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I've been suffering from a cold these last two days but should be able to attend #AndroidMakers in Paris this thursday. See you there?
(also anyone interested may DM me for a free buddy ticket)

a man wearing sunglasses and a leather jacket is talking about scientists . Alt: Ian Malcom in Jurassic Park: "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should."

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Chants of Sennaar - Wikipedia

The "Chants of Sennaar" video game is absolutely amazing. The languages learning always feels organic, the puzzles are diverse, the graphics are simple but rich in color and details, the sound design is excellent and it runs smoothly on numerous platforms.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chants_...

Two fundamental truths of computer science that many seem to be forgetting with today's AI hype:
1. All [large language] models are wrong, but some are useful (George E. P. Box, 1976)
2. A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision (IBM, 1979).

A blank Google Doc now looking like any AI chat page with the input field on the bottom 🤮

The replies to this post are hilarious
#artemis #Microslop

An update on Android KTX – Jake Wharton

It is sadly true - androidx ktx libraries have been killed today and it is all Jake Wharton's doing.

Details here:
jakewharton.com/an-update-on...

#androidx #androiddev

(com)promise based HTTP client

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

Geneviève de Fontenay

Queen Elizabeth II

None of them can beat these women

Those same people would probably be just as happy with owning an iPhone.

But there are also more and more people caring about choice and privacy who don't want to see their personal device and data owned by a monopolistic US ad company, especially with the current rise of technofascism in the US.

Google acts like an abusive husband who claims to offer you security in exchange of owning your device and collecting all your data. They call installing an app cheating ("sideloading").
You should be able to choose an alternative without having to go through a complex divorce procedure.

I'm hearing rumors that the third movie will be a whoduneit

All fellow UniFi users should update their network application tonight.

community.ui.com/releases/Sec...

Will the Metaverse get a second life?

Room 3.0 - Modernizing the Room News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

And even more in the blog post: android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/room...

Scoping ViewModels in Compose Lifecycle ViewModel 2.11.0-alpha02 introduces rememberViewModelStoreOwner, an API to scope ViewModelStore directly within the Compose hierarchy. Why It Matters Until now, ViewModelStore scoping was ti...

Just published "Scoping ViewModels in Compose".

marcellogalhardo.dev/posts/scopin...

#AndroidDev #Kotlin #KMP #CMP

Stop Hardcoding Navigation: The “Exit Callback” Pattern in Jetpack Compose Your Navigation Graph knows too much. It’s time to decouple.

Structured navigation is good!

Sept anticyclones en garde à vue après la mort d’un cyclone Toute l'information selon des sources contradictoires.

Sept anticyclones en garde à vue après la mort d’un cyclone www.legorafi.fr/2026/03/03/sept-anticycl...

C'est moi qui code mais j'aurais aimé que Claude nettoye la cuisine et sorte les poubelles

Sam Altman speaks like ChatGPT, bullet points included.

The #YouTube Android app has become comically bad at everything except for showing ads. Is there any senior dev still working on it? These two buttons don't even have the same size!
#enshittification #Google

Almost all of Cash Mobile Engineering was laid off today.

None of us have any clue what their rubric was for choosing who stayed and who went, but whatever it was, I'm on the job market again!

That's a good start. Moving on to punching everyone wearing suspicious Ray-Ban glasses in the face(book).

Update on a Security Incident Involving Third-Party Customer Service | Discord At Discord, protecting the privacy and security of our users is a top priority. That’s why it’s important to us that we’re transparent with them about events that impact their personal information.

Now is a good time to convince your friends and family to not give their personal data to #Discord, for example by reminding them that just a few months ago one of their "partners" got a security breach and the government-ID photos of around 70,000 users was exposed.
discord.com/press-releas...

FOSDEM 2026 - Fear and Loathing in the App Stores: when FLOSS principles collide with the Gatekeeper interests

A good recap of the mobile app stores hellscape:
Fear and Loathing in the App Stores
fosdem.org/2026/schedul...
#FOSDEM

The Steam Machine has been delayed because stupid little babies can't stop using AI to write their emails:

aftermath.site/steam-machine-...

Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers | Notepad++ Current Version 8.9.1

Notepad++ hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers: malicious Actors (likely a Chinese state-sponsored group) intercepted and redirected update Traffic for the well known Text Editor #Hacking notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacke...

This is the realtime status of the room. It may become less crowded at some point.