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by sjwright 6y ago
I don't see any reference here to IDFA being combined with browser cookies? It's worth noting that Apple has already chosen to kill off IDFA (something that was created as a transition away from developers having to the device&#x
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Obviously any company can turn evil at any time. Right now though Apple is doing a commendable job of bending the arc of technology towards privacy. They're by no means perfect, but they're better than most other large tech compan
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This matter concerns tracking within iOS apps. Apple has nothing to do with the "Ad Choices" program or anything else to do with website advertising.
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You say that like it's a bad thing. Apple is a company many of us have voluntarily chosen to enter a commercial relationship with in a reasonably clear, traditional manner—whereby I give Apple money in exchange for goods and services.
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Because Tesla is primarily a technology and energy company. But even if you look at Tesla as a car company, it's misleading to compare them to a traditional automaker like Ford. You must compare Tesla with Ford AND some tier one parts
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Links to this kind of low quality, evidence-free junk is not worthy of Hacker News. All the claims made are just beyond absurd and desperate in their ridiculousness. This is exactly what you'd expect from a company that is demolishing
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There are numerous excellent reasons why that will never happen. And why it’s not in Apple’s interest to do so. The most obvious reason is that it would utterly destroy the Mac among influencer communities and developers. But perhaps the mo
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The easier it is to opt out, the more likely it is for sketchy developers to guide tech-novice users through that process, the more likely it is for malicious actors to take advantage of those who opted out.
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If you've suffered inconvenience from having checks but not suffered inconvenience from no checks, then it's bad. If you've suffered inconvenience from no checks but not suffered inconvenience from having checks, then it&#x27
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> With the new Apple Silicon devices the you can’t boot your own OSes anymore I'm not sure this is confirmed. Though either way it's somewhat moot as Linux drivers for key Apple Silicon components (e.g. GPU, radios) are unlikel
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Only in relation to the wider world which is getting progressively more crazy.
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My policy is to upgrade my secondary/personal/low importance computer on day one and my primary computer a few weeks later.
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That's a perfect analogy.
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But given that M1 is clearly the basic CPU for low cost, thin-and-light devices, we can strongly infer that Apple’s next M chip will be significantly more capable. Chips with eight or more performance cores would be a certainty for the uppe
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by sjwright 6y ago
So you're disappointed that the MacBook Air doesn't beat the CPU and GPU performance of a hulking "desktop replacement" style notebook?
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by sjwright 6y ago
> McDonald's hasn't even made tasty meat burgers a reality That might well be true in some countries. Certainly not true in Australia.
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by sjwright 6y ago
Vegan keto is a pretty small intersection of the Venn diagram of foods, particularly if you're also avoiding refined seed oils.
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Curious. What brand/model of router did you use? My suspicion is that the manufacturer might be being "helpful" by bundling aspects of NAT configuration into its firewall configuration screen—so by disabling the firewall, y
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by sjwright 6y ago
Ah, you seem to be under the misapprehension that consumer NAT devices act as BGP routers. No, in all normal configurations the “WAN” port listens on one IP only. Any traffic bound for a private/bogon range—even if it matches your inte
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by sjwright 6y ago
Failing to implement certain features (for arguably legitimate reasons in some cases) isn’t the same as “regulating”.
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The distinction is that the app developer is also selling access to specific computer software running on the developer’s infrastructure, to be run in a way that appears to function just like on-device code. I don’t fully agree with Apple’s
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I tried your imgur link again and it worked this time. What I’m seeing here is a couple of similar arbitrary locations for UI elements, similar use of colour, similar flat design popularised by Microsoft and many elements that are common am
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by sjwright 6y ago
Your imgur link isn't working. But looking at those MuseScore 4 shots and comparing them to what I see from the Steinberg website, what I see is mostly superficial aesthetics which are on trend all over—not just notation apps. Certainl
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You think my ISP can reach my local network “just fine”? Yeah, that’s completely wrong and absurd. I’m pretty sure you don’t know what NAT means.
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That is a rather incendiary claim to make with no evidence. Can you provide some context for this assertion?
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Okay then, the IP is 10.1.5.12 and the port is 80. Go for it. Do you even know what NAT is?
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How interesting. So tell me, how do you craft an inbound connection to an arbitrary port on an arbitrary device that is behind NAT?
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Regardless of its appropriateness or effectiveness, however weak it may be, in the real world where normal people live, NAT is the first line of defence against inbound attacks for most personal computers and personal devices on the interne
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That’s exactly right. My only point is to push back on the inference that NAT has absolutely zero impact on security posture. I liken NAT to a Ha-ha wall: it sometimes makes inbound more difficult under certain circumstances. It’s not real
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It’s wrong to say NAT provides no security. NAT does provide some security, it’s just uncertain, unreliable and has no effect on outbound connections.

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