https://pinboard.in/u:jm/public/ recent bookmarks from jm 2025-06-18T09:45:43+00:00 https://cardstock.run/ jm education python web coding apps hypercard via:hn https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:53ac6c47de56/ 2025-06-18T09:44:50+00:00 https://pontus.granstrom.me/scrappy/ jmThe apps we use are almost exclusively mass-market, sold on an app-store, made for thousands if not millions of users. Or they are enterprise apps that are custom-built for hundreds of thousands of dollars. But there isn’t really any equivalent of home-made software — apps made lovingly by you for your friends and family. Apps that aren’t polished or flashy, but are made to your preference and help you with your particular needs. [...] We ended up creating a research prototype that we call Scrappy — a tool for making scrappy apps for just you and your friends. First and foremost, we aim to contribute a vision of what home-made software could be like. We want to make this vision as concrete as we can, by sharing a working tool and examples of apps made in it. Scrappy, in its current state, is a prototype, not a robust tool, but we hope it paints the picture we carry in our heads — of software as something that can be creative, personal, expressive. Made by anyone, for themselves and their loved ones. Very Hypercard-ish!]]> diy apps programming software web via:hn hacks home family tools scrappy hypercard https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:e5a9f617091d/ 2025-06-11T09:43:07+00:00 https://f-droid.org/packages/it.rignanese.leo.slimfacebook/ jm facebook meta privacy android f-droid apps https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:3f1e83d5a000/ 2025-06-10T08:33:30+00:00 https://jan.wildeboer.net/2025/04/Web-is-Broken-Botnet-Part-2/ jm scraping apps mobile networking residential-proxies proxies botnets https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:351f8a81655f/ 2025-06-04T09:52:48+00:00 https://localmess.github.io/ jm privacy meta facebook instagram apps android https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4132d4d78200/ 2025-05-29T10:56:56+00:00 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/weather-strip/id1528594026 jm weather apple apps iphone ipad mac software ux https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:d9e4ceb42567/ 2025-05-09T11:18:20+00:00 https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/113869402100735005 jm you can use ADB to disable developer options without disabling the settings you want to keep enabled as the UI will do. Just enable the setting you want and then turn off developer options via ADB using the settings put command. ]]> android development coding hacking revolut banking apps security false-positives grapheneos rooting hardware attestation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:2836107a6350/ 2025-01-22T11:00:33+00:00 https://infrequently.org/2024/11/if-not-react-then-what/ jm react angular spa web-apps webdev javascript html apps https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:cdefcb8f6211/ 2025-01-17T11:26:22+00:00 https://docs.hollo.social/ jm fediverse mastodon hollo apps social-media blogging https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:9588464925f0/ 2025-01-12T12:32:28+00:00 https://gizmodo.com/watch-duty-hits-1-on-apple-app-store-as-wildfires-rage-in-california-2000547740 jmThe [Watch Duty] app gives users the latest alerts about fires in their area [in California] and has become a vital service for millions of users in the western U.S. struggling with the seemingly constant threat of deadly wildfires—one major reason it had over 360,000 unique visits from 8:00-8:30 a.m. local time Wednesday. And the man behind Watch Duty promises that as a nonprofit, his organization has no plans to pull an OpenAI and become a profit-seeking enterprise. ]]> non-profits tech watch-duty apps mobile public-good https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:a6363b412c60/ 2024-07-17T11:17:19+00:00 https://retool.com/ jm retool apps hacking no-code coding via:lwia integration https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:79ad292bdab7/ 2023-08-29T08:25:08+00:00 https://ericdraken.com/pfsense-decrypt-ad-traffic/ jm blocking protobuf youtube google protocols appletv apps reverse-engineering https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:9567c6ad4947/ 2023-08-10T09:55:32+00:00 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/10/pak-n-save-savey-meal-bot-ai-app-malfunction-recipes jmOne recipe it dubbed “aromatic water mix” would create chlorine gas. The bot recommends the recipe as “the perfect nonalcoholic beverage to quench your thirst and refresh your senses” ]]> ai funny fail meal-planners apps recipes chlorine pak-n-save https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f895d0882b45/ 2023-04-14T11:44:51+00:00 https://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~garciaf/publications/why_banker_bob.pdf jm Abstract. This paper presents a security review of the mobile apps provided by the UK’s leading banks; we focus on the connections the apps make, and the way in which TLS is used. We