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by mdhb 2y ago
Listen, everybody can read the exact same comment I wrote and see how you are ignoring all the parts that are inconvenient to you. It’s there in black and white. We are talking about if the NSA abuses its power to go after illegitimate targ
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by mdhb 2y ago
Could you please make whatever argument you are trying to make directly because I have no idea what this fortune cookie nonsense is supposed to be saying.
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by mdhb 2y ago
I’ve never once heard this claim before. Where did you get that from? Seems entirely inconsistent with what Stuxnet was which is perhaps the most targeted hack I’m aware of in history. You don’t do that by loudly spraying and praying. Not h
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by mdhb 2y ago
I think it’s actually you who is missing context here. We are talking about a single example Of the NSA hitting innocent people on mass and you gave me an example of North Korea in response and are trying to say that because they used an ex
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by mdhb 2y ago
I am going to quote your own article back to you verbatim because it says something entirely different to what you seem to be claiming. “The letter sent to Grassley reveals that there have been at least 12 recorded cases of spies abusing th
816.
by mdhb 2y ago
Well go on… enlighten me.
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by mdhb 2y ago
I have very different feeling a about the FBI compared to everyone else precisely because their track record has given me reasons to suggest that they have way less oversight than others but the picture is actually pretty nuanced and you’re
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by mdhb 2y ago
You say that and yet they continue to use it and are choosing to do so even when it means rewriting huge and complicated bits of software from scratch. What something from over a decade has to do with its value today I’m not sure.
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by mdhb 2y ago
Is there a single example of this ever happening that you could point to?
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by mdhb 2y ago
Not at all. I think those docs showed that they have much better capabilities and collection, targeting and delivery platforms than what people had assumed at the time but there was zero evidence that I’m aware of where they were misusing t
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by mdhb 2y ago
Worth noting that you aren’t ever going to be on the receiving end of NSA malware by accident. Unless you have a reason to believe that somewhere the NSA is having a meeting where your name is getting mentioned this isn’t actually something
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by mdhb 2y ago
I mean we could take a look at where they are investing their own resources for multi platform development as one way of doing that. Ads is where the overwhelming majority of their money comes from. It’s all Dart (and Flutter specifically o
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by mdhb 2y ago
Dart also has native interop with Swift, Objective C, Rust, C, Java, Kotlin and JavaScript. It also has more compile targets as far as I am aware too. On top of the standard web, iOS, macOS, windows and Linux across all the standard chipset
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by mdhb 2y ago
I really see zero compelling evidence of this whatsoever. It seems like some random bullshit Twitter drama without any substance behind it.
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by mdhb 2y ago
Probably something to do with not really understanding the concept properly I’m guessing.
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by mdhb 2y ago
What are you talking about that it’s baseless… I’m actively trying to find proof of your claim here that maybe I’m wrong and Apple are bigger contributors in the open source ecosystem than originally I thought. So far that hasn’t been going
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by mdhb 2y ago
If ever there was a company who was actually a good candidate for the 10% of global revenue fines the EU have talked about in the past it would have to be Apple. They have gone out of their way time after time after time to be as hostile as
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by mdhb 2y ago
This might be a question of me holding it wrong but I don’t know how on earth I’m supposed to judge from that link as it doesn’t really contain any relevant information. Just to pick a random example from the list of the 9 community project
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by mdhb 2y ago
Reaching for WebKit and Swift as some kind of counterpoint really highlights exactly what I’m talking about here rather than rebuts anything I think. I mean sure they are technically open source but they are very much Apple things. I’m talk
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by mdhb 2y ago
Please give me some examples we can work with. I’m not making the argument they contribute nothing. I’m saying it’s comically low compared to Google or Microsoft as the other 2 big commercial OS vendors. Relative to them they contribute alm
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by mdhb 2y ago
It’s actually wild to think how much Apple takes from the open source community and how little it gives back where this is somehow front page news.
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by mdhb 2y ago
Politely… they are not and you don’t know what you’re talking about and the word definitely has no place in that sentence. You’re just mad and upset with them at the moment but the point you are making is wrong.
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by mdhb 2y ago
Most people can hold more than one thought in their head at the same time. The chat proposal can be bad and have zero impact whatsoever on the idea that they can and should have their own laws around anticompetitive behaviour.
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by mdhb 2y ago
This doesn’t even make sense. Surely you must realise you don’t actually know anything about this topic. Like you aren’t secretly thinking you’re an expert in this in your mind. It’s cool if you you don’t think I do or not; that’s not at al
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by mdhb 2y ago
You are missing my point entirely here. This is not some “psychological comfort” thing or whatever nonsense you’re offering. I’m saying that we are currently talking about a topic that I happen to know a lot about and you happened to start
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by mdhb 2y ago
Why you would ever want to be an iOS developer is beyond me. No company treats their developers as badly as Apple.
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by mdhb 2y ago
You should really watch that video I posted when you have an opportunity. I think it would give you some helpful context here but I can’t accept some of your premises here unfortunately. I don’t have any reason to think you have any experie
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by mdhb 2y ago
I understand this maybe isn’t obvious to people who haven’t worked in a high security environment before but that is so incredibly far from what would be considered acceptable or reasonable. Having said that I think it’s also a great exampl
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by mdhb 2y ago
I really can’t emphasise enough how wrong that interpretation is. It was hands down the worst intel failure by a considerable margin. Worse than the time they lost the name of every CIA officer in the OPM hack.
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AI took their jobs. Now they get paid to make it sound human(bbc.com)
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