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www.reddit.com 6y ago

“Run from Adobe Creative Cloud”

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techcrunch.com 8y ago

Google is pulling YouTube app from Amazon devices

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www.sigidwiki.com 9y ago

The Chinese Firedrake Jammer

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www.amazon.com 10y ago

Critical Software Update for Kindle E-Readers

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en.wikipedia.org 10y ago

Electro Gyro-Cator

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twitter.com 11y ago

Flash 0day from Hacking Team

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www.licenturion.com 11y ago

Inside Windows Product Activation (2001)

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pastebin.com 11y ago

Bitcointalk compromised

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www.yosoygames.com.ar 11y ago

On VATMOSS

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www1.folha.uol.com.br 11y ago

Judge bans WhatsApp in Brazil

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sysadmincasts.com 11y ago

Patching the GHOST glibc gethostbyname CVE-2015-0235 bug

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www.theverge.com 11y ago

Apple set to increase app prices in Canada and most of Europe by tomorrow

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github.com 11y ago

Hangups: Third-party IM client for Google Hangouts

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techcrunch.com 11y ago

Judge Shuts Down Uber in Spain, Pending Taxi Association Court Action

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gist.github.com 11y ago

List of URLs checked by Twitter for its app targeting

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err.no 11y ago

Resigning as a Debian systemd maintainer

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code.google.com 11y ago

Remote Debugging on Android with Chrome is down

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pricenoia.tumblr.com 11y ago

Pricenoia shuts down

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paulbakaus.com 12y ago

The Illusion of Motion

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www.istartedsomething.com 12y ago

The 12 step process to download Microsoft SQL Server Express 2014

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1337way.com 12y ago

Blind SQL injection and remote code execution in Flickr

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springpad.com 12y ago

Springpad is Shutting Down on June 25th

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webmonkeyuk.wordpress.com 12y ago

Putting a GPS Tracker in the mail

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raw.github.com 12y ago

WhatsApp issued takedown against alternative clients a week before acquisition

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allenchou.net 12y ago

Joining Naughty Dog's Kennel

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www.myopenid.com 12y ago

MyOpenID will be turned off on February 1, 2014

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www.stevesouders.com 12y ago

Prebrowsing

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www.codinghorror.com 12y ago

Mouse Ballistics

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www.alienvault.com 12y ago

Analysis of yesterday's PHP.net exploit

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www.sideprojectors.com 12y ago

SideProjectors – Marketplace to buy and sell side projects

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What a coincidence. Just this week I got a used FX160 for 15 € and right now it's working as a home file server, router, wireless AP and general P2P downloader.

It seems to be running fine even inside of a closed cupboard, the CPU is at 31ºC and using about 16-17 watts on average. It's warm to the touch but it might be the apparently good thermal design of the case which allows for fully passive cooling.

What I don't like is that (at least judging by the heat it generates) most of the power consumption seems to be originated in the video chip, which in a headless server is useless. I tried to disable but didn't have any luck (it's a SiS 771/671 chip).

We could discuss the technical side, sure. Maybe they can cache the list or create better code to do it more optimally. There might be battery and data usage considerations too, that's true.

But this article revolves around the trope of "if it's free you're the product", and altough it might be true, I don't think the 23k thing is a proof of it. That's what I meant with my comment.

This seems a bit clickbaity to me. WhatsApp works directly on your contacts, there isn't a remote roster like Facebook Messenger or Telegram.

So if any app were to access my contacts 23k times, I'd say WhatsApp is the one app which could justify that.

From the comments on the announcement thread:

If you're wondering why this is all so vague and weird...here it is for you:

- Reddit got funding and as part of that wanted to share some ownership with the community. Basically, they would like Reddit users to own part of Reddit.

- The thing that made most sense was to create a little database that distributes these "shares" based on activity.

- They can't call them shares, or even indicate that they represent partial ownership of the company because the FCC [sic] considers that the creation of public stock, which should be on a regulated stock market.

- There are currently a number of bills at various places in congress that would de-regulate this a bit, but none that I know of that would make what Reddit wants to do (and should be able to do) legal.

- So...boom...their response is to be suuuuper vague. Which I'm fine with, since they're dealing with a very large and terrifying bureaucratic institution.

http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/2pt25f/announcing_redd...

For Android, I really like SwiftKey, and have been using it for years. Its predictions are very accurate and it (un)learns very quickly.

But since the last updates (maybe when they added emojis? I'm not sure) it has become laggy and unresponsive, sometimes I end typing a phrase and have to wait several seconds while I see the text painfully appearing one letter at a time in the screen. Also there is a period of 1-2 seconds after I send a message when I can't press any key, as it will be ignored. I don't use Flow.

However, it has something that I can't find in any other keyboard: two simultaneous languages. Every keyboard allows to select several languages and change between them, but in SwiftKey they work at the same time and you can use both seamlessly, and for me that's irreplaceable.

I use Pricenoia to check prices in the different european Amazons, because pretty much all items can be shipped to other countries within Europe. As far as I know camelcamelcamel doesn't do that :(