th0mat

Re:Apple cripples Safari iOS so web apps can't compete with App store on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @11:13AM (#26957027)

If you develop an app for the App store, will Apple then try to take 30% of every ticket a band sells?

Social distancing violation alert on FB posts with group pictures

Posted by th0mat on Wednesday March 25, 2020 @03:41AM
from the self-post dept.

I continue to see people posting pictures on Facebook which show obvious violations of social distancing requirements.Facebook should consider adding an automatic alert to group pictures where people keep less than 2 meters distance.Social graph data would allow them to exclude pictures of people from the same household.I posted a Dear Facebook message on my wall but don't it will reach them....

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Re:iPhone 7 lets your neighbors know if you are home or out on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @12:21AM (#13983370)

Not true. Microsoft figured out how to do that. Google mac randomization Windows 10.

iPhone 7 lets your neighbors know if you are home or out

Posted by th0mat on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @11:58PM
from the packetmozart.com dept.

https://packetmozart.com/2017/03/29/iphone-7-not-randomizing-mac-addresses-for-wifi-probe-requests/

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The astonishing power of probe response packets

Posted by th0mat on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @09:07AM
from the packetmozart.com dept.

https://packetmozart.com/2017/03/28/the-astonishing-power-of-wi-fi-probe-response-packets/

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How Common Are Randomized Mac Addresses in Bangkok

Posted by th0mat on Tuesday March 21, 2017 @12:16AM
from the packetmozart.com dept.

https://packetmozart.com/2017/03/21/how-common-and-how-reliable-are-randomized-mac-addresses/

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Re:The CIA and My Samsung TV on Monday March 20, 2017 @01:05AM (#13911850)

The traffic analysis is not based on the mode of the TV, it only checks if there are any wifi packets coming from the TV. My results suggest that there were zero packets coming from the TV when nobody in the house was watching TV.

The CIA and My Samsung TV

Posted by th0mat on Monday March 20, 2017 @12:24AM
from the packetmozart.com dept.

https://packetmozart.com/the-cia-and-my-samsung-tv/

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Re:Comma Separated JSON on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @10:58PM (#11951268)

JSON enhanced CSV might be a more suitable name. After all it is valid CSV and invalid JSON.

Re:Introduction to CSJ (file format) on Sunday June 19, 2016 @09:07AM (#11932830)

My take is that comma separated JSON could come in handy

(1) when dealing with huge data volumes when streaming is needed or memory restrictions apply or

(2) when CSV does not work because there is no common standards on how to deal with special characters, empty lines and the like.

But then, in case (2) I could also just use JSON if the set is not too big. So, that really leaves (1) as the most important use case. Or did I get this wrong?