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by christop 11y ago
Thanks!
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by christop 11y ago
"OnHub sets your default DNS provider to Google Public DNS. (This can be changed in the Advanced Networking settings of the Google On app.)" According to https://support.google.com/onhub/answer/6279845
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by christop 11y ago
From the Open Source Licences page, it seems to be running on (a modified version of?) Chromium OS: https://support.google.com/onhub/answer/6257015
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by christop 11y ago
From the Terms of Service linked from the support site https://support.google.com/onhub/answer/6270620?hl=en&ref_to... "You agree that Google may collect and use technical and related information, includi
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by christop 11y ago
The only privacy link I could find on the page was Google's generic privacy policy. Is there more information somewhere? With its "advanced and always-evolving security features", I'm wondering whether and what informat
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Twitter leaks friends and family information(thecomputerperson.wordpress.com)
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by christop 11y ago
Somebody took Microcorruption a bit too literally!
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by christop 11y ago
It makes DNS rebinding attacks simpler, for example: https://miki.it/blog/2015/4/20/the-power-of-dns-rebinding-st...
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by christop 11y ago
I guess that can be reduced a lot if not only adverts, but all the tracking scripts are blocked. I just tested this with uMatrix where I use pretty much the defaults, but allow the two CDNs for theverge.com. Ended up with 600kB downloaded a
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by christop 11y ago
Great article. Thanks!
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by christop 11y ago
Somebody needs to tell them the secret to 80% fewer grammatical errors :) It seems their SDK makes it easier for people to submit feedback directly from the app, rather than complaining on the app store, i.e. fewer negative reviews (and may
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by christop 11y ago
> the author never really goes on to state why they think Tor is the devil According to the comments section, the author says "My parenthetical headline that “tor is the devil” was facetious and apparently a failed attempt at dry hu
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by christop 11y ago
Descriptions would be great, but without regex support and a list of every town in your area, Ctrl+F doesn't really help. A map is a much nicer alternative to trying "San Francisco", "Bay Area", "SF", &quo
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by christop 11y ago
Reminds me of this tangentially-related comment from jwz a few days ago: http://www.jwz.org/blog/2015/06/internet-commerce-how-does-i...
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by christop 11y ago
While the vast majority of users upgrade to iOS 8, certainly not everybody does, so it's good to know that iOS 5 (I didn't check any earlier) also includes the "DST Root CA X3" certificate: https://support.a
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by christop 11y ago
It worked for me with "what's the capital of the country where the Brandenburg Gate is", and "what's the population of the country with the Eiffel Tower", then "what's the current time there?" Si
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by christop 11y ago
The first question returns Wikipedia info, the second two just say "Showing search results for: ...".
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by christop 11y ago
That's why the GP also posted a direct APK link. In any case, you need an invite code in order to actually use the app.
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by christop 11y ago
Looking at the M preview release, I see that Settings > Apps has expanded the "Open by default" section for each app. Now there's a toggle, "Open supported links without asking", with a list of domain names that
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by christop 11y ago
They didn't, but by the time Android M comes out, the Nexus 4 will be approaching three years old. As a Nexus 4 user, I'm not holding my breath (and my N4 isn't holding its charge).
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by christop 11y ago
"When the user installs or updates the app, the system grants the app all permissions that the app requests that fall under PROTECTION_NORMAL. For example, alarm clock and internet permissions fall under PROTECTION_NORMAL, so they are
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by christop 11y ago
Yes, as a user of a third-party Twitter client I immediately thought this isn't a great thing. Just because somebody has Twitter installed (or their carrier pre-installed it), doesn't mean they necessarily want to use the official
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by christop 11y ago
Supposedly they're working on that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdVL54l-VWY#t=25m11
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by christop 11y ago
And Trello is the only one to take advantage of the .engineering TLD! :) https://trello.engineering/
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Marcy Sutton: Speak at your local elementary school(marcysutton.com)
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by christop 11y ago
Found it, thanks.
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by christop 11y ago
Interesting indeed! But I couldn't find anything on the website or documentation about how secrets are encrypted? The security page seems to be a generic one about reporting vulnerabilities: http://vaultproject.io/sec
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by christop 11y ago
Tonga controls the "to" top-level domain, so they may add NS records for anything under that TLD — there's nothing stolen about it. It's not uncommon; the same happens with .ac, .ai, .cm, .dk, .gg, .io, .je, .pn, .sh...
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by christop 11y ago
> Info adds any information extra information to help to find which station it is [translations, disambiguation] These are two separate use cases, which should have their own structured fields. The current uses of info:* seem to be ver
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by christop 11y ago
Maybe a dumb question, but would running Tor exit node(s) on their own server(s) help in this situation?

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