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by axoltl 2y ago
I use my Vision Pro every single day. I love sitting in my yard in the sun with my Mac mirrored in the center, a music player hanging out on my left, a web browser with documentation on the right. Using the double loop strap I don't ev
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by axoltl 2y ago
The writes would go to /dev/null. No "excessive flash memory writes" were done, as they were testing the ingest portion.
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by axoltl 3y ago
Adwaita is - I believe - closely tied to Gnome. SwiftUI (obviously) already has bindings for macOS’ window server. Not sure what this project gets you on macOS that you don’t already have?
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by axoltl 3y ago
100% agree, but I'm curious if they were doing the bare minimum required to comply with the law or proactively handing out data they didn't have to yet. In the past I worked closely with Erik Neuenschwander, who spearheads user pr
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by axoltl 3y ago
"In December 2023, a US senator revealed that Apple had received sealed court orders that forced it to secretly share push notification data with law enforcement agencies in the US and foreign countries." ... "Apple did not t
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by axoltl 3y ago
This is the first time I’ve heard of 12 inch wafers. Are they actually 12”, or just 300mm wafers like everyone else uses?
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by axoltl 3y ago
Apologies, I should have been more nuanced in my reply. Your assumptions are correct, for a given threat model. I think I'm simply arguing from a different threat model that includes hardware modifications like the modchips used in the
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by axoltl 3y ago
I’ve been an embedded security engineer for the past two decades, have worked on a dozen secure silicon projects, have broken several secure boot chains (albeit only one publicly, in 2014: https://fail0verflow.com/blog/
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by axoltl 3y ago
This is what I understood the first-sale doctrine to be as well. Turns out there's a whole separate section for trademark law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine#Overview_o... Does that prevent you
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by axoltl 3y ago
Agreed, though that certainly _feels_ orthogonal to unlocking the bootloader? If I modify the hardware some other way (a la a modchip) and achieve the same thing, it'd be illegal for the same reasons.
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by axoltl 3y ago
To be fair, it's void in the US as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine edit: Going to leave this up, but the first-sale doctrine gets a little iffy around "materially different" devic
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by axoltl 3y ago
There are projectors that do this trick! The technology is called XPR: https://www.projectorjunkies.com/4k-dlp-projectors-is-it-rea...
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by axoltl 3y ago
I think “your threatmodel is not my threatmodel” applies here. I can easily see a parental lock being relevant in certain abuse cases for example.
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by axoltl 3y ago
I wonder if this is a very narrow definition of failure. Perhaps few things are ever truly a failure, but more a partial success?
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by axoltl 3y ago
What reputation would that be? Personal sentiment aside, the general public seems to like Apple[0] 0: https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/02/04/apple-is-worlds-m...
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by axoltl 3y ago
I'm not sure I understand the question. You can virtualize Windows on Apple Silicon[0]. Running Windows natively is entirely up to Microsoft, but I believe they've indicated they have no plans for it. [0]: https://suppo
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by axoltl 3y ago
This has everything to do with the way the US constitution was designed and nothing with certifications.
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by axoltl 3y ago
Sort of looks like some people care.
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by axoltl 4y ago
I don't think the parent comment was referring to buying an ice cream cone, but rather things traded on the open market.
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by axoltl 5y ago
You’re still paying for it somehow. Be it in security or privacy. But that’s a trade-off everyone makes, and for a lot of people it’s worth it.
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by axoltl 5y ago
It’s only done to pictures that you’re about to upload to the cloud.
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by axoltl 5y ago
To be fair you could probably break 56 bit RSA with a pen and paper.
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by axoltl 5y ago
We have come a long way since the RBMK reactors in use at Chernobyl. Generation III reactors are significantly safer than the older nuclear reactors. They are now passively safe, in that they shut themselves down without operator interventi
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by axoltl 6y ago
You should try this on a recent (last 4-5 years or so) Macbook! There is a hardware timer that forces the LED on for at least 3 seconds even if the camera only grabs a single frame.
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by axoltl 6y ago
Hi! I was the security architect for this feature on recent Macs. The LED is wired to the camera PMIC and is powered by the voltage rail that powers the camera. The PMIC will always remain on if the system has power. Macs newer than 4 or so
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by axoltl 6y ago
Apple complies with warrants, yes. Do you think they should not?
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by axoltl 7y ago
That's slightly dishonest, as iOS has a ~50% market share in the US. Ignoring half of the US market seems a poor choice. https://www.statista.com/statistics/266572/market-share-held... https://gs.s
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by axoltl 7y ago
That's not true. Harvey Mudd made changes to their CS program to remove bias and now more than half of its computer science majors are women. There is some very insidious bias in the pipeline that isn't explained away with "b
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by axoltl 8y ago
Please note that the US government cannot compel speech and - by extension - cannot compel anyone to lie.
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by axoltl 8y ago
Did you read the article? I believe it highlights the difference it makes.

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