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by lynndotpy 5mo ago
For anyone confused, this is (very good imo) fiction about supply-chain incidents. It had me very worried during a brief scan that it was real though, which made me read it more attentively :)
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by lynndotpy 5mo ago
To add onto these answers, there were some notable "outsider art" additions to math around this time. A few months before this post, Futurama contributed a new proof to the mathematical canon (for "The Prisoner of Benda"
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by lynndotpy 5mo ago
I haven't been keeping tabs for the entirety of Linux development, but has it ever happened before that someone dropped a working exploit from the mailing list before the patch even hit the kernel? I haven't seen this kind of thin
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by lynndotpy 6mo ago
With an Anthropic engineer salary netting them about $200 per hour, yeah. Multiple people from Anthropic got eyes on this and saw it was no biggy. It makes sense if you understand, to their eyes, that $200 is more like $10.
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by lynndotpy 6mo ago
No, it might sound smart, but it's incorrect to equivocate. You don't need to "lock in" to Apple's services either. Apple has a meaningfully better track record than Google on privacy in many regards. (Apple's
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by lynndotpy 6mo ago
Yep, AFAIK this is the only working choice on Android. (I could be wrong!)
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by lynndotpy 6mo ago
I used to build custom apps for my Android all the time, install APKs, transfer files over USB, use USB tethering on my Linux computer, torrent, use a mouse and keyboard (I think iOS can do this now though), use the integrated terminal, etc
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by lynndotpy 6mo ago
I'll bite. For me, Google services are not an option, so my Android experience is sans-Google. Until September 2025, I'd say iOS had actually gotten better than Android. CalDAV, CardDAV, and SMB are baked into iOS, whereas these a
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by lynndotpy 6mo ago
For an Android user, iOS offers better privacy (which can change at any time), but it also comes baked in with better support for some open protocols. (SMB on Files, and CalDAV/CardDAV for Calendars/Contacts/Notes integration
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by lynndotpy 6mo ago
In addition to what others have said, it means some developers who were building for Android are going to stop. You can't install an app when someone is obstructed from building it in the first place. > every Android app developer m
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by lynndotpy 6mo ago
I think "CYA" is maybe a misleading or overflowery term. In the idealized world, the legal system is meant to provide an accessible alternative to violence for reconciling disputes, but it's increasingly wielded as an impossi
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by lynndotpy 6mo ago
Yes, but the t looks like a c, making it read like a "slop" of a sexual bodily fluid.
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by lynndotpy 6mo ago
Yep, I'm in America. Would be strange if it differed by locale.
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by lynndotpy 6mo ago
Huh, my experience was the opposite. I don't think Apple undid my setting with iOS 18.7.7, but they did with iOS 18.7.8.
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by lynndotpy 6mo ago
They caved, but they're still pulling out new tactics to trick users into installing iOS 26. The new iOS 18 update will _also_ toggle Automatic Updates back on. I had it happen just now on my 13 Mini against my will. I had to go back i
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by lynndotpy 6mo ago
Very serious vulns were being exploited in the wild, I think that's what forced their hand. I don't think Apple ever had a discrepancy like the one with iOS 18.7.3 through .6 being held back. For those on iOS 18, beware that the u
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by lynndotpy 6mo ago
Heads up. They have released an iOS 18 update (good!) but, and please bear the caps: UPDATING IOS WILL ENABLE AUTOMATIC UPDATES TO IOS 26. (Bad!) This is a new shady tactic they're using trying to get iOS 18 users to install iOS 26.
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by lynndotpy 6mo ago
As GP noted, there are multiple factors here. They're not arguing funding is the only factor.
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by lynndotpy 6mo ago
Game developers benefit tremendously from streams where they get to see peoples webcams _and_ screens as they use their software. This would be _absolutely insane_ telemetry to request from a user for any other piece of software, but it wou
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by lynndotpy 6mo ago
Don't get me wrong, there were plenty of people in the more toxic parts of Apple's fanbase decrying USB-C for appearing too fragile, for being forced on them, for having a confusing set of standards (that last one is a fair point)
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by lynndotpy 6mo ago
For as much flack Microsoft gets today, they have some of the best people writing about low-level computing. James Mickens writings managed to make me literally laugh-out-loud on these subjects. Chen described him best as "the funniest
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by lynndotpy 6mo ago
It's kind of mind boggling to me that they have a tight chassis, AND it meets their buildable/ugpradeable/repairable goals, AND their backwards compatibility is reaching back five years now. I think a number of people would h
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by lynndotpy 6mo ago
In my experience, iOS only misses keys during the time the keyboard is loading (which can be over a second- crazy!) But I often have input lags where I will press several keys, and then a period of time (which can be multiple seconds) will
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by lynndotpy 6mo ago
For Windows, my last experience on a personal install was Windows 10 and that was yeeeaaars ago, so... Grain of salt :) It's not the default, but IIRC Windows could be configured to have zero animations, and I found it to be quite resp
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by lynndotpy 6mo ago
As others have noted, the "Reduce Motion" doesn't fix anything (neither does Reduce Transparency). These terminal commands don't fix the problem- there are still lengthy animations, e.g. when swapping desktops or opening
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by lynndotpy 6mo ago
The thing where Linux (and Android, and Windows at least circa 2023) blows Apple out of the water is in UI latency. The built-in animations on Apple's software are sometimes hundreds of times slower than on their competitors, in ways
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by lynndotpy 6mo ago
> If you stood on the street corner and asked every passerby what they would change about their phone, I think you would be there all day before someone said "I wish I could replace the battery". I have experience saying the ex
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by lynndotpy 6mo ago
At the time of this writing, the prevailing thinking with "artificial intelligence" was that we'd encode every Fact we know and every rule of Logic, and from there, the computer would make new discoveries. Todays AI researche
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by lynndotpy 6mo ago
When the change makes something worse all around, then that change should not be favored.
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by lynndotpy 6mo ago
I think it's worth speaking plainly and specifically about this. The implied and speculated motivation is that Bob, and the other Flock employees watching people without their consent, is voyeurism. That means to look at people in othe

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