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by archivator 13y ago
AOSP is different from OEM builds. It's not an emulator problem, most of the time. The folks at Genymotion seem to be working on fixing that with preapproved builds and more powerful controls.
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by archivator 13y ago
Why would I use this over Goodreads, where I also get meaningful discussions, reviews, and rating, as well as a half-decent recommendation engine?
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by archivator 13y ago
Back in Bulgaria someone got the idea to use the taxi fleet for food delivery - the delivery charge is still fixed, it's just that the car is a taxi. I always thought this was very clever.
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by archivator 13y ago
Uhm, yes, that, precisely. Most of Android is on a level playing field - core framework services get elevated permissions under the system group but they're still apps . If you let the user uninstall them, all hell will break lo
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by archivator 13y ago
Micro instances only provide "burst" CPU usage - if you keep above a certain threshold for long enough, it will throttle you by stealing CPU time (hence the 99%).
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by archivator 13y ago
Personally, I'm still really annoyed that Espresso - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7ugmCuNxDU - hasn't been released!
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by archivator 13y ago
This can be done on older versions as well but the app has to declare itself as an Accessibility Service, which is a massive hack. Google are fixing that by mirroring that specific use case in a separate service.
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by archivator 13y ago
The tools are publicly developed: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/tools/build (there are also two adt repos, one for eclipse, one for idea; gerrit is also public) Google may develop a lot of things behin
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by archivator 13y ago
Some forms of this are way older - X10 was developed in 1975!
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by archivator 13y ago
To me, Github search is kinda useless. When I search for anything Android related (i.e. usage search for some framework type), I get a billion copies of the main Android source. The signal to noise ratio is almost 0..
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by archivator 13y ago
If someone has the resources to obtain your Wi-Fi password from Google and is determined enough to get within range of your network, you're being targeted by a very dedicated adversary. Things like physical security, TEMPEST and listen
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by archivator 13y ago
You could in theory salt the primary account password with a new salt, derive a key from it and use that to encrypt the password list (sending the salt alongside it). This of course implies that the plaintext password never hits Google&#x27
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by archivator 13y ago
If you're interested in the Geometric Modelling part of sculpting, Freestyle is a good starting paper - http://liris.cnrs.fr/Documents/Liris-5391.pdf
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by archivator 13y ago
Relevant talk: Meredith Patterson on Turing-complete protocols and weird machines - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEfedtQVOY
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by archivator 13y ago
Android has its own webkit-based browser. The Nexus-branded devices (Nexus 4,7,10, possibly the Galaxy Nexus) come with Chrome and not the Android browser.
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by archivator 13y ago
I've been using the KDE spin for ages and couldn't be happier with it! It's reasonably fast, highly customizable and gets out of my way.
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by archivator 13y ago
The thing that makes this dangerous is the "system" certificate for core apps. If you hijack traffic to any update to such an app (and OEMs have a ton of such apps), you you can inject code before it's installed under "s
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by archivator 13y ago
One of the screenshots shows ZRTP and AES-256/DH3k
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by archivator 13y ago
Anything from light trails, fading shadows, cross-frame colour effects to stuff I can't even imagine! The possibilities are greatly expanded, if you stop thinking of video as lots-of-images-one-after-another.
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by archivator 13y ago
The update hasn't reached the server around me, so I can't verify - are the filters really just the photo filters but on video? If so, I'm massively disappointed - they have a whole new dimension of data and they're doin
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Android OEM's applications (in)security and backdoors without permission [pdf](quarkslab.com)
3 points by archivator 13y ago|0 comments
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by archivator 13y ago
I love how appropriate this is, given the title (and I assume content) of the book! :D
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by archivator 13y ago
Indeed! Which is why I said "software full disk encryption" in my OP. :)
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by archivator 13y ago
Right. The thing is, when you wear out an SSD, you get these enormous (multiple seconds) pauses that, if you're doing anything I/O bound slow you down to a crawl. Even opening a heavy web page can trigger them. Buy a fast HDD if y
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by archivator 13y ago
Making a mathematical book in mobi/epub is a difficult problem but I'm surprised the publishers weren't aware of the difficulties. Simple statements can be expressed in pure Unicode (though the Kindle fonts have incomplete Un
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by archivator 13y ago
Ah, not available on Amazon UK, that's why I couldn't find it :(
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by archivator 13y ago
I'm surprised no one has mentioned that using software full disk encryption on an SSD is a really bad idea. It increases wear dramatically, completely invalidates TRIM and works against the controller every step of the way. LVM has an
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by archivator 13y ago
Will there be an eBook version outside Apple's walled garden (DRM-free, preferably)? I dislike dead-tree books, with their fixed typography and whatnot!
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by archivator 13y ago
For future reference, you can insert Excel tables (the type that do math) into your Word document. The magic of COM!
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by archivator 13y ago
IIRC, their CMS was supposed to be the Holy Grail of video management. Centralized and decentralized storage, processing farms, search-by-image, advanced tagging, etc. Sounded quite impressive but from what I understand, there are now comme

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