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by dwaite 3y ago
> Apple has been looking sleepy on LLMs, but they've been consistently evolving their hardware+software AI stack, without much glitzy advertising They don't sell compute time to other companies to run AI, or massive custom hard
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The core of a GUI framework is nearly always written as asynchronous events and drawn responses, with the developer at that level responsible for the state machine in the middle and invalidation of the GUI in response. Coordinating large as
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> OIDC mandated an id_token to avoid the hit of POSTing the access token to an introspection endpoint A bit more fundamental than that, the two tokens are meant for different purposes and different audiences. The access token is meant fo
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The thing is Apple really doesn't want to dominate a market - they're fine just making the most profit.
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> As an iPhone mobile / windows desktop user I would love an interoperable protocol so I could respond to texts from my desktop You have MANY of them. SMS/MMS and Matrix spring to mind immediately. Mastodon qualifies. You can u
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> ... marketing efforts by companies like Apple who tell them that it's a bad user experience to have multiple apps Citation needed? Apple has pretty much marketed the exact opposite (e.g. the entire App Store concept)
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In a group of ten people in the US, you may potentially be asking nine others to install WhatsApp. Thats ignoring that some people (like myself) have philosophical reasons not to support Meta via WhatsApp. Just like others will not install
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> Like for instance if they allowed Android users to use this Beeper app, the experience would be good for all users They have not restricted Android users to use third party messaging apps like Beeper. But Beeper isn't using their
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> Since iMessage is the default messaging app, few iPhone users bother installing anything else. Moreso, there's no such thing as a default messaging app, just like there's no default phone dialer. The system handles telco mess
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IIRC, Non-precise location is cell tower level location or the like, possibly a 12 square mile area. It is also very cheap if the device is already connected to a tower. Precise location may be from Apple's SSID database or from a GPS
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AVRouting in iOS 16 allows for a Media Device Discovery Extensions, which allows for a proper ChromeCast or similar app to provide media streaming in the same interface as AirPlay. So far there doesn't seem to be any traction by Google
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Chrome Cast. There is no OS-level service for it to introspect the network looking for screens to cast to, so each app has to drop in a SDK - which then has to have permission to search the local network looking for screens. This was improv
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Right, but the anthropomorphizing of that collection of people is in this case counter to the individual people themselves - the employees were not victims of human trafficking, they left for presumably better job offers or to work on somet
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> You exclude the only topic in discussion here. Then why are we (as a group) talking about prior meetings, or employees getting hired?
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> And as one such person, I don't want to hear a company tell me I can't even have the _option_ of an open device because "it's for my own good". This particular feature, Activation Lock, is an optional feature y
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by dwaite 3y ago
Sort of. At its core is a logging interface, but there is a factory that gives you a configured local instance based on requesting a logger by name or by hierarchal class name. You have log levels but also markers which act as hierarchal fi
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I think the parent was saying that private/protected aren't used to protect secrets, they are there to make code more maintainable when you have a split between implementation details and stable/revisioned public api "co
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by dwaite 3y ago
Web Bluetooth is not a standard and is not on track to ever become a standard, e.g. "This specification was published by the Web Bluetooth Community Group. It is not a W3C Standard nor is it on the W3C Standards Track." It is also
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by dwaite 3y ago
I wouldn't do development for a platform I have a principled stand against.
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I have an account holder account which uses SMS 2FA - not ideal, but just fine. 2FA is a benefit for the site, not the user - I'm fine with them having a lousy and costly 2FA system.
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by dwaite 3y ago
> Can anybody answer why the author wrote "indirect branches tend to show up in object oriented languages"? While useful for function pointers and jump tables, I suspect they are speaking to polymorphism and vtables/witnes
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delivery receipts = read receipts? They are a setting. Tap on their name to change the "to" address; here it gives me a list of their Apple ID email and phone number to pick from. You can enable fall-back for contacts which fail t
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by dwaite 3y ago
Google created the opportunity for "markets" of android alternative app stores and alternative in-app payments, but then leveraged their control of other areas (such as OEM distribution of android and play services, revenue sharin
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Apple was pretty careful not to make deals. For instance Microsoft and Epic both publicly complained about not getting deals. Supposedly, the 15%-after-first-year rule for subscriptions that they instituted was because they were trying to e
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by dwaite 3y ago
Slight correction - you can't (or rather, shouldn't) override the SMS handling on an android phone. Instead what an app like Signal does is request all the permissions it can from the SMS/MMS handling service of the phone - t
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by dwaite 3y ago
Messages sends SMS/MMS (on a Phone or configured Mac/iPad/Watch), but will transparently upgrade to the iMessage protocol when talking to another Apple user. This has substantially better features over SMS, including network
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FWIW, my understanding was that Apple did try to engage with carriers, but there was't interest in turning RCS into what Apple wanted (for instance, adding E2EE). AFAIK 15 years later, RCS still hasn't started to define E2EE.
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> You can add multiple e-mail or contacts accounts (even from different providers) and it'll seamlessly merge them in the system Mail/Contacts apps - why can't we have the same for messages? Because there are standards the
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There are systems designed to be federated, like email, mastodon, matrix and SMS/RCS. Signal, WhatsApp, Slack, and iMessage are examples of services which were designed to be run by one company as part of their product. They _might_ ha
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It is actually more often than not hosted by Google

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