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by dwaite 2y ago
> They do something like this, using homomorphic encryption. Whatever they do, there is no doubt they incur serious performance hits. Right, I've seen similar engineering efforts to target this sort of functionality fail because of
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> I have concerns about how women would be affected by law enforcement who might use the location data to target abortions. I believe this risk already exists in the form of LE request with court order to see the contents of an iCloud ac
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The phone has intelligence to detect things that look like landmarks, and does cropping/normalization and converts to a mathematical form. Apple has a database trained on multiple photos of each landmark (or part of a landmark), to giv
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With the added caveat that HE is magic sauce - so the server cannot see the metadata (cropped/normalized image data), and doesn't know how much it does or does not look like the Eiffel Tower.
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Only in a very broad sense that they use HE to prevent the server from seeing what happened. The CSAM tech detected matches against particular photos captured by law enforcement, and provided external evidence of the match (e.g. enough posi
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> It almost seems like Apple gets held to a higher standard just because they have privacy preserving initiatives It doesnt' seem this way at all. It is rare to see someone talking about current behavior, they are always talking abo
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by dwaite 2y ago
Apple also makes a mandatory API call to captive.apple.com from every device with a web view, just about every time they connect to a network. If someone is willing to take a hardline stance that a vendor should inform the user and require
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by dwaite 2y ago
Sure, and they do that because Microsoft's CSAM detection product (which other providers like Google supposedly use) operates by having unencrypted data access to your files in the cloud. What Apple wanted to do is do those operations
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After all, the marketing message of no new features with Snow Leopard was because of the reputation of Leopard.
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That Super Duper post didn't indicate whether they filed feedback during the beta or not.
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It is more that people made comments semantically important, e.g. a tool which did not interpret comments would not correctly interpret the data in the document. This actually would put JSON in a worse place than XML - while XML has an over
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If I understand - Chrome is like IE for pushing proprietary extensions, and Safari is like IE for not implementing those proprietary extensions?
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> Why can't it just go into this state without rebooting? Because the state of the phone isn't clean - there is information in RAM, including executing programs that will be sad if the disk volume their open files are stored on
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But X for them is an echo chamber of opposite beliefs. The premium account system where comments are not sorted chronologically but where paid accounts post first (on top of a poorly moderated platform) leads to drive-by toxicity, not intel
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Then how about alternatives like Lactaid? Animal-free dairy milk? As someone else said, is what makes people happy here making the regulations more complex with special cases - when someone not knowing those special cases could potentially
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Kinda lousy that they tell people to open additional feedbacks when they gave no information about the behavior they are actually seeing with network extensions (leaking where? what sort of data?)
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> Also full disk encryption is opt-in for macOS. But the answer isn't that Apple wants you to be insecure, they just probably want to make it easier for their users to recover data if they forget a login password or backup password
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The .DS_Store files are not Finder specific; Apple treats everything as a file (including folders), and it exists to supply folders and the files within them with metadata. It is just the first time the .DS_Store file is needed is often whe
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by dwaite 2y ago
Pixelmator already has been switching products over to subscription.
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> I miss the visualization, but IMO the biggest feature loss is the history feature. AFAIK this is still in the API (although it wasn't at launch). Apple is fine with third party weather apps that provide all the information within
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by dwaite 2y ago
Sometimes that does happen. Apple historically tends to look for shipping results, and the underlying software and services (such as using DarkSky's algorithms and server code as starting points) are often worth it over just putting of
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by dwaite 2y ago
Macros were an early Swift goal, but were not the highest priority or a small amount of work that could be tackled as part of meeting higher priority goals. As an example - one could argue property wrappers exist because they were needed be
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by dwaite 2y ago
Getting a professional who will properly dispose of a battery is more environmentally conscious, and supports the local economy?
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Sounds like your issue wasn't with factory resetting, but with the anti-theft features. The factory reset process is simple. Proving ownership (and transfer of ownership) for getting around anti-theft lockouts is not.
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by dwaite 2y ago
My laptop repair count went way down (from 3 a year to one every 5 years) once chips no longer had the ability to become unseated. I think it is a reliability boon and a repair cost savings, not an up-front cost savings.
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> Flutter implemented its "native" looking UI widgets by literally having teams of designers eyeball the native designs and reimplementing, starting from drawPixel. Those widgets are then stylized wrong on every subsequent plat
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> I will Pepsi challenge this with anyone who asks, I can smell a framework app. The platforms ship with things like keyboard shortcuts for navigation and text entry, minimal accessibility features like screen reading of text and naviga
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"cupertino" is the name of a Flutter widget set, not of the native platform controls or L&F. Few Flutter apps are going to use cupertino because the whole goal of using Flutter is to create cross platform codebases to save dev
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> but I know that's down to the developer so I won't hold that against Flutter. That is absolutely an issue with Flutter, which throws away the underlying platform UX and draws to a canvas. It gives you relatively few tools to
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Actually, it was an attempt to reuse as much of the ARM design they got when they bought Nuvia moving to a different CPU architecture. They were worried about ASIC design not software code.

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