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by concinds 5y ago
FiiO.
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by concinds 5y ago
The best way to predict the future is to analyse the constraints on what can happen. There is no mass-switching campaign in favor of Firefox. The only foreseeable hope of one happening in the future, is if ManifestV3 kills adblockers, and p
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Many of these problems result from lack of regulation. Regulations are necessary to preserve free and open markets, prevent monopolies and protect competition. Two companies having total control over the app economy and taking 15-30% of rev
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I expected this to be controversial here, but there's absolutely nothing wrong for Mozilla to partner with Meta on this, and there are excellent reasons for Meta to be willing to participate in good faith. It's real simple. iOS 15
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by concinds 5y ago
Likewise, I don't firmly understand the technology behind this, or its privacy implications, and almost the entirety of this thread is just generic anti-ad sentiments, with some arguments about billboards, Mozilla's CEO compensati
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by concinds 5y ago
Thought experiment. Remove all ads from Facebook. Now, the only way corporations can advertise on Facebook is by making Facebook posts on their normal Facebook page; people only see them if they "liked" the company's FB page.
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I would argue that Android is safer, specifically from 0days. Anyone with Android 6.0 or later (a 2015 OS) gets Chrome updates. Those updates are fast, automatic, and transparently happen in the background, with no user input or downtime (e
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And that was the almost-universal response on reddit and YouTube comments, but are those people more, or less likely to buy an Apple Watch? Maybe not for themselves, maybe for their grandparents? Besides, it's the absolute bedrock of m
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It feels like you're twisting my words. I never said Apple should unlock it more, I said they should discontinue it, and their executives displayed poor judgment in approving the product. I never argued that AirTags were nerfed into us
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> Maybe you don't lose stuff as much as other people? I relate to it and respect it, but it's doubtful anyone would switch to iPhone because of AirTags. Samsung and others also make trackers, and you don't need the Find My
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> But Apple apparently has done it with anti-stalking features but is too high-profile. Remember that stalking isn't a profession; it's often a crime of opportunity, with plenty of reported cases of e.g. people slipping GPS tra
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by concinds 5y ago
Android users are still vulnerable, and these announcements do nothing to reduce that. All a stalker needs to do, is remove the speaker. To detect a rogue AirTag, an Android owner needs to: 1) know AirTags exist (many obviously don't)
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by concinds 5y ago
My 3 year old Series 4 dies before 8pm, if it's fully charged at 7am, and with absolutely no use except standby. Some are still using Series 0s (with light use), but Apple Watches are disposable electronics by any reasonable definition
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I really don't recommend doing that with Apple Mail. I did, many years ago, and ended up losing quite a few emails due to Apple Mail bugs; I did it again a few years later and ended up with weird corruption of email headers (wrong &q
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by concinds 5y ago
I think you misunderstand what I mean when I say: "the open web is dead". Its reach is dead. Previously, the "open web" was all there was, before the online walled gardens. Users were trained to get information that way.
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Exactly. People here vastly overestimate how technical and motivated the average user is. Trump's banned on practically all platforms. How many of his fans added his RSS to their app? (Wait, they don't use RSS apps). His only plat
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> Spotify is NOT the open web. Rogan can host the audio files on his own site. That’s the open web. I know. My point is that he can do that, and he'd lose most of his reach. Or he can keep his reach, by staying on the big (closed we
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by concinds 5y ago
I'm puzzled for 2 reasons: 1. The vast majority of account terminations for individual (not public-facing) services by financial platforms is linked to KYC, AML, and other risks; banks don't wait for the government to tell them to
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by concinds 5y ago
The open web is dead. It's likely Rogan would have been banned from YouTube and Apple Podcasts had he not moved to Spotify. He could have moved to tiny platforms like Odysee or Rokfin that would likely have poor retention rates, or jus
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Apple Podcasts prompts you to review it on the App Store, but apparently only while listening to a podcast. I believe this is the only Apple app that prompts for reviews; and it's the new behavior that's responsible for bringing t
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Those percentages only apply during active lockdowns; your premise is that there's been a continuous, worldwide lockdown for the past 2 years. The actual numbers will be far less. Also, this study only measures impacts of lockdowns on
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Unless you plan on deploying the U.S. military on every street and beach during the next lockdown, what we saw was what happens when a lockdown is declared. They're measuring the efficacy of an intervention: lockdowns being declared
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> I don't think any of these are strictly limited to Safari. As far as I can tell, every feature you mention could be implemented by the third-party browsers. Reimplemented. iOS builds these mechanisms in, but many (seemingly) can&#
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> No, it’s that the average person cannot make decisions about complex subjects. Can PhDs and Nobel Prize winners, the quintessential experts, make decisions about complex subjects? If they could, wouldn't Long-Term Capital Manageme
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I'm skeptical that education is a solution to collapsing societal trust. First, the primary organs that would be capable of this education are the media, who have a profit motive to stoke any and all fears (immigration, radiological wa
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Only Safari can have extensions, only Safari can have iOS Content Blockers, only Safari supports Screen Time limits on websites and iOS parental controls, and only Safari is allowed to launch apps (so when you open a Twitter link in Safari,
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A similar look at Safari vs Chrome on Mac would reveal that Safari is much less secure than Chrome; given that many iOS exploits rely on WebKit, the average iPhone user is strictly less secure because of Apple's ban on fair browser eng
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Note I wasn't suggesting turning people away if they're unvaccinated, I think that would be dehumanizing and would set a horrible precedent. I'm just wondering why pre-programmed surgeries and screenings are being deprogramme
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Genuinely asking - What's stopping a country, or hospital, from saying: "we'll prioritize cancer patients, scheduled surgeries, normal operation; you come in with Covid respiratory distress, and we're full? Go away.&quot
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The "real" list is often much longer since Apple (IIRC) doesn't add CVEs to bugs they discover interally, and doesn't disclose them in these changelogs. And this update has very little security content compared to previo

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