unbehagen's comments

unbehagen | 4 months ago | on: XBMC 4.0 for the Original Xbox

I loved XBMC and still use Kodi to this day. Back then, I even proposed and POCed what's now a part of their Add-On system, essentially a fuse-like virtual file system forwarded to Python. Before that, each Add-On had to bring its own UI. This was basically my first OSS contribution and the community was really supportive and welcoming.

unbehagen | 5 months ago | on: Show HN: Why write code if the LLM can just do the thing? (web app experiment)

Amazing! Very similar approach, would love to heae what you think: https://github.com/gerkensm/vaporvibe

unbehagen | 10 years ago | on: Learning from the Enemy: The Gunman Project (2007) [pdf]

"As a totalitarian society, the Soviet Union valued eavesdropping and thus developed ingenious methods to accomplish it." (page 2)

unbehagen | 12 years ago | on: End-To-End – OpenPGP Chrome extension from Google

If it is a chrome extension and is installed via the Chrome Web Store, it can be updated silently in the background if I'm not mistaken. So in theory, wouldn't it be possible to serve Google with a NSL and force them to silently push a modified update to a targeted user that reveals the private key?

unbehagen | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: ClickSend - Stream files to Android via WiFi with two clicks

Here's the technical background: ClickSend consists of an Android App and a Java server. Both register with a Google App Engine backend. If you send a file to the Android App, the Java server opens an HTTP server, generates a random URL for the file and sends this as a push notification (GCM) to your Android device, along with all IP adresses of the server. The client is triggered by the notification and tries to reach the server on all IP adresses and opens the URL. This allows for direct streaming of multimedia content (player App needed) or downloading. The data never passes through our servers, so it only works if server and client are connected to the same network. We are currently preparing to launch this so all feedback is appreciated.

unbehagen | 13 years ago | on: Google App Engine OAuth authentication broken since 02/06/13 00:00

No comment yet from anyone at Google after nearly 24 hours. This probably breaks every App using the builtin authentication. If anyone knows a workaround, I would appreciate hearing about it!

unbehagen | 14 years ago | on: I can manipulate your Amazon recommendations without IFrames

oh, I just found out that another user tried the same thing and wrote about it before me: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3768030

unbehagen | 14 years ago | on: I can manipulate your Amazon recommendations without IFrames

This approach to tamper with recently viewed items on Amazon embeds the articles as hidden images:

Of course, this only works if your browser accepts third-party cookies and is inspired by this original post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3766544 .

Are the results any different from the original? Does using an image instead of an iframe have any effects on the results? What are your thoughts on this?

unbehagen | 14 years ago | on: Less Distractions = More Pageviews. Go Figure.

Well, this is not surprising. If you put less content directly on the first page, users have to click on links in order to view the content that is directly accessible in the desktop version, which generates more page views.