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toni commented on GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches grapheneos.social/@Graphe... · Posted by u/akyuu

abustamam · 3 months ago

Years ago I used to love playing around with roms on my phone on XDA and it worked OK. I don't know what folks use these days. But as recently as a few years ago I merely rooted my phone and I couldn't use a lot of apps, not just banking, but even some games.

It's crazy how locked down the ecosystem is.

toni · 3 months ago

There are tools to make your device appear to every app as running in a non-rooted environment. Here[1] is a tutorial on how to bypass Google/Samsung Wallet detections. There are threads for different apps and it will quickly turn into a cat and mouse play when Playstore app itself updates, but as the phone is rooted, someone will continue to find a way to bypass attestations and will post a comment on Reddit or XDA explaining how to do it.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/Magisk/comments/1lxbdpw/tutorial_ge...

toni commented on Isar Aerospace launches Spectrum, fails early in first stage flight nasaspaceflight.com/2025/... · Posted by u/tretiy3

nw05678 · a year ago

I would love to invest in this.

toni · a year ago

Launching a rocket from Earth surface looks like such a complex challenge not completely solved, and companies consider a 30-seconds journey a great success.

I have sincerely no intention to trivialize this, but would we ever see rockets launched from Moon or low Earth orbit? It seems so inefficient to launch like how we do now.

toni commented on European Alternatives european-alternatives.eu... · Posted by u/lijunhao

lijunhao · 2 years ago

A list of search engines I haven't known before:

https://european-alternatives.eu/category/search-engines

toni · 2 years ago

Startpage is owned by an American advertising company (System1)

https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/di5rn3/startpage_i...

toni commented on Led Zeppelin had an electric fireplace in their plane (2018) justacarguy.blogspot.com/... · Posted by u/rwmj

golergka · 2 years ago

> When the Allman Brothers chartered the plane, they found "Welcome Allman Brothers" written on the plane's bar in lines of cocaine once they boarded.

Just how normalised was cocaine in the 70s?

toni · 2 years ago

so normal that a plastic surgeon discovered a hole the size of a coin burned through Stevie Nicks' nose from her cocaine use.

toni commented on An extreme ice-age climate 700M years ago astrobiology.com/2024/02/... · Posted by u/belter

dylan604 · 2 years ago

"We're sorry, but this video is no longer available."

Why bother posting the link?

toni · 2 years ago

Here is an hour long video explaining every stage the earth has gone through:

The Whole History of the Earth and Life - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SkeNMoDlHUU

It's really mind boggling how many times earth has seen a mass extinction, followed by life appearing again.

toni commented on uBlacklist: Blocks specific sites from appearing in Google search results github.com/iorate/ublackl... · Posted by u/st_goliath

ayoisaiah · 2 years ago

I'm looking for something like this, but for YouTube search results / recommendations

toni · 2 years ago

I use Channel Blocker extension[1], it can block channels and individual videos.

[1] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/channel-blocker/nfk...

toni commented on The Google Chrome Comic (2008) google.com/googlebooks/ch... · Posted by u/toni

jonjacky · 2 years ago

See also, another comic in a very similar style from 2022:

https://contrachrome.com/comic/page01/

"Leah Elliot documents how over the last decade, Google's browser has become a threat to user privacy and the democratic process itself. With her meticulous rearrangement of Scott McCloud's Google-commissioned Chrome comic from 2008, she delivers what she calls a much-needed update."

toni · 2 years ago

Thanks that is very interesting! Here is Scott McCloud's original page for the book: https://www.scottmccloud.com/googlechrome/

Posted by u/toni 2 years ago

The Google Chrome Comic (2008)google.com/googlebooks/ch...

toni commented on Google's plan to stop Apple from getting serious about search nytimes.com/2023/10/26/te... · Posted by u/mooreds

TradingPlaces · 2 years ago

That is from the recent Bernstein estimate. Justice Department says only $4-$7b

toni · 2 years ago

That is indeed far less. Hopefully Apple has still put some of that money into rivaling Google search.

toni commented on Google's plan to stop Apple from getting serious about search nytimes.com/2023/10/26/te... · Posted by u/mooreds

toni · 2 years ago

The article says that in 2021, Google paid Apple around $18 billion to keep Google’s search engine as default in iPhones.

What if Apple would put all that money back into developing its own search engine?! That would be beating Google with its own money!

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