Category: android

When will Intel & AMD release their first ARM based SoC? “Intel is working on a new SoC (system on a chip) that will compete with the ARM-based designs that have dominated the mobile market for several years. Through a […]

the risks of all digital (no cash) payment systems & amok AI: “This happens quite often with customers of the Cashgroup banks (@DeutscheBank / @Postbank / @Commerzbank / @Comdirect) as soon as their algorithms hit your account is directly without […]

can smart phone cameras compete with the “big” ones with big lenses? more flower pictures (unedited): wanted to get the best smart phone camera that is not Apple 😜 (this phone is a offline camera-only phone (it will not get […]

can tablets replace notebooks? no. imho most tablets are just “big mobile phones” (no matter ipad or android based) or very slow downsized notebooks (windows 10 based), but having a full speed of AMD or Intel CPUs at 16GB of […]

update: 2022: ah oh: Pine community in Pain? https://blog.brixit.nl/why-i-left-pine64/ “In February 2021, PINE64 announced the end of the community editions. At this moment, PINE64’s focus shifted from supporting a diverse ecosystem of distributions and software projects around the PinePhone to […]

in previous rant, it was about “trying to return a product to China and get money back? well…. does not work in 99.9% of all cases” eBay Artikel versand aus China – Rückgabe keine Chance – teuer & unzuverlässig this […]

Motorola, Apple, Samsung, and now even Fairphone 4: NO 3.5mm headphone jack!!! For the audio junkies among us, this is a no go. Was so looking forward to the Fairphone, but will probably use a phone with audio jack as […]

simplicity is key: what is definately great and a big plus is the “openness” of the Android (a by Google heavily modified GNU-Linux) environment. no need for extra software (itunes) to access the device a usb-c-cable will do connect it […]

update: 2022-12 wow 3 and 4nm is very very small “TSMC recently announced that it is upping its U.S. investment in Arizona to US$40 billion (NT$1.23 trillion) and will manufacture 4nm and 3nm chips there. The 4nm chips are expected […]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:92.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/92.0 Hello Dear Mozilla / Dear Firefox management & DevTeam, using this rss app to stay up to date with various open source related blogs & sites., what cought the user’s eye […]

prologue: (u can skip it) SmartPhones try to spy and collect data, that why SmartPhone games and weather-apps are usually free. Because the user pays with user data. What even fuels the paranoia are stories like these: in 2011 Rothschild […]

in short: humans per default, without an education might just be “better” apes. Some parts of mankind behave very primitive and clearly show no signs of higher intelligence or education. The troubles start, when the tools become more and more […]

short story: phase it out So it finally happened, Oracle wants to cash in on it’s $7.4 Billion investment it made in 2009. The non-Open-Source non-GPL non-Free-Software-coffee has officially gone sour. One can just pray, that this will be a […]

Yes! RSS (“Really Simple Syndication“) FEEDs are still a very practical thing to follow certain websites & blogs & news outlets & aggregators & stay current on those platforms. Instead of letting big media outlets shovel news indiscriminately down the […]

Apple wants to become the new Google: BigBadBoldBigDataMothership why more developers should chose GPL to publish programs: as a once proud Apple user… (yes GNU Linux Debian 10 actually runs pretty well on the Intel-Macbook-Pros) yes they are beautiful spies… […]

SecurityLab, [12.01.21 15:23] The developer of the Salaat First (Prayer Times) app, which reminds Muslims when to pray, recorded and sold detailed information about their location to a data broker without the users ‘ knowledge, who in turn sold the […]

BeyondCorp Google’s new Approach to Security – we need to know EVERYTHING about the user – in order to trust the user – The Age of Surveillance Capitalism one tweet against Google… and the user’s Twitter account could look like… […]

SecurityLab, [22.12.20 10:00] Google has explained the reasons for the massive failure of its services that took place last week. Recall that on December 14 of this year, users around the world for 47 minutes could not access Gmail, YouTube […]

“Linux has made it to Mars” “The Red Planet runs on Linux” (src: theverge.com) just hope the #Perseverence Mars rover ain’t running Windows 🙈 (then it is lost already X-D) it will start a flight in the next 2-3 months […]

not sure if the news rang through… the Amazon Cloud (AWS) guy will be the new CEO of Amazon. What cloud? Amazon “cloud” Hetzner “cloud” cloud (centralized digital infrastructure) can be designed / implemented in different ways. from: the user/admin […]

DNS servers are the “yellow pages” “phone book” of the internet. whoever is running DNS servers get’s to know all queries send (what client is requesting and probably connecting to what address… basically: what websites the user have visited, this […]

all internet connected devices need regular maintenance and security updates (especially those directly accessible to the internet (without proxy (hopefully that proxy gets regular security updates)) it is a good idea to 1) backup then 2) update, in case user […]

contains advertisement. to be honest, it is hard to keep up the speed at which cyber incidents are reported. here is the latest take on “Russian IT Sec Updates”. have phun!   SecurityLab, [28.09.20 08:20] Last month, TikTok developers rolled […]

SecurityLab, [14.07.20 15:35] The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has unveiled a new database demonstrating how and where us law enforcement agencies use tracking technologies. A map of the use of tracking technologies in the United States is presented (https://www.securitylab.ru/news/510018.php) SecurityLab, […]

All SmartPhones are spies! that’s why Merkel keeps the Nokia from 1995 (even if that device is spied on as well, because it can not end2end encrypt sms or phone calls (*FAIL*! X-D)) Putin does not have a mobile phone […]

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: “be careful what you reveal to your friend” (the internet) https://irlpodcast.org/season4/episode5/ “where it has gone from defending America to controlling it” data google tries to collect from users: (it is probably only the tip of […]

KEEP BLUETOOTH OFF AT ALL TIMES! (switch it on when you need it and off when done (file transfer etc)) also saves energy on phones does usage of stylish ear bud bluetooth headsets increases security risk? (Bluetooth permanent on) this […]

https://theintercept.com/2020/04/03/zooms-encryption-is-not-suited-for-secrets-and-has-surprising-links-to-china-researchers-discover/ hm…. let me think where one has seen this before: TELEGRAM! Zoom’s service is “not suited for secrets” “The researchers also found that Zoom protects video and audio content using a home-grown encryption scheme, that there is a vulnerability […]

this really raises the question: the mobile (complete computer) phone (number) as key to everything? is it a good idea to rely on smart phones (that are essentially a very small laptop and a cellular modem) and phone numbers to […]

now WITH SPICY COMMENTS X-D SecurityLab, [22.12.19 12:40] A Twitter user using the alias 08Tc3wBB created tfp0-an exploit that allows you to jailbreak the latest iPhone models with IOS 13.3. The functionality of the exploit has already been confirmed by […]