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There are feature phones which support applications (not Android-based), but indeed nobody made an OTP authenticator for it.
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Email client I guess. Basically the only thing I really miss in the feature phones is email client.
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I don't know about the country you live in, but the usual 100% bullet-proof method to make your message seen by the living human being is to send a paper snail mail. You won't necessary receive the answers for your questions, but
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The officially registered company in my country sells feature phones with build-in trojans for years, and I can't make the government agencies do anything about that, or the shops to remove at least a known-trojaned models from the ret
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Software exploits won't stab you with the knife: most probably you won't see any difference and have no idea that your phone is hacked. That's why for vulnerable/high-benefit target groups better be safe than sorry. Howe
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I'll tell only about essential less-known ones: - Group Speed Dial, to have a list of favorite websites in a new tab, #1 essential plugin in my opinion! - Awesome RSS, to extract RSS links and put them into my reader (this is only extr
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There's at least one video which shows that scanning is blocked in the ink Brother MFC-J9950W https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1arnpkc/... I'm not sure how widespread is this
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Once upon a time I typed something like `r57shell gov` and got a PHP webshell on *.gov.br
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In Europe and Asia there was once popular Canon LBP-1120, a 2002-2004 model. You can't use it in modern OS as the driver is for 32-bit Windows only, hence these devices could be bought as low as $7 on flea market. These printers are st
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1y ago
I ask the customer to forward the SSH port over https://ssh-j.com
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It's not.
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You can, but only manually via SSH. The Wi-Fi credentials are printed on the sticker, along with the QR code to connect, that's why I though it would be strange if you can't use it right away.
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There's OpenAirScan for iPhone/iPad now, which was created somewhat recently, in 2023. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/openairscan/id1663611384 It doesn't have 100% compatibility with driverless
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Right now CUPS does not publish all available custom page formats for label printers in a Windows 11 compatible way for true driverless printing, but some day I'll get my hands on this issue! https://github.com/OpenPrin
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Yep, you'll need an OrangePi Zero 3 board, MicroSD, a button, and some soldering skills. Several options for non-KYC cryptocurrency exchanges exist[1], I also accept PayPal (non-RU account). Mail me! [1]: https://kycnot.me&#
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No prob! Hope we'll all get great 2D printer some day, from Framework or other user-facing company! It's not that impossible than you may think: several Chinese companies have their own domestic laser printers, claiming of in-hous
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If you're implying something, then please get your thoughts across more clearly. The title says "profit goes to open-source", meaning CUPS, SANE, AirSane projects, which are FOSS (free and open-source), if the publicly availa
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Yes, it's open only to the customers, as GPL requires: Selling Free Software < https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html > > Many people believe that the spirit of the GNU Project is that you should no
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This is an open source project in a technical sense (source is open and the license is open), but not in a social sense (no free as in beer available source code, no public support for everyone). Source code, as well as firmware updates and
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Show HN: Driverless print server for legacy printers, profit goes to open-source
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LibreOffice. You can open PDF in LibreOffice Writer, just make sure to select "PDF - Portable Document Format (writer)" in the file selection dialog. This is very important, if you don't do that, the file will be opened in Li
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How's it different from box86/box64? It also has RISC-V with JIT support. https://box86.org/
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Yep, what's in most other jobs is a criminal offense, the most serious issue the individual developer could face is just to lose the job.
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I'm running an anti-censorship proxy service which uses Proxy Auto-Configuration (PAC) file which you can configure OS-wide or in the browser. If the file contains invalid JS (syntax error, or too new features for IE on Win7/8), o
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2y ago
The OP by live streaming means broadcasting, as in live event.
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This, and: * Asymmetric network links, slow upload especially on cellular * Traffic package limitations, and both DL and UL are counted * Some ISP are very against p2p, sometimes it's a government policy (China banned "Residential
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Nah, that doesn't look fun. Self-hosting in 2025 should look like Yunohost or Sandstorm.
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unsafe-io eliminates most fsyncs, but not all of them.
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`apt` installation could be easily sped-up with `eatmydata`: `dpkg` calls `fsync()` on all the unpacked files, which is very slow on HDDs, and `eatmydata` hacks it out.
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2y ago
TL;DR: free USAGM/USAID money are over
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