apply existing TLS testing methods to the apps which only find errors in legacy apps. We then go on to look at extensions of these methods and find five of the apps have serious vulnerabilities. In particular, we find an app that pins a TLS root CA certificate, but do not verify the hostname. In this case, the use of certificate pinning means that all existing test methods would miss detecting the hostname verification flaw. We also find one app that doesn’t check the certificate hostname, but bypasses proxy settings, resulting in failed detection by pentesting tools. We find that three apps load adverts over insecure connections, which could be exploited for in-app phishing attacks. Some of the apps used the users’ PIN as authentication, for which PCI guidelines require extra security, so these apps use an additional cryptographic protocol; we study the underlying protocol of one banking app in detail and show that it provides little additional protection, meaning that an active man-in-the-middle attacker can retrieve the user’s credentials, login to the bank and perform every operation the legitimate user could. See also: https://www.synopsys.com/blogs/software-security/ineffective-certificate-pinning-implementations/]]> ssl tls certificates certificate-pinning security infosec banking apps uk pci mobile https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:be29417d3934/ 2022-11-29T09:49:30+00:00 https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/11/u-s-govt-apps-bundled-russian-code-with-ties-to-mobile-malware-developer/ jmA recent scoop by Reuters revealed that mobile apps for the U.S. Army and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were integrating software that sends visitor data to a Russian company called Pushwoosh, which claims to be based in the United States. But that story omitted an important historical detail about Pushwoosh: In 2013, one of its developers admitted to authoring the Pincer Trojan, malware designed to surreptitiously intercept and forward text messages from Android mobile devices. ]]> trojans pushwoosh push-notifications apps mobile https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:eccce22367b1/ 2022-05-13T09:50:56+00:00 https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/messaging-and-chat-control/ jm The EU wants to oblige providers to search all private chats, messages, and emails automatically for suspicious content – generally and indiscriminately. The stated aim: To prosecute child pornography. The result: Mass surveillance by means of fully automated real-time messaging and chat control and the end of secrecy of digital correspondence. Other consequences of the proposal are ineffective network blocking, screening of person cloud storage including private photos, mandatory age verification leading to the end of anonymous communication, censorship in Appstores and the paternalism and exclusion of minors in the digital world. ]]> surveillance censorship chat-control eu laws messaging apps privacy data-privacy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:133f804a604c/ 2022-03-07T12:37:55+00:00 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/telegram-harm-reduction-users-russia-and-ukraine jm apps communication eff encryption ukraine russia war security https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:51ce53aa1ace/ 2022-01-01T13:22:00+00:00 https://www.kiwix.org/en/about/ jmAn offline reader for [...] Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg, or TED Talks. It makes knowledge available to people with no or limited internet access. The software as well as the content is free to use for anyone. Will run on an Android phone, and is used by 'more than 4 million users in 200 countries', which is pretty impressive.]]> kiwix developing-world wikipedia project-gutenberg compression apps mobile tech https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:ff6dbe8f5b8d/ 2021-05-28T15:53:11+00:00 https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2021/05/28/us-soldiers-expose-nuclear-weapons-secrets-via-flashcard-apps/ jmFor US soldiers tasked with the custody of nuclear weapons in Europe, the stakes are high. Security protocols are lengthy, detailed and need to be known by heart. To simplify this process, some service members have been using publicly visible flashcard learning apps — inadvertently revealing a multitude of sensitive security protocols about US nuclear weapons and the bases at which they are stored. [...] the flashcards studied by soldiers tasked with guarding these devices reveal not just the bases, but even identify the exact shelters with “hot” vaults that likely contain nuclear weapons. They also detail intricate security details and protocols such as the positions of cameras, the frequency of patrols around the vaults, secret duress words that signal when a guard is being threatened and the unique identifiers that a restricted area badge needs to have. omgwtf!]]