If not friend, why friend-shaped? :(

Indeed.

Not India, but somewhat relevant:

It’s been confirmed that the Egyptian government recently carried out a targeted attack taking advantage of a 0-day on a presidential candidate’s phone: https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/09/how-the-iphone-of-a-presidential-candidate-in-egypt-got-hacked-for-the-2nd-time (Edit: Link was pointing to second page of the article; changed to first page)

Related discussion on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37614816

Also this report from Google’s TAG: https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/0-days-exploited-by-commercial-surveillance-vendor-in-egypt/

Those were last year’s prices during the height of the energy crisis. I was paying 0.60€/kWh last year (new contract). I renegotiated this year and got it lowered to about 0.27€/kWh.

You sound like someone who’s lost The Game.

Another slanted hyphen…

I hate it! I hate it! I hate it!

This always makes me laugh (IRC): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2rGTXHvPCQ

Having children is basically keeping cum as a pet. 😋 😋 😋

Please put a NSFW tag on this. I was on the train and when I saw this I had to start furiously masturbating. Everyone else gave me strange looks and were saying things like “what the fuck” and “call the police”. I dropped my phone and everyone around me saw this image. Now there is a whole train of men masturbating together at this one image. This is all your fault, you could have prevented this if you had just tagged this post NSFW.

Backups were a nice-to-have in the planning.

Edit: Alternative Piped link: https://piped.privacydev.net/watch?v=5p8wTOr8AbU

Obligatory mention: https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil for those who want to completely* remove Edge, but are unable to do so by conventional means.

* Windows updates can and sometimes do reinstall Edge. The toolbox offers a tweak that can delay feature updates by two years and security updates by four days. That gives you time to review the changes and check whether they’ll reinstall this malware again. Alternatively, you could just re-run the tool after any feature update to uninstall Edge again.

Oh, I didn’t notice it’s dead. I just had it bookmarked because I remember spending a lot of time trying all sorts of workarounds before it and none of them ever worked (for CTS).

I used this for Android 11; there’s a good chance it’ll still work for that version. But like I said, I ended up not needing it anyway - my phone doesn’t even have NFC! I think I mostly just did it as a FU to Google rather than for actual utility. :D

Just thought it worth mentioning that there are/were workarounds for CTS. Don’t know how things are now on Android 12 and 13.

https://github.com/Magisk-Modules-Repo/MagiskHidePropsConf

This can help you pass CTS. It worked for me. Funny thing is, I don’t even remember which app I did it for. Whatever it was, I ended up not using it after all the trouble. As for my banking apps, they only care about root, so Magisk’s denylist does the job.

This reminds me of an underrated tool: http://htck.github.io/bayeux/#!/