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by krausefx 4mo ago
They can't, it's a myth. It's not enough plants, but also, they actually release CO2 at night.
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by krausefx 2y ago
Yes, there are ways to distinguish between them as a user, for example you can check to see if your browser plugins are available. I also went through some of the most popular iOS apps and created a list of which app uses the correct SFSafa
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Post Covid Remote Work Doesn't Work as Well(lucumr.pocoo.org)
4 points by krausefx 3y ago|0 comments
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by krausefx 4y ago
This is an interesting response after Meta was exposed on all the JavaScript they've been running without communicating their actions with their users - https://krausefx.com/blog/ios-privacy-instagram-and-facebook.
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See what JavaScript commands get injected through an in-app browser(krausefx.com)
763 points by krausefx 4y ago|307 comments
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by krausefx 4y ago
Author of the krausefx.com post here: I don't believe there is a universal way of detecting this, however in the case of Instagram, the user agent string actually includes the "Instagram" string. For practical cases it's
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by krausefx 4y ago
Author here - Yes, my resting heart rate is quite high for the level of fitness investment. I believe this is due to a few factors (not a doctor), one being my height (6'4), the other one being the lack of cardio exercises, I only do w
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by krausefx 4y ago
Author here - I've used Foursquare's Swarm over the last 11 years, as well as manual End-Of-Day location input through the Telegram bot the most recent 3 years
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by krausefx 4y ago
Author here - Tracking calories has impact on way more things than just the weight. e.g. choosing a low-fat diet vs a low-carb diet makes you feel very differently day to day, and every person might prefer something else. Also, there is a h
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by krausefx 4y ago
Author here - I actually talked about this at the very bottom of the howisFelix.today page, in the "Conclusion" section: > Overall, having spent a significant amount of time building this project, scaling it up to the size it’s
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by krausefx 4y ago
Author here - Yes, sorry for not putting that somewhere more visible. In my mind, the actual database running it was actually not relevant at all, it would have worked just as well with any database, including SQLite, as the basic structure
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by krausefx 4y ago
Author here: Yes, exactly which is why I chose to use Telegram to enter my data. If you go all the way to the bottom of howisFelix.today and check out the "Data Inputs" section I wrote a little about it. Being able to easily answe
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by krausefx 4y ago
Author here - thanks for the feedback to include CO2 emissions, I just updated the page to include the numbers, via Nomadlist's built-in CO2 emissions calculator: https://github.com/KrauseFx/howisFelix.today/c
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by krausefx 4y ago
Author here = I actually researched & published many privacy projects ( https://krausefx.com/privacy ), and deeply care about being in control over your data, and being explicit about what you choose to share. - The data
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by krausefx 4y ago
Author here. Yes, I agree. For this project, only 5% of the 383,000 data points were collected manually, the rest came from various data sources like RescueTime, Apple Health, Withings smart watch and such
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by krausefx 4y ago
Author here. I actually researched & published many privacy projects ( https://krausefx.com/privacy ), and deeply care about being in control over your data, and being explicit about what you choose to share. - The data i
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by krausefx 5y ago
On iOS, it used to be the case ( https://krausefx.com/blog/ios-privacy-whats-the-user-doing ), however with iOS 13 ( https://github.com/w3c/deviceorientation/issues/57#issuecomm... ) this ha
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by krausefx 7y ago
I wrote an open source script for this a while ago, it's annoying to run due to Twitter API limits https://github.com/KrauseFx/twitter-unfollow
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by krausefx 7y ago
It doesn't solve all the problems, the status bar can be hidden or faked unfortunately https://krausefx.com/blog/ios-privacy-watchuser-access-both-...
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by krausefx 7y ago
Actually, right now, neither Google Chrome, nor Safari would warn the user at all, if you download ANY content via HTTP from a HTTPs encrypted website, it's a bug I filed for both browsers, but they didn't get resolved yet. I wrot
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In-App browsers allow iOS app devs to steal user credentials and inject ads(krausefx.com)
3 points by krausefx 9y ago|1 comments
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Every iOS app you ever grant camera access can record you any time it runs(krausefx.com)
7 points by krausefx 9y ago|0 comments
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by krausefx 9y ago
It made it to the front page https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15441537
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by krausefx 9y ago
Thanks, really appreciate your comment. I'm trying my best to raise awareness, and help Apple protect the user's privacy
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by krausefx 9y ago
Yeah, thanks for the note, I noticed that but was too lazy to re-do the screenshots.
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iOS Privacy: Easily get a user's Apple ID password, just by asking(krausefx.com)
867 points by krausefx 9y ago|320 comments
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by krausefx 9y ago
Agreed, that's actually part of the proposal as well > An alternative approach would be to have an extra permission layer to access the picture's metadata.
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Deliver – The Missing API for Apple’s New TestFlight(krausefx.com)
2 points by krausefx 12y ago|0 comments
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by krausefx 12y ago
Ha, nice catch. Originally it would have been called 'sign', that's right. Matthias had the great idea to rename it to 'sigh' (which is quite similar). But as you mention, it's just the feeling you get, when yo
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by krausefx 12y ago
Thanks for your feedback, that's really valuable for me. You are right, installation is not super easy right now, due to Ruby dependencies, which also depend on Nokogiri and phantomjs. Have you seen the guide, that helps you with getti

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