> army dystopia nuclear nukes privacy flashcards apps security weapons https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:49cce505e1ff/ 2021-05-13T09:36:09+00:00 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03606-z jmHere we investigated the impact of the NHS COVID-19 app for England and Wales, from its launch on 24 September 2020 through to the end of December 2020. It was used regularly by approximately 16.5 million users (28% of the total population), and sent approximately 1.7 million exposure notifications: 4.4 per index case consenting to contact tracing. We estimated that the fraction of app-notified individuals subsequently showing symptoms and testing positive (the secondary attack rate, SAR) was 6.0%, comparable to the SAR for manually traced close contacts. We estimated the number of cases averted by the app using two complementary approaches. Modelling based on the notifications and SAR gave 284,000 (108,000-450,000), and statistical comparison of matched neighbouring local authorities gave 594,000 (317,000-914,000). Roughly one case was averted for each case consenting to notification of their contacts. We estimated that for every percentage point increase in app users, the number of cases can be reduced by 0.8% (modelling) or 2.3% (statistical analysis). These findings provide evidence for continued development and deployment of such apps in populations that are awaiting full protection from vaccines. ]]> covid-19 contact-tracing apps pandemics npis https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:b619a3f3a936/ 2020-12-17T12:29:47+00:00 https://www.labnol.org/send-sms-google-sheets-200402 jm appinventor apps android mit coding blocks gui sms google-sheets texting https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:b9e0ebcbd1d4/ 2020-08-24T21:23:05+00:00 https://seancoates.com/blogs/how-i-helped-fix-canadas-covid-alert-app jm mitmproxy mitm https ios apps reversing https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:79da8f2472d6/ 2020-07-20T13:31:04+00:00 https://www.nearform.com/blog/ireland-donates-contact-tracing-app-to-linux-foundation/ jmIreland’s Health Service Executive (HSE) announced today that it is donating the code for the COVID Tracker app as Open Source to the not-for-profit Linux Foundation. This will enable jurisdictions worldwide to quickly build and deploy their own contact tracing apps using a wildly successful proven base. The donated app has been named COVID Green. [...] The rapid adoption of the COVID Tracker app in Ireland exceeded all expectations. One million people installed it in the first 36 hours, and the app currently has over 1.3 million installations. That figure represents more than 30% of people in Ireland with compatible devices. The code is also being used in the app for Gibraltar and the upcoming apps for Northern Ireland, other jurisdictions in EMEA and multiple US states. NearForm continues to enable public health authorities to get a contact tracing application into production within four weeks of project start. By donating the source code to the new Linux Foundation Public Health (LFPH) project, under the Apache License 2.0, the HSE is playing an active role in helping to fight Covid-19 worldwide. Source code for the COVID Green mobile app is available now on GitHub and soon will be followed by all matching backend code. The Linux Foundation is dedicated to building sustainable ecosystems around open source projects to accelerate technology development and industry adoption. LFPH is launching with a mission to use open source software to help public health authorities (PHAs) around the world combat Covid-19 and future epidemics. One of the roles of LFPH is to serve as a forum for collaboration between PHAs, developers, technology companies and academics to ensure the implementation and dissemination of best practices, including privacy and security. ]]> hse nearform covid-19 contact-tracing exposure-notification apps mobile open-source linux-foundation lfph https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:5ef630eeb06a/ 2020-06-26T14:04:52+00:00 https://www.hse.ie/eng/services/news/newsfeatures/covid19-updates/covid-tracker-app/covid-tracker-app.html jmThe Department of Health and the Health Service Executive have published several important documents as part of our ongoing commitment to openness and transparency in the development of the Covid Tracker App for Ireland. The Data Protection Impact Assessment, the source code, the Product Explainer for the Covid Tracker App, and a series of app design and development reports are available on GitHub.  ]]> hse covid-19 exposure-notification ireland source-code contact-tracing apps https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:31d235add0fe/ 2020-06-23T09:44:52+00:00 https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/21/1004228/trumps-data-hungry-invasive-app-is-a-voter-surveillance-tool-of-extraordinary-scope/ jmTrump’s casino-like campaign app seems to be his own attempt to create a “one-way tool of propaganda.” Its deployment is part of a global trend, piggybacking on years of unresolved privacy and security issues within the app ecosystem. As researchers studying the intersection of technology and propaganda, we understand that political groups tend to lag behind the commercial ad industry. But when they catch up, the consequences to truth and civil discourse can be devastating.  