LexGray

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by LexGray 5y ago
When you are competing against stores that require you to use their ad-tech framework to make up the difference it is a different equation. The idea of billions of devices out there with constantly running background ad-tech frameworks horr
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by LexGray 5y ago
a) iOS customers pay extra for the service protections of easy subscription management and keeping payment information out of shoddy payment platforms. Registered charities can accept Apple Pay to avoid the cut. b) The Keyboard API is desig
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by LexGray 5y ago
I think it is more teenaged mentality trying to be helpful disabling system protection, and otherwise tweaking the heck just because they believe it is the best experience. It is not an issue here so not too helpful as a post, but plenty of
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by LexGray 5y ago
MMS video and picture sizes are size constrained by the carrier in the profile. As many carriers already allow 4MB or even unlimited sizes it is purely an issue of carriers being cheap and lazy and leaving old limits on MMS. It would probab
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by LexGray 5y ago
RCS has been around a long time, but it has been deployed by major carriers in just the last year and certainly is not universal. Google also just did a bypass the carriers thing mid last year. It is not a this feature has been missing for
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by LexGray 5y ago
One could just as easily draw the conclusion that spending time with parents was the cause of the extra stress. I wonder if there is any chance of actual actionable data being teased out.
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by LexGray 5y ago
All the default engines are set to “moderate” by default. “Porn” does not show anything immediately explicit. A tiny hurdle, but still a hurdle and that is enough for many people to rethink. Tumbler you could by default get horrific images
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by LexGray 5y ago
Tv failing from pushing advertising again is getting relevant to the current state of social media. The amount of time Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, etc. try to keep their customers away from the content they came for is astonishing. I recentl
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by LexGray 5y ago
I don’t know of a service that hadn’t been forced to add advertising and captcha just to stay above water due to stolen bandwidth and human hours dealing with abuse. The internet has become a trash dump of toxic users to the point it is leg
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by LexGray 5y ago
I believe reason many in tech don’t protest is they are well aware just how easily companies can be brought down by abusive users having seen many of their own favorites die over the years from being forgiving or being too open about their
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by LexGray 5y ago
That would cause major issues in areas where phones are forbidden for national security or sensitive equipment reasons from having antennas active. I've never heard a report that a manufacturer has even considered that idea as it could
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by LexGray 5y ago
Even when that company is responsible for more than half of the mobile software installs in the US? Amazon and Google have abused this data in the past to undercut the competition with their own better promoted offerings and make purchase d
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by LexGray 5y ago
CASM is already a pretty huge step into legal gray areas. There is no guarantee by anyone that images in the database are illegal. If the database could be guaranteed to only include real photos directly showing sex with a minor I personall
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by LexGray 5y ago
Apple gets hung up on weird stuff. Likely doing work phone side was an environmental argument. The amount of energy used to decrypt server side to create the hash was marginally larger than the amount used by the phone pre-encryption with c
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by LexGray 5y ago
True enough. Apple does have the key. Well then instead the answer is that they are having you pay the CPU and energy cost instead of wasting twice the energy decrypting and hashing your photos server side.
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by LexGray 5y ago
Facebook I completely approve of. You are trafficking data at that point if you are posting it. I just recall the days of Usenet and Napster when I would just download at random and sometimes the evil would mislabel things to cause trauma.
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by LexGray 5y ago
Photos are currently encrypted e2e already so Apple does not have the access server side to create the hash unlike their competition who chews their customers data for machine learning. https://support.apple.com/en-us/H
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by LexGray 5y ago
Do we have any idea how the NCMEC database is curated? Are there cartoons from Hustler depicting underage girls in distress? Green text stories stating they are true about illegal sexual acts? CGI images of pre-pubescent looking mythical c
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by LexGray 5y ago
A fairly obvious situation where the top google result is “Kid friendly happy fun town App Store” set up by dark web Corp where you can get pre hacked versions of all major commercial apps for free with built in cheats at the cost of porn p
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by LexGray 5y ago
I have worked a few places where customer credit card information was kept in spreadsheets or other open databases. At the scale of an app developer who has trouble affording a $99 developer account spending money on securing customer infor
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by LexGray 5y ago
Mandated right repair would raise weight for battery containers and latches, higher failure as connections would not be soldered in place and hinges and latches may fail, less water resistance as seals may get bumped loose, easier access fo
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by LexGray 5y ago
Apple TV app banners (ads) are easily adjusted. Just put different apps on the top row. I mostly have folders up there and it rotates through the app banners when you have the folder selected.
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by LexGray 6y ago
It is close to fraud when you say “could be tracked” in quotes when you mean “almost every site you visit Alphabet will track you even when you configure our software otherwise”.
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by LexGray 6y ago
Facebook has users build huge profiles on themselves. Is there really 85% additional value stalking people over what they are already willing sharing?
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by LexGray 6y ago
The threat model Apple is addressing by not allowing third party payment systems is user privacy, issues many systems having securing that data, and dark patterns vs subscription cancelation or outright scams. It is not an unreasonable thin
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by LexGray 6y ago
Part of the Apple sandboxing model is to run a check on binaries to make sure internal APIs are not being abused, or other shenanigans. I would not trust the Apple sandbox at all, especially with the privacy in place which prevents any sort
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by LexGray 6y ago
This sort of banning is the very thing Epic appears to be trying to prevent. I would guess their legal endgame is to forbid anyone but government agencies impending a store for any reason. Once this is in place there will be no legal way pr
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by LexGray 6y ago
Fixed term marriages are becoming popular in Australia and other places and have historical precedents. It is likely a lifelong term of marriage may be unrealistic with our comparative ease of survival.
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by LexGray 6y ago
So any information... Say human DNA, is free to copy if you shed your hair somewhere?
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by LexGray 6y ago
Apple is very much a consumer level company. I’ve seen reviews quality wise that they are average with hardware failure rates. They do try... for instance I’ve heard the reason they always charge more for RAM is labor costs from running add

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