anthony restaino
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android dev | pro socialism | 🥕 food security | 🍕 pizza | 🦆 birding | 📍 NYC | he/they
android dev | pro socialism | 🥕 food security | 🍕 pizza | 🦆 birding | 📍 NYC | he/they
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UPDATED: The sprawling network of AI funding and client connections.
Added:
- NVIDIA investing in OpenAI
- NVIDIA investing in Intel
- AMD investing in OpenAI / OpenAI promising to buy future AMD GPUs
Added:
- NVIDIA investing in OpenAI
- NVIDIA investing in Intel
- AMD investing in OpenAI / OpenAI promising to buy future AMD GPUs
It's only been 12 hours since the US invaded Venezuela and there's already AI generated propaganda videos going around Instagram in support of the invasion. US tech is so innovative.
January 3, 2026 at 5:52 PM
It's only been 12 hours since the US invaded Venezuela and there's already AI generated propaganda videos going around Instagram in support of the invasion. US tech is so innovative.
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I think this administration has vastly overestimated the rest of the world's willingness to put up with imperial oil war bullshit right now. I don't think this ends well. No war.
January 3, 2026 at 6:38 AM
I think this administration has vastly overestimated the rest of the world's willingness to put up with imperial oil war bullshit right now. I don't think this ends well. No war.
showed my parents how to identify AI generated music yesterday, and proudly watched them identify which YouTube Christmas playlists were AI and then choose a playlist with real music
November 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM
showed my parents how to identify AI generated music yesterday, and proudly watched them identify which YouTube Christmas playlists were AI and then choose a playlist with real music
I never liked roast turkey until I convinced everyone to let me take over roasting duties and try butterflying the turkey last year. As it turns out, I just hate overcooked, under seasoned turkey and am now permanently in charge of roasting the family's turkeys.
November 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I never liked roast turkey until I convinced everyone to let me take over roasting duties and try butterflying the turkey last year. As it turns out, I just hate overcooked, under seasoned turkey and am now permanently in charge of roasting the family's turkeys.
Disappointed in Droidcon's decision to move the conference from NYC to Orlando. I attended every DCNYC event since I graduated in 2015 and cherish my memories of every one. Unlikely that I will be traveling to Florida anytime soon, so I guess it's the time to start attending London and Berlin confs.
November 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Disappointed in Droidcon's decision to move the conference from NYC to Orlando. I attended every DCNYC event since I graduated in 2015 and cherish my memories of every one. Unlikely that I will be traveling to Florida anytime soon, so I guess it's the time to start attending London and Berlin confs.
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I've been on the program committee for droidconNYC for a few years now and attendee for nearly decade. I understand why they felt like staying in NYC wasn't financially viable, but moving to Florida (let alone Orlando) is such a disappointing decision, especially for LGBTQ+ members of the community
November 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I've been on the program committee for droidconNYC for a few years now and attendee for nearly decade. I understand why they felt like staying in NYC wasn't financially viable, but moving to Florida (let alone Orlando) is such a disappointing decision, especially for LGBTQ+ members of the community
I should have taken a screenshot, but I just got a full screen interstitial about using Gemini when performing a logged Google search about a programming topic. Never have I ever seen Google show interstitial ads on their search results. I guess search really is dead xd
November 13, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I should have taken a screenshot, but I just got a full screen interstitial about using Gemini when performing a logged Google search about a programming topic. Never have I ever seen Google show interstitial ads on their search results. I guess search really is dead xd
fun thing I encountered at work this week – we discovered that LLM Agents decided to start setting environment variables that are only supposed to be set on CI on developer's machines, of course breaking the build for them :/
November 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
fun thing I encountered at work this week – we discovered that LLM Agents decided to start setting environment variables that are only supposed to be set on CI on developer's machines, of course breaking the build for them :/
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GET OUT AND VOTE NEW YORK
November 4, 2025 at 1:18 PM
GET OUT AND VOTE NEW YORK
it always makes me happy to open my work computer on a Monday morning and see that even with 70+ contributors to the project, there hasn't been any code merged since Friday.
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
it always makes me happy to open my work computer on a Monday morning and see that even with 70+ contributors to the project, there hasn't been any code merged since Friday.
this was one of my favorite talks at DPE summit. it's a must watch for Android platform teams. my team has already been able to benefit by implementing some of the guardrails he explained.
The recording for my talk from DPE Summit 2025 titled "Gradle: Your Build, Your Rules" is out!
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWx_...
Slides:
speakerdeck.com/aurimas/grad...
#gradle
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWx_...
Slides:
speakerdeck.com/aurimas/grad...
#gradle
Gradle: Your Build, Your Rules
YouTube video by Gradle
www.youtube.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM
this was one of my favorite talks at DPE summit. it's a must watch for Android platform teams. my team has already been able to benefit by implementing some of the guardrails he explained.
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The president of the United States has said *multiole times* that he hates Americans who are democrats. That is a FUCKING HUGE SCANDAL. Nobody will treat it as one.
this white house actively treats a large swath of americans as disloyal and outside the political community and it doesn’t merit so much as a peep from the political press
Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."
October 17, 2025 at 1:14 AM
The president of the United States has said *multiole times* that he hates Americans who are democrats. That is a FUCKING HUGE SCANDAL. Nobody will treat it as one.
UPDATED: The sprawling network of AI funding and client connections.
