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Cake day: September 11th, 2023

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  • I’m not sure if I understand what you’re talking about exactly. With root I can access all files on my device (including /data/data, where app internal files are kept) and I can give permission to apps to access all files too, it they ask for it. Not that I’d want that, because it’s way safer to keep user data in /storage/emulated/0 and give read permissions on file or folder level (like /Pictures for a gallery app, or just the picture I want to share for a social media app).

    If you want to share data between apps, the easiest way would be to give them access to the same folder in user space. That isn’t OS maker’s generosity, that’s basic security controls.




  • So that’s why the choice seems to be between red eyes or tiny pupils. I have some old photos where the surroundings look really dark, the flash on the people makes them look ghostly pale and everyone has unnaturally constricted pupils. If we were trying to avoid demonic pictures, I think we failed.








  • This one time I got a “test email” but it was sent from a legitimate domain, used our in-house style correctly, didn’t contain any spelling errors, contained personal information about me that a simple leaked email couldn’t reveal, and linked to a document on an internal server. When I opened the link, it said “this was a mock phishing email, your respone has been registered”. Literally the only time I got got, and their supposed “tell” was that the tone was more urgent than you’d expect. I just thought it was written by a stressed intern.



  • Hoimo@ani.socialto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    6 days ago

    You’d think humans don’t need the example of the holocaust to know not to do a holocaust.

    Reminds me of Yukio Mishima’s novel Beautiful Star, written in the early Cold War (1962), where the main character bemoans that humans just did a full World War and now, when faced with the horror of nuclear destruction, don’t seem to have learned anything from years of traditional destruction and are ready to do it all over again. “If they could just imagine they’d done it already and say ‘never again’!”




  • Hoimo@ani.socialtoxkcd@lemmy.worldxkcd #3081: PhD Timeline
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    8 days ago

    I think there’s a difference between being able to understand and having all the information to understand. Randall has a very wide range of topics that he makes comics on and most readers won’t know enough about every topic to get every joke, even though he does his best to simplify it for a broad audience. That’s the reason ExplainXKCD exists. But his audience is generally nerds, people who like learning new information, which is also what Explain caters to. So it is both true that his audience can (and are willing to) understand and that Explain helps them understand. (I also think that nerds love explaining stuff, so it makes sense that the main fandom website is ExplainXKCD, even if there were no demand for explanations.)




  • This is famously an impossible problem to solve. For example, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off is a Science Saru anime, but MAL sees it primarily as a Netflix production based on a Canadian story. And I have to agree: if the English dub isn’t trash, is it really anime?

    I think when you’re studying the contracts between different multinationals to decide whether something is anime or not, it’s better to err on the side of community and friendly discussion, making anything anime-adjacent fair game for this instance.

    Bait

    I just want to see a King of the Hill community on ani.social