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    23 days ago

    if it wasnt for the fact it’s about a current controvertial presedential figure, if you didnt recognise the man as donald trump, this would be a really good fit. (people on this community can be wierd about the no-contextness somtimes)



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    2 months ago

    If you ever want to know how many apps use gapps on your phone, android apps with the hook have a “google play services avalability” notification channel, ive seen the settings app spam me notifications about its longing for gapps.

    Dont let me discourage you though.







  • I dont know your situation, is explorer.exe running on your account? Check if you can Alt+Tab or Alt+(Fn+)F4. The pills may be making you loose your pnemonic access to your keyboard. Try to run, hide and wait for the effects to wear off, and try the above.

    Once you are sober, and if you can remember Scroll Lock, Hold Ctrl and press it twice. I dont know what you are. Best case senario, you walk away with the drug somethat in your system, worst case senario is memory corruption, memory loss and being put in a coma until somone finds you.



  • I hate that they don’t support them after a while, those with a locked bootloader wont even get a chance. It makes these phones junk from all the CVEs that are being found.

    • What old model would you recommend?
    • Is something like postmarketOS viable yet?
    • What phones are/will be effected?
    • Do existing phones planned for the program have the payload sitting there dormant or will the system updater (on googled android) need to download the payload?




  • are you referring to the new “Privacy Sandbox” or the old “Privacy Sandbox”. because if there calling this new thing a “Privacy Sandbox” after the old one lost public attention after they kept promising it for years, I am going to laugh or maybe cry.

    what they originally called “Privacy Sandbox”

    it was a browser feature to remove the HTTP cookie and replace it with a cohort system. your browser would receve signals about your habbits. that you were buying domino’s pizza and announce to upcoming sites that you like pizza, but ya know… in a “safe” way.

    I still see, “chrome is going to replace the cookie” and “RIP the humble cookie” every once in a while.


  • it looks like its going to be a hardware feature. if the main CPU is off, it implies the radio circuitry and its CPU (the BBM) are still powered. give google this at least, the special new Bluetooth API will be accessible to whatever OS is alive and awake to send commands (even if I don’t trust that “off” means “off”). the fact that its using encryption (that’s too complicated to be made out of Integrated Circut logic) means its likely another software feature added to the BBM co-processor (it handles all radio tasks on the phone). this all but confirms the BBM (at least going forward) will still get power, be awake and have access to the (transmit (TX) and reseave (RX) functions of the) radios even when everything else is properly off.

    EDIT: or it could be an abuse of a generic BLE beacon mechanism that’s “just there for whatever the consumer would need it for”. but if they are doing proprietary encryption like they claim, that’s not really possible without updating the BBM’s software to add another feature.


  • I wrote a small bulk file management tool that I needed for my work. I wrote it in an easy language (javascript+nodejs). It got the job done and took maybe an hour. But I noticed its flaws and imperfections. So i made a new tool in a very hard to learn language (rust) its taken me months and is already moderately better. In ~2 weeks I will have a tool that I am satisfied with enough to post on the internet for anyone to use.

    I could’ve posted my original (crude hammer of a) tool online months ago because, on a basic level they do the same thing regardless of how pleasant it feels to use. Have it posted online to be thrown into a pit full of other tools that do similarly wacky things that are interesting for all of 10 minutes. Tools that slowly break over time. Tools that are silently forgotten.