dandongus

Why in the world have people flagged this comment?

I think perhaps step #7 is down/offline now

It seems that software on your cell phone is collecting and sending this data, not the battery monitor device. Am I misunderstanding the title?

My mistake, I looked at the article for 10 seconds before assuming that this app is no different than hundreds of other ones, apparently it is a rare outlier. At any rate, there are more effective ways to disrupt service if that was the goal.

Hilarious conclusion from the author. It's almost certainly not the case that the owners of this service are using it to 'DDoS' targets, rather it's much more likely they are using your device to host a proxy server and then selling access to some 'residential proxy reseller'.

On the other side of that, some random Joe has probably purchased access to a set of these 'residential proxies' and is using them to scrape flight data from the airline site the article author noticed, with some of those requests being sent over the author's connection.

Many 'free vpn' and 'free proxy' apps engage in this behavior, you may proxy your requests via their connection, but they also proxy their requests via yours, generally reselling that access to someone who finds your IP address to be of value to them due to the fact that it's not a datacenter address.

It's certainly questionable to straight up unethical either way, especially so if the service doesn't disclose to you that they're doing that, but on the other hand I find the author's DDoS conclusion to be so contrived and out of touch with reality that I had to write this comment.

For those of us who can't be bothered to watch through the whole announcement to find where they say it, what's the refresh rate of this thing?

>I've got a feeling that this repo won't last too long.

It appears the repo in question has been available for 3 years.

Personally I disagree about the resolution being a sweet spot, in my opinion it's almost the worst resolution imaginable for this size. The pixels are just slightly too small to the point where it becomes annoying and uncomfortable (for most people) to use it at 100% scaling, 200% scaling is out of the question as everything would be massive and you'd only get some 720p equivalent worth of real estate, and fractional scaling is generally subpar and not worth using in many cases. I think both 4k and 1080p are better options for a 15-16" screen.

They most certainly have never had fractional scaling, you get either 1x or 2x.

Why is there any concept of "some users worldwide" with respect to default cookie settings in a browser application?

For a bit of comparison, if you've tested, how fast are 13B or 7B on the same setup?

That's fairly trivial to do, someone doing it for you is certainly not worth anywhere near £130.00 in my humble opinion.