there have been enough reasons to ditch nova in the past years, in case someone is still using it

• 2022 acquired by branch metrics, data harvesting company https://www.androidcentral.com/apps-software/branch-strikes-twice-with-nova-launcher-and-sesame-search-acquisition
• 2024 nearly everyone laid off https://www.theverge.com/2024/8/9/24217077/nova-launcher-layoffs-only-original-developer-remaining
• 2025 original dev left after being told to stop working on the open source efforts https://www.theverge.com/news/773937/nova-launcher-founder-left-kevin-barry-branch-open-source-android
• 2026 fb and google ads tracking https://lemdro.id/post/lemdro.id/35049920
• 2026 (this post) evidences for built-in AI that harvests your data https://www.androidauthority.com/nova-launcher-ai-plus-subscription-apk-teardown-3658932/

but we need to find it first

Each screen can now switch between any of the system’s virtual desktops independently!

no way, I thought this would never be a thing! Been wanting this for over 3 years now.

it’s a readme change

All machine learning is and has always been part of the artificial intelligence field. They’re doing AI, whether that happens to be a trending term or not.

unthinkable? Coordinate an attack to kidnap families of high executives?

whew

thankfully they redacted the phone nunber

year of the french linux desktop

my signal notification history is a lot of “Locked message”

any ideas how well Linux runs on Snapdragon X2?

ctrl is more useful

I can’t, my case has too many RGB LEDs

“Make no mistakes” wasn’t enough?? 😮

I thought it was a given that, if it’s a phone app, you’re likely to want to carry it with you, not leave it on a desk with your computer.

that would still require the OS or user to spoof a location to actually prevent tracking. I hope they’d do that, but I wouldn’t expect them to.

that assumes

1. the user does have access to a production db;
2. the agent has access to a terminal from which they can reach the production machine (not in a container, different network, or similar);
3. access does not require interaction (like entering password);
4. the agent deliberately decides to access a production database to solve a development problem, and that was not the user requesting it;
5. the agent manages to find the database credentials in production;
6. the agent is left unattended.

Possible? Sure. It’s also possible that I drink half a bottle of vodka on a Friday night and mess up with production.

you can’t compare it to the islands, because the GPS trace is in an area within that green circle, with a different scale. You can only look at the 300m scale in the bottom right, which looks in the ballpark of an aircraft carrier to me

so… some really basic shit that should have been expected in a pre-2010 update + AI

Well done, guys. I guess you gotta start somewhere.