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Spittie
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Comment #10559382
Play Services have a way to install applications in the background ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23695170/how-to-install-a... ) that does a signature check, and refuse to wo…
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Comment #10552506
Beside this, Firefox is not really welcomed (and a drop is planned eventually) on F-Droid because it's really complex to build, depends on some closed source libraries (Google Play…
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Comment #10502166
I didn't see a link of this somewhere, so I'll just drop it: https://github.com/JavaJens/TextSecure This is a fork of TextSecure/Signal which drops the dependency on GCM and uses W…
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Comment #10501842
You might be interested in Racoon[1], which is a desktop client (Java) for downloading apps from the Play Store, or into BlankStore [2][3], which is an alternative mobile client. B…
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Comment #10243887
Interesting, I've been wondering about this myself lately, as I've started to read on an e-book reader ~30 minutes before going to sleep as a part of my routine. Too bad they only …
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Comment #9997951
The easiest way would be to use GeoDNS. You just have your DNS server send out a different IP according to the IP of the request. See http://www.caraytech.com/geodns/ and https://e…
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Comment #9670126
>- google scam site checker, phone-home component for every site you visit I don't really like it either, but that's not how it works. Firefox downloads an updated list of "non-saf…
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Comment #9438477
On a whim, I'd probably do something like this tr -d '[{"}]' $(date +%Y%m%d).csv
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Comment #9420245
Your name is right in your profile, so pdx could have easily got your gender from it. Maybe pdx even opened your site, where you have a photo clearly showing your gender. It's also…
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Comment #9404492
You can! You just need to make the F-Droid app a System app, then it can install applications without having to keep the "unknown sources" options on. You can use this app to do it…
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Comment #9250496
The usual place to start to start an emulator is the CHIP-8 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIP-8 ), because it's a very easy platform that don't have a lot of the "complicated" s…
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Comment #8351101
My best guess is that the Sunspider benchmark like single-threaded performance, and Cyclone destroys Krait/Cortex here. As for why, Cyclone's core are bigger, wider compared to Kra…
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Comment #7963184
There is no such thing as "unlimited data", your speed is your cap. Anyway, it's understandable that your ISP will want to have a talk with you if you push/pull 10+ TB every month …
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Comment #7918495
I think Aegisub ( http://www.aegisub.org/ ) is the current golden standard in the anime community, which is one of the most active when it comes to subtitles.
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Comment #7898138
Hey, I feel you. I'm not Asian, but I'm introvert. I'm a tad younger, at 20 years old. I'm also unemployed (yay!). Anyway, I've never have tons of friends, but after finishing high…
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Comment #7877928
I like TT-RSS, mostly because it's easy to install, doesn't require a beefy machine, and support themes and plugins. For example, I use it with the feedly theme ( https://github.co…
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Comment #7874321
Greasemonkey + ViewTube ( http://isebaro.com/viewtube/?ln=en ) + ViewTube Plus ( https://openuserjs.org/scripts/hamsterbacke/ViewTubePlus ).
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Comment #7867913
>didn't Adobe say they'd abandon 64bit support on Linux? No, Adobe abandoned NPAPI Flash, the one used by Firefox. Flash on Chrome uses PPAPI, which is still officially supported (…
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Comment #7865663
There is http://firespotting.com/ , which brand itself as "HN for ideas", but it's not as active as HN.
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Comment #7859947
Sorry, I can't :( This isn't a box dedicated to tor, and also my vps provider requires to limit the bandwidth in their ToS.
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Comment #7851632
Your distro should ship with a sample config file, otherwise you can find one here: https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/blob/HEAD:/src/config/... Tor has some sane defaults, so y…
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Comment #7841782
http://www.namesilo.com/ is my go to go for cheap .coms. I don't know about their support (never needed it) but they're fast, support 2fa and, well, are cheap :)
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Comment #7827439
I'd love to see something like SSH, you trust the self-signed certificate the first time, and then it's considered valid until it changes (but it should get treated differently fro…