GIFs 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 amount of bandwidth since GIF is literally the worst of all possible video formats....
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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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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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iOS's most egregious UI fuckery -- number 5 might surprise you by appearing 3rd!
It's baffling to me that these problems still exist. Do the developers not actually use this OS? Someone sends me a series of text messages. They hit "send" at the end of every sentence, because that's...
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Today in "Party Pigeon" News
Polish charity gets huge phone bill thanks to stork:The environmental EcoLogic Group placed a tracker on the back of a white stork last year to track the bird's migratory habits. It travelled some...
View ArticleSince China isn't NULL-terminated, when you walk off the end, you end up in...
iOS bug reveals how Apple censors the Taiwanese flag on Chinese iPhones:The bug came to light when security researcher Patrick Wardle received a message from a Taiwanese friend, reporting that...
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