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by ale42 2y ago
Or, some users might have hidden the taskbar, or the clock. Or have several screens, and only one of them has the clock...
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by ale42 2y ago
Apps can always misbehave, you never know what people implement, and you don't always have source code to patch. I don't think the role of the OS is to let the apps do whatever they wish, but it should give the possibility of doin
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by ale42 2y ago
Not very different I think... on the air it's the same: they're using VARA, which has been introduced by a ham radio guy ( https://rosmodem.wordpress.com/ ), and is widely used by ham radio operators. I'm a bit
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by ale42 2y ago
Sure, but I can easily put an installer on a NAS (or on whatever media I use for long-term storage) and keep it there. Properly archiving a website and making sure it works offline is another story: sometimes it is relatively simple, someti
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by ale42 2y ago
Why install drivers? Webserial is about serial ports. If you need a driver to actually see your serial port, you need to install it anyway to use webserial.
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by ale42 2y ago
Tools that unlike local apps will go offline when the vendors' web site will go offline at some point. And then the user will have a stupid brick instead of a device. I understand the convenience of using a web-based application, but i
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by ale42 2y ago
> One way is simply looking at the traffic. That might have legal implications (wiretap laws, they would be basically intercept your communication). But perhaps TCP/IP fingerprinting too, not sure... On the other hand, with provider
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by ale42 2y ago
Same but for airport wifi time limits... had to use Linux because the Windows drivers the laptop didn't allow manually setting the MAC address.
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by ale42 2y ago
Passive TCP/IP fingerprinting might tell a lot about the device. You could probably easily tell apart an iPad and a router. But if IMEI checking catches 95% of plan cheaters, it's probably not worth implementing more checks (more
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by ale42 2y ago
Not the right company, you're looking at the holding. Volvo Cars is 78.7% Geely... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo_Cars
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by ale42 2y ago
Depends in which country you drive. Germany has still 2G enabled (at least for some networks) while they removed 3G. Other countries did the opposite, but many European countries will still have 2G or 3G for a few years.
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by ale42 2y ago
But if you change IMEI and use the same SIM card, you're still trackable as if nothing changed, right? The IMSI would be the same. I guess you need to change both at the same time...
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by ale42 2y ago
89 is the MII (major industry identifier) according to ISO/IEC 7812 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_7812 ). First digit 8 includes the telecom industry.
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by ale42 2y ago
From the article: it will generally start with a 35, which is unused as a country calling code It's "unused" because several country codes start with 35: Ireland, Portugal, Luxembourg, Iceland... (This doesn't
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by ale42 2y ago
They can track you with or without the IMEI. Next identifier is the IMSI read from your SIM card and I guess you're not replacing it every day...
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by ale42 2y ago
Not sure, I think that there are international lists of stolen IMEIs. Maybe it's just in Europe, though.
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by ale42 2y ago
Mobile phones are a massive privacy hole. Almost by definition. And smartphones 10 times more (or more, depends on how many apps you installed, almost all of them include some sort of trackers). IMEI is (almost) the last of my privacy probl
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by ale42 2y ago
My old Nokia C2-01 allows sending them from the menu ;-)
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by ale42 2y ago
Probably not the typical use case, though ;-)
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by ale42 2y ago
A few years ago, as a 1st April joke, I set up a DOS/Windows 3.11 disk image on our PXE network boot server. It included a functional Word 6 for Windows, and the gzipped image was fitting in 12 MB... PCs back then could still boot with
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by ale42 2y ago
> There's someone on HN who lives on a single-line modification of an open source program Now I want to know more about this :-)
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by ale42 2y ago
I guess they also fall down much more quickly
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by ale42 2y ago
Can someone code and make a pull request to properly handle display of those for Italian users? (see https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confetto for what they look like)
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by ale42 2y ago
Nice to see this well explained with examples, it can for sure benefit many people, especially that there are several details that are sometimes overlooked.
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by ale42 2y ago
Personally I have the impression that CCITT group 4 compressed PDFs are displayed very quickly, unless they are scanned at 3000 DPI... Can't say the same for JBIG2 or JPEG/JPEG2000 based ones.
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by ale42 2y ago
SMS or MMS? Or is that uploading the picture somewhere and SMSing a link to it?
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by ale42 2y ago
It can also use Maildir since quite some time... Did you try with local mailboxes thus, rather than server-side IMAP?
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by ale42 2y ago
Nice to see, thanks!
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by ale42 3y ago
The OS itself depends on many libs ;-) The only things that are a bit heavy in the list are openssl and curl. Still, they are relatively self-contained tools, nothing to do with the dependency hell of certbot.
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by ale42 3y ago
Switzerland too, in 3 languages -- although the amount of content drastically reduced over the years: https://www.teletext.ch/

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