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by shantara 8mo ago
Meanwhile Apple made a choice to leave iOS 18 vulnerable on the devices that receive updates to iOS 26. If you want security, be ready to sacrifice UI usability.
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by shantara 8mo ago
I am not blaming you or the Ars article for Apple's stance on this issue. Just feeling a little frustrated about the whole situation.
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by shantara 8mo ago
The explanation doesn't make much sense here, as the patches exist, they are simply being made available only for the subset of devices. Some of the listed vulnerabilities aren't even in the OS itself, but in the apps like Books,
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Apple withholds 18.7.5 security update from iPhones and iPads supporting iOS 26(support.apple.com)
10 points by shantara 8mo ago|6 comments
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by shantara 8mo ago
The update is available only for iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR, iPad 7th generation. People with a more modern iPhone or iPad who chose to avoid updating to iOS/iPadOS 26 are given only an option to update to 26.3.
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by shantara 8mo ago
It doesn’t help when quite a few Big Tech companies are deliberately operating on the principle that they don’t have to follow the rules, just change at the rate that is faster than the bureaucratic system can respond.
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by shantara 8mo ago
Now it’s your responsibility to explain what any of these words mean to an average user who just wants to play their Steam games. Like it or not, brands have power. It’s been hard enough to convince people already willing to try Linux gamin
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by shantara 8mo ago
It didn’t impact me as a user, and I let the maintainers deal with their drama.
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by shantara 8mo ago
It’s worth pointing out that the official Bazzite position is that Antheas was removed from the project for breaching Code of Conduct and harassing people in their official Discord server
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by shantara 8mo ago
Many EU countries provide digital frameworks for privacy preserving age verification. Yet, Discord made an active choice to avoid using them and is asking the users to upload their photos and ids.
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by shantara 9mo ago
That is really cool to read. And here I am, still running my home network on a measly 1Gbit Ethernet. I considered upgrading, but the equipment power consumption even when idle makes it an expensive proposition to consider just for fun.
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by shantara 9mo ago
Check out the guide on their website: https://docs.immich.app/guides/remote-machine-learning/ https://docs.immich.app/features/ml-hardware-acceleration/
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by shantara 9mo ago
Immich iOS app supports backing up photos directly from iCloud in original resolution, with the all EXIF data included. I had 230 GB of photos myself, and I left the phone on the charger overnight with the app running in the foreground and
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by shantara 9mo ago
This sounds like a fun idea to explore!
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by shantara 9mo ago
I migrated from Apple Photos to Immich a couple of months ago, removing the iCloud subscription, and couldn’t be happier. It was the most hassle free piece of self-hosted software I’ve had so far. Very easy to install and everything just wo
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by shantara 9mo ago
>he's obviously read KSR's Red Mars If he had, he was clearly not paying attention to the social and economic message of the book.
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by shantara 9mo ago
Many RSS aggregators automatically convert Youtube links to RSS. You can also do it manually: https://chuck.is/yt-rss/ I have removed Youtube apps from all mobile devices and only watch the creators whose content I&#x2
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by shantara 9mo ago
Various webcomics, Youtube channels and Github releases for several projects.
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by shantara 9mo ago
I've seen a lot of developer tooling change and evolve over the course of my career, but with AI it was the first time I've seen people in non-technical managerial positions trying to force the engineers to make a switch. It was e
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by shantara 9mo ago
What I see today on HN mirrors the processes I've witnessed in Russian speaking parts of the net during the 2010s. Despite the escalation of totalitarianism in Russia, the growing internet censorship and military operations in nearby c
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by shantara 9mo ago
Thank you. I knew “woman” is “kvinder” in Danish, but I never made the connection with the English word for “queen”.
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by shantara 9mo ago
It recently occurred to me that it’s been years since it was possible to find some new and interesting app just by browsing the App Store, like it used to be when iPhone and Android were first introduced. Now I open the store knowing in adv
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by shantara 9mo ago
Thai Cave rescue happened in 2018. It should have already made obvious how completely deranged Musk was to everyone, even if they were not paying close attention before and were dazzled by self-driving cars and Mars colonization promises.
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by shantara 9mo ago
>I haven’t heard of the same attacks facing (for instance) niche hobby communities. Does anyone know if those sites are facing the same scale of attacks? They are. I participate in modding communities for very niche gaming projects. All
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by shantara 9mo ago
The Eclectic Light has been the best Mac technology blog for years, often serving as the only source of knowledge for how some of the more obscure system components work.
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by shantara 9mo ago
There were several promising 5K 27” MiniLED displays announced at CES a few days ago. People speculate that LG has produced the panel for the upcoming Apple Display refresh, but is also making it available for the other display manufacturer
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by shantara 9mo ago
That was my experience as well. macOS adopted the iOS UI pattern of list cells using a swipe gesture to show a delete button and other actions. This doesn’t work with mouse and you have to use the right click context menu. This is a constan
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by shantara 9mo ago
Does Zed still have an unremovable login button right in the window title? It’s been a constant eyesore for me last time I’ve tried it.
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by shantara 9mo ago
My go to example would be long lasting issues with SMB support in Finder. All operations are very slow, the search is almost unusably so. The operations that are instant on every non-Apple device take ages on a Mac. I first ran into these i
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by shantara 9mo ago
>as long as it has a modifier key in it Why on Earth is this a requirement? When you're navigating through Finder using keyboard, it's very inconvenient to use two keypresses to perform a very basic operation. Using Enter to op

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