Fuck Zynga, but “Method for presenting advertising in an interactive service” is clearly an invalid patent even if it was applied 20 years ago

It should be possible to patent only real stuff, not broad concepts that can be applied to everything

If you make a backup with a tool like Borg that creates encrypted archives, then using AWS S3 glacier is the cheapest.

What’s bad about it: if you ever need those files again, it’s going to be VERY expensive to download them again, so it has to be treated as the “what if a nuke hits my city and all the local and off-site backups are vaporized” solution

Also: it’s not recommended to directly host plain files, they need to be in an archive format with big chunks, as the API calls that are used to list them during sync are counted in a very expensive way

Ah maybe I was missing the ./ , it said garage not found on path (on mobile, can’t try)

I set garage via docker and it was not impossibly hard.

Main problem is that there isn’t an admin panel and you can’t login to the docker container via docker exec, so you have to write some python (or other language of your choice) to send requests to the API port to:

1. Set the layout of your server
2. Create an user
3. Create a bucket
4. Assign that bucket to your user

It makes sense

In the serie A let me see what they can do with that money… Uhm the Juventus can’t even pay for Dusan Vlahovic (he gets €12 million - net per season)

What if the apps are installed via adb using

pm install -i "com.android.vending" /sdcard/yourapp.apk

?

For the system then the app has been installed from the play store

Or it checks online to see if the current user has a (free?) license?

Private conversations I mean

Yes as the API is checking from where it has been installed. If the installer isn’t the play store app, then the same APK installed manually, would give an error.

It is going to be an incredible hassle to install geofenced apps

With paid certificates you can target ancient and unsupported operating systems like windows XP and android 2, letsencrypt is relatively recent and it’s not present in the root certificates of those systems

What’s fun is that a season ticket to watch home matches at the stadium costs around half of what you would pay to stream them

In Italy, the cost of subscription for streaming serie A soccer is 5% of the average net wage. And then you need to add the cost of broadband as it’s only streamed, no TV broadcast.

A low wage worker would need to literally skip meals in order to watch those overpaid clowns kick a ball.

Buy less Lamborghinis, reduce the price, have enough servers to allow for a service that doesn’t crash and stutter for the first half of the match, then maybe more people would stop paying the illegal IPTV services that are charging 1/10th of the legit service

As of now, illegal IPTV services are giving a better service (no stuttering for half match), a better experience (a m3u can work with older smart TVs without Android) for 90% less money. And sometimes even better support

Many people also pay for a VPN+a subscription to paramount plus USA and they can watch serie a from Italy at 50% off.

What about freetube? Newer desktop update has giant smartphone-like buttons that are perfect for TV usage

For example, now the play button on my 27" is a circle with diameter 25 cm

Side question: how easy is to make an “honeypot” matrix server that can read and log all the chats in a nice report for LEOs?

I much prefer doing ocr by myself if really needed, than getting an half assed “book” full of typos and broken tables just because someone did an automated OCR but didn’t have the 5-6 hours required to manually edit to make it decent

Already be thankful that someone took the time to flip page by page in their scanner manually and upload it somewhere

I just unsubscribe when it becomes too prominent. There was a guy doing a recap of the news of the day in 5 minutes. Suddenly added 2 minutes of ads. Fuck that

WeChat, taobao, alipay, amap they all do this. Go to watch /pictures on your android with a file manager. You will notice some folders called .gs0 .gs3 and so on.

Inside there are dummy images with tracking data. They do like this because apps on Android don’t need an extra permission to drop “images” on /pictures

Those folders are not shown by default because normal file managers on Android hide any file with the name that starts with a dot.

And those dummy images aren’t shown in photo galleries also because of another file that’s dropped in those folders, .nomedia

You also never saw the ads on the taobao splash screen??? Did you ever opened that app? Not to mention that phone permission is mandatory to use that app for some reason. (And can’t do any search until you register your phone number with SMS verification)

Other Chinese apps with ads on the splash screen is Huawei store, mijia, amap

And the Chinese customs app also requires an insane amount of permissions, never gave my European phone number, but a week after entering the country I got a phone call from +8621962110 - who gave them the number? (Don’t know what that call was about because answering a phone call in roaming is 2 euro per minute, but from some search on Baidu it looks like it’s some robocall from the Chinese police)

Good luck being a developer or do technical support without GitHub, Google, Reddit (Lemmy?) or stackexchange

Or market your product without the possibility of accessing any western social network

If you ever notice, all apps developed in china are similar. Ads at start, invasive tracking using dummy images dropped in /pictures, unnecessary permissions like phone and IMEI, and so on. They literally don’t have a way to compare to something else. There’s the Baidu SDK, Tencent SDK, aliyun SDK and they are using bad coding practices because they’re doing that in isolation

They’re shooting in their feet