RedComet

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by RedComet 1y ago
Yes. This was clearly the reason for the ban in the first place.
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by RedComet 2y ago
Websites tend to have more ads and tracking than native apps, and they're still getting your ip address.
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by RedComet 2y ago
The cookie banners are an example of malicious compliance.
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by RedComet 2y ago
Yes, there are older languages using Pascal style declaration, but any of C,C++,Java dwarf it in terms of popularity and general exposure (thus my use of the term "common"). And again, in the latter part I'm talking about Kot
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by RedComet 2y ago
It is common in term of frequency of new languages using it, perhaps, but not otherwise. And again, the point is that Kotlin brings along extra characters AND variation. What's next, `fnctn myFunction(x : Int)~ Int { /* code *&#x2
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by RedComet 2y ago
My comment had nothing to do with lambdas. The point is that Kotlin uses fun and : instead of fn/func and ->, which is a needless and tedious break with other modern languages using Pascal-style function declaration. Using val inste
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by RedComet 2y ago
I'm referring to the burden when changing languages. Swift and Rust use -> for the return type.
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by RedComet 2y ago
It is probably more that Kotlin's order breaks with the most common ordering, and at the cost of more characters. Not to mention the needless variation that has come along with it (e.g. : vs ->)
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by RedComet 2y ago
Agreed. Obviously `func` wasn't going to happen because it is already so similar to Swift, but `fn` at least should be an option.
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by RedComet 2y ago
Yes, they are able to. Democracy in no way prevents this level of surveillance, clearly. And in fact, the entire surveillance state/economy developed almost entirely under democratic governments. If you were to make any inference based
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by RedComet 2y ago
(current|democratic) governments
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by RedComet 2y ago
I've been following this for a while now. Skimming the page, it appears the answer is no, but I'll ask anyway: If all of the project's dependencies are pure Swift (+Foundation) Swift PM packages, is it possible to use them in
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by RedComet 2y ago
"Obscured" sounds weak and deliberately vague on their part.
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by RedComet 2y ago
Plenty of "privacy researchers" thought it was suspicious that they chose P-256 for iCloud keychain while using it nowhere else.
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by RedComet 2y ago
Protonmail gave up the recovery address. Apple gave up the name, physical address, and phone number associated with it.
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by RedComet 2y ago
DLLs preexist the iPhone by a long time. The implication of your argument is that Google is bankrupt because of F-Droid. Again, all of the big companies (Apple included) were shipping those things before the iPhone came along and blocked si
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by RedComet 2y ago
I'm not sure I understand the segue you've made here. But, it would be absurd to suggest that Google is entitled to charge a fee for every app installed installed from F-Droid. Your original claim was that a device owner downloadi
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by RedComet 2y ago
Yet somehow all of those things preexisted consumer devices that prevent sideloading. In fact it still works on Android, Windows, Linux desktop, etc.
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by RedComet 2y ago
Yes, but that isn't necessarily a feature of option types. Is it the case that similar sugar for the tiresome Go pattern couldn't achieve similar benefits?
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by RedComet 2y ago
That just changes the boilerplate from if's to match's.
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by RedComet 2y ago
He's probably referring to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38783112
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by RedComet 3y ago
Insightful but disappointing.
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by RedComet 3y ago
The use of "retro" is interesting. Probably intended to exclude Switch emulators, but what will the cutoff be?
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by RedComet 3y ago
That's plausible, although it would be quite egregious of Signal to send plaintext push notifications (even of only the contact name) in my opinion. It isn't difficult to contrive possibilities even in the case of using practices
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by RedComet 3y ago
"A forensic analysis of Mr. Aude’s Apple-issued work iPhone reveals that, between June and September 2023, Mr. Aude had over 1,400 connections with a single journalist via Signal." I'm also interested in this forensic analysi
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by RedComet 3y ago
How did they identify him? How did they get the information (such as the signal screenshot) from the phone?
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by RedComet 3y ago
I didn't follow the saga as closely as I should have, perhaps, given the gravity. But this* didn't take long to find, only shortly preceding the issue. * https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/14091765834331
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by RedComet 3y ago
Even if you restrict his work to technology, it might be a wash at best. Wasn't he one of those leading the charge in getting Cloudflare to drop a site due to bullying allegations? I think I'd rather have Cloudflare be neutral tha
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by RedComet 3y ago
They don't apply to iOS either. It isn't their device once someone else purchases it. Furthermore, not allowing "sideloading" and bootloader unlocking is wrong. And I'd like to see EU and other governments crack dow
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by RedComet 3y ago
Surely having some vulnerabilities patched is better than having none patched. I don't think the crowd running Lineage is doing so in lieu of the latest iPhone.

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