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by sneak 11mo ago
Apple services are realtime keys to: - activation: wiping an iOS/iPadOS/visionOS device, or reinstalling a mac after a full disk wipe - apns: push notifications, used for realtime notifications for all apps on iOS/iPadOS, e
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by sneak 11mo ago
There is no evidence that social media use shortens attention spans or reduces social engagement offline. This is a meme, and a false one.
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by sneak 11mo ago
I’d bet good money. The chips have been decapped and roughly analyzed, the only information going into or out of them is from the host systems. Those are easy to convince they are anywhere. Chips don’t have wifi or gps or radios of any k
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by sneak 11mo ago
Don’t hate the player, hate the game.
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by sneak 11mo ago
You can’t really spend $500k on AWS without doing some form of identity disclosure.
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by sneak 11mo ago
MCP is just a protocol - how could it not remain open source? It's literally just JSON-RPC. Implementations are what are open source or not.
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by sneak 11mo ago
I wish everyone would read this paragraph: > But this leads me to my second point, which I must make as clearly and forcefully as I can. Vibe coding actually works. It creates robust, complex systems that work. You can tell yourself (as
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by sneak 11mo ago
Siri sends your contacts list to Apple with every request. That makes it a nonstarter for me.
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by sneak 11mo ago
Forcible illegal deportation is one. ICE grabbed a US citizen friend of mine and threw her on a bus and drove her hundreds of miles away and was about to toss her over the wall to Mexico last week. Civil asset forfeiture is another. Tax war
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by sneak 11mo ago
If they’re that common, it’s easy to profit 20% from them.
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by sneak 11mo ago
A normal savings account does not have zero risk.
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by sneak 11mo ago
None of the things you listed are suitable replacements for Excel. None. It has nothing to do with existing files/compatibility. Excel is unparalleled.
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by sneak 11mo ago
Way more convenient for the FAA702 users, too. If you have absolutely nothing in your documents that you wouldn’t mind giving the FBI to read without a warrant or probable cause, it is possible you are wasting your one and only life. A good
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by sneak 11mo ago
They’d get owned by security vulnerabilities in the first hour, fwiw.
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by sneak 11mo ago
Excel has no competition whatsoever in the local software space. Google Sheets is somewhat useful for 80% of users but for people who must be on-prem/local it’s Excel or nothing. Someone really should Pixelmator Excel. That’s a viabl
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by sneak 11mo ago
There is no foss competitor to Excel.
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by sneak 11mo ago
Lack of trust is not the same as distrust.
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by sneak 11mo ago
It is a big deal. You can no longer just right click apps to run them, you have to take a trip to a subpanel of system settings, after clicking though two different dialogs that are designed to scare you into thinking something is wrong (o
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by sneak 11mo ago
The problem is not that it’s $99/year. The problem is that it requires strong ID, and if you are doing it as a company (ie if you don’t want Apple to publicize your ID name to everyone who uses your app) then you have to go through an
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by sneak 11mo ago
Why are fines capped?
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by sneak 11mo ago
> it is a discourse used solely for the purpose of not doing anything and not addressing anything about the underlying problem Solely? Oh brother. In reality it’s the complete opposite. It exists to highlight the actual source of the
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by sneak 11mo ago
I think my point was lost, then. I agree with you there is a HUGE falloff in productivity ROI above maybe $2k/year. My point is that the extreme right end of the slider, where you go from “diminishing returns” to “no return whatsoever”
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by sneak 11mo ago
I don’t spend anywhere near that. It resells for 60-80% when I replace it a year or two later. That offsets the cost drastically. Spending $700 per month on your work tools (where that represents 2-3% of revenue) is not unreasonable. My
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by sneak 11mo ago
Entirely suboptimal, granted. Massively reduced ROI for each dollar spent above maybe $2000 per year. But when the maximum extreme end of the spectrum (without going to 0 ROI) is still less than $1000 per month, why is it even a question
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by sneak 11mo ago
I don’t understand a world where spending $1k/mo on business equipment that is used to earn dozens of times more than that is crazy. It’s barely more than my minuscule office space costs. My insurance is the vast majority of that $800
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by sneak 11mo ago
I know the guideline about complaining about site display and rendering, but there’s more to this one, I promise. This gives a CloudFront 403 error when loaded from a Mullvad VPN endpoint in the US. How can I vote with my wallet for privacy
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by sneak 11mo ago
The logistics of upgrading a Mac are: 1) rsync home directory over to new machine 2) generate new SE keys in secretive 3) push new authorized_keys out to all servers and test (scripted) 4) start using new machine 5) wipe old machine It take
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by sneak 11mo ago
I have a different computer for games and rarely have time to play them.
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by sneak 11mo ago
No, it’s just a maxed out mac studio with 512gb unified ram. Nothing dedicated or specialty. Honestly a huge chunk of it is the Apple internal SSD tax but who wants to wait for usb3 external i/o?
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by sneak 11mo ago
It’s not $22k/year, as the hardware still has great resale value when it’s replaced in 14-18 months. It’s less than $8-10k/year when all is said and done. I pay more for my car+insurance.

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