gcthomas

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by gcthomas 9y ago
That's because it isn't simple dead reckoning. Dead reckoning is just a part of inertial navigation.
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by gcthomas 9y ago
Signal for Android does offer reproducible builds of the binary now. https://signal.org/blog/reproducible-android/
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by gcthomas 9y ago
Like others, I specifically picked Signal over WhatsApp due to the problem of trusting proprietary apps. I think that the UK Govt Ministers that use WhatsApp to coordinate their actions should switch to whatever GCHQ recommends for givt bus
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by gcthomas 9y ago
We see stars during solar eclipses, so it is the scattering of the light of the sun that obscures them. It really _is_ the exposure issue, since the surface brightness of the Earth is that of full daylight and so full daytime exposures were
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by gcthomas 9y ago
If that is unacceptable in general, then why don't you check the settings of apps before you give them permission to access the internet? Mozilla is not even sneaky about it. On the Google Play download page, the privacy notice for the
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by gcthomas 9y ago
Because it is daytime. (If the camera exposure was set for the faint stars, then the sun-lit scene would be hugely overexposed.)
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by gcthomas 9y ago
Usage data isn't much of a privacy issue, but if you are a concerned user, don't you already have the habit of going through the settings of each new app? I found this one 2 minutes after installing and though nothing more of it.
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by gcthomas 9y ago
I use Naked Browser for my normal web browsing, nothing faster or cleaner, but all web links from apps go straight to Firefox Focus. Who knows where the obfuscated links are taking you? It's light and fast: great for my old phone.
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by gcthomas 9y ago
Spaces. Tabs are invisible and mess stuff up if mixed with spaces.
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by gcthomas 9y ago
It looks that way. Not good.
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by gcthomas 9y ago
Spideroak. I've had issues with silently maxing out the storage, leaving me unable to access the account to delete files. Having to resort to the Bash command line isn't too user friendly, but I like the service otherwise. Zero