A lot of E-commerce software have data feeds that are ingested by parties like pricespy. These feeds are typically either public or made available after mutual agreements. Scraping a large amount of sites for data is just too much labor in the long run.
Kudos to Spotify for supporting libspotify and its use-cases for so many years. I'm sure it hasn't been easy and that copyright owners haven't been very fond of it.
Anecdata: I’ve found USB powered external drives to be unreliable on the Pi, even when powering the Pi with an official power adapter. I’d recommend using an external drive that comes with its own power adapter.
Reasons for self-hosting: GitLab.com's not-so-great availability [1], slow code searches (compared to self-hosted with GitLab Advanced Search) and the fact that you can keep your code and resources off the public Internet.
The fact that you do need to upgrade it yourself regularly is indeed a drawback. On the other hand, an Omnibus upgrade has only failed me twice in the last five years or so, so there's little reason to not do automatic upgrades at night and fire off an alert in case something doesn't work as expected afterwards. Their releases are typically solid, so kudos to the team.
I think GOBBLES pioneered this technique in like 1992 A.D. with their “Hydra”. Iirc it was claimed to exploit (jinglebellz.c) .mp3 players on behalf of the RIAA and to spread through file sharing networks. https://www.theregister.com/2003/01/14/is_the_riaa_hacking_y...
I too found this after reading about it here. I contacted them and received the following reply.
> Exposure notifications cannot be enabled without user consent, so if you have not turned MassNotify on, then it is not active on your phone. However, a recent Google update, which makes MassNotify available as an option in your phone's settings, is causing some users to see MassNotify in their app list. Apologies if this caused any confusion.
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> The appearance of MassNotify in the app list does not mean that MassNotify is enabled on your phone. The presence of the app merely means that MassNotify has been made available as an option in your phone's settings if you wish to enable it. For more information about this, please see this help center article from Google: https://support.google.com/android/answer/10775533
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> You can see whether MassNotify is active by going to Settings -> Google -> COVID-19 Exposure Notifications. The “Use Exposure Notifications” toggle at the top of the page will show you whether MassNotify is active or not. From this screen, you can also enable or disable MassNotify at any time.
You could already download most of the comment data from them by querying their API. Similar to profile pictures on Gravatar, emails were only hashed with MD5. They’re easy to reveal with some wordlist attacks.
I’ve reflected on the fact that some makers on YouTube wear gloves and wondered if this is for privacy reasons. I see globes being worn even when they’re not obviously doing anything that risk getting their fingers dirty.
Not that I'm aware of, but I wish. Memory is getting hazy these days. AFAIK the kernel.org breaches were made by the kind of hackers doing it for fun and games (if you get that thing) and not the kind working for nation states. I'm sure you can (or at least, at some point could) find others who know more details at your favorite compsec conf.