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by simjnd 3mo ago
Got my Steam Deck for a little above 300 a few years ago. Still use it, sad to see how much the price has gone up.
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by simjnd 4mo ago
And I'm assuming you're not going to pay for them to have that someone on-call, even though you're worried about this scenario
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by simjnd 4mo ago
You could assume that if someone has the technical level to identify a vulnerability and how to exploit it, they probably have the technical level to fix it. In most cases researchers have no interest in actually "making the software b
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by simjnd 4mo ago
FFMPEG has consistently expressed their frustration with the fact that there is a large number of people willing and eager to publish vulnerabilities found in the project, but a comparatively minuscule number of people willing to work on pa
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by simjnd 4mo ago
Why would it be ideological? There was an AI involved, sure, but your comment ignores the continued disrespect for these volunteers time AND RESOURCES/MONEY (because as the post mentions several times: letting that AI go on could have
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by simjnd 4mo ago
Louis Rossmann's consumer rights wiki has an article about this issue [1]. The TLDR is that support officially ended in 2023, but Microsoft's notice back then assured that the app would keep on working. That notice has been edited
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by simjnd 4mo ago
> but developed to be [...] integrated in another product that handles documents, for example a file sharing solution, an online wiki, a project management tool and so on It looks like it only provides the document editing part and you n
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by simjnd 4mo ago
Of course, but I'm replying to a comment that speaks like surveillance doesn't exist in the EU because there is not a European NSA, so I'm talking specifically about the EU surveillance risk.
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by simjnd 4mo ago
Generalization. "You guys" who? Most people actually know DMA has nothing to do with privacy. There are ways to hand off PID-stripped data to a 3rd-party.
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by simjnd 4mo ago
Of course, but the iPhone could send slightly altered data to avoid fingerprinting (tweaking age / weight / height slightly) like browsers do with sensors. Some data could outright be replaced (names, etc) and swapped back on devi
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by simjnd 4mo ago
Yes, same. I'll still get one because I think it being a standalone Linux computer is huge, and I'm so interested in the Proton / Lepton stacks to run Windows and Android games but yeah this is a pretty big compromise.
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by simjnd 4mo ago
Sadly the passthrough is black and white only. That's the one thing I love about the Vision Pro is it never feels claustrophobic thanks to very good passthrough quality.
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by simjnd 4mo ago
Ah, I see. I overestimated the amount of stripping / anonymization that was being done on device. Thought the server-side could be quite generic. Thanks!
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by simjnd 4mo ago
Yeah I overestimated the amount of stripping / anonymization that was being done on device and didn't realize how much plumbing was required server-side too to have good enough privacy guarantees
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by simjnd 4mo ago
Yeah I overestimated the PID stripping that was being done on-device before being handed off to a server. After other comments I realize there needs to be a lot of plumbing on the server-side too.
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by simjnd 4mo ago
There is a 2-week delay too, if you arrive in the EU you will still have access to the features for two weeks. When you leave the EU, it will take two weeks outside to gain access to the features. At least that's been my experience hav
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by simjnd 4mo ago
I've switched from OpenRouter to using Deepseek directly from their platform since OpenRouter providers were pretty flaky and inconsistent. Deepseek V4 Flash is suprisingly capable and insanely cheap. It takes so much to get the sessio
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by simjnd 4mo ago
What runs in cloud containers? The dev servers, builds, etc.? I tried to quickly glance at the Claude website and it doesn't mention cloud containers on their pricing page.
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by simjnd 4mo ago
I don't think they were necessarily thinking of one EU-wide agency, but the recent attacks on encryption including Chat Control which almost passed, a lot of EU countries voting for far-right governments. I do believe we still have it
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by simjnd 4mo ago
You will get the features when you're in Japan, and have them for about 2 weeks when back in the EU, then they will be disabled until you leave again.
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by simjnd 4mo ago
Indeed but you ignore my second paragraph: they have developed (and 3rd-party audited) a way to handoff all the data (parts of your Personal Context, etc.) to their cloud servers in a privacy preserving way on-device. Why couldn't the
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by simjnd 4mo ago
There is a saying "American trust companies more than their government, Europeans trust their governments more than companies" when nobody should trust either. Sometimes a company's incentives are going to be aligned with the
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by simjnd 4mo ago
I have a European account, when I lived in Japan I could use all the features (iPhone Mirroring, etc.) that are blocked in the EU. When back in the EU I can still use them for about 2 weeks before they get blocked again.
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by simjnd 4mo ago
I think OP didn't question the privacy of their Private Cloud Compute, just Apple's bad faith: they claim they can't handoff data in a privacy-preserving way to 3rd-parties when they tout that they absolutely CAN handoff data
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by simjnd 4mo ago
> Europe accounted for nearly 27% of Apple's total sales in its last fiscal year I don't know about every vendor, but Apple probably doesn't want to lose 27% of their sales.
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by simjnd 4mo ago
AltStore is hugely popular, and that is DESPITE Apple going out of their way to scare people into using the App Store.
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by simjnd 4mo ago
It's a geoblock. EU accounts can use the features when outside of the EU.
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by simjnd 4mo ago
It would only be a backdoor if it's implemented as a backdoor. The way Apple Health exchanges data with 3rd-party trackers (Fitbit, Garmin, etc.) is very well built and a good model of how other components in iOS could allow data excha
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by simjnd 4mo ago
Right, wanting operability, alternative default apps, equal access to APIs is "wanting to live in the stone age". POSIX is the stone age model, and Microsoft is the future.
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by simjnd 4mo ago
Last year a guy reverse engineered Linear's sync engine and published it on GitHub with a cool explainer. https://github.com/wzhudev/reverse-linear-sync-engine/blob/m...

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