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abrignoni.com
📱 Eight years after my Android UsageStats posts, the XML became protobuf, 4 event types became 32, and ALEAPP now parses all of it.

⚠️ ACTIVITY_RESUMED is not "the user tapped the app." It is a lifecycle state.

leapps.org/blog-post?post=2026-08-03-android-usagestats-recent-tasks

#DFIR
Every Step You Take, Eight Years Later: Android UsageStats and Recent Tasks — LEAPPs Blog
Android's pattern-of-life evidence grew from readable XML into tokenized protobufs carrying app lifecycle, lock state, notifications, services, task roots, and more. We went back to the source, update...
leapps.org
August 4, 2026 at 4:03 AM
karljackson.bsky.social
Once Upon A Time, I would have wondered who would have fifty tabs open. Sadly, I can frequently find that entity in the front facing camera of my phone... 🤔🫤😁 #Firefox #UsageStats #KaliOS
October 17, 2025 at 10:47 PM
davidroessli.com
“Funny. It looks like a grid of your t-shirts…” dixit Emma over breakfast
#duh #overcast #podcasts2024 #usagestats

@overcastfm@mastodon.social @sixcolors@zeppelin.flights @TWiT@mastodon.social @RecDiffs@mastodon.social @verge@mastodon.social @upgrade@relayfm.social
Overcast 2024 history share screen showing ATP (bootleg) MacBreak Weekly ATP (member), The Talk Show, Six Colors, Dithering, The VergeCast, Reconcilable Differences, Upgrade
December 6, 2024 at 8:40 AM
nic221.bsky.social
Asking More of AI: What OpenAI’s New Usage Study Tells Us About How and Why People Prompt https://substack.com/inbox/post/173768217 #AI #ChatGPT #usageStats
OpenAI's newest report, How People Use ChatGPT (Sept 2025), is a sprawling 63-page look at over a year's worth of message-level data from 700 million weekly active users. No speculation. No guesswork. Just anonymized, and privacy-scrubbed message samples from May 2024 to June 2025. The results tell us something bigger than platform trends. They reveal how people are thinking, experimenting, and trying to solve for the pressures of modern life...with and through generative Al. • The early gender skew (80% masculine-coded names) has reversed. By June 2025, ChatGPT users were slightly more likely to have feminine-coded names. • Nearly half of all usage comes from users under 26, suggesting Gen Z is building habits that will shape the next generation of Al practices. • Usage is growing faster in low- and middle-income countries than in wealthier ones, which honestly surprised me, given that a full third of the world doesn't have reliable internet.
September 17, 2025 at 3:30 AM