tinus_hn

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by tinus_hn 3y ago
No, I’m through. As mentioned elsewhere, the way you built your site makes it impossible to have a discussion if you disagree with the mob. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38725130 If you really want ‘intellectual curi
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
As you say, it’s a method to get a coarse location and then refined using GPS which by the way does not really take time to acquire once you have downloaded the almanac and have the coarse location. So this ‘allows applications to track loc
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
If you follow that logic the rest of the complaining, which is just your complaining, is just irrelevant whining. And if Apple is responsible for noting who owns the devices next up you will come whining about how that mean Apple doesn’t al
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
That doesn’t mean seeing an SSID means you are at exactly that location. If you are in a city you see 50 SSIDs at any given moment. Are you at those 50 locations at the same time? No. Is there a way to triangulate where you are exactly? No,
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Back in the real world SSIDs are a very coarse and not very reliable way of locating devices. You are exaggerating.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
One should realize that what they call ‘track user locations’ is actually ‘get a list of visible SSIDs’. Should be behind a permissions check, but not the end of the world.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
If you think copying an authorization library is ‘obfuscated code which serves no other purpose’ you’re just wrong and this discussion is pointless. Ultimately either Apple will successfully block Beeper permanently or they will DMCA them a
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
No, you’re fantasizing about your philosophical position again. It’s all announced and advertised in advance, if you don’t like the way the products are advertised to work, don’t buy the products and don’t complain the products work the way
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
That’s a totally different kind of case where the barrier to interoperability is the ability to reproduce copyrighted content, like in the case of the DSMOS chip which contains a poem which has to be provided for the OS to work. These tacti
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
No, you’re missing the mark. If there is to be any kind of theft protection it is going to be a protection of the device from a user, either the proper owner or a thief. There is no way for the device to make the distinction if the owner do
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
They include a library from MacOS that makes it register: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38534247
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
While obviously the true Hacker News opinion is ‘hurr durr Apple bad’. Beeper is requesting money for illegally distributing Apples copyrighted code which they then use in a questionable way. Cry me a river.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
https://archive.is/kdjIR
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
The person is praising Activation Lock and criticizing the fact you can skip setting it up. Yet you want to turn it into a claim Activation Lock is a bad thing. Nothing more than the typical ‘hurr durr Apple bad’ commenting common on this s
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Too bad for Firefox. I don’t care; if you want to use Firefox on a phone, get an Android phone. It’s not like you don’t know what you get in advance.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
The idea is you have an invention and then try to have the standard require your invention. The parties that create the standard are supposed to declare the patents they have that cover the standard and then typically there is some licensin
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Because there are also advantages. iOS gets away with forbidding JIT execution in third party programs, so they get away with exposing no APIs that allow memory segments to be executable unless they are signed, which is a great thing from a
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Then again, iOS is a better OS because it can get away with supporting no third party browser engines.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
You better not look up what was one of the historical names of the Katholieke Universiteit in Tilburg. Apparently they actually printed letter paper.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_right There is protection in a few notable jurisdictions so a violation would make the product illegal in those jurisdictions, which is a problem if it’s an online product.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Does that make it just that the estate is honored with a credit every time the character is used?
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
And now that the real creators are dead, all that’s left to fight about is money. The people in the estate didn’t do the work, yes they have monetary rights, but it’s not like they deserve to be credited for the existence of these character
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
I think the Log4j debacle makes it painfully clear that we simple can’t afford to trust application developers to keep bundled libraries up-to-date. Good idea, doesn’t work.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
It’s like company A collects everyone’s phone number and then publishes it as a phone book. And then company B copies the phone book and publishes it as their own. It’s not a straightforward copyright issue but in many jurisdictions that is
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Does Bytedance allow OpenAI to train ChatGPT using TikTok?
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
So the conclusion is, lawmakers decided software patents are unwanted. But I know better than them, so I’ll allow them anyway. I hope there’s still the possibility of appeal and this bad judgement is reversed.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
It’s easy to have principles when you can just be strict when it’s about what someone else is doing and be loose when it’s about what you’re doing yourself. That’s not a balance, it’s just hollow grandstanding.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Now that the publicly available guidelines were exposed, they changed and Apple didn’t even send a notification to every journalist in the known universe. Time to gather the tin foil hats!
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Bad Apple! They don’t even fix flaws they don’t know about!
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
But the things that do involve Apples servers could have been implemented years ago and shouldn’t be dependent on installing an iOS update. Why would you not deserve to be protected as much as possible if you use a Mac with iCloud and an An

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