring a device to market. And, of course, device manufacturers want to ship the latest software they can. Meanwhile, developers don’t want to constantly track new versions of the platform when writing apps. Both groups experience a tension between shipping products and not wanting to fall behind.

total bs (at https://source.android.com/docs/setup/about/faqs#why-are-parts-of-android-developed-in-private).

It’s not .world. It’s feddit.

Why is the image not loading? Timeout in browser too, hence it’s not my client.

I love the title.

I was wrong

Personal anecdotal evidence from everyday news.

Btw is this antivax thing mostly American and Pakistani? I don’t recall seeing news about this from other countries.

Some vaccines need to be 100% reliable like the tetanus one. The bacteria live in soil everywhere. Herd immunity isn’t going to do a thing there.

you forgot the /s right?

What’s wrong with mRNA vaccines, politically or medically?

A software analogy:

Someone designs a compiler, makes it open source. Make an open runtime for it. ‘Obtain’ some source code with unclear license. Compiles it with the compiler and releases the compiled byte code that can run with the runtime on free OS. Do you call the program open source? Definitely it is more open than something that requires proprietary inside use only compiler and closed runtine and sometimes you can’t access even the binary; it runs on their servers. It depends on perspective.

ps: the compiler takes ages and costs mils in hardware.

edit: typo

Holly shit, I didn’t know that interrobang symbol existed in utf-8.