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by eridius 7y ago
I'm not really sure how the U1 data is particularly relevant to governments. They don't generally need to know the precise movements of your phone about a single room. GPS will already locate you to the building and frequently to
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by eridius 7y ago
Why does the attacker gain a time advantage here? Is the attacker capable of transmitting at a much higher rate than the original sender? Even in that scenario, they just have to negotiate a send/receive rate up front, and that way the
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by eridius 7y ago
Can you opt out of my brain recognizing your face? Centralized face recognition where a single entity knows everybody a la Facebook would be a dystopian nightmare. Personalized face recognition where everyone has their own instance trained
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by eridius 7y ago
Face recognition is something I absolutely need. I can't remember people's names for the life of me. If I could train a set of AR glasses to recognize people I've met before and pull up their contact info on the fly, that wou
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by eridius 7y ago
> If a big profitable unfriendly government asked them to track someone, what would Apple do? Presumably the exact same thing they'd have done if they hadn't rolled out this Find My feature. They designed it so Apple can&#x27
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by eridius 7y ago
Beyond explicitly using secure notes (which are encrypted), I don't recall Apple promising "confidentiality" of those things. I mean, I don't expect Apple to give that data to others, but I also don't assume Apple h
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by eridius 7y ago
Apple uses end-to-end encryption for iMessage, which is the only Apple-related confidential communication I can think of (well I have no idea what the guarantees around FaceTime are).
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by eridius 7y ago
This syntax even made its way into CommonMark ( https://spec.commonmark.org/0.29/#fenced-code-blocks )
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by eridius 7y ago
1) We have one point of the function. 2) We know one point of its derivative. This means we know 2 more points of the function (one step in either direction). 3) We know one point of its second derivative. This means we know 2 more points o
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by eridius 7y ago
That shouldn't even be a question. You shouldn't need to have working conditions be "so bad" before you consider a union.
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by eridius 7y ago
It's literally the definition. And very little qualifies. An abstraction is zero-cost if there's no runtime penalty, including if the code you'd write by hand to accomplish this goal is no better than what the compiler synt
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by eridius 7y ago
Bounds-checked indexing isn't an abstraction, it's a safety feature. The abstraction is compared to manually doing bounds checks like you would in C. // C safe subscript if (i < size) { return buf[i]; } else { a
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by eridius 7y ago
> What part of my comment made you think I didn't understand that? This part: > But that's like saying if you don't use rust you don't pay for it. Just because there is the unsafe escape hatch in the language, y
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by eridius 7y ago
> drivers’ work is outside the usual course of Uber’s business What... how... I don't even know where to begin with this.
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by eridius 7y ago
The link isn't removed on the keybase side but the next time it's checked it will be flagged as bad. Clients will check it automatically when you follow; otherwise, I believe what happens is the system will periodically check it a
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by eridius 7y ago
I have a Keybase account with a wallet. I haven't actually used the wallet for anything, but it does exist. And I didn't receive any lumens. If this surprise gift was for "each active Keybase user", how do they define &q
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by eridius 7y ago
It's pretty weird how the article doesn't even bother to mention that Apple has an official API for doing encrypted notifications, and I really have no idea why these apps are abusing the VOIP stuff instead of using the actual enc
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by eridius 7y ago
Yeah, which is why fuzzing is important even with tests covering every code path. And even with that, this is why I simply said that SQLite is probably the codebase that comes the closest, rather than saying it actually is bug-free.
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by eridius 7y ago
Why does Google hate virtual cards though? It's an anti-fraud mechanism. Google's declaring that using an anti-fraud mechanism is in fact an indication of fraud?
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by eridius 7y ago
I heard about that a long time ago, back when it looked kind of dead. Glad to see it's still under development. I'm skeptical though, does it actually support all of Slack's features (or even a majority of them)? The screensh
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by eridius 7y ago
"people" is "most users of the platform". A consistent native platform experience has been one of the cornerstones of macOS since even before OS X came along. If you ask most people, they probably won't know to iden
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by eridius 7y ago
Is it Springboard that actually renders that notification, though? Seems like it should maybe be a separate process. Even if it is Springboard, rendering a notification that crashes the process shouldn't brick your phone, because it sh
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by eridius 7y ago
Can someone please explain why this comment is getting downvoted? It seems like common sense.
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by eridius 7y ago
Ok, but that just means SpringBoard (or some other system component) has to parse SMS messages. It doesn't mean SpringBoard has to be involved in the display of texts, and it also doesn't mean it has to be involved in iMessages. T
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by eridius 7y ago
Ultimately I think the question is "why does iMessages have special integration in SpringBoard"? Because that's the cause of most of this. Messages doesn't have to be a "normal iOS app", it just has to be reaso
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by eridius 7y ago
That first screenshot looks like what I remember. I guess I never saw the graphics update.
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by eridius 7y ago
Ah, interesting. I loved the heck out of the Exile games but I was unaware of details like this. I didn't even realize Exile I/II got graphics updates.
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by eridius 7y ago
It's true that the corporation making a profit benefits the shareholders, but that doesn't mean the purpose of the corporation is to maximize this shareholder benefit. The corporation obviously wants to attract and retain sharehol
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by eridius 7y ago
Baba is You is I think a great example of something that looks really simple but is actually really challenging to pull off. It's also probably not something you could reasonably maintain across 25 years using freelance artists. It a
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by eridius 7y ago
> unprompted The guy's been getting criticisms for 25 years. I think he's justified in writing a single blog post in defense of his art style. If you don't like it, you don't have to read it.

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