The array of data-gathering tools the Trump and Modi apps use are a legacy of a “freemium” social-media and app landscape that is manipulative, non-transparent, and purposefully addictive, with a mentality of “collect data first and ask question later.” For the last five to 10 years, the pervasiveness of these tools and their use in data scooping has been well documented. Sporadic, state-by-state data regulations have been the only response. In Europe, the GDPR was a big step toward meaningful consent and transparency, but the Official Trump 2020 App does not fall under its jurisdiction. A global perspective is now critical to understanding the implications of data-fueled political manipulation and preparing for the next wave of disinformation. Countries must work together to create effective regulation, and citizens must demand this of them. It took about five years for Modi’s strategies to jump from India to the US, and in the next few years we are on track to see the arrival of strategies used in the dark-money disinformation campaigns of Mexico and Latin America. The Mexican journalist we'd interviewed for our study put it this way: “I think what’s coming all around the world is going to be very chaotic, at least in [the US], I think you’re on the brink of a sort of civil war in one or two years ... You’re going to have a lot of work to do.” ]]> trump politics apps surveillance advertising voting modi gdpr privacy data-privacy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:add5fa6051a6/ 2020-06-06T17:21:51+00:00 https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/05/1002775/covid-apps-effective-at-less-than-60-percent-download/?truid=8c8f2699f50eb3b9985a111121cfee47 jmBut even though the researchers know that lower levels of adoption will be useful, they aren’t entirely sure what different ranges will actually mean. Still, every successful notification means a life potentially saved. Fraser says his team had assumed that lower levels of usage might have very small benefits—but that, in fact, simulations show the upsides are significantly higher than they thought. “The expectation going in was that app usage wouldn’t be very effective at low levels,” he says. “If you have 10% of people using the app, then the chance of contact between two people being detected is 10% of 10%, which is 1%—a tiny fraction. What we found in the simulation was that that actually isn’t the case. We’ve been working to understand why we actually see benefits of usage accruing.” ]]> contact-tracing apps exposure-notification covid-19 papers https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4bc2b740cff0/ 2020-06-03T10:40:41+00:00 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23396499 jm immuni italy covid-19 exposure-notification contact-tracing apps android ios https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:89699046ea88/ 2020-05-07T21:01:48+00:00 https://twitter.com/NHSX/status/1258453749691027465 jm nhsx nhs uk covid-19 ble bluetooth tracking contact-tracing ios android apps https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:6c04196c212b/ 2020-04-22T20:00:32+00:00 http://progcity.maynoothuniversity.ie/2020/04/will-covidtracker-ireland-work/ jmIt is essential that the government follow the guidance of the European Data Protection Board that recommends that strong measures are put in place to protect privacy, data minimization is practised, the source code is published and regularly reviewed, there is clear oversight and accountability, and there is purpose limitation that stops control creep. If implemented poorly, the app could have a profound chilling effect on public trust and public health measures that might be counterproductive. As a consequence, the Ada Lovelace Institute, a leading UK centre for artificial intelligence research, is advising governments to be cautious, ethical and transparent in their use of app-based contact tracing. Ireland might do well to heed their advice. ]]> data-privacy privacy covid-19 hse apps ireland contact-tracing https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:29dcbc692710/ 2020-04-20T15:39:04+00:00 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-europe-tech-idUSKBN2221U0 jmThe rift has opened up over a German-led initiative, called Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing (PEPP-PT https://www.pepp-pt.org), which has been criticised for being too centralised and thus prone to governmental mission creep. [....] “Solutions which allow reconstructing invasive information about the population should be rejected without further discussion,” the scientists said in their letter. Among the signatories was Michael Backes, head of Germany’s CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, which pulled out of PEPP-PT at the weekend. Swiss researchers have also publicly dissociated themselves from PEPP-PT, citing concerns over centralisation and privacy. Critics have also questioned PEPP-PT’s assertion that seven European countries - Austria, Germany, France, Italy, Malta, Spain