I mean, when you put it like that

“HEY! HEEEEEEEY! nom COME HERE! nom YOU WON’T BELIEVE WHAT I FOUND! nom nom WE SHALL NOT STARVE TODAY!”

What about a good sturgeon?

Skong: Sea of Sorrows when??

Do you think they never checked for that before?

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through the mountain

secret secret secret secret

#TUNNEL

Aw, so no hamster?

I hate that rich people spend their money on making the world worse. If I were rich, my first order of business would be creating & manufacturing artificial squirrel robots, then opening a series of cat amusement parks all over the world where they get to chase the squirrel bots through Christmas trees.

Glorp is the spiritual successor to Fleeb, though mostly ran by the people behind Pumbu (the ones who started it, not the ones who ran it into the ground) and Muupi (the ones who ran it into the ground).

Oh no, I made a terrible mistake and upvoted the post multiple times. Now they’ll definitely go after me :(

Although a funny idea, this could never work.

Now, if it was a trebuchet…

As someone who can barely remember the original games I could have been fine with a weaker and scared portrayal, especially towards the beginning of her career - but the tonal dissonance between that & her routinely slaughtering dozens of goons without showing any remorse destroyed the immersion. The whiplash between the two extremes was just too much.

Are you talking about 30cm traffic cones? Unfortunately I don’t ever see them used since they’re not allowed for any real work. The smallest I can try are 50cm, but that’s pretty big already.

Literally Hitler

That’s kinda what I pictured. I’ll have to try them one day!

Imma have to ask. Why are these talked about so badly?

I’ve never seen them in real life, so I have no idea if they actually taste bad.

it follows that a malicious wifi modem, knowing all devices’ mac addresses, could, perhaps, feign being the phone, mac-wise. And issue its own commands, which the phone wouldn’t tell aren’t its own.

I just tested some scenarios:

• I start Shizuku in one wifi network (prompt to trust the network, then I had to enter the pairing code since I hadn’t used it before)
• Then switch wifi networks
  • Shizuku was immediately disconnected
• When I press “Start” again in Shizuku, I get prompted to trust the network
• Then I switch back
  • Shizuku stays running
• Then I disabled Wifi
  • Shizuku stays running
• Then I disabled mobile data
  • Shizuku stays running
• Then I stop Shizuku & press “Start” again
  • It asks me to enable wireless debugging, and that enables wifi

So you’re safe as long as you don’t start Shizuku & trust the network while connected to a potentially malicious network.

In any case, I just wish Android provided networkless self-debugging.

I agree 100%! It’s definitely possible to add a better API that would allow Android users to trust specific apps with ADB debugging connections. Unfortunately Google is hell-bent on restricting the platform instead of opening it up :(

Ah, sorry, seems like I was wrong on the whole “no network connection needed”, but the reason is the explanation for your question!

The only way for your phone to recognize/authenticate the source of an incoming ADB connection is the MAC address. Basically every device that sends/receives ethernet packets has to have a unique “fingerprint”, so everyone knows it’s still the same device if it disconnects & reconnects etc. Everything else (IP address etc.) can change at any time, so the MAC address is the only fingerprint available.

But devices can spoof (change) their MAC address. That’s a really useful feature in many cases, e.g. phones these days use a random MAC for every new network, so a network provider can’t track you moving through multiple different networks. Also there’s no way to prevent it with our current network design. But this means that a malicious actor could wait for your trusted device to disconnect, then change their MAC to the one from your trusted device, and thus send malicious ADB commands.

Androids solution is to make you trust both the network and the device. So as long as you don’t have malicious actors in your trusted network, you’re safe - even if you connect to a different network with malicious actors, they can’t send ADB commands.

Sure, that’s fair, but 1) you’re just one user out of many thousands, and 2) stuff like “multiple 4 minute ads in a video” is usually rolled out through A/B testing, so many users probably never saw it.

The worse the pun, the better the food!