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by paulmd 3y ago
> I think it’s a stretch to associate fungal infections with autism. I think this tends to discount the emerging narratives about the link between gut microbiome and neurotransmitters. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc&#x2
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by paulmd 3y ago
the xbox stuff I wanted to give more explanation and sourcing/perspectives without bloating the above PS5 has won the console war, Series X's hardware advantage has been subsumed by upscaling into a meaningless "runs 840p ins
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by paulmd 3y ago
This specifically and undeniably is what is killing unity too. They have always run on free money, they have literally never turned a profit in the history of the company, and with the end of 0% interest rate policy the music is over. The f
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by paulmd 3y ago
nobody needs to "discover" facebook, that's the power of network effect
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> The thinking seems entirely shallow, there isn't even any consideration for how these 3rd party stores will handle permission bits to protect the user's data. this is a feature for the companies pushing for it - this is l
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it is happening for android - there is more malware in the third-party stores, even with the extremely minimal scrutiny google apples to the official store. anyway, here is a real-world example of the type of spyware that facebook and other
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by paulmd 3y ago
the same is also true of a console, and there's no reason that app stores can't prove (eg) productivity apps like word processing on console platforms. Just plug in a keyboard, or use wireless.
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by paulmd 3y ago
This cuts both ways too - "if facebook deploys their spyware build and requires you to sideload it, then just don't use facebook". But then you lose contact with friends/families/etc. https://arstechnica
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by paulmd 3y ago
GDPR doesn't make it illegal to use cookies without consent.
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by paulmd 3y ago
> Only 26% of women reported having a positive reaction. I would consider that surprisingly high lol. 1 in 4 women is happy about receiving unsolicited dick pics, really?
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by paulmd 3y ago
If you wanted to talk about erroneous lockout signals, you could have mentioned literally anything about that topic in your post. This is your entire comment, italicised portion is the one I quoted, which should have made it pretty clear wh
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by paulmd 3y ago
Multiple people on this page are relating their experience of being choked into unconsciousness with a knife at your throat, or behind held at knife point and forced to unlock their phones, and OP here is concerned about whether the parts b
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by paulmd 3y ago
It’s a shame you don’t have rules against advocating for violent criminal conduct! One would really hope that would be addressed before tone-policing the criticisms of that.
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by paulmd 3y ago
yeah, used cars apparently mostly get exported to ghana and some other countries that have extremely loose customs who don't care about stolen goods moving in. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/auto-theft-canada-1
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by paulmd 3y ago
> But you do know that apple authorized service center service is often worse it seems incredibly dishonest to frame that as being something that happens often. can you provide statistics about how many apple authorized repairs come bac
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by paulmd 3y ago
well, that's why touch id/face id are a secure enclave and have largely replaced passwords. but philosophically there's no reason the digitizer can't be a secure enclave too, and sign a message authenticating that it&#x2
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by paulmd 3y ago
> He says that to get access to genuine Apple parts (and the ability to pair them to devices), Apple requires that his shop not be able to do certain things like fix a broken angle detection sensor. is this a loaded framing for the propo
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by paulmd 3y ago
yup, I think the right-to-repair movement has unthinkingly adopted a lot of attitudes from a couple key proponents with business interests in component-level repair. board-level repair is fine, and is probably necessary to get some of the e
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by paulmd 3y ago
> Desktop computing needs a massive push towards finely-grained privacy/security controls in a similar way to how browsers work. Sure. That’s iOS app sandboxing. And people perpetually complain about the inconvenience of having each
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by paulmd 3y ago
More generally, the EU has problems with market efficiency in general. The law allowing mail-order businesses to refuse to sell across “state lines” means markets are very atomized and dominated by one or two players who, spoiler, don’t rea
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by paulmd 3y ago
their license was apparently perpetual until April of this year, so you can go back to last year’s build. > Unity may update these Unity Software Additional Terms at any time for any reason and without notice (the “Updated Terms”) and th
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by paulmd 3y ago
Pulls mic close, inhales. “WRONG.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transantarctic_Mountains ;)
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by paulmd 3y ago
Apple honestly did a pretty good job. You can sideload your own code with a free developer account, but you have to jump through some minor hoops to get “developer” mode set on your account (I went through this to get the tvOS 17 beta). And
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by paulmd 3y ago
Willful misreading of a comment is extremely impolite on this site. I said that this wasn’t a “not available at any price” situation, it’s a matter of figuring out a cost that works. Google (and other phone vendors) want to pay zero ($0), a
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by paulmd 3y ago
they don't repair it with you in the store, they send it back to a service center for refurbishment, but they do absolutely refurbish and repair units in house, and this stream ends up as other people's replacement refurbs, or on
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by paulmd 3y ago
I don't know why there is this concerted effort to stick your head in the sand and pretend that such things cannot be the subject of a contract if the parties involved want them to be. I severely doubt that if you offered qualcomm a tr
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by paulmd 3y ago
laws are only for banning apple products. sadly nobody cares about the ways in which android generates its copious e-waste streams with its own planned obsolescence, the “but the e-waste!” deflections stop the moment you suggest that maybe
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It’d be better to require this by law so it was uniform throughout the ecosystem.
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by paulmd 3y ago
But you’ve got vendors like Sony who put key functionality of the phone behind an erasable firmware block, so if you ever unlock the boot loader your $1600 android cameraphone takes pictures like a 2010 budget POS. And they’re not the only
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by paulmd 3y ago
let's recall that lightning came out before usb-c, because vendors within the USB-IF didn't want to upgrade their devices to replace micro-b with something more expensive and were stalling the acceptance of the standard. for every

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