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TweetDeck paranoia
Obligatory hax0r stock photo Dear Lazyweb, is TweetDeck spying on my web browser?I use TweetDeck because it's the only workable way to manage multiple Twitter accounts.Recently it has been crashing a...
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Facebook now "protecting" you by installing literal spyware on your phone.
The Facebook iOS app now has a menu item labelled "Protect" that installs a Facebook's own VPN app. This lets Facebook "protect" you by intercepting and spying on the traffic of every other app on your...
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Cursed Image of the Week -42408
Telugu character can brick iMessage, crash Twitter:If the character is sent in an iMessage, for example, the recipient's Messages app will crash when the conversation is opened. Likewise, if the...
View ArticleXScreenSaver 5.39
XScreenSaver 5.39 is out now, including iOS and Android.Four new hacks this time! Three by me.For RazzleDazzle, I spent a lot of time looking at historical dazzle paint-jobs to try and get a sense of...
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Because we are in the Stupidest Timeline, this was the plot of Charlie's Angels.
Cops Can Find the Location of Any Phone in the Country in Seconds, and a Senator Wants to Know Why:"I am writing to insist that AT&T take proactive steps to prevent the unrestricted disclosure and...
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"I'm the Googlebot! I'm here to index you! Please hold completely still!"
I Tried to Watch a Video of a Puppy and Accidentally Sent Every Photo I've Ever Taken to Google:In our brief time on this rock, even the best of us are likely to own ourselves from time to time. As...
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Rotary
"Our hotel room has a rotary phone...and there's a QR code on the wall to download a video that explains how to use it." ...and of course the QR code goes to a 404.Previously, previously, previously,...
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jwztv 1.0
Hey, I wrote a thing: jwztv 1.0.Critiques of my usage of jQuery, AVPlayerView, AVMutableAudioMix or NSScriptCommand are welcome. I haven't done a lot of any of that before.Also: is there any way to...
View ArticleGreat Moments in Texting
< i Rebecca Just got it 💁🏻👀 Wha I don't even know I couldn't tell which emojis I was clicking on my computer they are too small Im blind OSend Previously, previously, previously, previously,...
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iCal alerts
Dear Lazyweb, my iCal alerts have started randomly not showing up. WTF?I use Apple Calendar on my desktop Mac and sync it through iCloud with my phone and iPad. It used to be that when an alarm went...
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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,...
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