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juliann

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Internet guy. Codes as well. http://juliann.com.ar

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Looks good OP, just a suggestion, I opened the app and continued through (clicked continue to live feed) without airdropping the driver or clicking the link. Now i can't find a way to get back to that screen on the app. There should be a way to go back to that onboarding so that the user can both preview the image quality without having completed the setup but also continue it later. Just a suggestion! I'll try it later.

I can't find where the about link is, but here's the about text i found on the source code:

I’m Google is an ongoing tumblr blog in which batches of images and videos that I cull from the internet are compiled into a long stream-of-consciousness. Both the searching and arranging processes are done manually. The batches move seamlessly from one subject to the next based on similarities in form, composition, color, and theme. This results visually in a colorful grid that slowly changes as the viewer scrolls through it. Images of houses being demolished transition into images of buildings on fire, to forest fires, to billowing smoke, to geysers, to bursting fire hydrants, to fire hoses, to spools of thread. The site is constantly updated week after week, batch by batch, sometimes in bursts, sometimes very slowly. <br><br> The blog came out of my natural tendency to spend long hours obsessing over Google Image searches, collecting photos I found beautiful and storing them by theme. Often the images that interest me are of industrial or municipal materials or everyday photo snapshots. I do not select images or videos that appear to be intentionally artistic. Happily, the process of researching various themes in this way has lead to unintentionally learning about topics I might never have otherwise, including structural drying, bale feeders, B2P, VAWTs, screw turbines, the cleveland pack, and powder coating.

I feel that my experience wandering through Google Image Search and YouTube hunting for obscure information and encountering unexpected results is a very common one. My blog serves as a visual representation of this phenomenon. This ability to endlessly drift from one topic to the next is the inherently fascinating quality that makes the internet so amazing.

A NOTE ON THE PROCESS

Just wanted to add a note on how I make this blog, as I have seen people wonder the same couple things frequently.

Firstly, lots of people ask if it's a algorithm or something. It's not! Just me searchin google.

Secondly, a lot of people assume this blog is therefore made predominantly by using the "visually similar" function on Google Image Search, which is a totally reasonable thing to assume. While I definitely use that function in my attempts to search thoroughly (and love it for it's own beautiful results), surprisingly little of the piece is actually constructed using it. Visually Similar appears to employ an algorithm based mainly on color percentages in an image, and as I'm Google is based more often in conceptual similarities than color-wash similarities, my searching is almost entirely relient on keywords rather than searching by image. Of course, there are times when Visually Similar has helped with a transition or section here or there, but overall, it's not the way I work.

I hope you enjoyed my first FAQ

&ndash; Dina Kelberman

[dead] 11 years ago

Saw this the other day when I was about to update the app. Simply awesome haha.

[dead] 12 years ago

Yes I saw the brochure haha. Yes, of course, I get it's an outdated site. I wonder why it's still up right?

First, the scam would be randomly asking for the code or not. Cause it can't know whether the user has 2FA activated or not. So that is one way of noticing that its a scam. 2nd the code only works for 30 seconds or so.

I don't know if there's some way of login in through google api's as soon as the user enters the user and password. Also im almost sure that google requires you to enter the code via a form that is provided by them (as a google url). So im thinking something like loggin in to google using server side code and somehow using the code that the user provides to enter into google form (that will be displayed on the server side).

Im still not sure if there's any way of doing this using code. If there's no way of doing it using code then the attacker should be fast enough to use your logins and token in less than 30 seconds (or even less when the code is entered later). So it reduces the chances to get attacked a lot.

I was wondering how generous was the reward Facebook gives for helping them find this kind of security issues, can you share that? (If you consider that you don't want to share this kind of information is completely fine for me, im just curious). Thanks and congrats, good research!