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by frederikb 2y ago
Oh, but they do! There used to exist a boatload of malware on Android disguised as common conscience apps, famously flashlight apps/widgets. As a random example, see this one ( https://www.welivesecurity.com/2017/0
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by frederikb 2y ago
Good news: he did some minor touch ups and then approved the PR. Seems like humans did win this round. Let's see how long that lasts.
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by frederikb 2y ago
I've actually seen this in the wild this year. It was placed at a train station in a small town in southern Germany, which presumably did not have a physical bank branch. It was exactly as you said: basically a chair, keyboard and scre
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by frederikb 3y ago
I really enjoyed Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic. The author really breaks down the individual elements of good/bad visualizations using case studies with lots of
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by frederikb 3y ago
The point that the others are trying to make is that these questions are not relevant in the context of the backend technology choices. The REST or GraphQL endpoints could be handled by monkeys writing bits via typewriters and it wouldn&#x2
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by frederikb 3y ago
In any case regardless of UUIDv4, v7 or any other format you should not allow the untrusted client to determine the real ID - as long as there is at least one trusted component in the architecture which would take over this role. This shoul
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by frederikb 3y ago
For me the central benefit is that you can create them in a distributed manner and are not reliant on a central system as a single source of truth for creating your identifiers. I can therefore easily generate a new UUID in a trusted backen
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by frederikb 3y ago
Unfortunately this fails for me: curl: (6) Could not resolve host: t6a3m9g6.rocketcdn.me
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by frederikb 3y ago
When did that happen? I still have my OG Steam account with an email address as username which is now 19 years old. I was never prompted to change that, even though I would definitely like to. I would appreciate any insights you might have.
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by frederikb 4y ago
As the author of arc42 writes in the article, the order of the chapters does not imply the order in which they should be decided upon and written. In addition he writes that you might have already documented the most important decisions as
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by frederikb 4y ago
Just as a heads up: to my knowledge that's not correct in Germany. It's only highly unlikely to get "abgemahnt" in addition to the difficulty of obtaining IP addresses of users in comparison to alternatives such as Torre
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by frederikb 4y ago
Technically there is no way for a lossless synchronization/export out of Google Photos apart from using Google Takeout to the best of my knowledge. For reference check the best effort project https://github.com/gileskna
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by frederikb 5y ago
I agree with your first sentence. The "sleazy Ukrainian politician" statement however is quite an accusation, especially considering that the Ukrainian president commended her and all other brave Russians who protest and speak up.
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by frederikb 5y ago
I've seen you mention it before. At first glance it seems interesting and I definitely agree that having multiple perspectives available to view and explore the model of a complex system is key. It reminds me of https://stru
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by frederikb 6y ago
I've only had a cursory glance at it but it looks interesting so far. I've had multiple teams struggle with N+1 and inadvertently caused queries with JPA in the past (although it was often related to their poor understanding of JP
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by frederikb 6y ago
This (partly) exists for some mobile carriers. I know of at least one carrier, but is only usable for their own customer self care portals/apps. There it is possible to auto-login to their app if it is accessed via their network and no
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by frederikb 6y ago
US President Trump seriously suggested research into injecting bleach to the horror of doctors and medical professionals everywhere: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52407177 It lead to actual problems of US Am
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by frederikb 7y ago
Hi, I only checked it out on my phone for a minute so please don't take my comments too serious. I think I like the idea and you have some slick visuals on there. Unfortunately not really usable on small screens, but that's a comm
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by frederikb 7y ago
I can strongly recommend ScreenToGIF [1]. It literally does as the name says but packs in some helpful additional features related to editing. [1] https://www.screentogif.com/
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by frederikb 13y ago
An interesting alternative to this is Spock [1], a specification framework for Java and Groovy with a nice Groovy DSL. Check out the new reference documentation [2] or try out some specifications using the web console [3]. It has a great sy