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by ilogik 5y ago
for 2006 that's actually not bad. When I joined my first company in 2010, to my horror, they were using plain text passwords for users
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by ilogik 5y ago
if I run an online service, and you login with web3, if you're an asshole, I can still ban your "indelible" account
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by ilogik 5y ago
according to rumours, the upcoming Mac Pro chips will have 2x to 4x the core count of the M1 Pro/Max
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by ilogik 5y ago
on the other end of the spectrum, James Thomson created a driving game in the about screen of PCalc, a calculator app: https://www.macstories.net/reviews/pcalcs-delightfully-insan...
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by ilogik 5y ago
just a quick note here, most of that traffic was probably served from your ISP's network and never reached AWS: https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/
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by ilogik 5y ago
who is saying people that have had COVID shouldn't vaccinate? because they're wrong. Maybe not the second shot. But if you've had covid, you should 100% get vaccinated.
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by ilogik 5y ago
some think they wanted to add this, so that they can enable e2e encryption with iCloud at a later date.
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by ilogik 5y ago
it was a joke. if you don't trust the switch, then why trust any switch on iOS. Why do you trust that they're not already doing it? why are you using an iPhone?
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by ilogik 5y ago
the photos are only scanned just before being uploaded to iCloud. If you have CSAM on your phone, just turn off iCloud sync
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by ilogik 5y ago
no and no
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by ilogik 5y ago
the hashes are also shipped with every device and can be inspected. A few bytes changed in a binary blob that would enable a backdoor would be almost impossible to detect.
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by ilogik 5y ago
but they do have it. pretty much all image hosts are already doing it as well
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by ilogik 5y ago
what's stopping them from doing that now?
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by ilogik 5y ago
and what's the next step? FBI breaks down my door because I said something bad about Biden?
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by ilogik 5y ago
Don't really care about HN at this point, down-vote me to hell. My arguments seemed obvious. Yet the all the top comments are "OMG, apple is looking at my photos". I'm not an Apple fanboy. They are doing some horrible st
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by ilogik 5y ago
this is a very weak argument. The MAGA crowd has been posting images all over social media. My understanding is that there is a threshold that needs to be met, and then an Apple employee with a very difficult job will need to confirm the im
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by ilogik 5y ago
The main concern seems to be that people are afraid that other governments can use this technology to have iPhones scan for other types of images. (The "Tank Man" photo is often given as an example) Apple say they won't do th
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by ilogik 5y ago
can someone please explain to me what is this scary scenario where this is being misused? Am I the only one that isn't seeing it?
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by ilogik 5y ago
I user to come to HN for interesting discussions. Now it's pretty much all BS. "Apple is looking at my pictures, I'm switching to Android." Nobody stops to think before saying something stupid. it's 1am, and this ha
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by ilogik 5y ago
they are both going to space. but not in orbit. Yes, one is only going 80km up, for all intents and purposes, that's space
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by ilogik 5y ago
birbar isn't developed any more. it's rebooted as xbar https://github.com/matryer/xbar
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by ilogik 5y ago
it's also an iOS client
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by ilogik 5y ago
PCR tests only detect live virus, not antibodies. there are several antibody tests for covid. As far as I'm aware, the vaccines only trigger the anti-spike protein antibodies, so if you test positive for other types of covid-19 antibod
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by ilogik 5y ago
it's running linux. apt-get update :) (not sure what distro they're running)
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by ilogik 5y ago
I really hope you're being sarcastic
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by ilogik 5y ago
if only there were a handy article on anandtech, linked to on HN that could answer this question
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by ilogik 5y ago
a good video about what the right to repair is and isn't: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvVafMi0l68
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by ilogik 6y ago
your GPS device doesn't actually transmit anything
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by ilogik 6y ago
neither is AZ
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by ilogik 6y ago
y...yes? they should use an appropriate license

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