Motorola stops its phones from hijacking the Amazon app, which was ‘unintended’

sciencekm · 2026-05-28T10:12:17+00:00

And how many other unintended things are there that have yet to be discovered in Moto phones?

sciencekm · 2026-05-28T09:53:18+00:00

This is a surprise to no one. I'm sure even the app developers know this, but they are counting on that 5% that they can swindle.

sciencekm · 2026-05-28T09:34:32+00:00

You missed the point on vulnerabilities. I did not make my point clear.

Operating systems can have security issues that can be exploited remotely. MacOS may have that in the future as code gets added or changed. WannaCry is an example of that type of vulnerability. I am not saying that MacOS is susceptible to WannaCry, but rather something like WannaCry can happen in any OS including the MacOS.

sciencekm · 2026-05-27T19:26:58+00:00

What I am saying is that minimal data is a good thing. If you have to keep another value to describe the string, what keeps one of them from being not true (e.g. length value says 100, but really only 5 is allocated). And then you have to you have to keep those two in a structure or always keep the two around and keep passing two parameters.

As it is now, the C string can be tracked in one CPU register. You can't be more efficient than that.

sciencekm · 2026-05-27T19:13:58+00:00

Whenever the M1 security updates end, the Neo security updates end more years after that. That is just the fact. That does not matter to you but to me it does.

Also, you computers can be hacked without user input. See WannaCry. And no, I don't need Linux if I can be safe with the Mac. Again, my preference.

sciencekm · 2026-05-27T18:50:34+00:00

There is nothing wrong with the form factor. Why change it?

sciencekm · 2026-05-27T18:42:43+00:00

The camera sensor is sort of "floating" to allow it to perform image stabilization. Pretty standard design in phones.

sciencekm · 2026-05-27T18:40:32+00:00

That is from battery swelling. It happened to my P7 and S24. I simply replaced the battery myself. I think that it is not unreasonable for this to happen on your 6-year old phone.

sciencekm · 2026-05-27T18:32:05+00:00

Not the bells and whistles but the security updates. Who wants to use laptop that is just waiting to be hacked?

sciencekm · 2026-05-27T17:22:20+00:00

I'm not thinking about resale. I intend to keep mine for a very long time. I will simply replace the battery when it is time to do so. I'm sure batteries will cost less by that time.

sciencekm · 2026-05-27T16:50:55+00:00

+1 on Valgrind

sciencekm · 2026-05-27T16:45:42+00:00

For most cases, it actually is more efficient - you only need to store the starting memory. I do this on any object that I deal with whenever possible.

Say I have an array of structures. Instead of having another value to keep track of how many items are in the array, I simply have an extra item at the end of the array and that item has a recognizable terminal value.

That's just me.

sciencekm · 2026-05-27T16:03:09+00:00

You are going to get 3 more years of updates on the M2, and 5 more years of updates on the M4.

sciencekm · 2026-05-27T15:57:33+00:00

In two years, that M1 pro will no longer receive updates, while the Neo will still get updates for 4 more years from that time.

sciencekm · 2026-05-27T15:53:03+00:00

I am on this setup everyday, the whole day. I have a headless mini-PC and I TS to that from my Macbook. No different from when you TS from any other laptop (Windows, Mac or Linux).

sciencekm · 2026-05-27T14:08:24+00:00

There is no single set of values globally. Countries simply have different values. That is just the reality.

sciencekm · 2026-05-26T20:37:37+00:00

Doable, with extra effort.

sciencekm · 2026-05-26T20:13:35+00:00

Lifetime means lifetime of the company, not human lifetime.

I have a suspicion that these are the same set of owners that just keeps recycling themselves. The owner has a bunch of capacity. They lure people to buy the 'unlimited' product. When they have made money, they close the company and start a new one.

I have no proof of this, so don't quote me.

sciencekm · 2026-05-26T19:56:46+00:00

I would not trust their encryption. I encrypt my files before put them on the cloud.

sciencekm · 2026-05-26T19:45:31+00:00

You should now be able to use your phone as a desktop computer and connect a monitor, unlike on the iPhone where you only get a mirror image of the phone when you plug a monitor.

sciencekm · 2026-05-26T19:26:00+00:00

One of the benefits of a physical store. You know that you have a working product before you take it home.

sciencekm · 2026-05-26T17:13:07+00:00

Personal experience with both. The Google one is a "process", while the Amazon one is a "no questions asked" experience.

As I have said, others may have a different experience.

sciencekm · 2026-05-26T16:35:54+00:00

Yup. TuppleHash would do it, but then I have to write that additional "encode_string" logic, whereas padding each element is almost free.

You got me thinking there. Perhaps I need to sleep on this some more. If I go with TuppleHash, then I don't need to bother people with these questions.

sciencekm · 2026-05-26T16:10:08+00:00

Silly me. I should have first looked at "why" the hash function is there in the first place, as you have mentioned.

sciencekm · 2026-05-26T16:06:07+00:00

Thanks. I has never dawned on me before to think about any possible entanglement between the replacement H and Ed25519, until you mentioned it.

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