My Edge had already auto updated, so yours might have as well.

Protected Edge should be version 99.0.1150.55 or higher, Chrome should be version 99.0.4844.84 or higher.

The release was sent to me by Malwarebytes, which links a CVE that’s labeled Type Confusion in V8 but hyperlinked to CVE-2022-1096 which doesn’t appear to have any tracked info. Microsoft has a mention. Doesn’t appear to have any details on what the issue actually is except it’s in the V8 engine.

Lansweeper has this:

It is listed as actively being exploited in the wild, so grab it quick. Chrome can take a long long time to get you up to speed.

Zero day Chrome/Edge exploit needs patching, it’s easy. by Paul E King first appeared on Pocketables.

LADB is a local ADB application meaning you can run it on your phone, type in your commands, it will execute them, no need for cable, WiFi, computer, working ADB app on computer, etc.

As long as you have access to a computer and a USB cable that works with your phone, LADB is probably not going to be particularly useful to you. If you’re at the tail end of a major remodel at your house and your office is packed in boxes and the one USB-C cable you have handy doesn’t seem to work for anything but charging and you’re on a different network than the WiFi… well welcome to my Monday morning hell.

I mentioned before I was a little disappointed that I had a 24 minute smoke detector alarm delay. This combined with seeing text messages show up on messages.android.com and then getting a notification 2-3 minutes later on the phone that I got a text message, have left me telling people to do the unheard of and call my phone in the event of needing me in under 5 minutes.

I needed a way to turn off DOZE mode, which has to be done every time your non-rooted phone boots with the standard ADB command:

adb shell dumpsys deviceidle disable

You can perm disable on a rooted phone, but I don’t carry rooted around at the moment because honestly the horror of being happy with my phone happened. I can’t stress enough that’s like death for what I used to do with the HTC EVO series. Flashing a ROM a week, new and interesting stuff.

This phone, just need to kill deviceidle once a week or so… maybe not as that doesn’t seem to be fixing my notifications coming through late. Not LADB’s problem though it’s executing the command.

LADB in action

I’m going to say it does what it says it does and that’s great. There are not a lot of bells and whistles here so if you’re willing to pay $2.99 for an adb terminal that can store history, you’re probably going to be happy.

Pairing LADB to your phone can be a bitch however. On mine I went though the hoops and had to follow the “still not working” section of the install instructions. Beyond doing that it had saved attempted to reconnect using now-expired credentials which as of this writing are not listed how to remove. *hint* 3 dots, help, reset server (I think.)

My best method here as I recall was open developer settings, press selection button, pin/open in split screen view, turn on wireless ADB, long press wireless adb, get pairing code, swipe down and turn on airplane mode, open LADB, enter info, it worked, turn airplane mode off, enter adb commands to your heart’s content. Any time you navigate away from seeing the Wireless ADB connection info it tends to change instantly.

You can grab LADB for $2.99 on Google Play. Make sure to install and get it working when you get it in case it doesn’t work, that setup might have people getting stumped enough to return it.

Download: LADB on Google Play

Need ADB? Don’t have a computer handy? LADB by Paul E King first appeared on Pocketables.

Alphabet reported a $20.64 billion profit in 2021

Making about $56,550,000.00 a day in profits. This means it’s a a measly $2.35 million an hour, $39,270.83 a minute, or $654.51 a second. They are investing 152.7 minutes of reported 2021 profits into these funds during Black History Month if I did the math right.

Good job and all, but in the time it took to pat themselves on the back about it with graphics and a blog post they blew by that in profits in 2022. Make a real investment Google. Also seriously, consider centering the photo.

Google donates 3 hours of 2021 profit to college funds by Paul E King first appeared on Pocketables.

TL;DR – Windows program named ADB AppControl that works ADB for you to do cool things.

I’m going to mention here that “root” is being used extremely loosely in the context of what we used to need it for (getting rid of carrier garbage.) All that I’m describing later on can these days be accomplished by installing some developer tools on a PC or Mac and running commands via ADB from a connected computer. This is not bypassing security, ROM deployment, or opening your Google Wallet up for attack.

ADB AppControl has a lot of interesting features included out of the box, one being a debloat wizard that will tell you what you already knew about Facebook and allow you to do things such as disable apps that are preinstalled that you have zero interest in ever using or allowing access to your data.

You can also force hide certain status bar icons, change the screen resolution, control the plugged in unit, and should you decide to ignore the warnings, put your phone into a state that would require a factory reset / reimage.

There are paid options as well, which appear to cost about $8 should you want to use them, that allow you to use multiple devices, batch install apps and batch apply settings and permissions, and generally use to deploy larger numbers of phones, but yeah, in general most users are going to be able to handle it out of the box.

You can also wipe data and cache, disable, uninstall, copy and save an APK from one phone to your computer and then push it onto another phone, and generally do all sorts of stuff that if you’re not comfortable with developer tools and a command line, might have seemed out of your reach.

I will note that on the version I’m trying you might want to check, change, or make note of where it’s installing as it didn’t seem to want to go to a normal Program Files directory.

Should you want to de-bloat, and take a little bit of control of your phone head on over to the ADB AppControl website and check it out. If it works for you, remember to support the developer. Also heed the warnings, but also realize they’re evidently generic and disabling John’s App-L doesn’t disable a system app.

Get root-ish functionality, without root or a learning curve by Paul E King first appeared on Pocketables.

Samsung’s Z Fold 3, when the bootloader is unlocked, disables the camera.

