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ade2 commented on The Peppermills of Jens Quistgaard   quistgaardpepper.com... · Posted by u/NaOH
unwind · 8 months ago
When the article said:

These peppermills, otherwise known as “table seasoners”, evoke tiny household sculptures, powerful individually, but most compelling when grouped and viewed in sets.

Is that some kind of direct translation from Danish, the "table seasoners" part? I'm certainly not a native speaker of English, but that was a term I've never heard before ... I tried googling it but didn't find much, which is why I ask.

ade2 · 8 months ago
There is a word like that in swedish (bordskrydda) and danish (bordkrydderi) meaning spices/seasoners that are on the table (and added as each person prefers during the meal). Direct translation would be "table seasoners" or "table spice".
ade2 commented on 10 years after Snowden's first leak, what have we learned?   theregister.com/2023/06/0... · Posted by u/rntn
digisign · 2 years ago
Have a link? Couldn't find anything easily.
ade2 · 2 years ago
The Swedish government didn't say that, some researcher did, and it was talked about in the public service news, afaik. The part of the government they asked on the topic said it was unsafe to have sensitive conversations in any brand of car.

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/professorn-myndigheter-bo...

ade2 commented on Why I Bid $700 for a Stolen PSN Account   waypoint.vice.com/en_us/a... · Posted by u/jsnell
diffeomorphism · 7 years ago
Buying discs is fine, but you still need a license/key. That license then often needs to be activated online or tied to an account and... no benefit to having discs at all.
ade2 · 7 years ago
Console game discs do not require a license key, the disc itself is the key. Apart from not having to fear losing your account and thus the game, you also get the added benefit of being able to sell or trade the game.
ade2 commented on Electronic Circuit Simulator in the Browser   falstad.com/circuit/circu... · Posted by u/okket
compumike · 7 years ago
That would be https://www.circuitlab.com/ -- I built it :)

Edit: if anyone wants, reply with your CircuitLab username and I'll give you a free membership upgrade when I get home this evening.

ade2 · 7 years ago
ade2 if it's not too late!
ade2 commented on Tesla’s response to getting maps updates over LTE or service center WiFi   forums.tesla.com/forum/fo... · Posted by u/jijojv
sjroot · 7 years ago
More specifically, they prevent you from downloading any applications that exceed 100 MB in size via your cellular connection.
ade2 · 7 years ago
Minor correction, it's now 150 mb, since fall 2017.
ade2 commented on Analysis of the Facebook app for iOS   blog.timac.org/?p=1707... · Posted by u/Aaronn
nagyf · 8 years ago
Why do you have to download all localizations? Isn't it possible to download only the required one after install? As far as I know Waze does this, for example. (Honest question, I'm not a mobile developer)
ade2 · 8 years ago
Sure you can! Downloading the localizations is a large extra complexity in development though, while simply bundling them all is a minor bother in increased download size, for the customer.
ade2 commented on Android permissions and hypocrisy   mjg59.dreamwidth.org/4640... · Posted by u/robin_reala
sha666sum · 9 years ago
Slightly tangential, but yesterday my Gmail app kindly informed me that I need to give Google Play Services the following permissions in order for it to function:

- Body Sensors

- Calendar

- Camera

- Contacts

- Location

- Microphone

- Phone

- SMS

- Storage

This promptly led me to discover K-9 Mail. Not entirely incidentally, Google's Calendar was so helpful as to suggest that I install Google's fitness tracker to integrate with the Calendar. I politely declined the offer, and installed Etar.

ade2 commented on Android permissions and hypocrisy   mjg59.dreamwidth.org/4640... · Posted by u/robin_reala
mjg59 · 9 years ago
It's not obvious to users that READ_PHONE_STATE means the ability to obtain your IMEI, and if an app just exits when you deny a permission (or lies to you about why it needs it) what do you expect most users to end up doing?
ade2 · 9 years ago
You're right. But it's worth considering that most people don't know or care what an IMEI is, and even less so would they understand the consequences of sharing it with an app.

Most users will probably indeed grant the permission when asked, but the choice is there, rather than requiring ALL manifest permissions to install and run the app, so it's a lesser of two evils, imo.

ade2 commented on Android permissions and hypocrisy   mjg59.dreamwidth.org/4640... · Posted by u/robin_reala
vmateixeira · 9 years ago
Has anyone noticed apps switching from requesting individual permissions to relying on Google Services permissions lately? For instance, Google Maps now need Google Services to have permissions to [1].

This makes it even harder to track which information apps are actually collecting (in case you grant all permissions to Google Services).

[1] http://i63.tinypic.com/1zwt91.jpg

ade2 · 9 years ago
What do you mean? Do you have an example? Is this some kind of work-around?
ade2 commented on Android permissions and hypocrisy   mjg59.dreamwidth.org/4640... · Posted by u/robin_reala
ade2 · 9 years ago
Isn't this solved with run-time permissions model since android 6? Customers can be informed before requiring individual permissions, in a context where it is understandable, such as requiring WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE when saving a picture. Am I missing something?

u/ade2

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