tinus_hn

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811.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
Because it allows apps to take over calls.
812.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
Perhaps it would be a useful experiment to pick a representative group, couple them to real human assistants with complete control to complete requests and collect all the requests that are made.
813.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
Those poor people that instead of living forever, now happened to die during a heatwave!
814.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
Even if the hardware is sold at cost, you still have to pay for running the service.
815.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
The argument would be that it is not very useful to have backups if you don’t know if the data your backing up has been corrupted or not.
816.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
It’s not about buying a house in a place. These are the construction costs if you already have the place.
817.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
The typical reason why the price is whatever people are able or willing to pay for an item, is a lack of competition.
818.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
Except for the FIFA officials’ booths, of course! There’s tiers to piety!
819.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
Why is the attacker able to supply a crafted font? Why isn’t that cryptographically signed?
820.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
At least certificate transparency means it’s possible to check if malicious certificates where issued.
821.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
This solution is like using Javascript instead of C. You can’t write a buffer overflow in Javascript, and you can even sandbox it. That way you can allow code to run that has had less review.
822.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
> How does this particular list of very minor gripes get so many upvotes? It gets upvotes from the hurr durr Apple bad crowd.
823.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
Possibly Firefox is making it very easy to block your statistics gathering. Besides, 7% is still quite a lot to throw away.
824.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
I’m not about to debate a troll on the straw man of what ‘the right’ meanies consider cancel culture.
825.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
Telling your boss to ‘kiss my ass’ is not standing up for your team, it’s perfectly normal grounds to get fired. But be sure to hire her if you think that behavior is normal, it’s a free world.
826.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
Hurr durr Elon bad all you want, getting fired for telling your boss to ‘kiss my ass’ is not cancel culture and neither is continuing to host that message.
827.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
Just like the best camera is the one you actually have with you, the best rescue device is the one you actually have with you. And for many people, that’s not going to be a Garmin inReach because they don’t own a device and they don’t have
828.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
No, actions have consequences but he has not prevented her from saying what she wanted to say.
829.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
I love how Elon is supposedly destroying Twitter because he is removing all those thousands of employee he supposedly needs to run it, and then the same people who say that supposedly are fleeing and so happy with the alternative Mastodon,
830.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
(Did he stop her from saying it?)
831.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
Of course she’s receiving generous offers from the ‘hurr durr Elon bad’ crowd. The career limitation is that most people just aren’t in that crowd. That doesn’t necessarily mean they’re licking Elons boots, it could also mean they don’t car
832.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
Right, so you already have all the answers, it’s a big mystery why the manufacturers are doing this research. A big mystery to you, that is. Indeed there is no point in communicating further, you made up your mind years ago and you will pro
833.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
So why are the companies in the article researching the risks if according to you there clearly are no risks? Do you know better than the manufacturers?
834.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
If they are so convinced the claim is invalid and the claimant used the DMCA process, all this company has to do is file a counter notice and Google is obliged to restore the app, unless the claimant actually files suit within 14 days.
835.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
A minor problem with the blockchain is that the blockchain is actually an authenticated record of all transactions, so it’s pretty hard to hide where the crypto went unless you never actually exchange it or use it to buy something.
836.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
You can argue all you want that Google and Alexa have surpassed Siri but the thread is about Apple not launching poor products. Siri wasn’t a poor product, surpassed by Alexa and Google, at launch because they didn’t exist when Siri launche
837.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
It’s not just about rudeness, nobody who buys thousands of laptops wants to deal with shitty support. If they try stuff like this and managements backs it up, you know there’s more like it in the future and it’s just not worth anyones time.
838.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
> because the CEO/Director of a massive multinational conglomerate with 100 000 employees didn't arbitrarily have time for you? The whole point of inviting people to such an event is to make them feel that the CEO does have tim
839.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
Siri launched in 2011 with a live demo of untrained speech recognition which was unheard of at the time. Alexa launched in 2014 and Google Assistant in 2016. Siri has not always been ‘not as good as Alexa or Google’, it existed way before e
840.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
If you unlock the screen using Face ID the OS gets the keys from the Secure Enclave which, depending on the model, does the face recognition itself or using the normal processor in some kind of secure way. Just like if you unlock the phone

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