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As you all know, Google has introduced developer verification as a way to prevent users from installing “unregistered” APKs. This measure was taken as a security feature to link every APK in existence to its developer, as in Play Store. Link to the Android documentation , link to FAQ Why this is bad This has already been discussed by ArsTechnica and on some threads (some cherry-picked ones):…
(Feel free to skip to the Bill Gates section for the non-technical part) While I was working on my first preprint mid-May, my Steam Deck suddenly broke. The charging circuit couldn’t negotiate the voltage, something went wrong and the smart battery controller entered in permanent failure mode. We managed to desolder the lithium cells from the battery package PCB and replaced the fuse, but the…
WIP!!! Due to my new research project, I had to upgrade my rig for the first time - it was built back in 2020 and needed some enchancements. Firstly, I’ve replaced a dying SSD, then swapped Ryzen 5 3600 with a beefier Ryzen 7 5700x. The old cooler couldn’t effectively cool down the new CPU in precision boost mode, so I also had to swap out both the cooler and pc case. Finally, I’ve mixed 2 new 16…
Kirikiroid2 is an awesome opensource Kirikiri engine emulator for android, but there is a problem: the provided apk on Github is different from the one that could be built from source. While the source code is perfectly fine, the apk contains Android.Waps adware. The problem is that recompiling the source is problematic due to the lack of certain source files and dependency issues. Kirikiroid2Yuri…
While playing around with Godot engine and shader programming I’ve developed some interestingly looking comic shader with ink-ish look. On this example I want to show you how to implement simple pop style dotted shaders. It is recommended to read @dreadlocksdude’s shader tutorial first: VFX shader series, lesson 1 Overall, this is an extremely important guide on understanding shader functions as…
Recently I have found myself in a classical situation with a powerful rig at home, while using an ultrabook 90% of the time. This piece of hardware cannot even run TF2 due to problematic 10-th gen i3 processor that goes full throttle (4 GHz) at idle. So, I’ve decided to try setting up home vpn and playing/working remotely on the desktop PC.