Updating my OnePlus One recently to Cyanogen OS 12 I had to reset my phone a few times before everything ran smoothly … so I wrote a pair of scripts to help me copy things around.
It uses the Android SDK’s ADB tool to do the copying since the Android File Transfer Tool for Mac has a laughable quality for Google’s standards.
Update 2018-11-22:
Since the scripts became more sophisticated I moved them to a proper project on GitHub.
This is an awesome talk that compares software to music and explores why 400+-year-old music can still be played … in different keys … on a variety of instruments … etc.
Phew … WhatsApp denied that the app records calls made through it … they had me worried for a second. 😌
There’re three types of mass storage: NAS, SAN and NSA 😂
— Random Internet Troll
https://twitter.com/riyadpr/status/593528317568880641
This Dilbert on meetings is so true it hurts. 😂
Normcore is the word! 😀
Facebook specifically and individually tracks all people, even those who aren’t FB users. Using the opt-out mechanism you’re even worse off, since setting the opt-out cookie makes you uniquely identifiable (again).
During the opt-out process, Facebook sets a long-term identifying cookie and then uses this to track visits to pages that have a Facebook social widget. In other words: “for those individuals who are not being tracked by Facebook (e.g. non-users who have never visited a page on the facebook.com domain, or Facebook users who clear their cookies after logging out from Facebook), using the ‘opt out’ mechanism proposed for the EU actually enables tracking by Facebook” (emphasis in original).
When you opt-out …
[…] Facebook promises to stop collecting browsing information, or use it only specifically for the purpose of showing advertisements.”
So, of what use is it then?!?
Daniel Haqiqatjou and Dr. Yasir Qadhi have compiled concise and to the point arguments on what’s wrong with debating (or trying to prove) the “islamicness” of the IS.
In retrospect I must admit, I was wondering why my TUAW news feed had dried out … when it started spewing Engadget junk, I knew something was wrong. A quick Internet search confirmed my fears: TUAW is no more, AOL killed it. :'(
Not all is lost … there’s still a glimmer of hope … several writers have found a new home at Apple World Today … but still no news on what’ll happen to Chris Rawson’s rumor roundups. :'(
https://twitter.com/riyadpr/status/579653083736723456
Charles Stross jots down some rules that govern contemporary politics … I cringe because I think they may be true … and the comments only make it worse. :/