and Switzerland - had come on board. Spain and Switzerland now back rival DP-3T, government and research sources said. ]]> dp-3t pepp-pt contact-tracing europe apps covid-19 https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:bc4610fada28/ 2020-04-15T12:00:27+00:00 https://twitter.com/Farzad_MD/status/1248573813610209285 jm twitter threads contact-tracing apps tools covid-19 https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:6ec58686bdcd/ 2020-04-05T22:22:27+00:00 https://github.com/covid19risk/covidwatch-ios#covidwatch-ios jm covid-19 ble bluetooth contact-tracing apps ios android interop bugs https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:08aa7ef828be/ 2020-04-03T16:57:26+00:00 https://docs.google.com/document/d/16Kh4_Q_tmyRh0-v452wiul9oQAiTRj8AdZ5vcOJum9Y/edit jm docs gdocs contact-tracing privacy apps coding tech covid-19 collaboration https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:404df94aa455/ 2020-04-02T17:14:05+00:00 https://twitter.com/labnol/status/1245759031219609600 jm ble bluetooth contact-tracing via:amit-agarwal india apps android ios covid-19 https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f3c6d3049104/ 2020-04-01T19:46:10+00:00 https://www.pepp-pt.org/ jmPan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing (PEPP-PT) makes it possible to interrupt new chains of SARS-CoV-2 transmission rapidly and effectively by informing potentially exposed people. We are a large and inclusive European team. We provide standards, technology, and services to countries and developers. We embrace a fully privacy-preserving approach. We build on well-tested, fully implemented proximity measurement and scalable backend service. We enable tracing of infection chains across national borders.  (via Cory) ]]> coronavirus tracing gdpr covid-19 privacy contact-tracing apps europe via:doctorow https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:e8e1d90b3f4b/ 2020-03-22T22:59:10+00:00 https://twitter.com/julicouras/status/1241815017961541636 jmMobile contact tracing for #COVID19 A thread with multiple references about what is being done in the world, what has already been done and what is not being done in the European Union. ]]> contact-tracing tracking apps smartphone mobile eu https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:9aeb8156dedf/ 2020-03-18T18:04:26+00:00 https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615372/coronavirus-infection-tests-app-pandemic-location-privacy/ jmThe news: An app that tracks where you have been and who you have crossed paths with—and then shares this personal data with other users in a privacy-preserving way—could help curb the spread of Covid-19, says Ramesh Raskar at the MIT Media Lab, who leads the team behind it. Called Private Kit: Safe Paths, the free and open-source app was developed by people at MIT and Harvard, as well as software engineers at companies such as Facebook and Uber, who worked on it in their free time.   ]]> mit contact-tracing privacy apps smartphones android ios covid-19 epidemics pandemics https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:ca9d8a70f22c/ 2020-03-17T23:02:56+00:00 https://www.covid19risk.com/about.html jm COVID-19 has a relatively long infectious incubation period, averaging five days but potentially up to two weeks, during which there may be asymptomatic transmission. In other words, there may be a period of time in which people who carry COVID-19 don't necessarily show symptoms and may not even realise they are infected, but are still capable of infecting others. This makes it harder for health professionals and epidemiologists to trace who has come into contact with infected persons ('contact tracing'), which in turn makes the virus more difficult to effectively contain. Many people, however, now carry GPS-enabled smartphones which already track their location over time - most mapping apps, like Google Maps or MapQuest, already collect this data by default. We believe that this information could be used to rapidly and automatically perform a type of contact tracing, helping limit the spread of COVID-19 and other infectious diseases. These phones are usually also Bluetooth-enabled, allowing them to track and record which other phones they're in proximity to. We believe that together, these two pieces of information can be used to inform and empower our users in a range of ways. Firstly, we can generate heatmaps of high-risk areas from demographic data, known cases, and epidemiological modelling, allowing users to adjust their behaviour accordingly. Secondly, we can use Bluetooth connections between users to enact cryptographically secure contact tracing and alerting them if we learn that they have been exposed to COVID-19, without revealing the identities or infection status of any other users. ]]> covid-19 contact-tracing apps android ios smartphones privacy location https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:e56e9084f32f/ 2020-02-16T21:55:31+00:00 https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/ jm programming mobile coding family friends social-networking tapstack apps https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c5e1310cc743/ 2019-09-30T09:21:47+00:00 https://medium.com/bridgefy/how-to-use-the-bridgefy-offline-messaging-app-b4799af7649b jm apps mobile offline networking bluetooth chat emergency https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7a6bbce82790/ 2019-09-10T11:08:08+00:00 https://github.com/ericflo/mediasummon jmMediasummon is an open source application that fetches a copy of all your photos and videos, and keeps them continuously backed up into one organized directory either on your computer or on a cloud storage provider. Currently supports reading from Instagram, Google Photos, and Facebook, and writing to Dropbox, GDrive or S3. Go, MIT Licensed.]]