evilDagmar

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by evilDagmar 5y ago
That's because we don't like telling the people who need to be told that you can sideload apps, because they're the very same people who will later complain that they downloaded a "Free APK" of Sparkle Monkey Defe
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by evilDagmar 5y ago
Have we seen any news about Patrick having a catastrophic aneurysm?
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by evilDagmar 5y ago
Sweet jesus. I really thought they'd killed this misfeature off after all the shenanigans we had with it in the late nineties.
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by evilDagmar 6y ago
TL;DR: Your Bluetooth dongle doesn't work because you've plugged it into or right next to a USB 3.0 port which is jamming it to bits. Get any decent USB extension cable and connect it to a USB 2.0 port and everything will be fine
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by evilDagmar 6y ago
John Cleese has done how many pieces of architectural art now?
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by evilDagmar 6y ago
Nonsense. It doesn't take anything more than an old netbook to "optimize" a set of floats that were already arranged as a series of linked coordinates in a couple of seconds. The typical desktop can easily handle several th
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by evilDagmar 6y ago
Actually, yes. They're even good in a classroom because even if a kid screws one up, it's not hard to teach a public school teacher how to re-image an SD card. You dont hear about it as often because for reasons, the kids aren&#x
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by evilDagmar 7y ago
This seems a bit histrionic. The antivirus industry has for a /very/ long time been a hotbed of stupidity. That's not something Google developed. It also looks like that's where all this nonsense is coming from. Tryi
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by evilDagmar 7y ago
Kiss your battery life goodbye then, because HE requires a massive amount of CPU power. So much that it's outright prohibitive for use on a cell phone for at least the next 5-6 years, minimum (Moore's Law)
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by evilDagmar 7y ago
Google already does what people are spewing apologetics about as justification for Facebook's behaviour, but they do it the right way. Google's SafetyNet scans the system files, but it looks for _specific_ files that should not
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by evilDagmar 7y ago
You don't need "that version of the system library" to debug anything. If you write decent code that adheres to the published APIs, it works or it's Android's fault. Should it be Android's fault and you deplo
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by evilDagmar 7y ago
It's not a fair use exception because Facebook is not the party involved in the copyright agreement. They're a completely separate third party so they don't have any rights at all to those files.
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by evilDagmar 7y ago
Except it's not the data that's protected by copyright laws. ...and that it's not the original file is what makes it ethically palatable that Facebook is doing this without explicitly notifying the users that it's happe
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by evilDagmar 7y ago
Not under US Copyright law, but that's because you have a licence to the software which means you have the fair use right to take this security measure. Absent a rather dubious user agreement allowing Facebook to copy all the data of
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by evilDagmar 7y ago
It typically becomes rather "challenging" to justify to management why one shouldn't scrape "aggressively" until the competitor's site degrades or falls over. That's why it's generally kind of sleazy
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by evilDagmar 7y ago
Well, you can spend a little time putting some anti-bot measures into place, or you can spend money paying a larger hosting bill for all the wasted CPU time, or you can spend some time explaining to legitimate users why the site fell over u
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by evilDagmar 7y ago
Then it's a real shame they haven't paid attention to the documentation for NotificationBuilder, because there's a straightforward solution to the problem they're complaining about.
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by evilDagmar 7y ago
> Problem: The Firebase Android client library is proprietary, meaning FOSS apps can not use it. Apps that do not comply are reported to the user as "using too much battery". This is simply not true . These two points don&#x2
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by evilDagmar 7y ago
Not quite. Apps have always been held to accounting for the amount of battery and clockcycles they use. The only change here is that a notification is now required for an app to deploy a persistent service. If you request the absolute
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by evilDagmar 7y ago
Sounds like an opportunity for someone to sit down and write one. The API and docs for it are fairly palatable and offer some very reasonable guidance on things like exponential backoff. It still doesn't mean that they're going t
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by evilDagmar 7y ago
This is pretty darned incorrect on a number of fronts. Skipping for the moment that a random histronic Reddit post is being considered "news"... > "Google started leveraging its de-facto monopoly on Android distributions
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by evilDagmar 8y ago
More specifically, they tend to view it as a cost center that does nothing to increase profits. Thing #1 to remember if you're in infosec is that you must pitch it based on the money saved by not having expensive problems like havi
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by evilDagmar 8y ago
...because there are still bugs being found in the USB handling code that can occasionally be exploited for code execution.
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by evilDagmar 8y ago
In the US, above a certain size you're basically required to sell off the old hardware because throwing it away counts as polluting, and the people who dispose of exclusively tech stuff charge you for that service.
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by evilDagmar 8y ago
Those numbers sound a little thin on the bottom, but only a little. Maybe take 15% out of the CIO category and just throw it away, because they're usually very quick to turn on their underlings.
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by evilDagmar 8y ago
Good luck finding anyone willing to issue you a cert that's valid for 20 years.
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by evilDagmar 8y ago
Of the two, the regexp from the spec should be preferable, because it is exactly what is in the spec. Some other library would be a once-removed version of it and could actually bring flaws of its own.
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by evilDagmar 8y ago
Sure, if you don't mind writing garbage code. Otherwise, if you don't understand it, you can't say for sure it's correct, and it's usually wrong .
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by evilDagmar 8y ago
If we could so readily write this stuff down so that we can come back to it, we could have already banged it in through the keyboard and be done . What's going on in a good programmer's head is going to be complex and detailed,
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by evilDagmar 8y ago
This sounds like he'd spent time low-balling on salaries until he'd collected a cadre of people only barely interested in their work. It doesn't take much to make those people completely disinterested in doing more than mark

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