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by grooot 4y ago
I’m confident that it’s closed because they claimed to have closed it. As for the high protection mode - of course that reduces the attack surface.
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by grooot 4y ago
No. I’m saying your information is outdated and wrong.
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by grooot 4y ago
It was before the zero day was closed.
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by grooot 4y ago
Do you seriously believe that your IP is private? Do you know every site that has received your ip address? I think the honest answer to both of these questions has to be no.
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by grooot 4y ago
Sure but as has been pointed out, the likely explanation is that this is a function being performed locally for indexing or thumb nail generation. Nobody has come close to showing anything malicious or that data is being exfiltrated, so why
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by grooot 4y ago
Is your claim that data is being exfiltrated to Apple?
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by grooot 4y ago
What are you talking about? It sounds like you don’t understand what is going on here. Perhaps you think some data is going to Apple?
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by grooot 4y ago
That doesn’t prove they weren’t just image building. It proves they chose it as a topic to build an image around earlier than Gates.
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by grooot 4y ago
There is absolutely nothing malicious that has been shown.
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by grooot 4y ago
Isn’t this just URL prefetching extended to QR codes? I don’t see what the fuss is about, unless there is some innuendo that data is being sent to Apple.
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by grooot 4y ago
Which smart watch was made by people exploited to the brink of death? How is that different from the device you are writing your comment from?
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by grooot 4y ago
Yes - it’s called the tragedy of the commons. Trying to shame people into using less never solves this problem. It just means there is more available for the shameless. The solution as are either to regulate the commons, or find a better
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by grooot 4y ago
> he only tried to join in on climate change way after it was politically convenient and he was trying to build his image Who can you say this is not true about?
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by grooot 4y ago
Do you really believe that his home is imminently about to be swallowed by the ocean?
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by grooot 4y ago
Nailed it. We build the things, and it turns out they aren’t cool.
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by grooot 4y ago
It sounds as if you’ve had to maintain a bad codebase in Python. I don’t think any language will save you from that. OCaml (a contender for my favorite language) certainly won’t. My comment is about what the language does for me when I w
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by grooot 4y ago
I was happier when the internet was simpler because I was excited about all the cool things we could build to make almost every aspect of life better! Obvious that was a delusion.
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by grooot 4y ago
As someone new to python, I don’t understand this attitude. I have decades of experience, having shipped code in swift, obj-c, Java, Scala, closure, ocaml, C, C++. A few weeks ago I was asked to write something substantial in python. I have