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by angott 7y ago
It doesn't really integrate the Pi-Hole distribution itself, but by default it uses two hosts file (see https://github.com/trailofbits/algo/blob/master/config.cfg at line 72).
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by angott 7y ago
Not surprised. They can't expect people to replace their car every two years as if it were an iPhone.
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by angott 7y ago
Which features in particular do you need? If you are interested in the APIs, you might be pleased to know that starting September 14th, 2019, any bank in the EU must provide public APIs by law under the PSD2 EU directive for Open Banking. M
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by angott 7y ago
> [...] when you've denoted a tagged item as lost, any Apple device can read the information and you'll receive a notification when someone has found it. That's a clever way for Apple to take advantage of its enormous numb
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Apple may be developing a Tile-like tracking tag(engadget.com)
3 points by angott 7y ago|2 comments
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by angott 7y ago
There was a lot of discussion on this matter in Germany and other European countries, back when he left Hong Kong and got stuck at the airport in Moscow. But nothing came out of it really. Despite many EU countries having laws that would ha
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by angott 7y ago
Does anybody know why this happens? I don't think MSFT would really have issues finding some software engineers to fix this.
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by angott 7y ago
Oh, sorry, I was not referring to specifically that AdBlock extension. I wanted to say that users just associate "adblocking extension = AdBlock Plus".
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by angott 7y ago
It's mostly a marketing issue in my opinion. ABP was the first ad-blocker to enter the mainstream market back during the Firefox days, and they had virtually no competition for half a decade, before the entire Acceptable Ads controvers
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by angott 7y ago
Wouldn't you still have to wake up the radio to perform the (pi-holed) DNS lookup, though? Just curious because I would love to use a similar kind of system, but I am concerned about battery life.
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by angott 7y ago
You could technically do this, but such a technology is too expensive to incorporate in civilian use receivers that have to retail for a couple bucks. Military receivers used by the USA and NATO allies can easily detect spoofing because the
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by angott 7y ago
The US has forever been ignoring jurisdiction boundaries just like that. Ever heard of FATCA? Banks anywhere in the world need to report US-resident account holders to the IRS.
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by angott 7y ago
If all European countries really wanted was just a slice of the pie, they could just put a tax on foreign-owned tech companies (like France is doing). Are you seriously suggesting the EU took the trouble of implementing GDPR, causing signif
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by angott 8y ago
There could certainly be a cultural factor involved and I didn't consider that, that's for sure. Continental Europeans do not really identify with the UK drinking culture, and I suppose Canada might have been influenced a lot by i
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by angott 8y ago
> As an occasional consumer, Ontarian and Canadian, I don't mind. I moved to Canada from Italy three years ago, and I still have trouble understanding this reasoning. If you exclude the Nordics which have similar sin taxes, in the E
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by angott 8y ago
You cannot legally sell a VPN without lawful intercept capabilities in China. My guess is that if the Chinese authorities have let this VPN pass through the system, it could mean there must be some way for the Chinese authorities to interce
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by angott 8y ago
It is not really about certain countries having more control than others. Germany has the largest population in the EU, and since MEPs apportionment is proportional to population, 99 out of 785 MEPs are German. It's a matter of demogra
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by angott 8y ago
> How does Apple check against malicious software? KB page says "[...] The Apple notary service is an automated system that scans your software for malicious content, checks for code-signing issues [...]"
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by angott 8y ago
Good question, and in fact your logic totally makes sense. But my personal experience differs. I used to use both AdGuard Pro and Weblock and they both used up to 10-15% of battery life (as indicated in the Settings app). I’m not sure why t
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by angott 8y ago
Those ad-blocking local VPNs lead to terrible battery life. And nobody can know what they are doing behind the scenes. I agree with Apple blocking them. I just wish they had a public API for developers to offer apps that block the resolutio
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by angott 8y ago
It's crazy how similar this was to the new Clock app introduced in iOS 10 (2016).
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by angott 8y ago
PWAs make sense today, but back then, they just came too early in the game. The iPhone only had EDGE (2G) networking, it was painfully slow both in terms of throughput and latency. Each HTTP request would take ~300-500ms under optimal cell
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by angott 8y ago
Also, keep in mind the extremely high salaries in Norway. Italy or Greece could decide to offer the same tax benefits, but still very few people would be able to afford a Tesla.
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by angott 8y ago
They acquired Instagram and keep acquiring small startups exactly for this reason. Content generation direct to FB is going down because the platform is not innovating anymore, and for now their only way out of it is through acquisitions.
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by angott 8y ago
Yes, but your friends share content that sucks because the Facebook algorithm fills their feeds with click-bait, with the sole purpose of increasing engagement and user retention metrics.
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by angott 8y ago
The US forces you to clear customs regardless of your final destination (transfers included).
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by angott 8y ago
No, it wouldn’t help. It looks at the country code transmitted by the cell tower you are connected to. The only countermeasure would be to keep your phone in airplane mode.
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by angott 8y ago
As someone living in Canada, I see these offers and it sincerely makes me cry. The best no-fee cards here have 0.5% cash back. For anything more than 1%, you need to pay an annual fee of at least $99.
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by angott 8y ago
How does politics relate with international availability of content on streaming services?
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by angott 8y ago
We all get Prime Video in Europe, but the problem is that much of the content is restricted to customers in the States. Unfortunately, Prime Video in Europe consists mostly of content produced by Amazon, because they have world-wide rights

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