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by rincebrain 6mo ago
This seems absurd from a company offering backups as a service. Especially if they allow them restoring all your data onto a drive and shipping it to you, they pretty clearly should have enough information available to them to test restorat
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by rincebrain 6mo ago
Sure, but that'd be a waste. Part of the reason e.g. Cellebrite is obsessive about not telling people many specifics about their product capabilities outside of NDA is that Apple is quite serious about trying to fix these things, and &
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by rincebrain 6mo ago
You need to not just force the update, but also forbid using pre-updated ones in migration, since someone might conceivably have an off-for-many-years device they wake up and want to migrate. The long tail of stupid edge cases is very long
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by rincebrain 6mo ago
Evidently you can, though in traditional macOS fashion, you exploit Apple secretly changing the setting for you if you do a magic dance.[1][2] I've never had a reason to try it, but there's also a remark that 99% of the Macs sold
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by rincebrain 6mo ago
This feels like it's probably a stupid oversight chain like, keyboard layouts are user-specific data, so they're not decrypted before first unlock/set globally because the machine might have multiple users with different keyb
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by rincebrain 6mo ago
That seems very unlikely if only because Apple probably has the equivalent of big flashing nuclear stockpile grade warning signs internally around anything that involves the phrase "one off firmware release", since they have every
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by rincebrain 6mo ago
The article mentions that he tried that and it scans as a different character.
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by rincebrain 6mo ago
This fails if they let you keep your password migrating between devices, though, so you probably need a version somewhere in the middle that flags it as an issue and flags it as not allowing migration without changing the passphrase.
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by rincebrain 6mo ago
If the data you care about is encrypted with a token locked behind your passcode input, and it's not theoretically brute forceable by being a 4 character numeric only thing, then not easily, no. Could they produce an update that is bes
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by rincebrain 6mo ago
"My picture gets a call to the police if I use it at my day job" is a hell of a sentence, for example.
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by rincebrain 6mo ago
I have been in or next to a number of social circles with such missing stairs, where for various reasons people in the groups have decided to not directly acknowledge certain Facts that are known about some members, because it would involve
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by rincebrain 6mo ago
My recollection of current events at the time was that you were already having a dogshit experience using computers for many common things in the XP era with underpowered video hardware and trying anything complex in a browser, or Flash thi
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by rincebrain 6mo ago
Less mythic on SSDs than spinning rust, in my experience. Not particularly frequent either way, but I have absolutely had models of SSDs where it became clear after a few months of use that a significant fraction of them appeared to be corr
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by rincebrain 6mo ago
As far as I can see, no, the author disabled nothing of the sort that he documented. I suspect that the author's intent is less "I do not view this as a bug" and more "I do not think it's useful to get into angry de
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by rincebrain 6mo ago
It was more despised for being a gaping security hole than anything else, as I recall - the things you could do with it were really neat demos, but even back then, I said "I am not loading a random website that can access local things
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by rincebrain 6mo ago
I would argue that was less that WPF was the wrong life choice and more that Microsoft shouldn't have bent the knee to Intel's antitrust push to say their crap hardware was sufficient. [1] [1] - https://arstechnica.com&
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by rincebrain 7mo ago
I believe the problem here is that that works precisely once, then they stop inviting you to the classified parties. So as he gets older, the cost/benefit changes, but I believe that's why he hasn't, is that his calculus invo
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by rincebrain 7mo ago
I do, generally, think that banning (or legalizing) things in their entirety is often ineffective, and if you just make them entirely and equally illegal/legal you no longer have any levers to stop people making them as toxic as possib
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by rincebrain 7mo ago
The problem is that you need humans to run datacenters, and so that puts ceilings on how far away from humans you can put them without the humans no longer being willing to commute there. And the cost of building all the infra to support hu
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by rincebrain 7mo ago
(Opinions my own, naturally.) I think they're right, really. Obviously you need to require enough friction that the experiences are comparable (e.g. no letting someone impulse buy 100 times in half a second without having to re-type th
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by rincebrain 7mo ago
I think the reason for that is less that they didn't want to do it and more that they hadn't polished the mechanisms for it. I've said before that the analogue for these sorts of games is arcade games - where you had to put i
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by rincebrain 7mo ago
I would, I think, probably argue that the problem is less that they're gambling and more that they involve actual money. I think exposing people to addictive mechanics with guard rails is probably useful for teaching you how you respon
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by rincebrain 7mo ago
Both things are true, though. The fact that gacha games are so popular is _why_ they had enough attention to explicitly ban the most toxic patterns at the time. [1] There's an interesting question of how far to push the bans, though -
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by rincebrain 7mo ago
I would speculate it's something like, if your innate immune system is running "hotter", it's going to reduce the amount of time it takes to clear anything it runs into, leading to less time spent inflaming anything, in
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by rincebrain 7mo ago
I'm always surprised when I see B&N stores. I see a fair number of them, scattered around, not even in ultra-populated areas, but the last 3 or 4 times I've stopped in to try and buy things for e.g. holiday gifts, they've
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by rincebrain 7mo ago
Yes. I pointed to the runner because otherwise it seemed likely I'd get a comment insisting there's no proof it's used in Firefox.
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by rincebrain 7mo ago
Detecting that is the point, yes.
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by rincebrain 7mo ago
Well, yes, the author described it as "a heuristic", which checking sentinel values would seem to match.
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by rincebrain 7mo ago
The example I gave in there is of adding sentinel values in your data, so you can check the constants in your data structures later and go "oh, this is overwritten with garbage" versus "oh, this is one or two bits off".
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by rincebrain 7mo ago
The simplest way to do this, what I believe memtest86 and friends do, is to write a fixed pattern over a region of memory and then read it back later and see if it changed; then you write patterns that require flipping the bits that you wro

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