phobius

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by phobius 8y ago
For better or worse, here's Apple's response: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/03/addressing-spotifys-c... Frankly both sides seem immensely dodgy in their approach - manipulative language, half-
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by phobius 8y ago
I'd equate it more to the difference between spending an extra $100 on a solid pair of boots which last 4x longer (cheaper over time) - we're not talking diamond-encrusted phones here (That said, Apple are doing a great job of los
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by phobius 8y ago
really insightful response, thanks! (aside: wow, Feynman really is the gift that keeps on giving...)
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by phobius 8y ago
so many of the misleading headlines on this topic could be fixed by saying "confirmed" instead of "discovered", or "identified"
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by phobius 8y ago
does the hive mind know what the commandline tool is that he used for displaying audio spectrum? (or @benjojo12 if you're watching... your setup has inspired me, and I want to play)
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by phobius 8y ago
spot on. also there's likely to be some phase issues in some mixes aside: seems to be a smooth enough lerp between bits so as not to destroy speakers, but might cause a record needle to jump (can anyone more versed weigh in here?)
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by phobius 9y ago
could be a well-meaning tech culture screw up; Most tech people know that airplane autopilots weren't end-to-end automated for the majority of their existence
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by phobius 9y ago
may be complete coincidence, but about 8-9hrs ago my friend's iphone started acting up; emails vanishing while they were reading them, sub-routes in apps silently failing back to main screen... even if this is unrelated - disconcerting
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by phobius 9y ago
Is it not possible there's just a security violation they need to sort out? Am unfamiliar with Puffin, but the post leaping straight to "it's a conspiracy!" without indicating what the stated rationale for rejection was
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by phobius 9y ago
The first AI to really blow my mind as a kid and - between that and Conway's Game of Life - no doubt responsible for the first 5 years of obsessive my all-night hacking and sneaking into university libraries to supplement lackluster CS
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by phobius 9y ago
in fairness, "Cortana" and "Siri" both sound pretty effeminate to me (and speakers of romance languages)
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by phobius 10y ago
Thought this too as soon as the notification popped up. To the best of my knowledge I haven't updated recently, so they've basically had an auto-update feature sitting dormant for a while. Nothing fishy here.
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by phobius 10y ago
I've uttered the same sentiment myself (admittedly as an excuse for still running a 386sx in the mid-90's) However this is only productive if you're not working with (a) compiled code, on a (b) project large enough that compi
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by phobius 10y ago
Agree this is an annoyance - how would you propose keeping features like YouTube or Netflix autoplay/playlists in this scenario?
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by phobius 10y ago
Recommend you look at this history of emerging technologies announced at SIGGRAPH. Tends not to be a linear progression at all; if the attention of more than a couple researchers is applied to any of these things then they grow very quickly
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by phobius 10y ago
Appelbaum's response: http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1soorlp Obviously this topic needs to be treated with extreme care, as assuming innocence would be just as damaging as assuming guilt. Though it is rather i
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by phobius 10y ago
This was a hoax perpetrated by Joey Grether http://12xspiral.com/intro/ http://pholx.com/thenumberswebgrethersspiral/ Supposedly there's also a post of him admitting it was to gain attention
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by phobius 10y ago
Seems to have been hn'd Here's a google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...
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by phobius 10y ago
There was a brief report of metadata being stored in the plain: https://myers.io/2015/10/22/1password-leaks-your-data/ There's a rebuttal from AgileBits: https://blog.agilebits.com/2