davotoula | 1 year ago | on: Android 15 may make it harder for sideloaded apps to get sensitive permissions
+1 for freezing unused apps. Would lower the attack surface nicely!
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davotoula | 1 year ago | on: Unplug Your Laptop Now, or It Will Stay Plugged in Forever
I disagree. 2022 mbp. Always plugged in... 5 charge cycles in total.
It seldom charges while plugged in. Even when down to 80% it alerts me it's not charging because I seldom use the battery.
Apple could change this behaviour silently and mess it up but for now it's perfect for my needs.
davotoula | 2 years ago | on: Today Is One of the Biggest Surveillance Votes. Will the FBI Stop Spying?
Spoiler: no.
davotoula | 2 years ago | on: ‘Who Benefits?’ Inside the EU’s Fight over Scanning for Child Sex Content
Source?
davotoula | 2 years ago | on: Tell HN: Goodbye HTML Gmail
That would explain why they added selection of multiple emails (after 10 years of request) for deletion im the app.
It was the only feature I was using the basic html for.
davotoula | 2 years ago | on: Pentax K-3 III Monochrome: A DSLR Just for B&W Photo Lovers
I thought b&w only was a gimmick until I saw the results. Removing various colour components from the camera allows for sharper and more light sensitive b&w photos... Also more b&w tones imo.
davotoula | 2 years ago | on: No way in or out of Burning Man after storm
Man will burn tomorrow
davotoula | 2 years ago | on: Young climate activist tells Greenpeace to drop ‘old-fashioned’ anti-nuclear
"How dare you!"
davotoula | 2 years ago | on: Booking a Ryanair flight via an online travel agent might hold a nasty surprise
Funny story. I have an email that keeps being flagged as "booked through an agent" even though I book directly through ryanair official app.
3 last bookings were flagged.
Only found out after numerous online chats and a call after 40 minute hold.
Ryanair has some of the best direct routes in Europe and often you get a bargain price. You get what you pay for.
davotoula | 8 years ago | on: Google Maps' Moat
I wish they introduced a "motorcycle" vehicle type. At least for cities, it makes a big difference in arrival time estimations.
davotoula | 8 years ago | on: Identity Thieves Hijack Cellphone Accounts to Go After Virtual Currency
This was raised by Kraken back in November 2016. Shortly afterwards I removed mobile phone as 2FA from all my accounts.
The simple fact is that I don't own my mobile number; the mobile operator does. As such I should not use it as 2fa.
https://blog.kraken.com/post/219/security-advisory-mobile-ph...
davotoula | 8 years ago | on: Cryptocurrency miners are renting Boeing 747s to ship graphics cards
davotoula | 8 years ago | on: Apple Pulls 60 VPNs from China App Store
Asking for a friend?
davotoula | 8 years ago | on: Hacker Steals $8.4M Worth of Ethereum from Veritaseum Platform
Not all ICOs are the same.
Their parameters (for example is the token for utility or just for speculation) vary.
There is a test in law that people can apply to try and tell whether a specific ICO is a security or not: the Howey test.
http://consumer.findlaw.com/securities-law/what-is-the-howey...
davotoula | 8 years ago | on: Hacker Steals $8.4M Worth of Ethereum from Veritaseum Platform
A very good question for which the answer was NO for a long time.
Prism is a live service using Ethereum smart contract(s).
It is from the Shapeshift people and is a kind of "digital asset portfolio". You can invest in many types of digital assets without having to hold them.
People are spending real money on this Ethereum smart contract.
https://blog.prism.exchange/blog/introducing-prism-the-world...
davotoula | 8 years ago | on: I decided to disable AMP on my site
I find it frustrating bookmarking and/or sharing the AMP url with others.
Ideally it would save / share the original URL, not the AMP url.
davotoula | 8 years ago | on: A Cyberattack 'the World Isn’t Ready For'
"The very best and long lasting victories are made when you convince the loser that they've won"
saved!
davotoula | 8 years ago | on: WanaCrypt0r Ransomworm
"2. Deterministic wallet stores all profit in a simple 12 word seed "password."
You don't want the seed distributed to all victims. There is risk it will be reverse engineered.
There is a way to ge
davotoula | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: For those programming 10+ years, what do you wish you knew 4 years in?
Test driven development.
Continuous integration first - first line of code second.
Understanding that writing code is a small percentage of my day - then there is testing, designing, writing docs, deploying, automating, infrastructure configuring, discussing with stakeholders,
Learning multiple languages - especially from different families (procedural, functional, scripting, low level, etc).
davotoula | 8 years ago | on: Let them paste passwords
Preventing copy/paste is a pet peeve of mine. Hey websites, you are breaking the browser/os functionality!
Another annoyance is having to enter 2nd,4th,7th etc letter of the password using a dropdown. ARrrgh.
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