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sloshnmosh
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sloshnmosh
5y ago
Will this alert you if your OS is phoning home with telemetry? /s
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5y ago
I need an app that can tell me when my cat has had enough pettings to alert me before he flips over and latches on to my arm and kicks layers of my skin off. That app would make a FORTUNE!
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5y ago
It gives new meaning to: Grandma makes the best potatoes
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sloshnmosh
5y ago
I do something similar with my WiFi dais’s Crappy_wifi_2g Spam_and_Malware
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5y ago
My father was a navigator and EWO officer in the C130 Hercules during the Vietnam war. He didn’t talk much about the war but one of things he told me was that while he was that their aircraft had several stubby antennae around the aircraft
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sloshnmosh
5y ago
You’ll also want something that can also catch CNAME’s (such as Pihole) because Apple uses content delivery servers such as Akamai for a lot of their data transfers.
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sloshnmosh
5y ago
Or “Taboola”, the pushers of mobile ad fraud and scareware.
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sloshnmosh
5y ago
Strange. I’ve never had an issue with Firefox crashing on Linux. Firefox on Android is a different matter and is unusable on some devices.
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sloshnmosh
5y ago
Thank you for this information. I had not heard this until now.
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5y ago
Wow! Thanks for the heads up on Ventoy! The only reason I even keep an old Windows based laptop around for was to burn ISO’s to flash drives with Rufus for repairing computers of friends and family members.
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5y ago
The late great Bill Hicks perfectly summarized my feelings towards advertisers/marketers. There is nothing wrong with ads per-say, it is the real time bidding and targeted ads that I have problems with. And of course malvertising such
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5y ago
Excellent point! I had forgotten about the problem with this.
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5y ago
This is why having preinstalled bloat ware on your computer is bad. I’ve seen a lot of old outdated apps on consumer grade PC’s that reinstall themselves after a factory restore that could be used by malware. HP seems to be even worse than
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5y ago
Meanwhile, Google only gives temporary bans on apps and developers that are found to be malicious only to allow them back on to the Play store after removing offending code. (Or should I say obfuscating the offending code)
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5y ago
I’ve been receiving scam voicemails that use some AI to try and sound like a human that adds umms and uhg’s to try and sound more lifelike.
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5y ago
I think the Mail is going to have a real tough time proving Google is doing anything nefarious because the algorithm used by Google is closed source.
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5y ago
What a great selection of boards! I’m very interested in the Pi router shown in the list that has 4 lan ports. But I have heard that the Pi doesn’t have good throughput for routing. Anyone know if that is true? I don’t have any problems wit
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5y ago
I was thinking this was going to be an article on the Spanish Inquisition. (Sorry)
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sloshnmosh
5y ago
Not to be confused with: www.books-share(.)com Which is part of a large mobile ad fraud operation I have reported that site and others to IC3
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sloshnmosh
6y ago
Baidu places a unique identifier for tracking on Androids SDcard which can be read by other apps that have storage permissions.
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6y ago
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away
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sloshnmosh
6y ago
Might I suggest Lineage OS. Very little if any data is sent out from my testing.
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6y ago
This is just silly pseudoscience, new-age BS if you ask me. The only scientifically proven way of knowing if someone is a liar is to examine the shape and bumps of their skull.
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6y ago
I think I found an error with one of the photos of amulets. I believe this amulet is upside down and represents a cat curled up. See if you can spot it. https://collections.louvre.fr/en/recherche?typology%5B0%5D=5
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6y ago
Is there a similar article online somewhere that can be read without having to enable JavaScript?
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6y ago
I was thinking the same.
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6y ago
Wow! What an amazing write-up and find! It’s also amazing that they noticed the subtle difference in the NFS packet capture. I can’t wait for the rest to be published. Bookmarked
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6y ago
Ha! Just by coincidence when I opened the site in Safari on iOS I got a pop-up message that my SIM card had sent a text message.
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6y ago
I found hidden Facebook buttons and pixel on the portion of my apartments website where tenants were forced to pay rent. The apartment stopped accepting checks and/or money orders and the only other way of paying your monthly rent was
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sloshnmosh
6y ago
Please share the details of your setup
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