> open-source apps photos sync google-photos facebook instagram backups s3 dropbox https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:edd421e501d6/ 2019-05-08T09:07:43+00:00 https://www.joe.ie/life-style/dublin-bus-666756 jmThis is not a bug in the system, but a feature of the system. The app is not automated to the degree that a cancelled bus service can be flagged on the spot. It has to pass through at least two human decision-making processes before it's removed from the app. In the most simple terms, the system works in such a way that inaccurate information is an inevitable by-product. Similarly, the app struggles to account for buses that are held up in traffic: "When a bus is held in traffic, the predicted arrival time on the RTPI unit will reflect this as it is determined by the bus’ distance between its location and the bus stop and it is not possible to determine the duration of the period of congestion." So while your bus could be 10 minutes away, on a busy main road full of traffic, the app could tell you that it is two or three minutes away, based purely on its distance. ]]> buses public-transport dublin rtpi dublin-bus rants apps mobile https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f86625e24fa0/ 2018-10-31T15:44:29+00:00 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/30/style/kids-study-apps-advertising.html jmIn apps marketed for children 5 and under in the Google Play store, there were pop-up ads with disturbing imagery. There were ads that no child could reasonably be expected to close out of, and which, when triggered, would send a player into more ads. Dancing treasure chests would give young players points for watching video ads, potentially endlessly. The vast majority of ads were not marked at all. Characters in children’s games gently pressured the kids to make purchases, a practice known as host-selling, banned in children’s TV programs in 1974 by the Federal Trade Commission. At other times an onscreen character would cry if the child did not buy something. “The first word that comes to mind is furious,” said Dr. Radesky, an assistant professor of developmental behavioral pediatrics at the University of Michigan Medical School. “I’m a researcher. I want to stay objective. We started this study really just trying to look at distraction. My frustrated response is about all the surprising, potentially deceptive stuff we found.” brb, installing Pi-Hole.]]> children kids ads advertising apps android google ftc games iap https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0ee970b2c02b/ 2018-10-31T15:43:03+00:00 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/style/phones-children-silicon-valley.html jmJohn Lilly, a Silicon Valley-based venture capitalist with Greylock Partners and the former C.E.O. of Mozilla, said he tries to help his 13-year-old son understand that he is being manipulated by those who built the technology. “I try to tell him somebody wrote code to make you feel this way — I’m trying to help him understand how things are made, the values that are going into things and what people are doing to create that feeling,” Mr. Lilly said. “And he’s like, ‘I just want to spend my 20 bucks to get my Fortnite skins.’” ]]> kids technology education parenting screentime apps tech phones https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:da2368df777e/ 2018-04-30T14:27:28+00:00 https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/25/for-the-first-time-parents-can-limit-youtube-kids-to-human-reviewed-videos-and-recommendations/ jm youtube google parents parenting kids apps https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f026cfd6c0a0/ 2018-02-28T08:33:45+00:00 https://speakev.com/threads/30-kwh-nissan-connect-issues.13928/page-16#post-244076 jm nissan-leaf nissan leaf apps mobile cars driving https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0d3251c1f5b1/ 2017-11-27T11:25:22+00:00 https://meetcircle.com/?ref=GIFTTT jm apps kids android ios circle filtering family parenting https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:384a9f04177b/ 2017-11-16T15:34:58+00:00 https://theoutline.com/post/2490/why-is-this-company-tracking-where-you-are-on-thanksgiving jmTo do this, they tapped a company called SafeGraph that provided them with 17 trillion location markers for 10 million smartphones. The data wasn’t just staggering in sheer quantity. It also appears to be extremely granular. Researchers “used this data to identify individuals' home locations, which they defined as the places people were most often located between the hours of 1 and 4 a.m.,” wrote The Washington Post. [....] This means SafeGraph is looking at an individual device and tracking where its owner is going throughout their day. A common defense from companies that creepily collect massive amounts of data is that the data is only analyzed in aggregate; for example, Google’s database BigQuery, which allows organizations to upload big data sets and then query them quickly, promises that all its public data sets are “fully anonymized” and “contain no personally-identifying information.” In multiple press releases from SafeGraph’s partners, the company’s location data is referred to as “anonymized,” but in this case they seem to be interpreting the concept of anonymity quite liberally given the specificity of the data. Most people probably don’t realize that their Thanksgiving habits could end up being scrutinized by strangers. It’s unclear if users realize that their data is being used this way, but all signs point to no. (SafeGraph and the researchers did not immediately respond to questions.) SafeGraph gets location data from “from numerous smartphone apps,” according to the researchers. ]]> safegraph apps mobile location tracking surveillance android iphone ios smartphones big-data https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:205b103293e9/ 2017-09-25T13:33:12+00:00 https://www.londonreconnections.com/2017/understanding-uber-not-app/ jmthe next time you see a link to a petition or someone raging about this decision being ‘anti-innovation’, remember Greyball. Remember the Metropolitan Police letter [regarding several sexual assaults which Uber didn't report to police]. Remember that this is about holding ULL, as a company, to the same set of standards to which every other mini-cab operator in London already complies. Most of all though remember: it is not about the app. ]]> uber ull safety crime london assault greyball taxis cabs apps https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:9d67ada1ea56/ 2017-01-18T11:44:12+00:00 https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard/blob/master/ADBLOCKING.md jm android ad-blocking ads netguard apps https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:1fd9115a7e69/ 2016-09-08T11:30:50+00:00 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/fashion/modern-love-pregnancy-miscarriage-app-technology.html jm privacy pregnancy miscarriage data-protection apps babies parenthood https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:e07cac39fec0/ 2016-07-18T12:35:00+00:00 https://applidium.com/en/news/unbundling_pokemon_go/ jm https http protobuf pokemon-go pokemon apps android reversing https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:a692da736fc5/ 2016-04-25T12:10:03+00:00 http://dangrover.com/blog/2016/04/20/bots-wont-replace-apps.html jmAs I’ll explain, messenger apps’ apparent success in fulfilling such a surprising array of tasks does not owe to the triumph of “conversational UI.” What they’ve achieved can be much more instructively framed as an adept exploitation of Silicon Valley phone OS makers’ growing failure to fully serve users’ needs, particularly in other parts of the world. Chat apps have responded by evolving into “meta-platforms.” Many of the platform-like aspects they’ve taken on to plaster over gaps in the OS actually have little to do with the core chat functionality. Not only is “conversational UI” a red herring, but as we look more closely, we’ll even see places where conversational UI has breached its limits and broken down. ]]> apps bots chatops chat ui messaging silicon-valley agents alexa siri phones https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:158a4abdfa4d/ 2016-02-13T22:46:39+00:00 https://eng.saucelabs.com/blog/isign jmToday Sauce Labs is proud to open-source isign. isign can take an iOS app that was authorized to run only on one developer’s phone, and transform it so it can run on another developer’s phone.  This is not a hack around Apple’s security. We figured out how Apple’s code signing works and re-implemented it in Python. So now you can use our isign utility anywhere – even on Linux! ]]> signing apple code-signing pki ios iphone apps https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:d2bd4c808903/ 2015-12-04T12:01:39+00:00 http://www.pixelmator.com/mac/ jm images design graphics mac osx tools apps https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:0957fc41f228/ 2015-08-18T09:50:51+00:00 https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3h52yk/someone_discovered_that_the_facebook_ios/ jm_FBGraphQLConnectionStorePersistentPageLoaderOperationDelegate-Protocol.h _FBReactionAcornSportsContentSettingsSetShouldNotPushNotificationsMutationCall.h FBBoostedComponentCreateInputDataCreativeObjectStorySpecLinkDataCallToActionValue.h FBEventUpdateNotificationSubscriptionLevelMutationOptimisticPayloadFactoryProtocol-Protocol.h I just threw up a little. See also https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/under-the-hood-dalvik-patch-for-facebook-for-android/10151345597798920 , in which the FB Android devs happily reveal that they hot-patch the Dalvik VM at runtime to work around a limit -- rather than refactoring their app.]]