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by dwaite 1y ago
> The downside is fragmentation and the CPU time required for memory management. If you have an A -> B -> C chain where A is the only owner of the B and B is the only owner of C, then when A hits 0, it has to do 2 pointer hops to d
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by dwaite 1y ago
I believe the GP is referring to the LGPL requirement that users be able to replace LGPL components with modified versions. Being able to replace subsystems of a signed application with arbitrary third party code adds complexity and is a se
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by dwaite 1y ago
San Francisco is a great font. Arial is a perfectly functional semi-clone of Helvetica, Times New Roman is a decent interpretation of Plantin. Roboto is an interesting mash-up of Helvetica, DIN, and a few others. System font from a web sta
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by dwaite 1y ago
I thought Booking Holdings Inc was also American. There are zero European companies, including Spotify - the #1 music streaming marketplace in the world.
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by dwaite 2y ago
Underneath the good ideas of UML was the idea of model driven development - that you could generate code from the models. Good diagrams are an art form though, just like other forms of good documentation. There is a big difference between a
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by dwaite 2y ago
> Just an obvious example — there are of course no engineers in the decision to make a "Snow Leopard" release or not. That is a "marketing" decision. I think it is more that the decision to SAY Snow Leopard was a bug
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by dwaite 2y ago
My understanding is that Apple already does have Wi-Fi Aware support (as it is required for interoperable implementations of things like ISO 18013-5). Is this about mandating a version upgrade, or about adding some developer API surface for
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by dwaite 2y ago
That seems to be based on the assumption that a fully compliant Wi-Fi Aware implementation would be equal or superior in every case to an optimized, proprietary protocol.
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by dwaite 2y ago
That would be the IEEE, and I don't think the marketing people in the Wi-Fi Alliance participate at that level.
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by dwaite 2y ago
It is not a consent prompt. You get a choice on whether to trash the binary or quit. To run a non-motorized app requires you to open a separate app, navigate to the security section and select that you want to authorize the app to run. Appl
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by dwaite 2y ago
Distributing software is not what I would call one of the basic uses of a computer.
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by dwaite 2y ago
Notarization is not a trusted system on macOS - or rather, notarized binaries still have a "this was downloaded from the internet" prompt, and the user is meant to make a decision on whether it is trustworthy. Notarization does so
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by dwaite 2y ago
I don't understand, there is no option for iMessages to not be end to end encrypted. Are you speaking to the security of the recipient's backups?
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by dwaite 2y ago
Apple absolutely does treat the web as an endpoint that needs discriminatory features to protect users. See tighter controls of: 1. location data 2. notifications 3. long term state 4. background processing 5. photo access 6. web access on
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by dwaite 2y ago
When qtest was released, I was there in the IRC channel and one of the first to play. I remember connecting to someone's machine and just destroying everyone. Afterward I got a message from someone congratulating me, but being incredul
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by dwaite 2y ago
My understanding is no with the current design - exclaves are built into the overall OS and started as part of the boot process, so they are relatively static. I suspect these components have static relationships for security reasons. They
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by dwaite 2y ago
Partly because they document the doors which are there for LE : https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/law-enforcement-guidelin... They also switched a few years back to provide signed firmwares rather than encrypted
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by dwaite 2y ago
I believe the point being made here is that some governments legally mandate that they are a party in communication.
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by dwaite 2y ago
However, it may only get merged in by being conceptually re-thought and reimplemented, like the Linux USB or KGI projects back in the day. The general pushback for changes in Linux are against large impactful changes. They want your code to
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by dwaite 2y ago
If I have seen what others have seen, it is by replicating the work of giants
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by dwaite 2y ago
Apple offers the same escrowed key and non-escrowed key (advanced data protection) features in China as far as I'm aware. The extra capability GCBD has would be access to protected at rest data like iCloud email.
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by dwaite 2y ago
Depends quite a bit on the item. Some items are actually shipped domestically, for instance, and can be sold out within the country.
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by dwaite 2y ago
This USPS announcement is most likely a reaction to just how far backlogged US customs is about to get. DHL won't save you.
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by dwaite 2y ago
I can count the total automated iMessage spams I've received on one hand. I can't do that with automated SMS spam I received in the last 24 hours. So yes, not foolproof.
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by dwaite 2y ago
Google is not cooperating with anyone when it comes to their existing proprietary E2EE implementation. E2EE is available in Google's client only, able to be run on the Android devices Google certifies, when talking through Google'
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by dwaite 2y ago
> All the other messenger apps you can use on iOS, like whatsapp, telegram, signal, etc, have no degradation with android users present Yes, those all work and each require that you download and install their app, go through setup, poten
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by dwaite 2y ago
While there is no public documentation on Google's approach that I know of, there is also nothing to make me think Apple _can_ currently use it. There is no authoritative mapping from an account to a single service (e.g. my email addre
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by dwaite 2y ago
So your solution is to reject people from participating in a group chat until they install an Apple product on their Android phone?
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by dwaite 2y ago
I don't know - I was able share a link and RSVP without an account. AFAIK I enabled every option other than the shared album. It does prefer contacting via email, so it did an email verification via mailed PIN, and then attached that e
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by dwaite 2y ago
It is a cryptography heavy, privacy-oriented protocol somewhat specific to the behavior apple wants, which is tied to social behavior. E.g. it is meant to track lost items, not stolen items and not people. My understanding of how it is all

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