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by howinteresting 3y ago
Also, even on an iphone you can turn off iMessage and always use SMS. I'd recommend that as a way to avoid lock-in.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
Yes, the send icon changes.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
This. American high school debate format makes no sense. This is just the latest contradiction to be heightened. Debate is just not a thing that subjects itself to being gamed in this way.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
I'd like to read more about this, but I will say that https://libreboot.org/news/policy.html is right on the merits.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
He was too good for the Atlantic. It was always a surprise to me that one of the very best science journalists of our generation published there.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
That's also true for iMessage? If you actually care about e2ee you'd use Signal.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
??? https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/03/14/privacy-thats-iph...
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by howinteresting 3y ago
This is the worst possible advice in this situation. If you're an unauthorized immigrant, DO NOT listen to this advice. Talk to a lawyer instead.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
The idea is that adults can sponsor their parents for a green card but children cannot. Of course it makes absolutely no sense given the disruption to US citizen children's lives if their parents are deported, but US immigration genera
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by howinteresting 3y ago
Marrying a US citizen is the only practical way forward for most people. And on top of that, it is only available to people who entered legally initially (which is around 50% of unauthorized immigrants if I remember correctly). It is deeply
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by howinteresting 3y ago
While I won't disagree with you generally, in this case I think Go is doing the right thing.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
Many programming languages have learned the lesson that while a string is logically a list of characters, representing one as such is inefficient.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
Privacy. That's iPhone.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
Under capitalism (or really any socio-economic system) we engage with services for reasons other than choice all the time. For example, if you're living in an area where just one or two banks exist, and both of them suddenly decide to
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by howinteresting 3y ago
https://apnews.com/article/church-sex-abuse-john-paul-poland...
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by howinteresting 3y ago
Yes, TPMs have no business being part of the open web. They enable CIOs to make bad decisions like preventing a bank's website from being loaded in non-TPM browsers.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
Apple captures 85% of the profit share of the worldwide phone market, as Apple websites love to trumpet: https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/02/03/apple-collects-ne...
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by howinteresting 3y ago
My OS class definitely didn't characterize fork() as maligned, just as a powerful building block (which it is). It took me professional experience to realize it sucks.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
Be honest, what you really want is for the web to orient itself in a direction where users get to make fewer "illegal" copies of content produced by corporations. Never mind the fact that their computers might not support, even in
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by howinteresting 3y ago
I've been following your posts over the past few days, and your philosophy has never been clearer than it is here. You just straight up hate the idea of users having the upper hand over corporations.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
My impression is that Google abandoned this approach.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
It is bad because it is yet another way people exercising their freedom have a worse experience than people who accept the warm embrace of daddy Apple. The fact that a device is locked down should confer zero benefits on the open web as a m
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by howinteresting 3y ago
Even if we assume that captchas are the only thing this can be restricted to (which, if attestation is widely deployed, they won't be restricted to), why is it good to make people using locked-down Apple devices with logged in Apple ID
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by howinteresting 3y ago
There is a long history of hackers—in the classic sense—using computers to do things other people don't want them to do, and those other people unable to do anything about it (or, at best, engaging in an arms race with the hackers). Th
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by howinteresting 3y ago
Chrome for Android _already_ doesn't let you use an adblocker, and it has a pretty high share in the mobile market.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
Banks are going to use this because some pointy headed boss reads an article in CIO Weekly or whatever talking about remote attestation and orders their IT team to implement it. It will not actually cut down on fraud but it will cut down on
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by howinteresting 3y ago
Once you're shadowbanned your comments start off as dead by default and have to be vouched to be visible.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
Why should I care about his response to being called out and not what he said in the original video? At best this is a rather extreme motte and bailey, which is often a sign of dishonesty.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
https://twitter.com/patriottakes/status/1671161500495646724 There is no excuse for this, and there is no excuse for making excuses for this.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
Thank you for writing this. Remote attestation for consumer software is such a disturbing idea. In the past the main adversarial pressure has been exploiting security vulnerabilities ("jailbreaking"), but the software industry is

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