> Our global map of ant abundance expands our understanding of the geography of ant diversity and provides a baseline for predicting ants’ responses to worrying environmental changes that currently impact insect biomass.
Would it be possible to see that map without shelling out the $10? The people need to know!!!
I had a suspicion that winter-time headaches we were having might be triggered by high CO2 levels so I simply wanted to record the CO2 levels in different rooms. Thanks to the sensors, I did, in fact, find that CO2 levels were very high in our bedroom. Once I improved ventilation, things seem to have gotten better.
I tried doing something like this, but it didn't work for Bank of America, as their minimum alert level is $100.
When I lived in Slovenia, I could set SMS alerts from my bank there (UniCredit). I wrote an Android app [1] that intercepted those SMS messages and parsed out the relevant bits. Those were the days...
> I wrote an Android app [1] that intercepted those SMS messages and parsed out the relevant bits.
Sounds like a nice hack, but at a meta level, I find the idea that a mobile platform even allows an app to ‘intercept’ SMS messages to be a little troubling.
Well, it doesn't. You have to do a lot of things in order to allow it that it's impossible to not know exactly what you're doing. I think it's positive that I am in control of my device when I want to.
1. In order to achieve this functionality, the app explicitly requires permission to receive SMS [1] [2]
2. I agree that the general population likely isn't fully aware of the implications of granting permissions for such things. Having said that, I think that privacy/security/transparency is one of the things constantly being worked on with subsequent Android OS updates [3] [4], and I think that things are getting better.
Personally, I don't grant access to sensors like microphone/camera/location to apps that I don't want using them (most apps), and I think people should be aware of potential hazards here. Then again, people are openly inviting Amazon Alexa and Google Home into their homes ...
On the other hand, as a developer I like having the ability to build this, for me, and potentially for others who find use for what I wrote, with full transparency/visibility into the source.
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