RedComet

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by RedComet 2mo ago
"- One object going out of scope may mean calling free once, but it also can trigger calling free billions of objects, even for the exact same object - Even freeing one object can have largely varying running time, e.g. to coalesce fre
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by RedComet 2mo ago
The squeaking [spare] wheel got the grease.
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by RedComet 3mo ago
It is painfully obvious that the "age assurance" push is to limit anti-zionist propaganda. I wonder who or what will abuse this infrustructure when they fail.
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by RedComet 3mo ago
"or the culture shifts to reinterpret the thing" Yes. You see it already. "Actually it is good that I can't run programs that haven't been approved by Google on my own device."
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by RedComet 3mo ago
Are any of those actually pauseless like he asked for?
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by RedComet 3mo ago
"99% of apps would request it & not function without it" Apple could refuse to publish them, then. Isn't that why we are forced to go through the App Store? Because Apple ensures every app there works in the best interest
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by RedComet 3mo ago
Even that is overkill if all you're interested in is if a change occured.
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by RedComet 3mo ago
I think something like a per boot delta added to a (per app?) random base would preserve such functionality.
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by RedComet 3mo ago
Volume creation date is pretty egregious. I don't see any reason that and Pasteboard changeCount should be so granular. The "Installed Apps Probe" leak also surprised me. It is better than the current state of Android, though
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by RedComet 4mo ago
You didn't write it, though. And it is slop. If you had actually wrote it, you might learn from some of the criticism or be able to engage with it on an objective level.
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by RedComet 4mo ago
On the contrary, you're only defending it because it is AI. If it were some other feature that many didn't want or ask for, you would empathize.
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by RedComet 6mo ago
Wouldn't it be something if, given all the surveillance already in place, law enforcement punished the scammers instead of the innocent?
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by RedComet 6mo ago
The keyword is "intentional".
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by RedComet 7mo ago
Here's to hoping for a smaller phone with a fingerprint sensor on the back and a removable battery, as it's a given graphene will get the chipset right.
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by RedComet 7mo ago
If the owner of a device can't sign and install their own software, then your definition of PKI doesn't "work" at all. The first party must be able to entirely decide that "some third party" for it to be anythi
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by RedComet 8mo ago
Strange claiming you "called it', people were saying this far earlier than 8 days ago.
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by RedComet 10mo ago
"once you set the watch up" This does require an iPhone though, right?
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by RedComet 11mo ago
The sideloading change doesn't protect against abusive household members, though. Simple lock screen hygiene and periodic reminders about invasive permissions (e.g. accessibility & location) would do more. And let us not even prete
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by RedComet 11mo ago
A straw man in your favor, maybe. Shall we compare the 100 least popular of each store? Those are more likely to be outright malware on Play.
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by RedComet 11mo ago
Let's ignore all of the preinstalled programs, which are signed by Google and do a great deal of spying. Do you think the 100 most popular F-Droid apps do more spying than the 100 most popular Play store apps?
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by RedComet 11mo ago
They are signed, though. Just not by Google.
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by RedComet 1y ago
It sounds like we largely agree, then, so I'm not sure what you were arguing in the first place. That because the companies are legally able to do this and that [hardware-based] jailbreaking is possible in theory, it can't be oppo
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by RedComet 1y ago
It was an analogy. You're moving the goalposts and ignored the latter point. And I'm not a foss advocate, I just want to be able to run software of my choosing and without spyware, as has been the case since the advent of personal
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by RedComet 1y ago
By analogy, if food was sold with poison in it, "hey man, you bought it, just remove it if you don't like it. not a chemist? crack a book buddy". And now imagine you had no means of producing your own food and all food sold c
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by RedComet 1y ago
You cannot (generally) install and run apps that aren't (recently) notarized, though. They do owe the service inasmuch as they require it for installing and running apps.
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by RedComet 1y ago
Not very "carbon friendly". But the recycler they mention will probably kindly ship it do a foreign landfill.
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by RedComet 1y ago
The malware excuse is just a palatable false pretense. "We have to protect granny!" Of course, she is getting fleeced by plain scam calls, not somehow sideloading apks onto her idevice, but the truth doesn't help advance thei
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by RedComet 1y ago
Cell carriers will just start requiring the attestation as well. And eventually, even an internet connection will - wifi routers will have to attest to ISP equipment, etc. The final phase is "AI" monitoring everything you do on yo
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by RedComet 1y ago
Will you elaborate?
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by RedComet 1y ago
If all major platforms do so in concert, it actually is the same.

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