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by eridius 8y ago
Measure that make it harder (but not impossible) for users to disassemble their devices serves to avoid people doing accidental damage (and voiding their warrantee). It's possible to get a pentalobe screwdriver, and anyone not willing
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by eridius 8y ago
> These are not central parties and they present risks with anything one does with a computer on a network. If someone compromises my OS and steals my credit card details, the bank sends me a new card and handles the fraudulent charges
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by eridius 8y ago
AIUI spoofing is possible because the phone systems were designed back in the days when a single entity controlled the entire network and so everything just trusts everything else. That said, I don't know why we still haven't fixe
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by eridius 8y ago
Is "fuck you" a euphemism for "you're buying a computer that costs $500 less and as a result probably doesn't have the internal hardware to support 4 separate USB-C ports"?
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by eridius 8y ago
There are 4 USB-C ports anyway. And MagSafe is not coming back. AIUI, MagSafe unavoidably led to connection problems with the power cable over time and was a big driver of AppleCare support issues. Anecdotally, I've had multiple laptop
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by eridius 8y ago
A different article I read earlier said they changed the order of the votes at the last minute and even the president was confused.
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by eridius 8y ago
One of the main selling points of cryptocurrencies is decentralization, of not needing to trust a central party in order to use the currency. But the cryptocurrency doesn't actually eliminate that trust, it simply moves it. It moves it
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by eridius 8y ago
Keybase allows you (nay, encourages you) to set up a "paper key", which is a private key that you store offline (e.g. print it out and stick it in a safe). You can then use this paper key to provision new devices. This way if you
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by eridius 8y ago
Where does Keybase use SMS authentication?
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by eridius 8y ago
Not only that but this also enables offline attacking of the password. If you can compromise the Keybase server and grab the encrypted passwords, you can then attack it at your leisure with whatever computing power you can scrounge up, over
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by eridius 8y ago
Apple is simply not making Apple News available in China. That's not "censorship", that's "not doing business in China". Censorship would be if Apple News was available but only carried state-sponsored articles
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by eridius 8y ago
In the context of this article, you seem to be comparing "not making Apple News available in China" with Dragonfly and pretending that the two are even remotely the same.
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by eridius 8y ago
Isn't that literally what they're doing with News, though? Apple is doing business in China but Apple News isn't available. They're not censoring news stories or altering them for Chinese audiences, it's simply not
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by eridius 8y ago
Google seems to have intentionally tuned reCAPTCHA to punish anyone who isn't a Google customer or is blocking Google's tracking cookies. This is a win for nobody except Google.
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by eridius 8y ago
Good news is the FBI doesn't write the law. My recollection is the general consensus was the FBI was severely overreaching and was going to lose their court case.
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by eridius 8y ago
Their position in China is not offering iCloud at all is no better than offering iCloud where the data is managed by a Chinese company. Importantly, this does not affect anyone outside of China. This compromise to follow the law sucks, but
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by eridius 8y ago
Most of the "baseless abuse" actually isn't DMCA, it's abuse of systems that services like YouTube set up to make it easy for copyright holders to submit takedowns without going through DMCA.
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by eridius 8y ago
I'm not quite sure exactly what Australia's laws actually let them do regarding Apple, but what I am sure of is if Australia tried to compel Apple to add a backdoor to iOS, Apple would stop doing business in Australia rather than
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by eridius 8y ago
The legal system lets them say "you already have the information? Great, give it to me". It doesn't let them say "you have to redesign your systems to collect information that you explicitly told your users you aren&#x27
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by eridius 8y ago
Fees, cashback, and the convenience, yeah.
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by eridius 8y ago
Non–state-owned enterprise, more like.
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by eridius 8y ago
I believe this whole thing is designed to promote adoption of Apple Pay. Apple already gets a kickback on all Apple Pay purchases, so they don't even need to get any kickback on physical card purchases when the higher rewards for Apple
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by eridius 8y ago
Apple can't extract information from your device, even under subpoena. They'd have to push an OS update that explicitly changes what they do to start sending that info to Apple, but the US legal system doesn't allow the gover
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by eridius 8y ago
Apple said they've engineered the service such that Apple does not know what you're purchasing or even what vendors you're shopping at. If Apple doesn't know this, they can't very well apply arbitrary rules to it.
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by eridius 8y ago
It sounds like they quite wittingly made their swords stronger, they just didn’t understand the physical mechanism by which this worked.
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by eridius 8y ago
Even wikipedia admits that most people mean tracing GC when they say GC. What exactly are you trying to accomplish here?
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by eridius 8y ago
It certainly does matter because the question is what did the grandparent mean.
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by eridius 8y ago
Wipr for Safari https://giorgiocalderolla.com/wipr.html
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by eridius 8y ago
Rather amusingly, my fairly simple ad-blocker is already blocking your no cookie banner.
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by eridius 8y ago
Unless you consider reference counting to be a form of GC¹, Swift is not a GC'ed language. ¹It technically is, but most people don't mean reference counting when they say GC.

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