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Amazing scans, the packaging of components internally is amazing. Interesting how they switched from prox-based in-ear detection to capacitive skin contact sen

by rx_tx 5y ago

Amazing scans, the packaging of components internally is amazing. Interesting how they switched from prox-based in-ear detection to capacitive skin contact sensor in the latest airpods.

qeternity 5y ago
I find it super interesting how they have gone back and forth on different approaches. I wonder how much user data they collect from the wild (not even sure how one would go about it).
- GhettoComputers 5y ago
  Telemetry logs can be sniffed, with a good firewall and as long as you're on your wifi with a wifi only device you can learn a lot. I jailbreak to use this: http://cydia.saurik.com/package/ca.btraas.appfirewall/ http://cydia.saurik.com/package/ca.btraas.appfirewall/ Amazing how much analytics I block from every app.
  - reaperducer 5y ago
    If you drill down far enough in the settings, most Apple products are happy to show you the telemetry that's sent back to Cupertino. I've seen the HomePod data while poking around in the Home app.
    - GhettoComputers 5y ago
      They don’t tell you their own telemetry as far as I know.
      - colejohnson66 5y ago
        No. They do. I can see crash logs for assetsd, awdd, com.apple.mobilemail, DifferentialPrivacy, and much more. Just open up Settings and search “analytics”
        GhettoComputers 5y ago
        I get those crash logs but I don’t benefit from it as much as seeing a realtime task like telemetry attempts but this is also pretty useful. Thanks. It looks like this that data is piped into this jailbreak app. https://repo.packix.com/package/com.muirey03.cr4shed/ https://repo.packix.com/package/com.muirey03.cr4shed/
        varenc 5y ago
        On iOS you can see Apple’s telemetry in Settings -> Privacy -> Analytics -> Analytics Data. Or export with XCode. No idea if it’s exhaustive. But I can see things like general day by day analytics and recent crash reports. It’s a bit opaque and difficult to make sense of, but it’s still impressive they make this telemetry available to you at all.
        GhettoComputers 5y ago
        That’s very cool, thanks! I have most of it disabled this is what the firewall options are for OfferUp for example. https://ibb.co/SVbyybC https://ibb.co/SVbyybC Aside from analytics I can also block the ads from Bing in the app.
  - 14 5y ago
    Awesome to see a jail breaker here on HN. It has been my experience that when you mention the benefits of jailbreaking the HN crowd really looks poorly at it and shuts it down.
    - girvo 5y ago
      Whats the current status of jailbreaking on iPhone 12s and iOS 15? I've been out of the game for a very long time, I assume even if I wanted to have a look at it I'm out of luck. What are the major benefits you yourself get from it? My major reasoning used to be emulators, but I have a hacked New 3DS which runs everything I want it to these days with better controls. Firewalls like the grandparent comment seems quite useful
      - GhettoComputers 5y ago
        I set my battery to never charge more than 80%, I have a 50 entry clipboard, and I can downgrade App Store apps at will, I use Halide instead of Halide II since it’s free and they don’t normally let you download old apps unless you saved them to iTunes. You can get emulators without jailbreak on it by using delta here, and a clipboard is available here too. https://altstore.io/ https://altstore.io/
      - reasonabl_human 5y ago
        The jailbreak subreddit has a solid sidebar with info on devices / iOS versions supported, and by what jailbreak method. Any current gen device is off the table at the moment, as is iOS 15. Also- recently ordered a Japanese New 3DS and am glad to hear you are enjoying it, looking forward to having a great emulation machine- maybe one day I’ll get around to installing a modchip in my switch lite too
        girvo 5y ago
        The New 3DS has blown me away by how powerful it is. Been playing full-speed PS1 games via RetroArch on it has been super neat. N64 is sadly hit-and-miss, but that's honestly fine as most of the games I want to play have NDS or 3DS ports already. Played through Metal Gear Solid and Parasite Eve entirely on my 3DS! The injectors for the Virtual Console are super great too; GB, GBA and Sega have worked flawlessly (including saving, for the GB/GBA). It can be a little finicky to get the right settings for injection (around the battery/nand emulation), but once you get the process down pat it's straightforward. The coolest part was that the second hand one I bought still had the previous users Nintendo Account setup on it, but the homebrew/custom firmware system let me erase it without wiping the system. They're brilliant little systems, I'm very impressed. I've got the first-generation bootloader exploitable Switch that I've considered hacking, but I think I'll wait til it's a bit older or I've replaced it with the next generation Switch.

by rx_tx 5y ago

Amazing scans, the packaging of components internally is amazing. Interesting how they switched from prox-based in-ear detection to capacitive skin contact sensor in the latest airpods.

qeternity 5y ago

I find it super interesting how they have gone back and forth on different approaches. I wonder how much user data they collect from the wild (not even sure how one would go about it).

