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by saurik 3y ago
The big difference with curl|bash is that the download itself gets to execute in the context of the computer as it is downloading, which is a super power that makes it much easier to hide behaviors as you can make it extremely difficult for
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by saurik 3y ago
FWIW, Homebrew (no longer) deserves quite such ire as you will note that it explicitly does NOT pipe the result to a copy of bash: by downloading it first it and quoting it using a subshell it prevents the web server from being able to get
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by saurik 3y ago
I spoke in the past tense, and already learned this lesson back 20 years ago; you can tell that I believe software can and should be coded to avoid such issues from the position I took with my comment: that it was concerning that the softwa
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by saurik 3y ago
If the RAD token has nothing to do with their product, why does it have value? Did/do they have some other product that uses the token?
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by saurik 3y ago
Then why does the documentation say this is "important"? GitHub certainly does not have a notice anywhere saying "it's important to only publish repositories you own or are a maintainer of" (...well, I guess it coul
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by saurik 3y ago
From their documentation: > It’s important to only publish repositories you own or are a maintainer of, and to communicate with the other maintainers so that they don’t initialize redundant repository identities. Based on my experience w
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by saurik 3y ago
I just can't imagine paying 30% more for a subscription to a third-party company offering a protection racket just so I can see it in a list and cancel it slightly more easily... there is just no way that that pencils out; I have bough
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by saurik 3y ago
Of course, Apple will fight the EU tooth and nail but always will bend over backwards for China... it really shows their true colors.
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by saurik 3y ago
Just because a company is also evil itself doesn't mean that it can't make a very correct point about anther company's clearly despicable behavior.
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by saurik 3y ago
I solve these problems by: 1) only ever buying machines without fans; 2) barely ever touching a mouse; and 3) using my phone for speakers and camera... all three of which I was doing even when I used to use a Mac as fans have always sucked,
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by saurik 3y ago
Adding a mechanism for dependencies which kind of sometimes sort of works but doesn't actually work is much much worse than just not implementing anything at all as you are much less likely to get anyone too put in the work required to
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by saurik 3y ago
We know it isn't part of the deterrent as Apple simply doesn't do this: Apple does not now nor have they ever restricted the use of iMessage on either desktop Macs -- whether their SIP is enabled or not -- nor on jailbroken iPhone
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by saurik 3y ago
And how does that explain Apple not having an issue with you using iMessage on a desktop Mac? Again: we know the anti-spam mechanisms Apple might have in place do not rely on people being unable to root their devices as iMessage runs on des
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by saurik 3y ago
And what does Apple's servers detecting spamming patterns have to do with rooted/jailbroken devices? iMessage fundamentally is used every day by people who can have as much root as they want on their desktop Mac, and so whatever m
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by saurik 3y ago
iMessage runs on desktop Macs and can be easily automated there... in fact, how to do it is so trivial and so commonly known that I just asked ChatGPT how to do it and it told me without balking: it is just a handful of lines of AppleScript
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by saurik 3y ago
How long after the event do you think it makes sense for this erasure to happen? Like, let's say that you are going to experience something absolutely traumatic but you know next week you won't remember it... is that also ok?
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by saurik 3y ago
Is this somehow bad? You own your data. If you are concerned about it getting lost, back it up: the app even supports automating this for you (backing up to your Google Drive or iCloud, and even does it in a way that is also encrypted).
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by saurik 3y ago
I am unsure what the "correct" number is but do you believe it to be "0"? The way you get to 0 is by systematically removing everyone's autonomy "for their own good" :/. Like, are you upset about the
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by saurik 3y ago
Yeah: isn't this in some sense great? If you search for someone and add "naked photo" to the end and literally everyone has an infinite amount of fake porn of them, unless the people in these threads about AI generated non-po
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by saurik 3y ago
How is the problem of putting this genie back in the bottle even remotely "tractable"? Is your plan to jump on the DRM bandwagon and outlaw general purpose computers?
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by saurik 3y ago
Why use something "perfectly usable" with "odd bugs" when you can use something that "actually works"?
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by saurik 3y ago
> Vehicles are considered very personal expressions of taste... And yet virtually every car is now a shade of grey and only people who truly care about cars can tell them apart? https://www.consumerreports.org/consumerist
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by saurik 3y ago
I think there is a big difference between "I am using Twitter and thereby I expect random people to get my tweets promoted by their algorithm" and "I am using Twitter and expect that the people who actively went out of their
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by saurik 3y ago
We had airport security before the TSA. It was very different and not at all as bad. Reading this discussion, it frankly sounds like you can't conceptualize the notion that not only can you have a very different model of airport securi
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by saurik 3y ago
Does it like, morally offend you if ChatGPT has this behavior? Like, I really just don't understand why this is so obviously a joke / shitpost given how one would expect the ChatGPT memory feature to work: again, if ChatGPT failed
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by saurik 3y ago
They claim it is not a joke, and there is no reason to believe it must be? https://x.com/_mira___mira_/status/1757806274077700199 Many of the responses seem to not understand the ChatGPT memory feature. Like, it w
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by saurik 3y ago
Now that ChatGPT has memory this starts to have consequences... https://x.com/_mira___mira_/status/1757695161671565315 ...though, as you can Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind -style line-item erase memories, t
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by saurik 3y ago
Serious question: why is anyone writing "boilerplate" when we have tempting engines and macro systems or even simply higher-order functions? I feel like I haven't had to write any appreciable amount of boilerplate in at least
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by saurik 3y ago
You have to actually then coat it with anti-scratch coating, you have to make sure people carefully clean the device in ways that don't destroy this coating, and the result--as you admit--still gets scratched, and routinely it is these
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by saurik 3y ago
I not only do understand that DRM is what fights against ad blockers and would inherently be expanded (and that that would suck), that was my point: remember that I was responding to someone who was anti-AI as they felt AI marks the end of

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