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541.
by grishka 1y ago
(the title was originally stylized as "IcôNES")
542.
by grishka 1y ago
Note: this is unrelated to the Nintendo Entertainment System. It's just a collection of open-source vector icon sets.
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by grishka 1y ago
If you're going to exploit a privilege escalation vulnerability from your app, why not just grab the most interesting parts of the /data partition while you're at it?
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by grishka 1y ago
There is a permission to record the screen. It requires user consent and there's an icon in the status bar while it's being used. It's impossible to use this covertly. What I believe the article is speaking about, is an app t
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by grishka 2y ago
Russia. It's still a thing most likely. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Russian_postal_codes...
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by grishka 2y ago
I'm also a millennial software engineer but I usually write stuff down to text files. I do use pen and paper to draw things if that helps my understanding of them. Like when there's geometry involved. Sending letters isn't
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by grishka 2y ago
That's because copyright in Russia is only enforced for companies. If you pirate something for personal use, no one would care, thankfully.
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by grishka 2y ago
Depends on the country. I researched it for Russia recently and apparently the law is much stricter about fonts here than in the US. Both the character shapes and the "code" are copyrightable so you ain't getting away with
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by grishka 2y ago
How does one even use a font in an app without shipping it with the app? In a logo or something?
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by grishka 2y ago
Android has notification categories ("channels" as they're called in the API) that can be individually disabled. But it's on the app developers to assign the right one to their notifications. Many apps do honestly do it
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by grishka 2y ago
Can we also talk about the practice of mass sending push notifications in mobile apps, and usually nonsensical cringely cute ones at that? The whole notion is absurd to me. A notification is supposed to notify you that something happen
552.
by grishka 2y ago
It depends on the country. In some, reverse engineering a proprietary product for the purpose of interoperability is explicitly allowed. In the US, as far as I know, there hasn't yet been a precedent about this.
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by grishka 2y ago
The more general problem is that software companies started having their own goals that are at odds with just serving the damn users that pay them money.
554.
by grishka 2y ago
This is more of a problem of the C/C++ standard that it allows uninitialized variables but doesn't give them defined values, considering it "undefined behavior" to read from an uninitialized variable. Java, for example,
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by grishka 2y ago
The only somewhat good use for third-party cookies is various embeds and comment widgets. It wouldn't be all that much of a loss for the users if third-party cookies were removed without a replacement, but with the developer of the w
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by grishka 2y ago
You can use multiple DNS providers at once to catch that situation. You can have some sort of signing scheme where each authoritative server would sign something in turn to establish a chain of trust up to the root servers. You can use encr
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by grishka 2y ago
This effect kinda reminds me of the PSP menu background
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by grishka 2y ago
I want a middle ground. Identity verification is useful for TLS, but I really wish there was no reliance on ultimately trusted third parties for that. Maybe put some sort of identity proof into DNS instead, since the whole thing relies on D
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by grishka 2y ago
Isn't it usually the server's public key that's pinned? The key pair isn't regenerated when you renew the certificate.
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by grishka 2y ago
Not only that, jadx operates on dex files directly and the conversion from dex to regular JVM classes can sometimes be lossy. So you tend to get better decompilation with jadx vs dex2jar and any regular Java decompiler.
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by grishka 2y ago
Yes. In one instance I used Java 17 in an app that ran on as low as Android 4.2, and it did work just fine on an actual Galaxy Nexus. My current app's minSdk is Android 6. Though there are caveats: you can't use records (because t
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by grishka 2y ago
I still write Android apps exclusively in Java, albeit it's Java 17. The most recent new app I started was in 2022. I don't know Kotlin and don't want to know it. The one time I had to deal with an app with parts of it in K
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by grishka 2y ago
Last time I ran into something similar, I researched whether I could get real-time subway train location data for my city, St Petersburg. It turned out that such data unfortunately doesn't exist as far as I can tell. I did find an offi
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by grishka 2y ago
You can't virtualize a different architecture. Virtualization means that the guest OS runs natively on the host CPU with some sort of hypervisor. Do you mean emulation?
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by grishka 2y ago
Android ended up doing AOT (the infamous "optimizing apps" step on boot). The modern versions, iirc, have a hybrid approach, interpreting and JITing for newly installed apps but still AOT compiling while the device is charging.
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by grishka 2y ago
Then I guess it's good to live in a country where no AI products from western companies are available for some reason. As in, if I would really need to use ChatGPT, I'd have to do that through a VPN. Everyone talks about Google&#x
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by grishka 2y ago
Of course I do and always will. Not once did I consider using an LLM for anything even remotely serious. Generative AI, in any form, is a toy, a novelty. It's fun to play with and make fun of sometimes, but that's about it. And ho
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by grishka 2y ago
My classmate at the university had a laptop that first developed lines on the screen that he fixed by strategically cramming pieces of paper between the bezel and the LCD panel, and then eventually the hinges broke so he carried a book stan
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by grishka 2y ago
I've only flown Virgin America once. In 2014. Yet here I am in 2025 posting about it on HN. The selectiveness of my memories is weird .
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by grishka 2y ago
My favorite one isn't listed in the article, it's this one of Virgin America: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1A5BtqsaPM Seriously, a flight safety video has absolutely no right to be this catchy :D

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