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Oh, but they do! There used to exist a boatload of malware on Android disguised as common conscience apps, famously flashlight apps/widgets. As a random example, see this one ( htt…

Good news: he did some minor touch ups and then approved the PR. Seems like humans did win this round. Let's see how long that lasts.

I've actually seen this in the wild this year. It was placed at a train station in a small town in southern Germany, which presumably did not have a physical bank branch. It was ex…

I really enjoyed Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals by Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic. The author really breaks down the individual elements of …

The point that the others are trying to make is that these questions are not relevant in the context of the backend technology choices. The REST or GraphQL endpoints could be handl…

In any case regardless of UUIDv4, v7 or any other format you should not allow the untrusted client to determine the real ID - as long as there is at least one trusted component in …

For me the central benefit is that you can create them in a distributed manner and are not reliant on a central system as a single source of truth for creating your identifiers. I …

Unfortunately this fails for me: curl: (6) Could not resolve host: t6a3m9g6.rocketcdn.me

When did that happen? I still have my OG Steam account with an email address as username which is now 19 years old. I was never prompted to change that, even though I would definit…

As the author of arc42 writes in the article, the order of the chapters does not imply the order in which they should be decided upon and written. In addition he writes that you mi…

Just as a heads up: to my knowledge that's not correct in Germany. It's only highly unlikely to get "abgemahnt" in addition to the difficulty of obtaining IP addresses of users in …

Technically there is no way for a lossless synchronization/export out of Google Photos apart from using Google Takeout to the best of my knowledge. For reference check the best eff…

I agree with your first sentence. The "sleazy Ukrainian politician" statement however is quite an accusation, especially considering that the Ukrainian president commended her and …

I've seen you mention it before. At first glance it seems interesting and I definitely agree that having multiple perspectives available to view and explore the model of a complex …

I've only had a cursory glance at it but it looks interesting so far. I've had multiple teams struggle with N+1 and inadvertently caused queries with JPA in the past (although it w…

This (partly) exists for some mobile carriers. I know of at least one carrier, but is only usable for their own customer self care portals/apps. There it is possible to auto-login …

US President Trump seriously suggested research into injecting bleach to the horror of doctors and medical professionals everywhere: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-524071…

Hi, I only checked it out on my phone for a minute so please don't take my comments too serious. I think I like the idea and you have some slick visuals on there. Unfortunately not…

I can strongly recommend ScreenToGIF [1]. It literally does as the name says but packs in some helpful additional features related to editing. [1] https://www.screentogif.com/

An interesting alternative to this is Spock [1], a specification framework for Java and Groovy with a nice Groovy DSL. Check out the new reference documentation [2] or try out some…