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why-oh-why··on Remote iPhone exploitation part 2: a remote ASLR bypass
Oops, I was talking about macOS releases, not iOS. The numbers don’t match between the two
why-oh-why··on Hipmunk Says Goodbye
I occasionally end up on Orbitz and like many other big names they don’t show low cost airlines, which means some flights are 3-5x more expensive to begin with. I pity the customers who don’t know better
why-oh-why··on Hipmunk Says Goodbye
I knew it but never used it. This seems to be worth a try:

> We guarantee to beat your quote by more than our fee otherwise our service is entirely FREE.

Thank you!

why-oh-why··on Hipmunk Says Goodbye
Sadly it doesn’t seem to work in this part of the world. I keep trying it but it never shows any SkipLagged flights, just the regular ones
why-oh-why··on Hipmunk Says Goodbye
Something that’s hard for me to find is a website that gets me from point A to point B without caring about stop count and duration. Is the flight cheap and stops 23 hours in Hong Kong and 20 hours in Kuala Lumpur? I’ll take it.

Also Kiwi and Google Flights let you make wide searches but their efficiency drops so low they’re basically useless in my experience. You’re better off searching day by day.

Hipmunk never returned the best rates or routes for me so I had to drop it.

Lately I’m really into dohop.com because it shows routes that others don’t (South East Asia)

why-oh-why··on Remote iPhone exploitation part 2: a remote ASLR bypass
I think you’re mistaking the stability of Apple’s x.0 releases as “negative effects” of security patches.

x.0 releases do a lot more than patching. Security updates are much smaller and more frequent than even x.x.1 updates

why-oh-why··on Snowpack: Build a web application without a bundler
It was just announced
why-oh-why··on Parcel – Fast, zero-configuration web application bundler
If you want to just bundle, use rollup or browserify. They are pure bundlers based around ES Modules and CommonJS respectively.

Parcel is here because most people don’t need to just bundle but also a whole pipeline for optimization and extended browser support (Babel)

why-oh-why··on Parcel – Fast, zero-configuration web application bundler
Web Bundles are absolutely unrelated to Parcel and Webpack. The output of these two can just be wrapped in a Web Bundle or you can make it yourself.

It’s like saying a garage is the solution to your moving needs.

why-oh-why··on What does your car know about you? We hacked a Chevy to find out
If it exists, the police has access to it, if they have an excuse to
why-oh-why··on Asking questions is a skill: Lessons from 10 years of Stack Overflow
“Where is babby come from” would be a pretty popular question too, but it’s not the right forum.

I wish though that StackOverflow turned such questions into a chat/discussion instead of closing/deleting them. They have the tools to do that when comments start becoming too chatty.

why-oh-why··on Google Assistant Can Now Translate Languages on Your Phone
Isn’t the title wrong? The audio is sent to the server so it’s not “on my phone.”

This type of translation was already available “on my phone” completely offline (written, with Google Translate)

I use translation often and I was hoping to finally have an easy way to have a written conversation, but this still doesn’t show the right keyboard when picking the language in “Keyboard” mode.

why-oh-why··on New airplane seat design to make it easier to sleep in economy
I think so.

Aisle lets you get up anytime you want, but also forces you to get up twice as much as the middle seat. But mainly in the middle seat you never have to be afraid of people bumping into you, which affects you for most of the flight.

why-oh-why··on Switch to OpenStreetMap
The Maps.me iPhone app has turn by turn navigation
why-oh-why··on Greeks set to face fines if they don't spend 30% of their income electronically
Excuse me, what? If they know what 100% of my income is, they can tax it.

Payments under the table stay there; that money is not part of your percentage. People receive payments and make payments without that money ever appearing on any bank accounts.

