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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • Android has always been developed in a closed-source manner by Google engineers, the recent changes only reduces the visibility of ongoing changes and the ability for developers outside of OEMs to contribute to Android (such contributions were already rare).

    This is explained further in this article:

    While some OS components, such as Android’s Bluetooth stack, are developed publicly in the AOSP branch, most components, including the core Android OS framework, are developed privately within Google’s internal branch. Google confirmed to Android Authority that it will soon shift all Android OS development to its internal branch, a change intended to streamline its development process.




  • Which language are they going to use? Because for some languages (thinking of Java or Node) they definitely would want more than 4GB of RAM. And I’m not even speaking of IDEs that tend to store data in RAM for their suggestion features.

    On that note, if the RAM isn’t soldered to the motherboard, I would strongly advice to upgrade the capacity.




  • Have you read the article? The fourth paragraph lists improvements systemd timers bring over cron:

    Cron is easy, very simple and robust mechanism to execute periodic tasks on a *nix server, and is available by default on all popular Linux distributions. However, cron suffers from some issues:

    • If the system is down when the cron needs to run, the cron will be missed

    • There is no built-in status monitoring

    • There are no built-in logs

    • If you want to execute pre/post commands (for example by pinging an external service for success/failure) you have to do it inside the script itself

    All of these issues are addressed with systemd services and timers, as the authors explains in details.