cwizou

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by cwizou 5y ago
Yep, the way I see it is, how much abstraction are you willing to accept. Intuitively you may not want too much, until you find out that maybe you could have needed a bit more because of the repetitiveness. So frameworks that give you the o
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by cwizou 5y ago
The pragmatic answer is that, for the the large companies usually behind those frameworks, they can have many independent teams that are working on split components, without marching on each other's toes. But to me, there's a para
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by cwizou 5y ago
They still are not saying with which part of that lineup they want to compete with, which is a good thing. I still remember Pat Gelsinger telling us over and over that Larrabee would compete with the high end of the GeForce/Radeon of
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by cwizou 5y ago
Another Chinese game that I've been very impressed with is Dyson Sphere Program (a Factorio-like game on galactic scale), it's still in Early Access on Steam, by a fairly small team but it's already insanely impressive in sco
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by cwizou 5y ago
Interesting take, there's 0 doubt that iPads are incredibly more intuitive to use, and anecdotally, I've also seen the same observations regarding young and elderly. I think a good portion of that is the indirect pointing method (
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by cwizou 5y ago
A few years back, Intel was striking marketing deals with large game developers that included them giving away free copies of their compiler and support. It's unclear how prevalent that was, though there were a few titles with an Intel
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by cwizou 5y ago
This is why I wrote mostly. Both iCloud backups and Messages on iCloud either keep plain backups or a decryption key. But if you don't use iCloud backups your end is still, as far as we know, encrypted. What happens on the other end is
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by cwizou 5y ago
Assuming this is correct (I only followed a couple of links, but it would be the EU planning to mandate content scan for CSAM on all e-mail and messaging platforms, after making it legal/optional already to do so earlier this year),
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by cwizou 5y ago
> Technology doesn't live in a vacuum. Given the calls from the government for backdoors to encryption, I think it's safe to assume this is Apple getting out in front of what could likely be heavy handed legislation to add actu
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by cwizou 5y ago
I think this is highly unlikely, everything points to Apple ditching the idea altogether : https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51207744 Many foreign countries have also clearly stated that they do not want this (E2EE)
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by cwizou 5y ago
As a reminder for context, Apple already did do a server side check for iCloud photos [1]. I think that's missing from the debate, what's changing is moving the check to on device which many object to (and I and others have writ
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by cwizou 5y ago
I had not, thanks ! This seems crazy, I can't wait to see it in action.
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And unstacked ! It was surprising to see that it only took them about an hour to unstack (I didn't catch the stacking but I think I heard it was around the same amount of time ?). I'm still very perplex about the "catching&qu
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by cwizou 5y ago
Sorry if my point wasn't clear, I do understand this yes. My point is that to my knowledge, this is the first time that an on device "content check" is being done (even if it's just for photos that will end up in iCloud)
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by cwizou 5y ago
Can't edit any more but as provided in another thread by another user, they were already , as I had originally assumed, doing it server side : https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/01/09/apples-scanning-
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by cwizou 5y ago
Thanks for the link, I had assumed that Apple was already doing it on servers (like all other online services providers), which makes the announcement even more terrible. Moving it on device will show 0 improvement to the original goal, whi
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by cwizou 5y ago
Quite frankly I'm not sure this should be the role of one employee of a justice department, so I'm not sure how to answer this ? At the end of the day I think that any such effort should be legislated, in any jurisdiction, and not
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by cwizou 5y ago
I think everyone is offended on scanning being done on device and not on their servers (which I had assumed they might already did, quite frankly, Google Photos and others already do), and selling that as being privacy forward. Considering
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by cwizou 5y ago
Thanks, after some fiddling I managed to finally read the full text from the article and it's definitely short on details on the rollout. Let's hope they rethink this. I'm also fairly concerned about the neural part behind th
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by cwizou 5y ago
It's definitely not slow on macOS but for some reason the UI font just looks wrong to me on macOS and I can't quite put my finger on it. The font doesn't look system (maybe it is), and every element is a tad too small. Spacin
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by cwizou 5y ago
The FT article mentioned it was US only, but I'm more afraid of how other governments will try to pressure Apple to adapt said technology to their needs. Can they trust random government to give them a database of only CSAM hashes an
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by cwizou 5y ago
Sorry for the offtopic, but having a working CNN anchor drafting statements and advising someone very much in the news without taking a leave of absence of his job, that's certainly an insanely low bar on journalistic ethics : https:&
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by cwizou 5y ago
The Tom Hanks one has its title literally starting with opinion, and a blue opinion badge on top.
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by cwizou 5y ago
> Apple took away his choice, so he's taking away his users' choice to use the feature as they desire. And it doesn't hurt Apple in the slightest, couldn't agree more.
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by cwizou 5y ago
Yep but that should be made clear and not just implied, because at the end of the day, their users who signup with Apple will be unable to use their web app because of the developer choice not to implement it (which is definitely their righ
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by cwizou 5y ago
> I like the angle of "Sorry, Apple ID only works on Apple devices." Except it's inaccurate, it works on Android, Windows and in browsers https://support.apple.com/kb/HT211687 Agreed on all other poin
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by cwizou 5y ago
There are plenty of reasons to be unhappy with Apple's policies, or lack of documentation, or undocumented API changes, or even the dismissive tone they can take when talking about 3rd party developers (especially when defending agains
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by cwizou 5y ago
As an aside, it's been a bit surprising to see the disconnect on so many topics regarding France in the NYT in the last few months. This seems like just the latest (and fairly mild) episode of this, but it's still a bit puzzling t
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by cwizou 5y ago
It's been an ongoing debate I've had with some Aerial users, but I agree with you. Most if not all are real time or barely slowed down (latest beta I've put a slider to speed a video up/down partly to try and settle this
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by cwizou 5y ago
I only make the mac version, but I've seen this "port" for Android TV. No guarantees from me that it's any good : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.codingbuff... It's open

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