GhettoComputers 5y ago
Telemetry logs can be sniffed, with a good firewall and as long as you're on your wifi with a wifi only device you can learn a lot. I jailbreak to use this: http://cydia.saurik.com/package/ca.btraas.appfirewall/ http://cydia.saurik.com/package/ca.btraas.appfirewall/ Amazing how much analytics I block from every app.
- reaperducer 5y ago
  If you drill down far enough in the settings, most Apple products are happy to show you the telemetry that's sent back to Cupertino. I've seen the HomePod data while poking around in the Home app.
  - GhettoComputers 5y ago
    They don’t tell you their own telemetry as far as I know.
    - colejohnson66 5y ago
      No. They do. I can see crash logs for assetsd, awdd, com.apple.mobilemail, DifferentialPrivacy, and much more. Just open up Settings and search “analytics”
      - GhettoComputers 5y ago
        I get those crash logs but I don’t benefit from it as much as seeing a realtime task like telemetry attempts but this is also pretty useful. Thanks. It looks like this that data is piped into this jailbreak app. https://repo.packix.com/package/com.muirey03.cr4shed/ https://repo.packix.com/package/com.muirey03.cr4shed/
      - varenc 5y ago
        On iOS you can see Apple’s telemetry in Settings -> Privacy -> Analytics -> Analytics Data. Or export with XCode. No idea if it’s exhaustive. But I can see things like general day by day analytics and recent crash reports. It’s a bit opaque and difficult to make sense of, but it’s still impressive they make this telemetry available to you at all.
        GhettoComputers 5y ago
        That’s very cool, thanks! I have most of it disabled this is what the firewall options are for OfferUp for example. https://ibb.co/SVbyybC https://ibb.co/SVbyybC Aside from analytics I can also block the ads from Bing in the app.
- 14 5y ago
  Awesome to see a jail breaker here on HN. It has been my experience that when you mention the benefits of jailbreaking the HN crowd really looks poorly at it and shuts it down.
  - girvo 5y ago
    Whats the current status of jailbreaking on iPhone 12s and iOS 15? I've been out of the game for a very long time, I assume even if I wanted to have a look at it I'm out of luck. What are the major benefits you yourself get from it? My major reasoning used to be emulators, but I have a hacked New 3DS which runs everything I want it to these days with better controls. Firewalls like the grandparent comment seems quite useful
    - GhettoComputers 5y ago
      I set my battery to never charge more than 80%, I have a 50 entry clipboard, and I can downgrade App Store apps at will, I use Halide instead of Halide II since it’s free and they don’t normally let you download old apps unless you saved them to iTunes. You can get emulators without jailbreak on it by using delta here, and a clipboard is available here too. https://altstore.io/ https://altstore.io/
    - reasonabl_human 5y ago
      The jailbreak subreddit has a solid sidebar with info on devices / iOS versions supported, and by what jailbreak method. Any current gen device is off the table at the moment, as is iOS 15. Also- recently ordered a Japanese New 3DS and am glad to hear you are enjoying it, looking forward to having a great emulation machine- maybe one day I’ll get around to installing a modchip in my switch lite too
      - girvo 5y ago
        The New 3DS has blown me away by how powerful it is. Been playing full-speed PS1 games via RetroArch on it has been super neat. N64 is sadly hit-and-miss, but that's honestly fine as most of the games I want to play have NDS or 3DS ports already. Played through Metal Gear Solid and Parasite Eve entirely on my 3DS! The injectors for the Virtual Console are super great too; GB, GBA and Sega have worked flawlessly (including saving, for the GB/GBA). It can be a little finicky to get the right settings for injection (around the battery/nand emulation), but once you get the process down pat it's straightforward. The coolest part was that the second hand one I bought still had the previous users Nintendo Account setup on it, but the homebrew/custom firmware system let me erase it without wiping the system. They're brilliant little systems, I'm very impressed. I've got the first-generation bootloader exploitable Switch that I've considered hacking, but I think I'll wait til it's a bit older or I've replaced it with the next generation Switch.