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by sswam 16y ago
I absolutely agree. The current warnings are inadequate because the average phone user does not bother to read them and cannot understand them. The average user does not think up malware exploit-cases to convince himself that full internet
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by sswam 16y ago
I think it's better to have the option, enabled by default, so that people see a warning pop-up the first time an app attempts internet access: "Freecell wants to access the internet. This could compromise your privacy or security. Press 'b
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by sswam 16y ago
No, unless i am mistaken they are not sandboxed with respect to the SD card, and apps with write permission (comes for free with API 1.4) can also modify or delete any SD card content - to install a windows virus for example.
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by sswam 16y ago
I did mention that Maemo's practical security is much weaker than Android's, but it's actual security may be better - like Debian's - because most apps are open source.
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by sswam 16y ago
Fair enough, but I only know about Android and Maemo! As for apple, I have different reasons for disliking Apple: http://sam.ai.ki/apple.html
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by sswam 16y ago
apps without permission to access it could be run in a chroot, for example.
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by sswam 16y ago
you could, but this is not good enough. A malicious app can collect data to send, store it, and wait until you slip up and accidentally give it internet access. Again, this is trivial stuff, no elite hacking required.
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Android security model is inadequate, and it needs a firewall(sswam.wordpress.com)
77 points by sswam 16y ago|47 comments
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by sswam 16y ago
the reason being something along the lines of "oooh, shiny!" Practically every monitor in our office is of course matte. If they were glossy displays, we would really be struggling to read any text on them! Perhaps this is more of a probl
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by sswam 16y ago
I guess the main thing that came out of it was finding out how to run NetBSD and OpenBSD in recent qemu, which is not totally obvious, they didn't work out of the box. It took a bit of searching around and asking questions!
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by sswam 16y ago
It uses a fairly small amount of RAM / RSS for the emulator, I was impressed that it could run 9 operating systems in 1GB and not too much swapping was going on. I know that normal virtualisers like xen are faster.
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by sswam 16y ago
I wouldn't do well under load, but it was fine for running an interactive shell without X. There might be a bit of swapping when switching your attention from one VM to another, only a few seconds. Qemu is a nice way to try out some diffe
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by sswam 16y ago
I got an HP mini this week, runs Ubuntu 10.04 very nicely, and has a lovely matte screen. It was the only laptop in shop with a nice matte screen, even the super $3000 3d laptop had a glossy screen! Who wants a glossy screen, are they ins
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by sswam 16y ago
why? because an Eee PC was the only desktop box I had available at the time, and I wanted to test the portability of a program to various different systems.
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Extending VPS disk space with sshfs and a loop mount(sam.ai.ki)
1 points by sswam 16y ago|0 comments
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Yes, an Eee PC can run 10 operating systems in parallel(sam.ai.ki)
54 points by sswam 16y ago|31 comments
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by sswam 16y ago
I would greatly appreciate any review and informed feedback on this informal paper.
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by sswam 16y ago
I would greatly appreciate if some kind hacker would review my reasoning and help me correct any errors! "The calculated values (oblateness) are not close enough to the actual values, so I think I have made some mistake, or did not consider
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RFC: The Shape of a Planet(sam.ai.ki)
2 points by sswam 16y ago|1 comments
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RFC: CO2 and forests - deforestation compared to human emissions(sam.ai.ki)
1 points by sswam 16y ago|1 comments
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by sswam 16y ago
yea, Debian is goodness. I think Ubuntu inherits most of that goodness, but the packaging seems to be a little more flakey. I've had more dist-upgrade failures in Ubuntu than with Debian. FWIW as of now, I use Debian on servers, and Ubun
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by sswam 16y ago
funny idea, I like it
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by sswam 16y ago
The basic technique they are using, to generate a Fourier transform and distinctive signature from a segment of music, and look it up in a hash, is completely obvious. It should not be patentable. The gory details of their algorithm might
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by sswam 16y ago
This is crap, the changed condition is still unacceptable. These conditions are a deal-breaker for me. I would have considered buying an iPhone and developing on it, but because of this stupid other-language-prohibition, I will never buy
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by sswam 16y ago
Well, the point is that now I can have a hubble deep field image as my background for google search, which is a enough reason for me to stay logged in to my google account at work, which I normally don't. So it's good for their stats depart
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by sswam 16y ago
I guess the success of "hacker news" is largely due to: 1. the name "hacker news" is a cool name 2. simple hacker-friendly web interface w/o ads.
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by sswam 16y ago
I'm impressed, it's not far from implementing Doom in javascript :)
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by sswam 16y ago
this system does keep every key sounding the same, for me that is a desirable quality. Some variety of harmonies might be used to achieve different feels. The key of the system is that it is designed for an electronic synthesizer - a diff
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by sswam 16y ago
I have done some work on this. I think the best way to tune a system for playing diatonic music is to ensure that the major and minor chords on tonic, dominant and sub-dominant are perfectly tuned in harmony. This sets exact frequencies f
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by sswam 16y ago
I know, because I run a free shell server and I used to ask people to provide public keys, maybe 1/20 would send me the private key instead.

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