Android Leftovers

• Google is pushing Android TV hardware-makers to adopt the AV1 codec in 2021

• Google may require AV1 codec support on all new Android TV devices

• Samsung SmartThings is now available on Android Auto [Update]

• 15 Samsung smartphones will soon get OneUI 3.1 based on Android 11

• Samsung Galaxy Z Fold2 is now receiving Android 11 in the US

• TCL 10L starts receiving the promised Android 11 update

• Sony Xperia 1 and Xperia 5 Owners Get Android 11 Upgrade Early

• Ongoing Android 11 issue seems to ignore game controller input

• Android's upcoming Hibernation feature will reduce the size of apps you are not using

• How to Flip an Image on Android

• WordPress for Android Previews New Story Posts Feature, Now in Public Beta

Today in Techrights

• Links 18/1/2021: GNU Radio 3.9, Wikipedia at 20
• InteLeaks – Part XIX: Intel's Web 'Experts' Seen as Microsoft Champions Dealing With the Platform Microsoft is Looking to Destroy
• Adding Images as Characters to the Daily Bulletins of Techrights
• Links 18/1/2021: Weekly Summaries and Linux 5.11 RC4
• IRC Proceedings: Sunday, January 17, 2021
• The Oligarchs' Parties Will Never Choose the Side of Software Freedom Because Free Software Cannot Bribe Officials

today's leftovers

• Meetup Will Discuss Survey Results, Project Improvements

  The openSUSE Project welcomes our followers to participate in two planned meetups to discuss results from the End of the Year Community Survey on Jan. 23 and Jan. 30. Both sessions will start at 13:00 UTC on openSUSE’s Jitsi instance and go for 1:30 hours. Members of the “let’s improve the openSUSE learning experience” initiative will share results and analysis from the survey.

• LF‌ ‌Edge‌ ‌Adds‌ ‌New‌ ‌Members‌

  LF Edge has announced the addition of four new general members (FII, HCL, OpenNebula, and Robin.io) and one new Associate member (Shanghai Open Source Information Technology Association). Additionally, Home Edge has released its third platform update with new Data Storage and Mult-NAT Edge Device Communications (MNDEC) features.

• Text Encoding Menu in 2021

  In mid-January 2021, the Text Encoding menu in Firefox looks like this: Automatic Unicode Western Arabic (Windows) Arabic (ISO) Baltic (Windows) Baltic (ISO) Central European (Windows) Central European (ISO) Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Cyrillic (Windows) Cyrillic (KOI8-U) Cyrillic (KOI8-R) Cyrillic (ISO) Cyrillic (DOS) Greek (Windows) Greek (ISO) Hebrew, Visual Hebrew Japanese Korean Thai Turkish Vietnamese [...] For users who have telemetry enabled, we collect data about whether the item “Automatic” was used at least once in given Firefox subsession, whether an item other than “Automatic” was used at least once in a given Firefox subsession, and a characterization of how the encoding that is being overridden was determined (from HTTP, from meta, from chardetng running without the user triggering it, from chardetng as triggered by the user by having chosen “Automatic” previously, etc.). If things go well, the telemetry can be analyzed when Firefox 87 is released (i.e. when 86 has spent its time on the release channel). The current expectation for this is 2021-03-23.

• Wikipedia is twenty. It’s time to start covering it better. - Columbia Journalism Review

• Jimmy Wales: “Wikipedia is from a different era”

  As the online encyclopedia turns 20-years-old, its founder reflects on the internet’s halcyon days.

• Fact check: As Wikipedia turns 20, how credible is it?

  Wikipedia, which has been referred to as a world treasure, turns 20 on Friday. According to research conducted over the years — including a scientific study published by the journal Nature in 2005 and a report commissioned by the site's Wikimedia Foundation in 2012 — Wikipedia's entries are comparable in quality to those in prestigious encyclopedias such as Britannica. However, it is difficult to measure the consistency of information that can be altered at any time.

• Odin is finally pleased so the open-world survival game Valheim releases on February 2 | GamingOnLinux

  Odin has finally had enough sacrifices and shall be releasing Valheim from Iron Gate AB will enter Early Access with Linux and Windows support on February 2. What is it? A brutal multiplayer exploration and survival game set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage! With low-poly artwork and a very flexible building system it looks absolutely brilliant. The early builds they had available were seriously promising back in 2018 so I'm personally excited to see how far they've progress with it in that time.