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by alt227 9mo ago
Dude thats from 9 years ago. A lot has changed since then and it is common knowledge that Apple regularly give government agencies access to their systems and hides it from the public until a whistleblower leaks it. https://www.r
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by alt227 9mo ago
IMO the first series was excellent, the 2nd took a massive downturn and stopped watching after that.
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3D-printed pump-less liquid cooler can deliver 600 watts of cooling(tomshardware.com)
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by alt227 9mo ago
You would hope that if you manage to beat their engineers best optimisations at launch, then you would leapfrog a certain amount of the initial stages. Then again, this may just be a way to get free ideas at optimising their product from ou
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by alt227 9mo ago
Yep, thats exactly what Apple wants you to think. They spun the whole thing to turn it into a Facebook is the bad guy story, when in reality what they did was eliminate a competitor from their platform without any backlash. Very clever.
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by alt227 9mo ago
This really depends on what side of the fence you are on. As a website host/maintainer, I am happy that the DNS 'ANY' query has been deprecated. I am sure if you are a network engineer or ISP, then it propbably annoys you no
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by alt227 9mo ago
Cloudflare broke 'Cisco' clients all over the world. Not CFs problem that the biggest router vendor in the world programmed their routers wrongly.
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by alt227 9mo ago
Yeah and why did they do that? People think its because Apple are looking after you. In reality its because it allowed Facebook to target Ads at Apple users. Something Apple fiercly guards the privilage of doing only for itself.
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by alt227 9mo ago
They are inching forward closer and closer to the regulators lines to see what they can get away with without rousing the bear.
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by alt227 9mo ago
> Apple might take user privacy seriously now They dont and never have, its all marketing. How do you think those app store adds are displayed to you? They profile you like any other ad company to figure out which ads you are most likely
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by alt227 9mo ago
Exactly so if they really cared about their customer experience they could easily ditch this dark practice ad stuff in their app store and make it much easier for their customers to navigate safely, all with only taking a tiny hit to their
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by alt227 9mo ago
> In fact, they had so many ChatGPT fake apps showing as top results that they had to do something as users couldn't find the real one and it reached the news. This is after claiming for many years that the walled garden is a necess
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by alt227 9mo ago
This is also very easy to do on Android. IOS devices are not magic in their ability to block Facebook tracking.
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by alt227 9mo ago
They are based in a capitalist country. Capitalism demands constant growth, otherwise you are classed as an unsuccessful company.
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by alt227 9mo ago
> so why do we tolerate sites systematically blending the lines between ads and content Precisely because it has started to be regulated. Pre regulation, companies were tiptoeing forward, creating a new market and seeing what they could
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by alt227 9mo ago
> It's naive to expect these companies to be pro-costumers. For the last 20 years this is exaclty what Apple fans have believed. Its refreshing to see people finally realise that they are just a normal company, making money at the e
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by alt227 9mo ago
It applies to the entire world.
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by alt227 9mo ago
Fair enough, I agree.
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by alt227 9mo ago
It really isnt a disrupting technoology. It doesnt work as soon as you are far away from any other humans with phones.
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by alt227 9mo ago
> I heard somewhere that most Americans live paycheck to paycheck or at most have a few thousand dollars in savings If you dont inherently know this fact then you should be grateful for a very lucky and priviliged life.
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by alt227 9mo ago
> Germany always pays the bill I dont think many people realise just how much European infrastructure Germany actually bankrolls. It is a lot.
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by alt227 9mo ago
In India IOS has 4% of the market share of mobile devices whereas Android has 96%. https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/india
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by alt227 9mo ago
>Isn't having a source the only thing that should be required. No, referencing and discussing it properly whilst retaining the tone and inferred meaning are equally as important. I can cite anything as a source that I want, but if I
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by alt227 9mo ago
I would hate it so much if all the articles on Wikipedia were suddenly all rewritten to have a smiliar tone and style. Its beauty is its diversity.
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by alt227 9mo ago
Breaks are meant to be built with, not thrown at heads. If you build with the brick properly you will have a great wall, if you dont then it will fall down. Pretty simple.
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by alt227 9mo ago
OP: > the fact that people often use it wrong undermines its security
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by alt227 9mo ago
That is exactly what I wrote isnt it? EDIT: You replied no and then deleted your post, I assume that is because you agree.
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by alt227 9mo ago
How many cars are on the road in spain compared to how many trains are on the rail network? I would like to see an apples to apples comparison of deaths per mile travelled on the road and rail networks.
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by alt227 9mo ago
The tools he created speaks volumes about his interests and what is important to him in life.
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by alt227 9mo ago
IMO if it is possible to use a system wrongly which undermines its security, it is already broken.

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