Locking the bootloader again evidently will allow the cameras to work, but it’s unclear from the source article if relocking while a custom ROM is on fixes thing, or if it requires flashing back to the factory image.

Ready to root the Galaxy Z Fold 3? Kiss your cameras goodbye by Paul E King first appeared on Pocketables.

More under the hood learning stuff for voice recognition, natural language processing, and things ending in -flop.

New design that can match icon colors and things to your wallpaper.

More and more amazing features in Google Meet that make it the absolute best product that everyone knows will be abandoned by Google so few will adopt.

A quick select button to turn the camera and microphone off so your stupid pop the bubble game stops sending data about you to an ad farm while you’re talking about Buicks.

Better permissions manager.

Harder, better, faster, stronger.

Pretty launcher with light billowing out from where things are launched (just looks cool)

Blobs of goop will now sing with you. The only way to ever be free from them is to locate the chip, which this person appears to be signaling is in her hands. Let’s hope she’s ok.

They’re working on an error correcting quantum computer and it’s fast. Some more on federated learning. Translating the web.

Project Starline may have been announced, which is where a highly detailed model of you is made and sent via video chat so that there’s a model on the receiver’s device and moves as you move. It’s a scan of you, 100x less data. This may not have been announced, I had to get coffee and am going by the web page.

Pretty sure I read a book about that and a band that did Ouabi music (simple as I recall,) who were eventually scanned and a music company produced garbage poppy versions of their songs.

Better maps including eco friendly routes, less danger, being able to see if something’s accessible.

Identifying skin conditions with your cell phone.

Yadda yadda yadda

Actually some pretty neat announcements. Feels like Google’s had a year of innovating and we’ll be seeing some pretty cool little features coming out soon.

Here’s the list of articles for day 1 (day 2 & 3 will probably also show here when they air)

Google I/O – Day 1 TL;DR by Paul E King first appeared on Pocketables.

The root method will block all communications with Roku so get any channels you want from the store before hand, realize there’s not a lot you can do at the moment as sideloading I don’t think is easy, and yeah…

Evidently you can factory reset your Roku if it doesn’t work, but at that point you’ll probably update to unrootable software.

Roku persistent root achieved by Paul E King first appeared on Pocketables.

Updates will still be coming down the line for existing owners, and a new model is expected to roll out shortly. Hopefully the updated cameras will be a little more robust as I’m on replacement camera #3 for one of my two.

Hopefully they’ll also work on something to increase the speed of connecting to the Nest cameras… nothing like being notified two minutes late that someone’s in the front yard or struggling 40+ seconds to answer the doorbell on the phone.

Google discontinuing the Nest Cam IQ Outdoor by Paul E King first appeared on Pocketables.

I was asleep. I was woken up and thought a piece of extruder plastic had fallen off a shelf (long story,) and when I found it fine I checked the kids to make sure it wasn’t the sound of them falling off the bed… nope. Checked the Nest Cam and there was this:

I went outside, this was a few minutes after the shooting and checked to see if they had shot up my car, house, neighbor’s, etc. Nothing evident. My neighbor came out and we talked for a minute and I showed him the video. We checked his house for bullets… I did a cursory look around while on the phone with the police.

Left my info with dispatch and was told I’d be contacted if they needed the video.

Came back in, checked everything again to make sure no bullet magically got in and hit my kiddos. I’ll note I checked them first, but had not thought that someone had been shooting at that point. My oldest was (according to Google Maps,) 59.44 feet/18.11 meters from the position of the last gunshot. It could be more, could be less, I don’t think the audio quite syncs right on these Nest recordings so don’t hold me to the under 60 feet statement.

I got a text sometime after 1am from my neighbor that the police were in the parking lot across the street. I decided to wander over to see if they needed the video. I’m old, white, chunky, and the head of the neighborhood association (we’ve worked with the South Precinct a few times,) and have been through the Citizen’s Police Academy in Nashville as a part of running for Metro Council… long story, but due to that I went, barefoot across the street and approached at a distance and waved an officer over.

They had a youth, and a car that looked pretty much like you’d expect from the video above. While the gun that was retrieved was not smoking, the barrel was hot I’m told. They found two of the three spent casings in the car and were hoping to find where the third might have ejected so they could rule out that it was some other car, but were not entirely sure where the shots had been fired.

I’m the only person who knew which street shots had even been fired from (the Towers sits between 3 streets and a church parking lot you can drive through).

Well, lucky them, I knew the couple hundred foot stretch that three shots had been fired from. At 1:45:23am an officer finds the third casing on the street. This spent shell was somewhere around 50 feet from my kiddo.

The casing will be taken to the crime lab and put in their little analyzer which had a really cool name but I can’t find my CPA notes today. It’ll either match the gun and the casing or it won’t. It’s basically a casing fingerprinting tool.

So yeah, that’s my Google Nest story for the day.

For the purely conjecture part, I believe the kid was attempting to impress some girls who were there, at 1am, in a retirement center parking lot, and probably was firing into the air or at a stop sign or something, being 16 with a stolen gun, doing stupid stuff without thinking.

On the tech side, the video above was captured using the less expensive Nest Aware service. Not the full time streaming. It triggered, pushed enough of the old video to the cloud, and worked well enough that I could spot the car coming in before the three shots and it driving by my house triggered the audio recording.

So as long as your Nest cam doesn’t get shot before it can dump that buffer, looks like they’ve got it pretty well down on triggering.

Drive by shooting, caught on Nest, caught by police by Paul E King first appeared on Pocketables.