the longest case I know is a guy in big crypto who after a fallout was taking care of a zombie company for about a year and half, full pay, practically 1 or 2 hours of work some of the weeks
so I was running a SVN server in a decommissioned PC somewhere in a startup as an intern. whole company ends up using it and out of nowhere it used to freeze, I would go to check if it had rebooted or crashed and everything was fine.
it fixed by itself, without any fixes from my part. happened many times.
asked for help to a senior, guy ran strace and found a read waiting in /dev/random. and of course it solved by itself any time I checked because I was moving the mouse!
controversially but acceptably, we had linked it to urandom and move on
how fast that guy used strace and analyzed the syscalls inspired me to be better at linux
It is: Look up the theory of status quo and 'revisionist* powers, and how they interact. Russia is acting as the revisionist, very predictably in many ways. And many in the West act predictably as status quo - including not being able to fathom why anyone would revise their happy power structure (with them on top).
You can see the same thing in many areas, such as race relations. The status quo is outraged and can't believe that other groups may be unhappy - after all, things work well in the status quo person's experience!
tokens are tokens, shorter or larger, they are tokens
in that sense I don't see how this is more succinct than phyton
it is more than typescript and c#, of course, but we need to compete with the laconic languages
in that sense you will end up with Cisc vs Risc dilemma from the cpu wars. you will find the ability to compress even more is adding new tokens to compress repetitive tasks like sha256 being a single token. I feel that's a way to compress even more
I think one reason UniKernels can be different are perhaps that they can allow more isolation or run user generated code perhaps inside the Unikernel with proper isolation whereas I don't think actors can do that
But the user needs to be able to override this faulty check, albeit my solution is to never let any app decide what I can have on my device by not installing the app.
EDIT: there's also Android Protected Confirmation that works in the TrustZone so apps can't display over that. It was made exactly for apps like banking apps, so they should use it.
This is "protect the users from themselves" as-a-feature to prevent scammers from using malware to obscure their scams. Letting the user override the warning would make the entire feature useless.
Using overlay permissions, it's relatively simple to trick someone into transferring money by overlaying a different UI that the malicious app makes the user type or paste into. I believe blocking access to the app while such an overlay is present makes a lot of sense. Trusting apps from Google Play to do this while blocking other install sources would be an obvious mistake, though.
I'd argue this feature shouldn't exist (because of things like the API you mention) but having a user override doesn't make sense here.
If Google can allow apps to block screenshot capability then it should also allow specific set of apps like financial apps having an option to block overlays too. It doesn't have to be all or nothing.
The problem (for the bank) is they are now liable in the UK[1] if you are defrauded because someone installs malware on the phone. There's basically zero upside for the bank to allow customers to use F-Droid, since probably 0.0001% of their customers would do this, compared to a vastly greater number of customers being tricked into installing random malware on their phones.
Accessibility settings are a tricky one since that's a separate law. I wonder if they whitelist screen reader apps from the official app store. Anyway that's not the case in the original article.
From the bbc article, the number of fraud rose 12%, and you're presuming 0.0001% would be using F-Droid. Is preventing that an efficient ("reasonable") action from the bank ?
risk management is all about what the bank is willing to trust.
in this case it decided it was risky because have any information on the provenance of your overlay, but you could source an overlay from somewhere they trust, like the default app store.
I have become a general and a master of multitude of skeleton agents. my attention to the realm of managing effectively the unreproducible result of running the same incantations.
As the sailor through the waters of the coastline he have roamed plenty of times, the currents are there, yet the waves are new everyday.
Whatever limitation is removed, I should approach the market and test my creations swiftly and enrich myself, before the first legion of lich kings appear. they, better masters than I would ever be.
as much as I oppose many of Trump policies, I believe this one will benefit positively the continent and ensure the latin vote in the next presidencial elections
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