selsta

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by selsta 3y ago
Apple has a list of all metadata that uses regular encryption instead of E2EE: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303
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by selsta 4y ago
The linked post is incorrect, Apple Music doesn't touch or replace any local files. iTunes Match has also been DRM-free since launch.
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by selsta 4y ago
Pixel 7 is made in China according to this tweet: https://twitter.com/vvaiibhav/status/1580454957580681216
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by selsta 4y ago
WhatsApp runs on devices with iOS 12 or newer, that means even an iPhone 6 can still run it.
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by selsta 4y ago
5 years of security updates, not necessarily full OS updates.
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by selsta 4y ago
Google has been completely silent about it, just yesterday another person reported the 911 bug with the Pixel 6 Pro. https://reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/xwjnf2/pixel_6_pro... https://new
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by selsta 4y ago
These two are not the same thing. Every app is allowed to serve you personalized ads, without asking. ATT is about cross app/site tracking between other companies, which is something Apple has never done.
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by selsta 4y ago
The Huawei Fit performed significantly worse compared to the Apple Watch in this sleep test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPqtfC70QTU
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by selsta 4y ago
monero, without dev tax and pre-mine, simply doesn't have the funds to compete in research with other, more well funded projects. I don't see how a different emission curve would have helped here. MRL work is progressing on Seraph
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by selsta 5y ago
Low power mode wasn't enabled by default on my machine.
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by selsta 5y ago
Apple asks you if you want personalized ads in the app store and news app: https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/2/22654121/apple-personalize...
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by selsta 5y ago
I have found AMP to be an awful experience. It messes with native scrolling physics, pages are often incomplete or straight up broken. It also disables Reader mode on iOS so I'm always forced to load the full web page anyway. Luckily i
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by selsta 5y ago
FWIW Amplosion (paid iOS extension to automatically redirect AMP pages) is quite highly ranked on the app store. It clearly isn't only techies that dislike it so much that they actually pay to get rid of AMP.
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by selsta 5y ago
These images appear to be significantly downsized for the blog, you can't use them to judge sharpness.
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by selsta 5y ago
The CLI does support Ledger but it uses the same monerod binary as the GUI. Did you export your view key with Ledger? If you refuse it can cause hanging and crashes. With exported view key and the latest version there shouldn't be any
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by selsta 5y ago
When was the last time you tried the desktop GUI? It has improved significantly over the years. Also you should try out Feather wallet[1], it has a more classic Qt design. [1] https://featherwallet.org/
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by selsta 5y ago
The Wikipedia article is incorrect, Monero still uses ring signatures. Bulletproofs are used as efficient range proofs in RingCT to hide the amount in transactions. https://www.getmonero.org/2017/12/07/Monero-
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by selsta 5y ago
Did you open an issue? There is no known bug like you are describing regarding hardware wallets and full nodes.
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by selsta 5y ago
This has always been the case when uploading something to the cloud unencrypted. You never had any privacy in the first place.
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by selsta 5y ago
> Last year, for instance, Apple reported 265 cases to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, while Facebook reported 20.3 million According to [1] it does seem like Apple didn't do any wide scale scanning of iClo
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by selsta 5y ago
The CSAM detection technical summary [1] only mentions iOS and iPadOS. If it does come to macOS it will be part of Photos.app, as that's the only way to interact with iCloud Photos. I would recommend you to avoid that app and cloud in
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by selsta 5y ago
OCSP isn't "scanning". It checks if a certificate is revoked. https://blog.jacopo.io/en/post/apple-ocsp/
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by selsta 5y ago
Don't use the cloud if you care about privacy, or encrypt the data yourself before uploading. Has always been the case.
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by selsta 5y ago
> Next, iOS and iPadOS will use new applications of cryptography to help limit the spread of CSAM online, while designing for user privacy. CSAM detection will help Apple provide valuable information to law enforcement on collections of
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by selsta 5y ago
This is already possible today on both iCloud Photos and Google Photos. Both scan for CSAM server side.
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by selsta 5y ago
This is already possible on both iOS (iCloud Photos) and Android (Google Photos) as both scan for CSAM server side.
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by selsta 5y ago
How is this iCloud specific? You could do the same with Google Photos or OneDrive.
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by selsta 5y ago
This is already possible today with things like iCloud Photos, Google Photos, OneDrive etc.
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by selsta 5y ago
Monero's PoW algorithm is RandomX [1], which is optimized for CPU mining. While it is possible to mine with GPUs, it is significantly slower and unprofitable. [1] https://github.com/tevador/RandomX/blob/m
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by selsta 5y ago
Yes, as far as I can see the draft talks about crypto-asset service providers explicitly.

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