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by jbg_ 9y ago
This doesn't make sense to me. You already have other permissions (draw on top of other apps, full filesystem access, etc) that could be catastrophic to grant to malicious apps. If you don't trust yourself not to grant them, or yo
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by jbg_ 9y ago
It does not turn off signature checking. It allows selective, whitelisted system apps to impersonate other apps after a permission is granted by the user. Specifically, it allows the open-source, auditable microG apps to impersonate the clo
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by jbg_ 9y ago
I actually tested this a little on a Nexus 5X a while back. With a clean install of a LineageOS build manually patched to include microG (before I knew about this fork), I unplugged it from the charger at 100% and left it for 8 hours withou
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by jbg_ 9y ago
Just to provide some context for the "very important security feature" that is disabled. The change adds a permission that allows (after explicit whitelisting by the user) an app to impersonate another app. Specifically, it allows
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by jbg_ 9y ago
Another option is roaming on a foreign SIM card - this usually bypasses the GFW quite effectively; roaming is effectively a VPN back to the home provider, and there seems to be some whitelist for these roaming tunnels. The providers probabl
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by jbg_ 9y ago
Also Italy: I've never signed when paying with my card, whether chip or contactless. Always PIN, except if it's contactless and the amount is low, in which case no PIN. This is also what I see when I see others pay for things in s
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by jbg_ 9y ago
uMatrix.
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by jbg_ 9y ago
The parent of my comment was claiming that it is a solved problem everywhere outside of the US. My claim is simply that it is far from solved, and if someone thinks homelessness is "solved" in the EU, I can only assume they have
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by jbg_ 9y ago
I can only assume you haven't spent a lot of time in the EU... Switzerland (which is not in the EU) is the only European country I've been to that does not have a very visible population of homeless people.
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by jbg_ 9y ago
There are various companies online that give you remote access to a macOS VM running on Apple hardware, reasonably inexpensively. I use one for Mac & iOS builds. The one I use says in the contract that I am actually buying fractional ow
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by jbg_ 9y ago
Whatever "dynamically load some JS that loads some more JS that loads the content" thing this page uses doesn't work at all for me on Firefox nightly. Just a blank page with the blog header at the top, even with my blocker di
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Possible security risk affects 750,000 Estonian ID-cards(estonianworld.com)
1 points by jbg_ 9y ago|0 comments
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by jbg_ 9y ago
If it's Nespresso (or a compatible system) that you were shown an ad for, the "unrecyclable" line that seems to often get repeated is actually false. The pods _are_ recyclable, but whether they actually _get_ recycled is a le
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by jbg_ 9y ago
Could you expand on "all the unicode crap"?
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by jbg_ 9y ago
A: Around the time that a simple blog post required JS from four separate domains in order to display anything other than a blank page.
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by jbg_ 9y ago
(Genuine question, haven't used it in the last few years.) Does Gmail support exporting email, other than using IMAP which I understand Proton also has in beta?
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Public Enemy: quotes from the Martin Shkreli jury selection process(harpers.org)
65 points by jbg_ 9y ago|105 comments
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by jbg_ 9y ago
Meanwhile, the average transaction value is approaching $40,000. $5 suddenly doesn't sound so terrible. Both of those figures are pulled high by exceptionally valuable and exceptionally large transactions, respectively, of course. Medi
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by jbg_ 9y ago
The FBI seems to have gone further than usual (in my limited understanding of what is usual) here with "assisting" the man to incriminate himself. To me (not a lawyer) it sounds a little like entrapment. ... an undercover FBI
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Man arrested for trying to detonate what he thought was a car bomb in Oklahoma(justice.gov)
1 points by jbg_ 9y ago|1 comments
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by jbg_ 9y ago
I built https://dtmf.io/ using Rust. The first prototype was using the Iron framework but then after fighting some parts of Iron, I pared it back to just using async hyper & handlebars-rs directly for the HTTP and templ
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by jbg_ 9y ago
1/2 Hz is one oscillation every 2 seconds. That would be 30 per minute.
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by jbg_ 9y ago
I can only assume you are trolling given the factual inaccuracy of your first sentence (which you presumably know if your ex-job title is true) and the patent ridiculousness of saying "cars are risk free".
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by jbg_ 9y ago
The Caledonian Sleeper is quite good, and has a great restaurant car, but it's generally considerably more expensive than flying unless you book very far in advance, and they do some shunting of carriages at one of the stops during the
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by jbg_ 9y ago
You cut off the end of parent's sentence. It is "something nobody could give a crap about in the article ."
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by jbg_ 9y ago
This appears to no longer be the case in Python 3: $ python2 Python 2.7.13 (default, Jul 21 2017, 03:24:34) >>> () = [] File "<stdin>", line 1 SyntaxError: can't assign to () >&g
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by jbg_ 9y ago
ILS is separate from the radar system mentioned by parent. ILS uses directional radio signals from each end of the runway to provide a glideslope and lateral guidance, not radar. The signals are transmitted from the ground and used for guid
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by jbg_ 9y ago
The A320 can land itself, but pilots regularly approach and land manually to keep their manual flying skills current (as the automated systems -- both the ground components and aircraft components as well as the communications channels betw
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Coinfork – easily access your Bitcoin Cash(coinfork.io)
3 points by jbg_ 9y ago|2 comments
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by jbg_ 9y ago
I gave up on the Slack desktop client after regularly finding it using 3GB of RAM for no obvious reason. Switched to the browser client but found it buggier and needed to be refreshed periodically due to becoming so slow that there was a no

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