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by iggldiggl 1y ago
They did a study for a small- to medium-size town in Germany – based on traffic modelling, it was estimated that an extensive on-demand system with almost 500 on-demand vehicles would only have about the same effect on passenger numbers as
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by iggldiggl 1y ago
I think certain performance issues have persisted until today, though?
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by iggldiggl 1y ago
With file access, the sensible solution would have been of course to just overlay the permissions onto the regular files API (like I think every other sandboxing solution does), so everything that uses files could keep working as usual and
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by iggldiggl 1y ago
> Android 14 doesn't support 32bit apps even when running on an older SOC Huh? Tell that to my phone. Maybe Google dropped support from their own OS builds even for older phones, but I don't think AOSP as such has dropped 32-bi
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by iggldiggl 1y ago
There's that Paul McCartney anecdote how he thought he'd found the meaning of life during one of his first drug experiences and the next morning he found a piece of paper on which he'd written "There are seven levels&quo
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by iggldiggl 1y ago
As also pointed out in a sibling thread, there's https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/ though, which is somebody's curated collection of apps with Github releases in the form of an F-Droid repository.
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by iggldiggl 1y ago
The main goal of SP, DKIM and DMARC wasn't to slow down spammers by setting up "bureaucratic hurdles", it was to prevent domain spoofing, though, and arguably it's succeeded at that.
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by iggldiggl 1y ago
> Java apps are usually quite easy to decompile and check. Search for library versions in use, force upgrades on security vulnerabilities. You don't even need to do that – for a while already, Google's toolchain has been adding
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by iggldiggl 1y ago
The problem is that there is a lot of grey area between pure document-style pages and full-on apps (take online shops for example) and even for the former category of pages a lot of UI niceties are only possible with scripting.
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by iggldiggl 1y ago
> It's disabled by default. You have to dig around in your phone's settings to enable APK installations At least since the time that the "install apps from unknown sources" permission was migrated from a global toggle
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by iggldiggl 1y ago
Doesn't work if the SIM is pin-locked, too, though.
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by iggldiggl 2y ago
> Typing <word><space><hyphenminus><hyphenminus><space><word><space> yields an en dash. More importantly, typing just a single hyphen minus in this constellation triggers the autoreplace, too.
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by iggldiggl 2y ago
Firefox has way more than 20 developers. Looking at https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/mots/index.html , if I'm not mistaken in my count, there are currently 147 module owners and peers alone. Some of those
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by iggldiggl 2y ago
Time-travel debugging is something different – time-travel debugging means you can actually step backwards through the execution to try and see how you ended up with the bug. Merely being able to inspect the state of (local) variables fur
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by iggldiggl 2y ago
> Deezer and Apple Music have the latter, too. All online music services seem to have borked up copies of Bob Dylan albums that for the Bootleg Series albums with live content are missing the between-tracks bits that on the CDs are store
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by iggldiggl 2y ago
> I remember something like dex2jar also, which gave you a jar you could use in any java decompiler, like jdgui, procyon etc. https://github.com/skylot/jadx is very handy for that nowadays. It also supports interact
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by iggldiggl 2y ago
> can be trivially attached to emails under the 10MB size limit, which other forms of media usually can't The average pop song at average bitrates would fit that limit, though, too, even with less room to spare.
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by iggldiggl 2y ago
Otsuki might still be an booking-on/-off point for train drivers, with a number of drivers based there and regularly starting and ending their turns at that station and presumably living nearby. Or alternatively the train company finds
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by iggldiggl 2y ago
Trams running every two to three minutes on a few central sections is nothing out of the ordinary in a number of tram systems.
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by iggldiggl 2y ago
> Sony also apparently wipe a partition with a little DRM blob for the camera, which degrades some aspect of its post processing capabilities so image quality might be less. I think they no longer do that since a while (a few years) ago,
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by iggldiggl 2y ago
> And then there's the peculiar grammar that puts the most important verb at the very end of a sentence An American woman visiting Berlin - intent on hearing Bismarck speak - obtained two tickets for the Reichstag visitors' ga
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by iggldiggl 2y ago
See also https://web.archive.org/web/20211003234131/http://bytepointe... and https://github.com/m417z/the-old-new-thing-userscript , because Microsoft managed to lose all the old com
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by iggldiggl 2y ago
> Now, video is done completely differently than it was. Which is a thing that happened long before Firefox 126, too. (Browsers have simply requested the screen wakelock themselves when a video was playing. So this API is mainly for use
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by iggldiggl 2y ago
> The card is a physical representation of your account number, readable with a magstripe scanner. Which is no longer true for EMV cards, though. There, the chip contains some additional data which cannot be easily copied and which helps
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by iggldiggl 2y ago
> I started by reading their docs on how to add a new app. Did you stumble across https://f-droid.org/docs/Inclusion_How-To/ , or did you miss that page somehow? Because there it mentions the Submission Queue as
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by iggldiggl 2y ago
> I'd really like to know what's in the heads of people who come up with this sort of crap. They probably think that geolocation always perfectly works based on the physical location and don't consider edge cases like peo
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by iggldiggl 2y ago
> You can take as much time as you need to finish crossing. Well, up to a certain extent at least. Behind the scenes, German traffic lights for example usually assume you continue walking at 1.2 m/s – if you start crossing at the la
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by iggldiggl 2y ago
That'd only make sense if your pedestrian network is completely independent from the road network, so pedestrians only need to cross roads, but otherwise never interact with them. However the usual case is that pedestrians have to walk
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by iggldiggl 2y ago
Countdown signals don't work with adaptive signalling where phases are dynamically lengthened or shortened (or sometimes entirely skipped) in response to traffic flows. They especially don't work with public transport priority.
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by iggldiggl 2y ago
That doesn't excuse speeding up, though – if the yellow light is long enough, you will always be able to either a) safely stop with a certain given maximum deceleration, or else b) continue at your current speed and enter the interse

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