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by treszkai 5y ago
Except a mouse doesn't give you absolute coordinates, it can only tell your current speed. This would be an optical mouse that moves the cursor even if you lift it up and put down somewhere else.
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by treszkai 5y ago
Summary: QR code contained link to malicious Android app, which had access to all the data on the phone after the given privileges were granted. Steps required for this to go through: - open link in QR code that points to an APK download -
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by treszkai 5y ago
That works, but you need to keep the "Developer tools" frame open. Once it's closed, the blocking is gone. (Try it with an infinity feed.)
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by treszkai 5y ago
> And even more surprisingly it seems most apps support this, instead of putting all notifications under one channel. Maybe because developers want to do the Right Thing, and they can implement these notification groups with no effort an
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by treszkai 5y ago
> and all third-party scripts are always clunky > I use [...] pass as overflow for more involved secrets Why don't you consider pass a third-party script here in this context? Don't you use the Firefox plugin passFF?
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by treszkai 5y ago
> QUIC was developed through a collaborative and iterative standardization process at the IETF after almost five years, 26 face-to-face meetings, 1,749 issues, and many thousands of emails. 26 face-to-face meeting in 5 years is an extrem
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by treszkai 5y ago
> We assumed that making it opt-in would allay privacy concerns but since this isn't the case, we are dropping it. Especially after dropping Google & Yandex, I guess they could've stood up for their telemetry needs, and fla
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by treszkai 5y ago
You can drop the "3" from !python3, it has the same result.
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by treszkai 6y ago
Because killing people feels bad, but destroying objects feels like a prank (especially to those who don't understand the consequences). I don't think laws hold back punks from murder; customs do.
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by treszkai 6y ago
> immigrants fleeing authoritarianism are generally vocal against it There's a huge selection bias here (the immigrants most visible are those who speak up), so I wouldn't be so certain about this. My prior is that people don&#
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by treszkai 6y ago
> Our team is very experienced in making gadgets. They are experts from Xiaomi/OPPO/Google/Ubuntu and other Consumer Electronic Companies. Interestingly, JingOS's About page [1] uses similar words but different compan
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by treszkai 6y ago
Absolutely. Until now I had no idea what a JPEG optimizer is, and even the About page of jpeg.rocks said exactly nothing about what it does.
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by treszkai 6y ago
Information without DRM can easily become a public good: it can be copied without limits and a loss in quality. Once it's out in the open, people will access it easier, but that also makes it near-impossible for the information-owner t
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by treszkai 6y ago
> Then try thinking about potential ways of how all these things could interact to break a system. This is where your advice goes south, IMHO. The sysadmin can't think of every possible way his system can get compromised -- they are
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by treszkai 6y ago
How do you deal with the eventuality of Pinboard going down? (Which will almost certainly happen sooner or later.) While the civilization doesn't depend on my data, I always like to have a backup, so paying for a service to store my we
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by treszkai 6y ago
It’s like the Pale Blue Dot: one could mistake the one pixel of the Earth for some noise in the optics.