GeekyBear

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by GeekyBear 5mo ago
> he is missing the fact that one of the features of the Framework 12 is the modularity of the components He does explicitly make that point. > The biggest win is the modular ports.
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by GeekyBear 5mo ago
> the Mac is faster (in most cases), more efficient, quieter, built better, has a much nicer display, and costs much less. The Framework is more expensive, slower (in most cases), louder (its fan ramps up quite often), has a pretty poor
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by GeekyBear 5mo ago
Learning to get along with people you don't completely "vibe with" is an important life skill.
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by GeekyBear 5mo ago
I can remember Verizon being sued for forcing device makers to disable the ability to transfer files from feature phones to computers over Bluetooth, because they charged a per file fee to transfer files with their own proprietary software.
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by GeekyBear 5mo ago
On early versions of Android, you had to give an application every permission it wanted, or you couldn't install it at all.
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by GeekyBear 5mo ago
Remember the days of Facebook being preinstalled on Android devices with root permissions and being non removable? You couldn't even revoke permission to access the camera and Mic. It had permission to do literally anything, and you c
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by GeekyBear 5mo ago
I first became aware of how insane things could be when a single mother was arrested for allowing her child to play at the park a couple of blocks from their home while she was working. https://www.theatlantic.com/national&#
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by GeekyBear 5mo ago
> it was so much easier to hang out with my friends online than it was to coordinate with my parents to try and get travel to their house The norm in the 70's was for younger kids to have multiple groups of friends, at least until t
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by GeekyBear 5mo ago
The notion that children are not allowed to play outside within a couple of blocks of their home seems like a mass delusion to me. However, I'm GenX and having all my friends and I roam the neighborhood from the time we got out of scho
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by GeekyBear 5mo ago
To be a bit more clear: They offer standard encryption by default, where they hold a copy of your encryption key and can assist you if you lose access to your key. They also allow you to opt into advanced data protection, where they do not
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by GeekyBear 5mo ago
Nope. > UK backs down in Apple privacy row, US says https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdj2m3rrk74o
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by GeekyBear 5mo ago
Apple certainly lobbied against this stupidity. > Cook conveyed to lawmakers that device-level age assurance proposals should not require the collection of sensitive data like birth certificate or social security number, and that parents
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by GeekyBear 5mo ago
Nope. After Apple's announcement that they would remove encryption from UK users rather than weaken it, the bad press and public pressure forced the UK government to back down.
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by GeekyBear 5mo ago
Did you just post an article where Apple refused a UK government order to weaken their encryption as "proof" that Apple doesn't respect customer privacy? Also, the US Government has already demanded that Apple weaken device e
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by GeekyBear 5mo ago
Apple literally removed encrypted file storage as a feature in the UK rather than comply with demands for access to encrypted customer data from the UK government. Previously, they refused US government demands for a backdoor that would all
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by GeekyBear 5mo ago
A great example is Apple's new in-house cellular modem design, which gives you the option to stop reporting your exact location to your cellular provider. The best way to prevent the Feds from getting access to customer data is to not
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by GeekyBear 5mo ago
For a commodity part, Apple has a history of buying a manufacturing partner a dedicated manufacturing line in exchange for locking down a guaranteed supply at a lower overall price. It's one of the early moves Tim Cook made after joini
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by GeekyBear 5mo ago
> The case prosecutors want to make is that EZ Lynk knowingly enables this behavior. We have decades of legal precedent saying that the makers of products with substantial legal uses should not be held responsible for the illegal action
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by GeekyBear 5mo ago
The email client I use doesn't display images in an email until I explicitly ask it to.
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by GeekyBear 5mo ago
One of the things Apple's Lockdown mode does is disable previews of images or links that are sent to you. It seems like the lesson is that you shouldn't be processing data sent to the device by random strangers without the user ex
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by GeekyBear 5mo ago
Apple has had a feature called Apple Data Detectors since the 90's that looks for different patterns in text and allows you to perform actions on them. So if the text includes a phone number, email address, flight number, package track
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by GeekyBear 5mo ago
The standard behavior is that: Command Q quits the currently active application. Command W closes the current window without quitting the active application.
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by GeekyBear 5mo ago
Sure. Used M1 Airs are selling for roughly half the price of a new Neo.
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by GeekyBear 5mo ago
After years of incremental upgrades to the Airs, a new entry level M5 Air gives you double the RAM, double the storage, and double the CPU and GPU performance of an M1 Air. Hopefully used Airs will come up for sale more frequently, as they
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by GeekyBear 5mo ago
In the Tim Cook era when Apple needs to lock down the supply of a commodity part, they have a history of buying a dedicated manufacturing line for a manufacturing partner.
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by GeekyBear 5mo ago
Chinese DRAM production is already getting ready to ramp up. https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ram/hp-reportedly...
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by GeekyBear 5mo ago
The link is to a clip of the relevant portion of a longer interview. One of the artifacts found at a Göbekli Tepe dig was a pictographic seal stone.
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by GeekyBear 5mo ago
Professor emeritus Irving Finkel of the British Museum thinks that we have evidence from much farther back in history. > Controversial theory about Göbekli Tepe | Irving Finkel and Lex Fridman https://www.youtube.com/watc
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by GeekyBear 5mo ago
I am reminded of the period when secure boot was being developed for PCs. Microsoft certainly wanted to be the only company whose OS was allowed to boot with secure boot turned on. Google should not be allowed to close the supposedly "
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by GeekyBear 5mo ago
To avoid having your application blocked by Windows SmartScreen, you need to pay extra for an extended validation code signing certificate. A normal code signing certificate is not sufficient. Here's an eight year old Stack Overflow di

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