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by christop 12y ago
The image is used on the English Wikipedia page for "Selfie", and according to the image page on Wikimedia Commons: "This file is in the public domain, because as the work of a non-human animal, it has no human author in whom
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Wikipedia refuses to delete photo taken by monkey(telegraph.co.uk)
201 points by christop 12y ago|203 comments
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by christop 12y ago
That sounds very odd; I compiled the app mentioned here and it took more like 200ms to read the info from my UK contactless VISA card. But this whole attack isn't anything new — this was pretty widely reported back in 2012 in the UK, e
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by christop 12y ago
Nice that they're continuing the convention of using BBC Micro model names!
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Building the new SoundCloud iOS application — Part I: The reactive paradigm(developers.soundcloud.com)
3 points by christop 12y ago|0 comments
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by christop 12y ago
How can they tell whether I've been buying cigarettes or carrots at the grocery store? My credit card statement just shows a store name, timestamp and amount. They'd presumably have to be colluding with the grocery chains to get t
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by christop 12y ago
TiddlyWiki, the original self-contained wiki (and now nearly 10 years old), was (is?) often used for note-taking. All you need is a browser, point it at a file:/// URI and you could save your changes locally. http:/&#x2
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by christop 12y ago
Yet more data unceremoniously dumped from a database and munged into JSON. I like the player "PosX" and "PosY" decimal values, presumably used to position the player on a team formation graphic. Apparently mobile devices
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by christop 12y ago
This is still far longer than it should be. I just built a not-particularly-large app after making a single-line change and it took 16 seconds to compile, dex, package and install on a running x86 emulator. The installation time is apprecia
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by christop 12y ago
Genymotion is mentioned in the article, along with the reasons why it's not ideal (aside from the fact that it's not a first-party solution, and that you can't get a version with the Google SDKs running).
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by christop 12y ago
Salt is used with a hash function, not encryption, AFAIK. Though whether they really are using encryption (of plaintext passwords?), or whether they actually meant hashing is another question.
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by christop 12y ago
I don't think XMPP is necessarily power-inefficient. Every Android device with the Google services installed actually has an XMPP connection open the whole time (albeit with some protocol changes); it's how push notifications work
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by christop 12y ago
This looks promising, though the message "Warning: When using a remote Docker host, forwarded ports will NOT be immediately available on your machine" was a bit disappointing. Given that it transparently wraps boot2docker and hand