TL;DR

• Efforts like Graphene OS face increasing pressure from apps that refuse to run on non-standard Android.
• The custom ROM project characterizes Google’s approach to device attestation as incomplete and flawed.
• Graphene OS is prepared to take legal action if Google won’t let it pass Play Integrity checks.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/16474034

Apple has announced that its Messages app will support the RCS messaging standard in iOS 18. RCS offers more advanced features compared to traditional SMS, including higher-quality media, typing indicators, and end-to-end encryption. This move will improve messaging between iOS and Android devices, which currently rely on the less capable SMS protocol. Apple's decision to add RCS support likely comes in response to pressure from Google, Samsung, and European regulators who have pushed for better cross-platform messaging. Overall, this change will bring the iPhone's messaging capabilities more in line with the Android experience.

Kagi's Universal Summarizer: Summarize anything in a jiffy!

Features

GPT-4o integrated in Kagi Assistant

We've benchmarked OpenAI's new flagship model GPT-4o, released yesterday, and its performance on our internal independent tests (PyLLMs and reasoning on Chess puzzles) is impressive. As a result, GPT-4o has now been used across various features in Assistant:

• Default model for Research Expert mode and Code assistant

• Used for interpreting and working with uploaded files, including images

• Available through Chat Assistant

Note: Kagi Assistant is available as open beta for Ultimate plan members

Recipe extraction/summarizer

Kagi Universal Summarizer now automatically identifies when you are summarizing a recipe and conveniently displays both the ingredients and the cooking steps #3937 @leopoldarrestrom

You can use Kagi Summarizer as a standalone Web app, through Kagi Search Extension in your browser or directly in search results.

Additional notes for Family / Team account members

When setting up a Family or Team account, you now have the ability to add names for each member. This feature is particularly useful for managing team members who use email aliases #2695 @Alligator

Improvements and bug fixes

• Wikipedia card links do not work with smaller browser windows #3469 @yeri
• Time in Portugal throws a NaN error #3986 @bleveck
• Wikipedia widget does not appear, even though there are relevant Wikipedia articles as search results. #394 @iiv
• Sorry, I couldn't summarize these results. #3992 @sjdonadoo
• Summarizer layout issue for “Dutch” language #3572 @Nyaa
• Clickable Phone Number Results #3884 @kaidea
• New assistant icon is off-centred #3994 @sefidel
• Assistant messages can go off the screen #4026 @Zambyte
• Research expert AI does not convert sub HTML tags for chemical formulas #3934 @frin
• Wikipedia HTML included in research assistant response #3907 @youngji22
• Research assistant returns "We are sorry, this input is not supported. (Invalid Input)" on normal queries #3990 @httpjames

Features and announcements

QR code sign-in

Now you can simply scan a QR code on Kagi's login page with an authenticated device to log into a new device. For more details, visit our help page. #2417 @FrederickZh

Sales tax rollout

Starting this Sunday, April 21st, sales taxes will apply to all subscriptions. We have notified subscribers of this change via email. This marks the completion of the sales tax rollout. For further details, please visit our FAQ page.

Improvements and bug fixes

• Add keyboard shortcuts shift-J/K to skip to next domain's results #2465 @Deebster
• [Apperance][New UI] Plans do not show their differences anymore #3796 @igak_rekcartgub
• Lens settings has a incorrect input label or maybe an incorrect input field? Not sure... #3845 @gunslingerfry
• Provide feedback for copying code snippets #3787 @adamaveray
• Selecting text in Wolfram info pane in suggestions dropdown dismisses dropdown #3779 @bert
• Input query field has hidden clear button #3687 @mikeX
• The dog doesn't look away anymore #3767 @httpjames
• New Kagi design creates issues with Login page #3810 @hmnd
• 'System Default' theme always uses light theme's theme colour #3155 @sefidel
• Kagi’s Landing and Sign-in Pages Should Also Support Adaptive Light/Dark Mode #3782 @teethtaster
• New Kagi design creates issues with Login page #3810 @hmnd
• Royal Blue colours and links very broken #3798 @CarwynNelson
• Uncentered texts on Orion plan page #3835 @sw
• Dark Royal Blue - switch plan info unreadable #3833 @frin
• Yellow border gets cut off on the trailing end #3823 @marsbars
• Unreadable dark text on Orion plan page #3836 @sw
• Royal Blue Link Colors Indistinguishable #3777 @beepboop
• Tabbing breaks when suggested search box appears #3780 @Prostagma
• The Redisign Broke Safari’s Auto-Hiding Tab Bar #3776 @teethtaster
• Dark theme bug: invisible text in Firefox #3792 @Ilya
• FastGPT API returns 500 Server Error #3766 @GermanMuzquiz
• Chat follow-up input blinker is cut off #3786 @frin
• Kagi Homepage Overlay #3774 @lemonmaker
• There is no longer any difference between the two light modes. #3789 @MoroccanPigeon
• Unable to activate inactive lenses #3781 @rockymcrockerson
• Support for research assistant math results with latex #2925 @Mg432
• Apostrophe breaks assistant (LaTeX) formatting #3709 @aivalja
• Research fast keeps returning SEARCH REQUIRED #3733 @frin
• Missing label for ai chat assistants #3762 @JamesT
• Mobile AI search box overlapped by tabs #3800 @LKD70
• Assistant code illegible using "Moon Dark" theme #3765 @zsig
• Research assistant gives error after 3 messages if pdf is uploaded (this input is not supported. (Invalid Input)) #3818 @aivalja
• Sort footnotes that appear below a "Quick Answer" into numerical order #3794 @macalba

