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WiFi232: An Internet Hayes Modem for your Retro Computer
Serial-to-telnet dongles have long existed, but flavoring it with Hayes AT commands and emulating RING is adorable.I envy them their success in getting hardware flow control working.Also it supports...
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Hooray, I can't even restore my iPhone
Something has again gotten corrupted in the iPhone music database, so I keep getting:even though:Which is amazing design: "Because I somehow think that all of the music won't fit, I will sync none of...
View ArticleXScreenSaver 5.37
Vigilance. Previously. XScreenSaver 5.37 is out now, including iOS and Android.Only one new hack this time, Vigilance. They are panoptically adorable, aren't they? This is mainly a bug-fix and...
View ArticleEmail? That's for old people, right?
< i [redacted] Did... did you just text me a funny link by taking a photo of your screen with your phone? Well you don't have Facebook Messenger so this was the easiest way What's wrong with...
View ArticleModem Butterfly is the most cyberpunk of all opera
OFalafel: Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.
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Email: a lost relic of the before-before times
Today on the Unfrozen Caveman show, I learned that when iOS displays a notification about new email, it ignores the text/plain part in a multipart/mixed message and instead displays the text/html part,...
View ArticleEpic Epoch Fail Redux
FFS, Apple.diff --git a/hacks/sms-backup-iphone.pl b/hacks/sms-backup-iphone.plindex 33c57c5c2..dabe9bbe6 100755--- a/hacks/sms-backup-iphone.pl+++ b/hacks/sms-backup-iphone.pl@@ -241,16 +241,21 @@ sub...
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"Smart" quotes are a pox upon the face of the Earth
My least favorite byte is 0x00, for obvious reasons, followed closely by 0x11 and 0x13, for other obvious reasons, but really, I'm developeing a deep, abiding, years-long hatred for the sequences...
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Apparently Dropbox Spam is a thing now
A cursory glance didn't reveal an option for "Never allow anyone to send me a file ever", so I've uninstalled it again. The only thing I use it for is 1Password, but the last time I tried to make that...
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Phonebooths
"Its wares splayed in dazzlingly pink neat rows, this is the remote forest depot where thousands of phone booths go to die." Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously,...
View ArticleGIFs as MP4s
Trying something new here on Ye Olde Blogge: animated GIFs are now served as MP4s in a VIDEO tag. That saves a vast of bandwidth since GIF is literally the worst of all possible video formats. Like,...
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Android srcset bad craziness
Apparently a bunch of Android devices poop all over <img srcset>. I'm seeing nonsense in my logs where Android is trying to load the srcset as if it was src, e.g. from here it's doing: GET...
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Put the Ad Network Surveillance State to work for you!
It Takes Just $1,000 to Track Someone's Location With Mobile Ads"Regular people, not just impersonal, commercially motivated merchants or advertising networks, can exploit the online advertising...
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Keith Broni, Emoji Translator
Keith Broni, Emoji TranslatorThanks to his master's degree in business psychology from University College London, Broni understands the growing importance of emojis to consumer marketing and...
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It's official, ADSL works over wet string
Attn AT&T:He got some proper string, and made it wet... It turns out he needed salty water to get anywhere.A 2m length... And the result - it works!!! Not even that slow (3½Mb/s down) though slow...
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AIM RIP
Welp, I guess that's the end of that, then.Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.
View ArticleXScreenSaver 5.38
XScreenSaver 5.38 is out now, including iOS and Android.There are many minor improvements, such as: BSOD now accepts Dunning-Krugerrands. But only one new hack this time, Esper. I'd been meaning to...
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Dear Lazyweb, tell me how to use Sonic's VPN properly
Since I'm a Sonic customer, I have access to their VPN and I'd like to use it with my iPhone and iPad. They recommend the "OpenVPN Connect" app, but it kind of sucks.It's supposed to re-connect, but it...
View ArticleOptical Camouflage
@noshipu:Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously, previously.
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Black Mirror, 1951
"See, the irony is, a completely black mirror wouldn't be a good idea! Much like the nightmare of a telephone you could keep with you!"Previously, previously, previously, previously, previously,...
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