Every user of that spotify beta was a leech and spotify was the only seeder for all of them.
The meta defense only works if you make an llm output a more or less corrupted version of your warez.

Probably only sucessful ones.
Google captchas have had multiple rounds (with it faking you out claiming you failed) for probably a decade. Every round of the game updates some confidence score which if you get it high enough lets you pass.
This conversely means there is no way to fail, you just get stuck in an infinite loop of challenges if your score doesn’t get high enough.

The only other alternative means of pricing it would see even valid users consume way more than one “verification” per actual completed captcha, since so many users have low enough scores to need multiple rounds of captcha even when completing them with perfect accuracy.
I doubt they do this, but if they do it’s a scandal waiting to happen, besides also being very weird for any kind of statistic google certainly offers for their captcha.

Fixed a mediawiki maintenance script via a 2 char change last week.

Isn’t beginner++ gonna leave it unchanged?
range(val) iterates from 0 to val-1, so the final i+1 is val

They did this exact thing for csam detection a while back, and were made to stop due to public outcry.
It might have been analyzed locally and before encryption then though, still however without consent of the user and sending problematic results to apple.

It is very realistic that here they would make the device decrypt and check the description against a database and make it send the file and description off for reporting when a match is found.

Was a week when I did it some years ago.
The account is tied to your sim, you effectively confirm it by them forcing you to do the process over mobile data.

They make you associate the device with a functional sim by forcing you to do the process over mobile data.
Presumably they take all the sims IDs, effectively making the limit 1 device per year per unique phone contract including data.
Going by my experiences with prepaid contracts (which got canceled due to low usage) I’d estimate that creates costs of 20€ per unlock in my region.

online via a mobile data connection no less, presumably to allow them to reliably associate the imei to you.

If that is true, how does the brain work?

Call everything you have ever experienced the finite dataset.
Constructing your brain from dna works in a timely manner.
Then training it does too, you get visibly smarter with time, so on a linear scale.

PHP has ben JITed for a while now too.
I don’t recall it being known as slow compared to python even before that.

Yes

I think the correct tool for my purpose would be something like Popup window, if you care about that part.

SSB is still around, but also not what I was looking for. I just wanted a frameless window (and no other pwa functionality).
Fullscreen I disabled using my window manager. Under Linux you can commonly use alt+F3 to bring up the “right click on titlebar” menu, then disable fullscreen there. Generally ever window manager can disable fullscreen for windows, in a more or less accessible way (cough ms windows dll calls cough).

As mentioned below, This is recovery. I could ban kiosk mode to a separate profile, but unless you invent a time machine this won’t undo having opened kiosk mode in an in-use profile.

Yes, this is more of a recovery operation. Whatever the fix may be, modifying the browser itself to open a window without decorations would be easier.

There are some usecases in which you really don’t want to restart your browser.
The easiest way to update your kernel is to restart your pc, yet there is a market for live-patch kernels.
If someone accidentally infects their instance with kiosk, it may occasionally be preferable for them to follow a complex procedure to recover the instance, rather than doing the “simple” thing of restarting it.

Restarting may solve many problems, but there is a more difficult but less invasive solution almost every time.
Much like reinstalling may solve even more problems, but you can see that doing a reinstallation is not usually the right course of action.

Kiosk mode doesn’t just force fullscreen, it disables right click, the tab and title bar, …
Basically the browser is close to unusable until kiosk mode is ended, which I currently only know how to do via restarting Firefox.
And F11 is also disabled by kiosk mode. Interestingly, on the windows that were started before kiosk mode, it puts them into proper kiosk mode (after which F11 stops working of course).

I guess adb backup was before my time. I did use adb to transfer my apps when I last restored a twrp backup. In perhaps a similar manner to what that did, going by the name. But I did use adb root for that.

Otherwise, I use it to set a lot of otherwise inaccessible settings, like making the back gesture a lot thinner than intended because my touchscreen can handle it, or forcing 120Hz everywhere. I can also set my dpi there without anoying apps.

And ofc I use it to uninstall system apps I don’t need.

After initial setup I do all of that in a root bash session in termux admittedly, but if I hadn’t rooted my device I would still want to do most of that using an adb shell, as most of it doesn’t require root (besides maybe the restoring backups part).

I also use shell environment to semi-automatically transfer media files for certain processes, though I’ll probably move that over to syncrhing at some point.

The main remaining advantage is the ability to automate things on my phone from my pc, I don’t see a lot of those as replacable unless my rom installs kde connect as a system app and they add an immense amount of functionality

thx and wtf.
How can people even use android without adb shell?

I cannot open that, it shows a login page. Could you post a screenshot of what this is supposed to contain?

Shame they lost the display, that was the main benefit of the Xperia line for me.
Regular ~400 dpi screens look terrible and pixelated after being used to 650 dpi.

Guess I’ll have to hope another high dpi phone with headphone jack releases before mine dies.

This really seemed like a good simplification until you threw in that d’Alembert operator at the end