deadcream

We just need spren to control our surgebinding and will be fine.

Google-certified Android TV devices aren’t known to receive security updates either.

Does it really matter? It’s the usual corporate intrigues/power struggle/backstabbing/whatever. Just for some reason leaked into public view instead of being behind the scenes like it’s normally done, probably because someone is stupid.

Kaspersky is closely tied to Russian government. The dude himself (founder and CEO) has a government position as one of Putin’s advisors or something. Also he believes that anonymity should be purged from the internet, and every user should be personally indentified, enforced by the government. In the name of “security”, of course.

I always got updates on the day one. Is this american thing (because americans buy phones modified by their carrier)?

Russia already has national root TLS certificate that’s must installed on all devices (basically government-mandated MITM). The next step is to start severely throttling (and optionally blocking) TLS connections that don’t use it. Some popular foreign sites like Google can remain functional by replacing their certificate at ISP level (all ISPs are already controlled by the government).

This happens on most Android phones, including my Google Pixel with 8gb of RAM. I noticed that it starts doing this when battery drops below 50%. Which is weird because it surely takes more resources (and thus drains more battery) to cold start an app every time instead of just keeping it in memory (provided that app doesn’t do anything nefarious in background which is easy to detect). There is plenty of RAM for that.

It seems to be fully backwards-compatible with standard JPEG. I.e. image viewers will that don’t support newer formats will display it as if it was a JPEG file with SDR colors.
Also, HEIF/HEIC is patented format that you need to pay royalties for. Open formats are obviously superior and there are multiple ones that support HDR (there is also open variant of HEIF that uses AV1 encoding but I don’t know whether Android or iOS support it).

It’s not outlook, it’s reality. Russian leadership doesn’t have the will or incentive to expend billions launching dozens of missions to perfect the technology and learn from their mistakes like USSR did back in 60s (in fact USSR was launching them several times a year and there were many more Lunar missions them than official “24” number. Failures were simply not reported to the public like now).

They wanted a quick way to somewhat repair Russian patriots’ pride in their country by reminding them that Russia was “first in space” and so they are superior to the filthy westerners. That failed so they will just instruct propaganda machine to distract people with something else (plenty of that around) and move on.

In a decade or so there will be some other political cause to remember about space exploration and next mission will be funded. Of course there is no way to for engineers to learn from their mistakes and accumulate the necessary experience when it’s done this way.

Hopefully this doesn’t set them back too much

Well so far they have been doing these missions once in a decade and none of them succeeded. So see you in another 10 years I guess.