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by dessant 3y ago
Anyone in Wi-Fi range can exploit the device. The sensors of the air purifier can be used for spying, and the device could also serve as a hopping point for exploiting other devices in your home.
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by dessant 3y ago
The issue is what happens to these toothbrushes in a couple of years when their vulnerabilities will be discovered. Their inevitable exploitation could be prevented by simply allowing to turn off bluetooth. Or even better, only enable bluet
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by dessant 3y ago
A warning about Philips electric toothbrushes: you cannot turn off Bluetooth on them, even if you are not using the smart features. Also be careful with all Philips air purifiers that support Wi-Fi, because the remote control feature cannot
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by dessant 3y ago
Of course, but these are thinner and prettier because of the pre-cut shapes.
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by dessant 3y ago
LightDims solved the problem of bright and blinking status LEDs in our home, they sell sticker sheets in various colors that dim or completely block the light: https://www.lightdims.com/store.htm
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by dessant 3y ago
Through a series of unfortunate events I ended up briefly owning seven brand new Beoplay Portal PC/PS headphones in the summer of 2022, and keeping the last one that was purchased in exasperation. The products were all bought from thre
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by dessant 3y ago
From a quick look on GitHub the projects were not just an initial effort with little time invested in after release, but were actively developed for years. This year alone there are several releases which contain new features. If I'm n
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by dessant 3y ago
Maybe it's not your intention, but from your comments it comes across like you're putting very little value on other people's work. It was probably a substantial effort that took years to bring these projects to the usability
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by dessant 3y ago
I'm not familiar with these projects, so I'm not sure how much time it would take to just keep them afloat, but I've seen they are popular and beloved apps. Looking at the GitHub activity, they have been actively developed
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by dessant 3y ago
Some of the largest projects on F-Droid are all funded either by having a paid version on Google Play, accepting donations, or a company funding their development by hiring the maintainers. Most of the software you can install from a distro
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by dessant 3y ago
> Exactly what kind of funding does it need? I assume your time also has value. Open source software does not have to be shared free of charge, especially not when you need to invest your time and money to package and distribute the soft
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by dessant 3y ago
> Oh, no. I liked those tools, but I don't let them update since they started having "premium versions". Expecting project maintainers to solely fund the development of open source projects used by millions of people is th
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by dessant 3y ago
Web preservation projects usually submit their content to the Internet Archive, or at least make it accessible through the Memento protocol. It seems the blog you're looking for already has some archived pages. https://web.a
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by dessant 3y ago
> Yes, and it's people's prerogative to write reviews criticizing the software that is published, regardless of whether it's paid or not. Do you think that review was respectful, now that you know that the donation prompt
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by dessant 3y ago
It's definitely a strange proposition, but you could try it yourself. Install Signal on your phone and start using it, in a couple of months you will be shown a donation popup a single time when you open the app. At this point uninstal
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by dessant 3y ago
You've lost the plot if you think that it is normal or acceptable to call the maintainers of an app or extension beggars and panhandlers if there is a donation prompt shown once a year when you open the app. Most people would in fact f
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by dessant 3y ago
Of course, though the frequency of repeated abuse makes all the difference.
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by dessant 3y ago
I think empathy is a much more relevant superpower, and the lack of it can be disgusting.
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by dessant 3y ago
A donation popup is shown once a year, and only when you use the extension, it does not randomly interrupt your browsing experience. Te popup can even be disabled from the extension's options. It is similar to a donation prompt being s
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by dessant 3y ago
It also feels awful to be called a beggar and a panhandler just because you're trying to find a balance and build a sustainable project by having a donation popup (that can be disabled) in your software. This disgusting review was sitt
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by dessant 3y ago
Personal data is shared with Google and the carrier, that's why they need to ask for consent to enable the feature. Here's the consent popup: https://imgur.com/a/PIqcDgR The design of such consent popups has
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by dessant 3y ago
The constant nagging when you tell Google "no" shows how little respect they have for their users. Messages by Google, which is primarily an SMS app, is asking me every 1-2 weeks to enable RCS chats. The link for declining the req
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by dessant 3y ago
Maybe they were referring to my extension :), as of now you can still access the old search results. https://github.com/dessant/search-by-image
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by dessant 3y ago
The classic reverse image search results from Google will not be around for much longer, I've been getting reports about my browser extension no longer working with Google Images in some regions. Yandex Images also possibly going away
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by dessant 4y ago
An important limitation of Web Speech API is that it only accepts audio from a microphone, you can't transcribe an audio file or a WebRTC call.
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by dessant 4y ago
Access to a smartphone with NFC can indeed be an issue for some people, but it is still better than having to record videos of yourself holding your ID next to your face, then a couple of years later finding out that your personal data is f
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by dessant 4y ago
The issue is not compatibility with Chrome. Projects that were otherwise ready for the Manifest V3 migration and have worked towards that goal in the last few months can no longer proceed with the migration, their work has been made obsolet
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by dessant 4y ago
It will affect cross-platform extensions that need to migrate to Manifest V3 this year. Some projects will be forced to stay on Manifest V2 just for Firefox, substantially increasing development cost because of the need to maintain both MV2
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by dessant 4y ago
I have taken the time to comment on the pull request before it was merged. I have mentioned several use cases, and offered an explanation for why the feature is important. If that is not enough for you and for Mozilla engineers, then perhap
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by dessant 4y ago
You think it's fine to invite developers to begin porting extensions to Manifest V3, and then kneecap their work a couple of months later as they port their extensions, while also telling them to open new bug reports in which they need

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