anowlcalledjosh

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by anowlcalledjosh 11y ago
Kind of, but you still get the situation where an app wants to get your IMEI to identify the device, but is forced to ask for permission to 'phone', which the user promptly denies because that also allows the app to make phone cal
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by anowlcalledjosh 11y ago
Marshmallow fixed many of the issues in Lollipop, plus you get security updates.
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by anowlcalledjosh 11y ago
Base65536 https://github.com/ferno/base65536 (only slightly /s)
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by anowlcalledjosh 11y ago
Adblock Plus has an option to "Allow some non-intrusive advertising"; the criteria for inclusion in the "Acceptable Ads" list are as follows: - May not disrupt content (no inline ads) - Must be recognisable as ads Animat
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by anowlcalledjosh 11y ago
I'd be interested to know how the "$4,500 dock accessory" works; it seems odd that they'd have the capability to charge it fully in half an hour with an accessory that plugs into exactly the same wall socket as the norma
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by anowlcalledjosh 11y ago
Do you have one yet?
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Pirate Bay Founder Builds the Ultimate Piracy Machine(torrentfreak.com)
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by anowlcalledjosh 11y ago
All Raspberry Pis are computers, even with this mangled definition: just because it can't run Windows doesn't mean it can't run, say, Debian, which is absolutely a "full-fledged operating system". You can totally ru
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by anowlcalledjosh 11y ago
The source is interesting and worth a read to see alternate dialogue paths, including what happens if it can't locate your IP: "what's up in..." "wait a minute" "damn" (etc.) what happens if you do it
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by anowlcalledjosh 11y ago
The default IP is from Sweden (89.253.78.108), so it probably just looked up that. NB: that IP is publicly available in the source.
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by anowlcalledjosh 11y ago
Who would allow 'Flash Player' access to texts, location, network, draw on top of apps and factory reset? That's just asking for trouble...
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by anowlcalledjosh 11y ago
Why do web servers always seem to invent their own config file format? Whilst nginx seems to do it slightly more sanely than Apache, it still doesn't use something like YAML or JSON; is there a good/obvious reason for this I'
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by anowlcalledjosh 11y ago
Presumably, but the botnet is still likely to be used for illegal purposes, which will get someone (hopefully the spammer, but IANAL) prosecuted.
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by anowlcalledjosh 11y ago
By browsing the website, the argument is that you implicitly accepted the ToS. It's legally shaky, and generally the ToS or a link to them must have been provably shown to the user. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br
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by anowlcalledjosh 11y ago
Came expecting psychology, was disappointed.
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by anowlcalledjosh 11y ago
I'm using Roboto Mono and the Paper theme from http://samuelhewitt.com/paper; dark blue background, light grey text and green/cyan prompt.