This is unenforceable and doesn’t solve anything.

why-oh-why··on New airplane seat design to make it easier to sleep in economy
I wonder if any of you ever tried sitting on the aisle. It’s a hazard there, constantly being hit by anything and anyone who passes by. No way I’m “resting” on that armrest and therefore I’ll lean towards the middle seat.
why-oh-why··on [dead]
This article is trash and most likely copied from another blog. Sentences are broken, random words are capitalized, and I’m sure I’ve seen it elsewhere before.
why-oh-why··on 64 bits ought to be enough for anybody
If my calculations are correct, that GPU is making 1,000,000,000,000 guesses per second.

The takeaway here is that cracking a 64bit password only cost $1700 and is totally doable in 3 weeks.

If you need things to be really safe I guess you need to start lengthening those passwords.

why-oh-why··on Yahoo Pipes
Ifttt is a joke compared to Yahoo Pipes. It can only do a very limited number of pre-defined transformations and it’s only 2 steps.

Yahoo Pipes was basically programming with a UI.

why-oh-why··on Found hidden safe, should we crack?
For $900 can’t they just buy the required tool to open/break it? Sounds like a waste of money otherwise.
why-oh-why··on A Dead-Simple Web Stack in Haskell
That sounds like what Zeit.co is doing. Now.sh is nearly zero-config for a static HTML index and any number of functions in many languages under /api/

In their version 1 they actually even looked for index.js in the root and evaluated that one, but now such a thing requires config (and it isn’t even clear on how to achieve it)

why-oh-why··on Facebook iOS app has camera active during use
If you swipe right on the feed you’ll open the camera. I’m gonna guess this is a bug related to that.
why-oh-why··on Moving towards a faster web
I think this is more for project managers and site owners. These days we’ve become numb to the load speed, but if your browser tells you “dude your site is slow” there’s a chance the developer will get a call and money to speed it up.

You don’t want your customers to see that badge while looking for your Product X 3000 Max.

why-oh-why··on WebKit Goals for 2020
Isn’t that the whole point of AltStore? Apple certainly didn’t sign the GameBoy emulator available on AltStore.

The problem in this case is effort. It’s not that easy to port a browser effectively.

why-oh-why··on WebKit Goals for 2020
Web pages will never run persistent background tasks on iOS unless you install them. And even then, native apps are also both highly restricted and often have background tasks that you wouldn’t approve of if you knew what they were.
why-oh-why··on Is GraphQL Still Relevant in an HTTP2 World?
Just like there’s Hasura there could be a zero-coding tool that does the same for SQL.

I’m not arguing that the average developer should write an SQL query sanitizer but just that what companies are investing into GQL could be invested into something more flexible.

Sometimes we discard tools and ideas because at some point in the past they were poor or bad practice. See PHP and IE.

why-oh-why··on Is GraphQL Still Relevant in an HTTP2 World?
Is it?

Or is it just bad to pass unsanitized SQL queries? Because that’s the only issue I think. GraphQL seems effectively an input data sanitizer.

why-oh-why··on Is GraphQL Still Relevant in an HTTP2 World?
Ignorant here: why not just use a subset of SQL?

It needs a filter and it definitely needs to be applied to a limited, custom view of the actual underlying data, but… that’s what you have to do anyway with a REST or GraphQL API.

By the time you’re done making your REST/GraphQL API “really flexible” couldn’t you just build an SQL filter?

All the APIs I used to so far are so limited. For example there’s no easy way to query multiple posts at once on GitHub’s GQL while that could have be an extremely simple `SELECT title FROM issues WHERE id IN (13,57)`

why-oh-why··on How to Set Your Google Data to Self-Destruct
I’ll be honest. I used to preserve everything and I also was surprised at a friend who’d reset his Twitter profile every so often.

But it feels like everything can cause outrage these days and I don’t want to know what will look bad in 10 more years, out of context.

I’ll take out the archive and keep the memory on my computer, not online, for everyone to see.

why-oh-why··on How to Set Your Google Data to Self-Destruct
A few months ago someone posted a tool that cleared this and old tweets as well, but I can’t remember the name.

I wish there was a tool that regularly nuked my Facebook history as well, from comments in random groups to likes across the site. I have no use for things I commented 10 years ago.

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