Chmod Calculator

I’m by no means a Bash pro and feel like I have to look up every third command. When it comes to access permissions on Unix systems, I also keep forgetting the right command. The tool Chmod Calculator helps me here — I had to use it in my last Raspberry project. Good tools need to be self-explanatory, and that’s true for the Chmod Calculator. Just click together what you need and paste the command it spits out into the terminal. ...

August 30, 2017 · 1 min · 108 words

Caprine

Caprine is a very nice client for Facebook Messenger that, in addition to the usual features, also includes a dark mode. Very handy when the lights are a bit dimmer. You can toggle dark mode in the View menu or with Cmd D / Ctrl D. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.

May 30, 2017 · 1 min · 63 words

Hacking Galaxy S8

Hacking the Samsung Galaxy S8 Irisscanner → Mobile vendors have established fingerprints as a biometric feature to unlock smartphones. Now they turn to iris recognition, as do hackers. This video demonstrates how to circumvent the iris recognition of the Samsung Galaxy S8 flagship phone only using basic tools. The linked video clearly shows that you don’t need expensive hardware to bypass the iris scanner. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense. ...

May 22, 2017 · 1 min · 81 words

Democracy dies in the dark

Paul Farhi writes in »The Washington Post’s new slogan turns out to be an old saying« for washingtonpost.com Woodward’s source appears to be Judge Damon J. Keith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, who ruled in a pre-Watergate case that the government couldn’t wiretap individuals without a warrant. In his decision, Keith apparently coined a variation of The Post’s motto, writing that “Democracy dies in the dark.” ...

February 25, 2017 · 1 min · 88 words

Be with you

Leslie Clio - Be With You (Acoustic) → I much prefer Leslie Clio’s acoustic version of the song to the original. The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.

June 30, 2015 · 1 min · 38 words