It's interesting that the effect magnitude and significance are both higher for negative emotions than positive ones.
I mean, it's fairly common knowledge that we remember negative emotional experiences more strongly than positive ones, but it's interesting to see that supported here.
That's wild. Did you need a special program to parse stuff out of the data stream? I guess it would mostly come in as http reaponses, so it wouldn't be too hard, but still an interesting problem.
Just to mention, Fennec's F-droid page does list the following as an anti-feature:
This app tracks and reports your activity
Connects to various Mozilla services that can track users.
It does say that telemetry has been removed, but that it still connects to services (like Firefox Sync, for example) which could still potentially be used to track you.
That's not a dealbreaker for me personally, but if it bothers anyone else, it seems like Mull might be the more privacy conscious choice, at the cost of some convenience features.
Ahh, cool! Good to know. I just checked that 0day, and they're both JS exploits (which I imagine most probably are), so NoScript will probably protect me unless some of my trusted domains get compromised. It's not ideal, but it's within my comfort tolerance.
Oh, cool. I hadn't heard of this one before. I use Fennec. I wonder what the main differences are. I noticed Mull mentions fennec in their F-droid page:
It [Mull] is compiled from source and proprietary blobs are removed using scripts by Relan from [https://gitlab.com/relan/fennecbuild here].
It seems like Mull is more privacy focused?
Yeah, the high end 9 series are (were) great. I'm still using my S9+ and just don't have any good reason to "upgrade". I don't intend to get a phone that doesn't have a headphone jack and memory card slot.
I do kinda miss having a stylus, though, having come from the Note 4 previously.
FOSS apps are generally more secure due to auditability of the source. Many eyes, and all that. Although I'm sure there's also reduced interest from attackers on smaller platforms.
Also, malware devs would have the additional constraint of having to either open source their malware, which they probably don't want to do, or sideload their payload, which is more work for them.
From the picture, yes, Google Play is indeed malware. F-Droid is the way.
Nova is great, but you have to turn off auto-updates and use version 7.0.57 which is the last version before the rug pull.
Backblaze regularly releases failure rate statistics of their drives, and it's often a big enough dataset to be quite meaningful. I haven't been keeping up with it lately, but there certainly was a period of time where there were substantial differences in the failure rates of different manufacturers.
So while you do still need to have drive failure mitigation strategies, buying more reliable devices can definitely save you time and headache in the future by having to deal with failures less frequently.
Not them, but same dealio here, and yes.
Version 7.0.57 was the latest version before the acquisition. You can still get it off apkpure.
Nova was acquired by a data analytics company. That's the last build prior to the acquisition.