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Android Bug Lets Attackers Record Audio and Screen Activity on 3 of 4 Smartphones(bleepingcomputer.com)
2 points by shock 9y ago|0 comments
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by shock 9y ago
Moving to Firefox 52 isn't really an option for me because it's a pig compared to 55/56 (it consumes almost 5GBs of RAM compared to 1GB for 56).
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by shock 9y ago
Interestingly, your link didn't work for me because comodo.com was blocked by Quad9 :)
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by shock 9y ago
I wrote you an email to the address in your profile but got a failure notice: Sorry, we were unable to deliver your message to the following address. <CTO@globalcyberalliance.org>: 550: 5.1.1 The email account that you tried
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Quad9 – Free Cyber Threats Blocking DNS Service by IBM and Others(quad9.net)
4 points by shock 9y ago|0 comments
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by shock 9y ago
This seems like a project meant to produce money from advertising with a limited effort investment. Maybe I'm cynical, but that's the impression it gave me. I hope it develops to provide more value than merely aggregating some lin
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by shock 9y ago
> Or you could do the same with a data centre or supercomputer that runs useful services, like hosting websites or doing research (in fact there are already projects to use heat from servers for district heating). That depends on your de
488.
by shock 9y ago
This should have been the post link.
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by shock 9y ago
I didn't find Upwork's contract without signing up, but before Elance merged with oDesk to become Upwork they had pretty onerous terms in their services agreement⁰: 9.Indemnification Contractor will defend, indemnify, and hold ha
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by shock 9y ago
This might be in the realm of possibility with the new HAL (Project Treble) they introduced in the latest Android.
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by shock 9y ago
No. I recommend the ML course by Andrew Ng (I did it on coursera) and the AI course by Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig.
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OnePlus Admits It Was Snooping on OxygenOS Users, Says It Will Tweak Program(gizmodo.com)
55 points by shock 9y ago|17 comments
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by shock 9y ago
"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence." - Mahatma Gandhi I think it's extremely important to express our dissatisfaction with nVidia, and
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The Essential Phone now costs $499, $200 less than the original price(theverge.com)
2 points by shock 9y ago|0 comments
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by shock 9y ago
> Big news, training focused on small-business owner skills beats training focused on management skills when applied to small-business owners. I consider that setting goals, dealing with feedback and persistence in the face of setbacks
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by shock 9y ago
> There is a very simple question here. How much cheaper is this lower quality food? The article states that at least in some cases the inferior food is _more expensive_. From the article: Nobody has an appetite for inferior food – and
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by shock 9y ago
Are you sure SourceTree works on Linux? I couldn't find any reference to that or a way to download the Linux version.
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by shock 9y ago
It will be hit and miss for a while until the ecosystem stabilizes. A project using Groovy/Griffon didn't build because of issues related to reflection and I had to disable a lot of the reflection "fences" introduced in
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by shock 9y ago
Jigsaw was approved in the second ballot.
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by shock 9y ago
I'd write desktop apps in Java if AOT was available. I'd much prefer Java with JavaFX/Swing/SWT to C++ with QT for cross platform desktop apps. Maybe we'd see Java used for cross platform desktop apps more, instead
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by shock 9y ago
On Linux it also adds GTK support. Too late to edit: I meant GTK3 support. It supported GTK2 just fine even before JDK 9.
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by shock 9y ago
Are there any free JVMs with AOT besides Eclipse/IBM OpenJ9 (of which I've only learned a couple of days ago)?
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by shock 9y ago
They've changed the version string⁰ format. Existing software needs to be updated to parse the new format. ⓪ - http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/223
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by shock 9y ago
I was pretty excited about AOT compilation⁰, but it seems it doesn't support dynamically generated classes and bytecode i.e.: lambdas and invokedynamic. ⓪ - http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/295
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Project Jigsaw: Complete(mreinhold.org)
4 points by shock 9y ago|0 comments
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What's new in Java 9(docs.oracle.com)
1 points by shock 9y ago|0 comments
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JDK 9 Release Notes(oracle.com)
3 points by shock 9y ago|0 comments
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by shock 9y ago
Speculating here, but perhaps they had planned some additional testing and wanted to have plenty of time to fix bugs.
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by shock 9y ago
With Java 9, Java finally supports HiDPI on Linux and Windows. MacOS has had HiDPI support since Java 7u40. On Linux it also adds GTK support.
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Java 9 Released(oracle.com)
80 points by shock 9y ago|19 comments

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