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151.
by sneak 3mo ago
Why do I have to solve a captcha to read a blog post?
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by sneak 3mo ago
Note that to send notifications to an iOS app, the app publisher has to send them. This means that they need to run an event forwarding proxy service (this is how Mattermost and Element/Matrix and presumably some/all of the Activ
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by sneak 3mo ago
This is about Taiwan, not tariffs.
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by sneak 3mo ago
Microsoft is a publicly traded company. Which investors are causing them to shit up GitHub with AI features nobody wants? In which venues?
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by sneak 3mo ago
No. iCloud Photos and Files are and have always been non-e2ee and they already scan everything in it. Even with e2ee enabled for iCloud Photos/files (which NOBODY uses, and furthermore is entirely disabled in the UK), it sends identif
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by sneak 3mo ago
Technology is, furthermore, the wrong place to address child abuse of any kind, sexual or otherwise. This is like trying to prevent burglary by working with the factory that manufactures pry bars.
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by sneak 3mo ago
Venues did kick out a lot more than 2% of their existing customers until they upgraded their bloodstream. Website visitors can upgrade their browser.
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by sneak 3mo ago
It's pretty much universally agreed that: a) Fahrenheit is more ergonomic for human perception of temperatures, and b) the 7+ billion who use degrees C every single day don't find this to be a problem.
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by sneak 3mo ago
Charge for downloading map data.
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by sneak 3mo ago
I have all iOS automatic app updates disabled.
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by sneak 3mo ago
This is precisely why I have autoupdates disabled for my Signal apps. They're on by default, which basically gives Signal-the-org remote code execution on my machine (same as Chrome's built in transparent autoupdate gives Google
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by sneak 3mo ago
Signal clients have a built in time bomb in each version to "force" you to upgrade after a period of time. It can, of course, be patched out (and I patch it out, along with other fuckery such as disappearing messages/expirin
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by sneak 3mo ago
Signal does not aggressively block non-official clients. I constantly use a modified version of Signal Desktop containing a small set of my own patches, and it always works fine. Also, while autoupdate is on by default for the Signal clie
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by sneak 3mo ago
> This is both true, and also useless: pretty much any E2E system is falling under this definition. This is not true. I can build Signal from source from GitHub, and use Signal-the-service with the client (which did not come from Sign
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by sneak 3mo ago
Reminder: iMessage claims to be e2ee, but the on-by-default iCloud Backup on iOS backs up material that is sufficient to defeat this (either the endpoint keys, in the case of "Messages in iCloud" disabled, or the messages themselv
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by sneak 3mo ago
Has Zuckerberg ever deliberately invented a successful product using skill and taste? His original moneymaker was sort of happenstance, a right-place-right-time quick hack that lucked out, got traction, and raised enough money to scale ou
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by sneak 4mo ago
Don't you mean paper which isn't 215.9 by 279.4 mm? Go on, switch your thermostat in the US to degrees C. Join us.
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by sneak 4mo ago
You do need Google Play, or a suitable replacement, because most android apps won't work without it.
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by sneak 4mo ago
That’s not a sales tactic. Apple supports their old hardware with updates longer than anyone in the industry. The recent ones have been due to the architecture transition, maintaining BC with amd64 has significant costs.
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by sneak 4mo ago
I think Apple sees the writing on the wall with hardware feature increases and hardware longevity. Sell a phone that is good for a few years, or get sell a phone and also get monthly 100% margin payments indefinitely? Given that phones are
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by sneak 4mo ago
There are ones with decent to good battery life. There are none with awesome battery life and abso-fucking-lutely none for super-awesome battery life. That was one thing I never realized I needed until I had it. Having my laptop basically
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by sneak 4mo ago
It is baffling to me that Apple, ostensibly a hardware company (that happens to be pursuing services revenue the way a crackhead pursues crack), ridiculously flush with cash, doesn’t throw 2 or 3 of their thousands of FTEs on this. The goo
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by sneak 4mo ago
This is in the system prompt, not the output. It’s part of the request to the API, not the response.
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by sneak 4mo ago
Tell me you’ve never supported a large userbase without telling me you’ve never supported a large userbase. What’s the plan for supporting the 50,000 people a day who lost their random string? What’s the plan for supporting the other 50,00
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by sneak 4mo ago
The US can call Austria in 5 minutes and with no burden of proof get the airspace permit for a head of sovereign state revoked and the plane swatted instantly upon landing, because someone might have been on board (he wasn’t) whose only rea
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by sneak 4mo ago
SNI and the Host: header ruin your joke here.
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by sneak 4mo ago
My latest domain (five chars!) that I am actually using recently went down because my registrar is (was?) in Gaza. The registry thankfully was able to sort it out and I was able to get it back and registered with a regisrar not currently be
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by sneak 4mo ago
If only we had a good term for someone good at this stuff less unwieldy than “cybersecurity expert”. (Then someone could start a news site for us.) As someone in the field for 30+ years, I find that, generally speaking, the only groups tha
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by sneak 4mo ago
I agree with your last sentence, but its prophetic value depends on exactly what you mean by “people”. Some people will indeed play their cards well and come out on top, but they won’t be made out of meat.
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by sneak 4mo ago
No. The point of these initiatives IS TO GET ID, not to protect children. Anonymous credentials don’t allow the state to retaliate in the dark of night against protected expression that they don’t like. Anonymous credentials do not allow

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