April 2nd, 2024 #

Improvements and bug fixes

• Allow previous 2FA code to work along with current 30sec one #3540 @frin
• Custom bangs accessible from Search Settings tab #3616 @mhitza
• Asking !chat to modify a <script>...</script> tag causes the script tag in the response to be not escaped/not visible #3694 @heavyg
• We've resolved capacity issues with our recent models upgrade
• Bottom of image search results is cluttered with low quality Second Life screenshots #3632 @yellow
• Show summary of question in fastgpt in tab title #3203 @fictorial
• Image Description Completely Wrong #3600 @CrunchyFritos
• Assistant Expert "<SEARCH REQUIRED" and then switches to spanish #3661 @tschoesi
• Mistral "Sorry, a problem occurred while processing your request. Please try again later." #3684 @abb128
• Custom assistant ignoring custom instructions #3685 @Wanja
• Latext support in quick answer #3455 @Grooty
• AI Model selection should be sticky #3503 @JamesT
• Assistant code overflows #3428 @cardinal086

This announcement is from the Lawnchair Discord:

Lawnchair 14 has arrived!

After about 2 years, we're delighted to announce that Lawnchair 14 has finally arrived!

Based on Launcher3 from Android 14, this release works with QuickSwitch from Android 10 to Android 14! You won't need to use an older version to integrate with the system.

Some major highlights:
• Search your phone, the web, and more with our new Global Search — no root needed!¹
• View flight info, see surrounding traffic, and keep an eye on your data usage with Smartspacer — all integrated within Lawnchair.²
• Want to further control your icons? Fret not, We now support custom icon packs for themed icons, alongside some new icon options.³
• Themers rejoice — you can now hide the Dock for a cleaner home screen. You can also change even more colors, fonts, and padding.
• Are you tired of Lawnchair crashing because of widgets? We've fixed that issue; you won’t need to do some hacky workaround to add them.⁴

Alongside that, we have a new partnership with Startpage — searching with Startpage (via the dock search bar or App Drawer search) helps support Lawnchair’s development.

We still have more things to share! See the announcement on our website for more information.

¹ Experimental feature, requires opt in Lawnchair Settings.
² Requires Smartspacer and respective plugins.
³ Requires a supported icon pack .
⁴ May still persist depending on the device.

cross-posted from: https://poptalk.scrubbles.tech/post/567593

Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice

I'm not really big on "let's make a movement", but this independent dev has been hit with a cease-and-desist from making a FOSS Home Assistant addon for their Haier air conditioners.

Haier claims that they are losing out on millions of dollars due to this plugin which... lets you control their air conditions from home assistant. They haven't bothered to explain how that's possibly worth millions of dollars - they're just claiming it.

So of course they hit the Streisand button and are demanding that he takes it down. He of course is complying... in a couple of days. Maybe you see where this is going.

It would be an absolute shame if any of you just happened to create a fork, or clone the code, or mirror it in your own instance. An absolute shame.

Just so everyone here knows which repositories NOT to clone or fork, here are the two links:

• https://github.com/Andre0512/hon
• https://github.com/Andre0512/pyhOn

and please, don't repost this anywhere, or share it in other communities, or anything like that. It's a shame that so many people already know and are making clones. I'm just letting you know so you don't do anything like telling others who may make their own copies.

(sidenote: Haier owns GE Appliance, so for our American folks it may affect you folks too)

Please add Voyager to the Accrescent App Store, "a private and secure Android app store built with modern features in mind. It aims to provide a developer-friendly platform and pleasant user experience while enforcing modern security and privacy practices and offering robust validity guarantees for installed apps."

This app store, while small, is supposed to be more secure than alternatives. And yes it is small, but it also won't grow if devs don't add to it.

Their publishing guide and requirements can be found here: https://accrescent.app/docs/guide/publish/requirements.html

New Donation/IAP has missing background. Looks like it should have a background, but doesn't, so some words are on top of each other. This is on light mode, whereas dark mode doesn't have this issue.

v1.23.1

Edit: v1.23.2 fixes this.

HOTFIX 1 - JULY 18 & 19, 2023 - 1.1.0

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the overall drop rate of Aberrant Cinders in Helltide was lower than intended.
• Fixed an issue where Seeds of Hatred could be collected at an extreme rate when using the Hatred’s Chosen buff against Necromancer minions and Druid pets. This buff has now been re-enabled with this hotfix.

Miscellaneous

• Further stability improvements.