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by talldayo 2y ago
> But the cluelessness in Cupertino is understandable. The dominant companies in Silicon Valley are threatened by reality and seriousness—which are like Kryptonite to the digital agenda. So these mishaps are inevitable. You know, I never
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by talldayo 2y ago
Hacker News: a website where the founders fight the founders, the investors argue with investors, and engineers look on in complete and abject contempt, wondering who gave all these morons money and how they can get their cut.
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by talldayo 2y ago
Canada is a part of FIVE-EYES, so through extension you can very easily argue that they already control the internet with complete impunity.
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I wonder how revisionist Gruber's memory must be to have plastered over Tim and Donald's friendly relationship during Trump's first term. Does he forget the Mac Pro factory tour Cook invited Trump to, the dinners they reporte
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by talldayo 2y ago
I think wheel-reinvention is the perfect punishment for people that want to be stingy with their wheel development. Copyleft infringement deserves no more empathy than copyright infringement.
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by talldayo 2y ago
> Majority of people want this. People want cheap shit, they don't care about how competitive the market is. It's just an unfortunate fact that has been reflected by dozens of American monopolies and decades of fervent offshori
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> but immediately suggesting that they kidnapped themselves without any other evidence is insane. Insane, or a famous form of security fraud that is mitigated by centralized banking systems and therefore highly attractive for crypto-owne
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"Unwokeified" AIs weren't precluded by AI safeguards, but rather heavily insecure companies that would rather not be seen as the bad-guy by the public.
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by talldayo 2y ago
Dissatisfied by marketing something as nebulous as "software", investment firms begin their pivot to Poverty-as-a-Service.
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by talldayo 2y ago
Binaries != code. A security professional cannot evaluate a remote service by inspecting the binary that (supposedly) runs on a remote system. Even under ideal conditions it's a move that proves you still have something to hide by not
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by talldayo 2y ago
It's up to you. Both companies are selling ads, and both companies know personalized ads sell better. Both are mediating their ad business with total control and arguing that it's unsafe to give competitors this info despite the f
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by talldayo 2y ago
Distinction without a difference, here. Apple's marketing already promised things they cannot guarantee, and instead of dropping the privacy shtick altogether they deliberately misconstrued their image to promote sales of Apple devices
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by talldayo 2y ago
> A state is perfectly allowed to write and enforce any laws it deems fit, and if companies want to operate within those states, they need to follow those laws. Or you can just leave. Google did it when China demanded unfair censorship a
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by talldayo 2y ago
> Um, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Yahoo, YouTube, Skype, and AOL are/were PRISM Service Providers Correct. I didn't say all cloud providers aren't part of prism, just that many (most?) aren't scrutinized like Apple is.
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Why the ever-living fuck do you think I should take Apple's documentation seriously when they lied through their teeth about the Push Notification architecture? This isn't source code, it's marketing.
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by talldayo 2y ago
> that Apple will collude with lots of security researchers, and because you're not invited to the party, nobody can prove that you're wrong. Or conversely, because you and I aren't invited, we have been deliberately depri
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by talldayo 2y ago
> Are you honestly suggesting that companies like Apple should be expected to simply ignore the law when you think it’s convenient? No, I am suggesting that none of you know what you're talking about when defending Apple's bran
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by talldayo 2y ago
And neither were the native inhabitants of "Trump Heights" (formerly Kana'beh ) who were illegally evacuated from their homes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Heights Makes you wonder - what kind of
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by talldayo 2y ago
They're making the promises public. The code is being shown to selected individuals deemed suitable and then they're telling me by way of proxy. That's nonsense, show us the code if it's that easy to give to others. An
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by talldayo 2y ago
Honestly I think this is a disingenuous defense. It's not insane to look at a closed-source project that is being partially-audited by cherrypicked organizations and say "that's not a very secure or trustworthy process".
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by talldayo 2y ago
Globalism is the logical conclusion of capitalism. You can argue the two have distinction and you'll be right, but trade loves free borders and price inequalities don't go away when you levy proportional taxes on imports. The more
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by talldayo 2y ago
Thing is, people will say stuff like this and them foam at the mouth at the mere mention of the phrase "food stamps". Methinks this sudden empathy is a load of crocodile tears.
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by talldayo 2y ago
Surveillance is a bipartisan interest, and neither candidate would or will limit US surveillance capabilities. We do this to ourselves, by electing to only use products that are marketed to us as safe or private. Of course, the only busines
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by talldayo 2y ago
Welcome, you seem new here
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by talldayo 2y ago
> and never mentioning his abnormally pacifist record which is more important? If Trump's brand of pacifism means negotiating with Russian terrorism, then it's not peace but the cuckolding of a nation and millions of people tha
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by talldayo 2y ago
> it’s Apple and all I need is to see the verifiable privacy thing and I let the researchers let me know red flags. Oh I've heard of Apple, they're the company that sued Corellium for letting researchers study iPhone security t
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by talldayo 2y ago
> as well as a coherent platform of deregulation, immigration reform, and putting American workers and businesses first. Deregulation and immigration reform is inherently at-odds with putting American workers first. Apple didn't sen
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by talldayo 2y ago
> What kind of targeting advertising am i getting from apple as a user of their products? https://searchads.apple.com/ https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/control-how-apple-del... In the
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by talldayo 2y ago
> If the NSA had that info, why go through the trouble? To defend the optics of a backdoor that they actively rely on? If Apple and the NSA are in kahoots, it's not hard to imagine them anticipating this kind of event and leveraging
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by talldayo 2y ago
It's entirely fair. Apple had the choice to stop pursuing business in China if they felt it conflicted with values they prioritized. Evidently it doesn't, which should tell you a lot about how accepting Apple is of this behavior w

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