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by olliej 3y ago
How would that warrant work? It would require apple being forced to send a software update that told every phone about every geofence and then have those phones report back if they intersected. _or_ they can just ask the carriers which cell
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by olliej 3y ago
If you can't trust a study of 20 clone mice to be representative of general impact of a vitamin deficiency in the wider human population, what can you trust?
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by olliej 3y ago
Facebook is a cesspit on the normal web, is it really better on tor/onion?
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by olliej 3y ago
Your opening sentence is "yes, that did undermine their credibility with some populations, despite being only 201 people that never had syphilis in that study, 100 years ago" which misrepresents the number of impacted people, over
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by olliej 3y ago
The Tuskegee trials ended in 1972 which is barely 50 years ago. Also "despite being only 201 people that never has syphilis" is not the relevant part. There were 600 people, ~400 had syphilis, they were intentionally not told they
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by olliej 3y ago
Pull does not solve the problem. The attack here is the metadata "what was the origin" and "what is the destination", and pulling data does not solve that.
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by olliej 3y ago
I really want to like onion, but literally the only thing I can reliably find is search engines with drug and porn ads, and most results to any query I do throw in are non-responsive, and those that aren't broken are still incredibly s
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by olliej 3y ago
People really don't understand the attack here. It does not matter who is providing the notification service. No amount of encryption (actual E2EE encryption) prevents that ability for a government agency or criminal enterprise to func
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by olliej 3y ago
>The Jews has been living there for 2000+ years. No, the area currently named Israel had not been a jewish state in centuries when the British occupiers gave it to a new set of jewish colonizers of what was an occupied Arab state. The je
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by olliej 3y ago
By conflating pro-palestine protests with pro-hamas you're no different from the anti-semitic assholes who use Israel's apartheid regime and their current genocide as a reason to hate all Jews. It is in fact possible to say "
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by olliej 3y ago
Almost every apple product produced has included "AI" coprocessors for years at this point, and I would guess they've sold many more of those to many more people than Nvidia has. The limiting factor is the ability of 3rd part
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by olliej 3y ago
If I recall correctly, that led to literal criminal fraud charges. And iirc Tesla is also being investigated for fraudulent claims for faking the safety of their self driving cars.
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by olliej 3y ago
The whole C++ stream API is wretched and seems designed to make things clunky, slow, and unnecessarily stateful. Not to mention the wanton abuse of shift operators.
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by olliej 3y ago
Yes, a library made to use hardware only works with the hardware it's made to work with. This comment is like saying Nvidia isn't committed to AI because their CUDA libraries only work on Nvidia hardware.
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by olliej 3y ago
"AI" in a fictional setting is different from ML. Modern "AI" in the setting of reality is ML with hype (and funding). That's the difference.
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by olliej 3y ago
So I know people hate them, but there are meaningful differences between green and blue bubbles: 1. The big one is obviously encryption, but in the hypothetical RCS with actual encryption future wouldn't be as relevant 2. Indicates tha
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by olliej 3y ago
Correct! There are numerous options available across a wide variety of platforms, and yet people obsess specifically over iMessage because of perceived (and seemingly US only?) obsession with blue bubbles.
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by olliej 3y ago
Yes, as a non-standard google extension that is not guaranteed to be present. To illustrate the issue, imagine apple added support for "encrypted RCS" that was just iMessage's message blob stuck in an RCS blob (this is essent
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by olliej 3y ago
No. For the same reason that if you buy a game for xbox, and then when you later buy a playstation you can't turn around and demand that MS port the various xbox services to the playstation, or a publisher port an xbox game to playstat
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by olliej 3y ago
No, google has an extension they use that is not part of the RCS standard.
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by olliej 3y ago
No it's not. Running a service costs money. That money has to come from somewhere. Google makes that money by spying on people and using that for ads. Apple makes that money by selling hardware. You're saying that both companies s
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by olliej 3y ago
RCS is not an iMessage replacement though? it's not encrypted, it doesn't support a single identity for multiple devices, it requires cell service and a phone number
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by olliej 3y ago
iMessage is not free though? Apple's "free" services are all dependent on you having bought apple products. When you buy a device, the "profit" on the hardware (the oft reference BoM only cost) also pays for the sof
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by olliej 3y ago
RCS isn't encrypted, doesn't work without phones, doesn't have a single identity across multiple devices, etc so it's not going to replace iMessage.
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by olliej 3y ago
Generating universal binaries is extremely easy, they really are just a convenience: you literally build for every architecture you want, and then use lipo to package them into a single "binary". e.g. if you can build for 32bit an
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by olliej 3y ago
The macOS 64-bit transition happened before steam for Mac was released. The was a single year between steam for Mac being released and 64bit hardware being a requirement for macOS. There was never a reason for anything published in the stea
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by olliej 3y ago
That was my impression - it seemed very much a "I need more address space" than I need speed (after all, all PPC Macs were super computers IIRC :D)
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by olliej 3y ago
Correct, the macOS 32bit OS had an array of design decisions that impact large aspects of the system as a whole, and so it was deprecated - a large number of the APIs added after 2009 were 64bit only - and then removed so the OS could remov
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by olliej 3y ago
macOS was 64bit by default more than 16 years ago[1], and has only operated on 64 bit hardware for almost 15 of those years, only dropped 32bit 4 years ago, and Apple literally no longer sells any 32bit hardware. It was game developers wh
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by olliej 3y ago
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