NotPractical

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by NotPractical 27d ago
> The thing I admire most about Anglo-American culture is that people will jump off a bridge if you give them a court order that complies with all required procedural formalities. The president of the United States routinely violates cou
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by NotPractical 27d ago
Could do with some context on how watermarking works. Objectively speaking it should be impossible to tell.
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by NotPractical 28d ago
> Apple's internal justification for this is that the iPhone and iPad are consumer devices designed for maximum comfort and safety, whereas the Mac is a device designed for developers and professionals. Then why did they recently la
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by NotPractical 2mo ago
> Microsoft has a list of IP addresses that has been used by a computer with a certain GDID, but FBI needs to get the GDID in the first place What they did was the opposite: ask Microsoft for GDIDs used by attacker-associated IPs within
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by NotPractical 2mo ago
I think the difference is that, on Windows, there are background services that constantly ping Microsoft with the device ID. A device ID on its own is not really harmful if it's not exposed to the internet.
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by NotPractical 2mo ago
I have bad news for you if you think GrapheneOS isn't going to accept this patch from upstream if it lands.
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by NotPractical 2mo ago
There is no information about the author of this article, and it has the "AI smell". It's safer to operate under the assumption that it is AI generated unless and until the author reveals themself or at least anonymously conf
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by NotPractical 3mo ago
> A next version of the Technical Specifications for Age Verification Solutions will include as an experimental feature the Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) solution From: https://ageverification.dev/av-doc-technical-specificat
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by NotPractical 3mo ago
Except that within days of this service going live there's going to be a freeageverification.com that instantly generates an attestation proof for anyone for free. I fail to see how this is not untenable. You can compare it to geoblock
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by NotPractical 3mo ago
Not to mention self-signed custom builds of GrapheneOS.
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by NotPractical 3mo ago
> I think it would be nice if we could run unsigned apps on iOS Apple enforces those restrictions via the permanently locked bootloader. The main benefit of unlocking the bootloader on an iPhone would be to run a modified version of iOS
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by NotPractical 3mo ago
...it's still large enough to comfortably read without zooming in, which is not the case for Gruber's website.
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by NotPractical 3mo ago
Nope, HN's CSS accommodates smaller screen sizes [1]: /* mobile device */ @media only screen and (min-width : 300px) and (max-width : 750px) { #hnmain { width: 100%; min-width: 0; } body { paddin
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by NotPractical 3mo ago
Was this program available to independent security researchers or just established organizations? The docs you linked aren't very clear on this.
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by NotPractical 3mo ago
> No upstream open source developer takes that on The key words here are "open source", right? Some problems can't be solved without cooperation with the developer.
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by NotPractical 3mo ago
There is a difference between mandating that your customers use one specific Linux distro which is maintained by a controversial company, and supporting all Linux distros through an imperfect-but-fully-working method. Sure, you'll stil
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by NotPractical 3mo ago
Won't they just ban your account for using this?
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by NotPractical 4mo ago
No, because a malicious AI agent could just replace the sudo binary in your path with one that collects your password and uses it to execute arbitrary code as root. Nothing short of sandboxing everything or just never using AI agents or pro
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by NotPractical 4mo ago
Does anyone have a citation for this that wasn't written by Claude? It wouldn't surprise me, but I refuse to look through AI slop to check the accuracy of the report.
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by NotPractical 4mo ago
> Other than enriching apple, there’s been no direct or apparent harm to the end user from the walled garden. https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/apple-... I don't want to hear about how
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by NotPractical 4mo ago
No, they were correct in their understanding of what I meant. I should've said "capable of passing Play Integrity's device attestation checks". I replied to them with more context.
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by NotPractical 4mo ago
It indeed runs on modified versions of Android, but this is not supported by Google and never has been. When Apple says "Apple Pay is supported on iOS >= $VERSION" they don't explicitly mention that it won't work on j
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by NotPractical 4mo ago
> No mention of device integrity verification yet If Google Play services is listed as a requirement, that implies that a "certified Android" device capable of Play Integrity attestation is required, since that's the only
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by NotPractical 5mo ago
Minecraft Legacy Console Edition apparently leaked on 4chan recently, too: https://github.com/MCLCE/MinecraftConsoles Almost no coverage on HN or mainstream media though. Surprising, considering the popularity of this
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by NotPractical 5mo ago
Here's the technical measures that are being worked around: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/fingerprinting-protectio... > IMO you need to actually work around a technical measure intended to stop you f
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by NotPractical 5mo ago
Most tech businesses exist because problems exist. Tailscale delivers a solution that's available today . The only alternative is to sit and wait for IPv6. I don't imagine Tailscale is against IPv6 any more than security professi
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by NotPractical 6mo ago
The entire rule is as follows: Apps should be self-contained in their bundles, and may not read or write data outside the designated container area, nor may they download, install, or execute code which introduces or changes features or fun
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by NotPractical 6mo ago
Apple's own Swift Playground app does the exact thing that supposedly violates the rules, abusing an inconsistently-applied exception for "educational" apps [1]. Recent regulation doesn't help here, by the way. iOS apps
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by NotPractical 6mo ago
But do they do it whether you're logged in or not? I noticed the ChatGPT app also checks Play Integrity on Android (because GrapheneOS snitches on apps when they do this), probably for the same reason. Claude's app doesn't, b
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by NotPractical 6mo ago
> 1. Gatekeeping. OK, fine Proceeds to explain why your opinion is not "fine" but rather invalid, because Apple boiled you like a frog... Every time someone mentions here that they're concerned macOS is becoming more like

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