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I take it all the third party apps are scraping, as opposed to using an API?
Respect the burrito.
I take it all the third party apps are scraping, as opposed to using an API?
There’s some truth to that, but bad actors have managed to slip things through in the past. It happened recently with xz.
I guess my point is that we put a lot of trust in strangers when we run any code on our systems. Open or not.
If it’s any software you didn’t write yourself or audit every line of…
For a typical Linux distro that’s tens of thousands of packages…
Ok google take me to Liverpool.
I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that. Today you are going to Vape Palace in Swindon, sponsored by CryptoPonzi++: you put the coins, we loot the coins!
Was gonna say. Has no-one heard of diskless boot (PXE on x86).
I’ve done it in the past with OpenBSD: https://man.openbsd.org/diskless
He explains it in the faq
Can you imagine using that in public?
Unless somethkng changed in the last few years, SSDs are much much faster.
That’s true. I did learn a lot, but the idea of setting it all up again gives me anxiety.
I self host my email. It was hard work to set up. 0/10. Would not come again.
PDF scales when you zoom in on it.
Indeed.
You can buy whole rolls of paper sticker nfc tags for a few dollars.
Fair enough.
Me too. I don’t see the point. My life is already full of distractions and I bet the batteries in those are hard to replace when they inevitably don’t hold charge any more.
Buy g-shock, know time. Good.
The writing style is a bit weird, but I think the concerns are valid. That sqlite file is a treasure trove for hackers/scammers.
Which sites? Been using Firefox since forever and all is well.
If DDG doesn’t work for you, try https://www.startpage.com/
I used it for several years before moving to DDG.
Why do people still use Google search? I switched years ago. It was easy. I don’t regret.
It casts?! I’m sold!
But I’m not sure how i feel about downloading an apk like that.