> facebook horrors coding ios android dalvik hot-patching apps https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:b92e06876830/ 2015-03-11T14:21:00+00:00 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9183673 jmI can't commit code at CloudFlare because we use two-factor auth for the VPN (and everything else) and non-Apple apps on my iPhone are asking for my iTunes password. Tried airplane mode and apps simply don't load at all! That is a _disastrous_ policy choice by Apple. Does this mean Apple can shut down third-party app operation on iOS devices worldwide should they feel like it?]]> 2fa authy apps ios apple ownership itunes outages appstore fail jgc https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:dd3429edce1a/ 2015-03-09T15:32:34+00:00 http://www.theverge.com/a/anatomy-of-a-hack jm authy security hacking mfa authentication google apps exploits https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:a776a81514d4/ 2015-03-03T21:54:40+00:00 http://monodraw.helftone.com/ jm art ascii mac apps monodraw https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:9592302de244/ 2014-10-09T21:37:27+00:00 http://www.cnet.com/news/unity-one-gaming-development-platform-to-unite-them-all-up-for-sale/ jm unity games mobile apps ui https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:f004991ecf7d/ 2014-08-06T16:58:57+00:00 http://blog.uber.com/uberpool jm via:belong.io carpooling uber ride-sharing apps taxi travel uberpool https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:6c2cb11d5cf1/ 2014-06-16T12:57:26+00:00 http://help.tunein.com/customer/portal/articles/914024-how-do-i-use-the-record-timer-feature- jm tunein radio recording podcasts mp3 apps https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:94fb0a46b14a/ 2014-05-02T11:06:05+00:00 https://github.com/oisin/app-release-checklist/blob/master/checklist.md jm apps checklists release coding ios android mobile ohurley https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7a3bb9814a15/ 2014-04-09T14:22:49+00:00 http://daringfireball.net/2014/04/rethinking_what_we_mean_by_mobile_web jmWe shouldn’t think of “the web” as only what renders in web browsers. We should think of the web as anything transmitted using HTTP and HTTPS. Apps and websites are peers, not competitors. They’re all just clients to the same services. +1. Finally, a Daring Fireball post I agree with.]]> daring-fireball apps web http https mobile apple android browsers https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4a495e79e6e2/ 2014-03-27T16:18:19+00:00 https://mug.im/manage-your-mac-apps-with-homebrew-cask/ jm via:marc mac terminal brew packaging apps software osx https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:adf7855a2b47/ 2013-07-29T16:18:24+00:00 http://forecast.io/#/f/53.3367,-6.2534 jm weather ireland dark-sky apps iphone ipad forecast rain dataviz mapping via:marcomorain https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:d26f92844799/ 2013-03-13T14:38:40+00:00 http://www.eu2013.ie/100objects/ jmThe Royal Irish Academy, the National Museum of Ireland, and The Irish Times are collaborating with the EU Presidency, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Adobe to bring you a gift of A History of Ireland in 100 objects ‘from the people of Ireland to the people of the world’ for St Patrick’s Day. It is available as an interactive app for Apple iPhone and iPad, for most Android tablets and on the Kindle Fire, from our website, as well as associated app stores. You can also experience the book on your computer, smartphone or eReader by clicking on the 'eBook' button below. The gift is free to download until the end of March.  ]]> free st-patricks-day museum ireland history objects eu apps iphone ipad android books ebooks https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:57008ca95abc/ 2013-03-07T23:22:54+00:00 https://www.dropbox.com/developers/sync jmGive your app its own private Dropbox client and leave the syncing to us. ]]> apps dropbox synchronization sync ios android api https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:e260f53c35b9/ 2013-02-10T00:32:58+00:00 http://sahelsounds.com/2013/01/the-talking-cat-of-azawad/ jmUtilizing an iPhone/Android App known as “Talking Tom Cat”, the tool has been transformed into a new media mouthpiece, addressing very specific particulars of the conflict that are glossed over by international media: alliances between MNLA and Ansar Dine, critiques of hypocrisy of the MUJAO factions, and ousting of corrupt politicians. ]]> apps wtf politics talking-tom-cat bizarre tuareg africa via:neilmajor https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:c01c74e67c2d/ 2012-06-15T14:25:33+00:00 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/14/pgp_seal_encrypted_communications/ jm pgp phil-zimmermann privacy crypto silent-circle apps vc security https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:992ed7eea61f/