nicolas_17

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by nicolas_17 3y ago
"a phone you can carry with you anywhere (not tethered to a wall)" was a problem solved by the Motorola DynaTAC in 1983.
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
Maybe instead of speculating based on Apple's marketing and based on articles from other people speculating, we can make some guesses from actual data. Here's an obviously-incomplete list of source files part of the R1 firmware, p
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
Not sure what they use for video streaming, and it might even depend on where you're watching from, but VODs are definitely on plain old S3 + Cloudfront.
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
You do know Amazon owns Twitch? I'm sure they aren't using normal AWS billing...
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
AFAIK all their cloud services run on x86 hardware with Linux, including Xcode Cloud (which runs macOS in a QEMU VM, in a way that only Apple can technically and legally do).
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
Apple doesn't even support NVidia cards on their Mac Pros. The technical details are above my head, but the way Apple M* chips handle PCIe make them incompatible with GPUs and other accelerator cards. Whether you use macOS or Linux.
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
Which countries have lost spacecraft due to problems entirely attributable to the use of imperial units? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
ChatGPT is trained to sound convincing, not to be correct.
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
I never said centralized notifications is conceptually a genius solution. I said actually building a system that can handle so many billion notifications is impressive. I'm curious how it works internally...
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
The actual mind-blowing scale is that Apple's push notification service isn't just carrying iMessages. It's also carrying push notifications for every third-party messaging app. And the non-messaging apps with notifications t
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
At the protocol level, they are indeed just integers: https://theapplewiki.com/wiki/Apple_Push_Notification_Servic...
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
I have confirmed with him that he hadn't been born yet when Steve Jobs announced the first iPhone. I feel old.
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
> It’s not really designed to be an encryption system as much as it is a text message system that happens to include encryption. And yet, Apple uses this (flawed?) encryption in lots of other features. It's not a messaging platform
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
The protocol between your backend server and Apple, and between Apple and the phone, are completely different. So this comment seems almost off-topic...
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
...what is the "it" that just arrived to the iPad?
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
I have confirmed with him that he hadn't been born yet when Steve Jobs announced the iPhone.
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
That would break old devices.
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
Yeah, you haven't lived through actual inflation. In Argentina we're used to "buy it now because it will be more expensive next month". My laptop is more expensive used on mercadolibre than what I paid for it brand new 5
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
It seems like that's a different variant. "In addition to the paper circuitry, PulpaTronics also applied another of these experimental technologies...", so the "geometric pattern in the antenna" thing is a different
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
There was a proposal for that but it seems it got abandoned: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-wkumari-dnsop-in...
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
Normal users have r-x on /Users, but for that wildcard to work, they would need r-x on /Users/foo, /Users/foo/Library, and /Users/foo/Library/LaunchAgents, for every "foo" user in
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
> A sealed, signed, and immutable OS is already a reality on Apple's platforms. Until I turn SIP/AMFI off and mess with the OS as I wish, which Apple lets me do. I'm not looking forward to random websites deciding that is
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
At which point you don't really need the flexibility of AWS and you might as well get a Dedicated Server elsewhere?
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
Maybe you'll just have to fill a captcha on every other request, but technically you're still allowed to browse the web (:
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
The article is from yesterday and at first it scared me into thinking it was yet another vulnerability. Turns out it's from weeks ago and Debian patched it 10 days ago. Whew.
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
> I imagine most parents won't want their teenager who made an app publishing their phone number and home address on the internet. You need to be 18+ to make a Google Developer account. If the app is monetized, said teenager would n
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ... Individuals: "Google will display your legal name, your country (as per your legal address), and developer email address on Google Play. If you
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
Apple's App Store has always required D-U-N-S numbers for organizations.
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
Apple's App Store has always required D-U-N-S numbers for organizations.
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by nicolas_17 3y ago
https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ... Individuals: "Google will display your legal name, your country (as per your legal address), and developer email address on Google Play. If you

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