axoltl

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by axoltl 8y ago
There's a slice of the population that needs accessibility devices to unlock their iDevices. It'd be unfortunate if they couldn't unlock their devices anymore due to a security feature. 7 days sounds like a compromise between
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by axoltl 8y ago
There's a way to disable the feature through MDM (Mobile Device Management), which you'd want on the kiosks anyway.
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by axoltl 8y ago
Seems like a lot of the answers boil down to "build a portfolio". I don't think the people that have the time to build that portfolio have a lot to worry about. Sure, they may not get to work at that one company they want to
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by axoltl 9y ago
Open source hardware's still far in the future, and I'm actively worried about open silicon. The RISC-V foundation is making steps in the right direction, but it'll be a long time coming before I have a document that isn&#x27
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by axoltl 9y ago
I looked at it, but that doesn't actually tell me the touchscreen interface. It just tells me the bits they're currently using. If Apple had open sourced their driver it wouldn't have made a difference, as whatever they'
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by axoltl 9y ago
Would you mind pointing me to the implementation spec for the Pixel 2's touchscreen controller?
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by axoltl 9y ago
The update is an all-or-nothing type of deal though. You either update the entire system or you don't. So now people with a third-party screen don't get new features and - more importantly - they don't get security fixes. If
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by axoltl 9y ago
The 10k a month figure is fairly unreasonable. For a two bedroom, that figure will be closer to 5k a month.
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by axoltl 9y ago
Can you expand on that? California being part of the USA makes its culture de facto American.
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by axoltl 9y ago
Fun fact, it'd actually be illegal for Apple to disable devices if it detects a replacement part. There are anti-trust laws against 'tying agreements', and forcing consumers to only buy components from Apple (due to tie-in) w
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by axoltl 9y ago
It does sound like your ALS (Ambient Light Sensor) isn't connected correctly. I'd suggest reseating all the little connectors!
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by axoltl 9y ago
I linked some patents below: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20170272058A1/ https://patents.google.com/patent/US20170124010A1/ But a quick search yields some interesting research: h
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by axoltl 9y ago
... what? You're a metallurgist, or do you just play one on TV? You also obviously don't understand what a 'patent troll' is.
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by axoltl 9y ago
Apple relies very heavily on customized silicon to provide an edge (Lower power consumption, for example, or extra features). This means that there might be a part out there that's sorta close, but not quite. Once Apple starts pushing
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by axoltl 9y ago
It's neither easy nor cheap. The engineer in question now has to support multiple variants of the driver, and QA has to acquire several of these screens and maintain a dedicated test rack of them. I'm a little amazed by how many p
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by axoltl 9y ago
You've obviously never been involved in the design/manufacture of an ASIC. What you're proposing will take roughly 2 years, and be an organizational nightmare. 'Just' having an embedded identity is already complicat
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by axoltl 9y ago
Is the onus on Apple to ensure the third-party screens work, or is it on the third-party screens to ensure they're compatible?
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by axoltl 9y ago
This is 100% not bullshit. https://patents.google.com/patent/US20170272058A1/ https://patents.google.com/patent/US20170124010A1/
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by axoltl 9y ago
Does Nvidia have an obligation to make AMD graphics cards work if they happened to have worked with some version, at some point in time?
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by axoltl 9y ago
So the manufacturer is not allowed to make everyone's ECU better because you decided to replace your engine with an older model?
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by axoltl 9y ago
You mentioned "third party repairs". Even Louis Rossmann has his reservations about selling to individuals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaR593TrXf8&t=493s Plus, for TouchID enabled phones you MUST have a s
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by axoltl 9y ago
It'd be pretty hard for them to know though. They'd have to reverse engineer (the irony isn't lost on me) every variation of third party screen/touchscreen controller. What happens if some feature isn't available on
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by axoltl 9y ago
You can do whatever you want to it! But would you expect an NVidia graphics card to work with AMD drivers? The controller isn't the one the drivers were written for, so it breaks. Not surprising.
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by axoltl 9y ago
That's not true. https://support.apple.com/en-lamr/aasp-program
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by axoltl 9y ago
It was not done intentionally. They simply don't QA their releases on repaired phones (because why would they?). The touchscreens in question highly likely use an older touchscreen controller from a previous iPhone. These controllers d
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by axoltl 9y ago
While I agree with you from a technical perspective, Netflix isn't going to be the only one with this particular issue. If you addressed the issue at gmail, you can be sure you've fixed it for all the little leaves.
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by axoltl 9y ago
If you have a bug in a system, do you fix it at the source, or do you fix it at all the leaves? Netflix might be wrong here, but fixing it at Netflix doesn't make the problem go away. Fix the problem once (GMail) and never ever have to
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by axoltl 9y ago
The long-lived secret for TouchID is generated in the SEP, using the UID of the SoC (a secret known only to the SoC) and the serial number of the respective sensor. That key is then keywrapped with a (symmetric) key known to all TouchID sen
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by axoltl 9y ago
The long-lived secret for TouchID is generated in the SEP, using the UID of the SoC (a secret known only to the SoC) and the serial number of the respective sensor. That key is then keywrapped with a (symmetric) key known to all TouchID sen
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by axoltl 9y ago
I'm half a block away from one of the blue lines, unfortunately the tool's only presenting me with DSL... I love Sonic, but I used to have their DSL service and it wasn't great. Not Sonic's fault, but San Francisco'

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