Added:
- NVIDIA investing in OpenAI
- NVIDIA investing in Intel
- AMD investing in OpenAI / OpenAI promising to buy future AMD GPUs
Added:
- NVIDIA investing in OpenAI
- NVIDIA investing in Intel
- AMD investing in OpenAI / OpenAI promising to buy future AMD GPUs
October 8, 2025 at 1:25 AM
UPDATED: The sprawling network of AI funding and client connections.
Added:
- NVIDIA investing in OpenAI
- NVIDIA investing in Intel
- AMD investing in OpenAI / OpenAI promising to buy future AMD GPUs
Added:
- NVIDIA investing in OpenAI
- NVIDIA investing in Intel
- AMD investing in OpenAI / OpenAI promising to buy future AMD GPUs
Reposted by anthony restaino
Android’s new security screening feature is bad and I fucking hate it.
They wanted a mechanism for Google’s security team to block malicious developers.
But the same mechanism can be used by the state to control what we can do with our devices.
They wanted a mechanism for Google’s security team to block malicious developers.
But the same mechanism can be used by the state to control what we can do with our devices.
A new layer of security for certified Android devices
Starting in 2026 and in select countries first, Android apps must be registered to a verified developer in order to be installed.
android-developers.googleblog.com
October 1, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Android’s new security screening feature is bad and I fucking hate it.
They wanted a mechanism for Google’s security team to block malicious developers.
But the same mechanism can be used by the state to control what we can do with our devices.
They wanted a mechanism for Google’s security team to block malicious developers.
But the same mechanism can be used by the state to control what we can do with our devices.
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Newsletter: This is The Case Against Generative AI, a comprehensive analysis of a financial collapse built on myths I’ll dispel, the markets’ unhealthy obsession with NVIDIA's growth, and the fact that there is not enough money in the world to fund OpenAI.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...
The Case Against Generative AI
Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth
Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 wo...
www.wheresyoured.at
September 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Newsletter: This is The Case Against Generative AI, a comprehensive analysis of a financial collapse built on myths I’ll dispel, the markets’ unhealthy obsession with NVIDIA's growth, and the fact that there is not enough money in the world to fund OpenAI.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...
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Why should a person on a bike get a criminal summons for traveling 16 mph, while the driver of a 5,000 pound SUV doesn't even receive a ticket for speeding at 35 mph?
Mayor Adams continues his war on biking with this backward rule — despite >90% of public comments opposing it.
Mayor Adams continues his war on biking with this backward rule — despite >90% of public comments opposing it.
September 24, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Why should a person on a bike get a criminal summons for traveling 16 mph, while the driver of a 5,000 pound SUV doesn't even receive a ticket for speeding at 35 mph?
Mayor Adams continues his war on biking with this backward rule — despite >90% of public comments opposing it.
Mayor Adams continues his war on biking with this backward rule — despite >90% of public comments opposing it.
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This is what a bubble looks like
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September 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
This is what a bubble looks like
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ah shit, I had swapped lambda and coreweave around to make the diagram more sane and forgot to move the super micro funding arrow from coreweave to lambda. fixed
September 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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My latest newsletter is about how generative AI companies are risking the lives of the most vulnerable by releasing tools that affirm dangerous delusions -- and the potential human consequences.
And it's about why nobody seems to be freaking out about it.
whatwelost.substack.com/p/how-many-p...
And it's about why nobody seems to be freaking out about it.
whatwelost.substack.com/p/how-many-p...
How many people will generative AI kill before we actually care?
Too many.
whatwelost.substack.com
September 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
My latest newsletter is about how generative AI companies are risking the lives of the most vulnerable by releasing tools that affirm dangerous delusions -- and the potential human consequences.
And it's about why nobody seems to be freaking out about it.
whatwelost.substack.com/p/how-many-p...
And it's about why nobody seems to be freaking out about it.
whatwelost.substack.com/p/how-many-p...
the rats nest that is the flow of money in AI compute is so unbelievably complicated and circular that i had to make a diagram
September 19, 2025 at 8:56 PM
the rats nest that is the flow of money in AI compute is so unbelievably complicated and circular that i had to make a diagram
had to dig out some old embedded programming concepts and Java concepts from my memory before it clicked. Kotlin compiler feels a lot more Java-y than Kotlin-y, but that makes sense given the JVM is (historically) Kotlin's primary build target, or maybe that's just the general shape of a compiler
September 8, 2025 at 2:31 AM
had to dig out some old embedded programming concepts and Java concepts from my memory before it clicked. Kotlin compiler feels a lot more Java-y than Kotlin-y, but that makes sense given the JVM is (historically) Kotlin's primary build target, or maybe that's just the general shape of a compiler
I did figure out how to rewrite it as a compiler plugin, but yeah my brain hurts
September 8, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I did figure out how to rewrite it as a compiler plugin, but yeah my brain hurts
rewriting a KSP as a Kotlin compiler plugin over the past week has really kicked my ass. I thought I had a good mental model of code generation, but it turns out that was just based around the nice abstractions of Java's annotation processing and KSP.
September 8, 2025 at 2:23 AM
rewriting a KSP as a Kotlin compiler plugin over the past week has really kicked my ass. I thought I had a good mental model of code generation, but it turns out that was just based around the nice abstractions of Java's annotation processing and KSP.
LLMs love to write 10 unit tests where a single one would suffice 😭
September 2, 2025 at 2:21 PM
LLMs love to write 10 unit tests where a single one would suffice 😭