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My mother-in-law had problems with the App "VoiceMail" from the german Telekom.
They called the hotline: "Oh, no problem, just deinstall and install it again, everything will work"...
Only that the new Version doesn't run in her phone because that Android version has been discontinued 
And they don't offer the old ones... and neither can I find older versions in play store 
After googling a bit I have found a site... apkpure.com
It looks like an "internet archive" for android software, they have a a list with almost 40 different past versions of this App and they offer the same for other stuff...
Do you know it / Have you used it??
Is it trustworthy? Or is a risk to get "something else" within the App?
M.D.V. 
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I haven't used it, but ... it looks OK: The 5 Best Sites for Safe Android APK Downloads[^] - the site also lists other sites that may have the APK you wanted.
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Thanks.
I have checked both, the signatures are the same in both places and match the downloaded file in both too.
BTW... the link you gave me looks like a nice site too. Do you use it regulary?
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And suddenly I can see this message ... the hamsters have woken up.
It's not one I use often, but it's one of those "hmmm ... bookmark that one" sites you come across from time to time.
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Read it properly and explains why: because it's pretty much the only source of installs on Android - 87% of all installs came from the Play Store, with the next highest source being just 5%! So it has a very good threat-to-legitimate app install ratio considering.
I don't have figures for Apple or MS, but I'll guess they are similar or worse. Amazon? I suspect they will be a lot worse.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Of course. There was a bit of cynicism in my post that--I don't blame you for it--didn't come through.
Everyone's making the claim their so-called stores are the only places that can be trusted. Reality shows an entirely different outcome.
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... un  plug the computer, Sandra!
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I checked the site with Virus Total. It stated that some 80 plus virus engines all said the site was safe.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Thank you. Didn't think of it 
M.D.V.
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I cut my teeth on a 6502 processor. 8 bit and 65536 bytes of RAM to play with. Later on I moved to 16 and finally 32 bit.
As computers get more sophisticated and accordingly more complicated looking back I realize part of me enjoys them less. Don't get me wrong - garbage collected code is great and not having to worry about out of memory exceptions on a modern OS under most circumstances is a huge win that I think many of us probably take for granted.
I like to bit twiddle though. Don't you? I liked it when I had to come up with something crafty to make it even work. It's a challenge, and it's more hacking than coding.
Recently, I had to change the timing in the driver code for a display I was using because it had never been coded for my IoT CPU.
Even with "higher level" network stuff like REST communication that element of hacking your way through without anything to spare is still there - the other day I had to roll my own HTTP chunked transfer encoding mechanism for batch uploading JSON data from an IoT device, because I didn't have enough RAM to load the logged data into memory so I could generate a Content-Length header for the upload.
All these little skills I picked up coding in the 80s for getting things done without much to work with basically atrophied after years of not only not using them but *avoiding* them.
We're not supposed to hack unless we have to.
We're not supposed to be "clever"
But here we are, full circle, with these little tiny SoC gadgets where it's all necessary again.
And I love it.
Real programmers use butterflies
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I remember those days when oh, if I do this trick I can save one instruction from the loop doing assembly on an 8031 microcontroller. My, I'm clever.
It's your own little medal you can carry around I guess. Ding! Someone just shared a funny meme - gotta go.
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It's not so much for patting myself on the back, although I do like the sense of accomplishment. Really, I enjoy the challenge.
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Beats the #$%^& out of crocheting. 
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Plus I can't crochet. That is sorcery. I'm more about the witchcraft.
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Quote: these little tiny SoC gadgets
Ah dangerous stuff: Special Operations Command!
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I think that would be SOC technically.
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Yeah its a lot of fun playing with retro devices. I recently built a z80 board and loaded CPM on it. What a rush.
Haven't had to play wit it or any of my other devices lately, been working 4 months solid remodeling a house but nearly done so looking forward to getting back into it.
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
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I have a friend who I grew up coding with who is a fan of retrocomputing and I've been trying to pique his interest on IoT gadgets in part because it uses many of the same skills and build useful things with it. Plus there's even money in it.
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I got a friend of mine interested in electronics and embedded devices and for about 3 years he feverishly learned and built but then got into ham radios and doesn't do much with it anymore.
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
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HAM is a black hole for hobbyists!!
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I have a special affection for ham operators, especially the MARS variety. When I was across the big pond many many years ago they provided a way for us to actually call home. It was convoluted and iffy but if everything was just so we could get 3 minutes to talk to a loved one. When you're in a foreign country thousands of miles from home, 13 months at a time with only mail, and that not reliable it was a blessing.
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
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One of the best pieces of coding fun I've had in the last ten years was a project using a Microchip Technology PIC microcontroller. 8-bits, and IIRC 256 bytes of RAM and 2KB of ROM. The code fit on a single printed page. Timing requirements were such that the comments for each line of code included the number of clock cycles required for the instruction.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: Timing requirements were such that the comments for each line of code included the number of clock cycles required for the instruction.
That reminds me of graphics coding on the original Nintendo. 
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honey the codewitch wrote: That reminds me of graphics coding on the original Nintendo
I had another project back in the late 1980's. We found an algorithm for converting a CMYK measured gamut to RGB via interpolation. The gamut was to used to perform fine-grained correction between a scanned original image and the 35mm film we were imaging on.
I was responsible for implementing the essential algorithm in software. I knew the customer eventually wanted a hardware-accelerated version, as the software version took minutes to process an image. I spent several days refactoring the code to emulate a potential hardware implementation. When I was done, the image processing time was under a second, and the hardware 'implementation' only required a few 100KB of RAM for coefficient tables compute from the 'raw' gamut data. I believe an actual hardware implementation would have been usable in real-time. Unfortunately the project ran out of money before we got that far  .
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