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Because average people "care" about Apple far more than their peers.

Yea, no thanks.

if this really does somehow become the only option, I'd imagine the best you could do is just carry a cheap android phone for this sole purpose.

This is not "slippery sloping". This is analyzing what the proponents of said policies want to achieve, and have achieved in the past. Maybe it's not a conscious decision, but many of these proposed voting laws, or ones that are implemented seemingly effect specific demographics.

Factually and statically, these demographics don't vote in favor of the ones proposing these policies. Said demographics are often of lower income, working longer hours in physical labor jobs.

> ... nobody has suggested discriminating based on which IDs.

From this link https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/voter-identif...

"Missouri state Rep. John Simmons, a Republican who sponsored legislation requiring a state-issued photo ID, said that election fraud cases are low priority for prosecutors and that requirement is a “commonsense” way to prevent such cases."

I understand your wording wasn't precise, but requiring a photo ID is specifying "which" type of ID is required. Yes, it is still a vague category but it is narrowing what type is acceptable.

To tie it back to the demographic I mentioned, it may pose a more difficult challenge to acquire a photo id than one would imagine; from my understanding these photos must be taken at an approved institution like the post office. In many of these low income communities, a post office will not be nearby, and due to a lack of transportation it may be quite difficult to get to the place to take the photo.

Ontop of this, the jobs these people are working are far less forgiving with freetime, or taking breaks to do anything not work related when compared to a "cushy" engineering job; for these people, getting time off may be difficult (though I was under the impression that's illegal in many states, I thought an employer is required to), and the money they lose out on could mean not being to afford an important commodity/bill.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t Nintendo caught using an open source emulator for the switch, without any sort of credit to the authors after suing? If so, I have no empathy for them.

Duck addresses from duckduckgo are a nice way to mitigate this.

What about something like udp over tcp?

This resurfaced a good memory of my last two semesters of university (2022), professor showed us this code snippet right at the start of one lecture.

How do you mean? As in Apple is requested to share info, & when they do so they modify data that would cause the key verification to fail, notifying any contacts of the suspected user via notification?

The upside of all of the drama & turmoil occurring at Open AI, would be that it acts as a distraction from his constant public display of sheer idiocy & pandering.

You could say in a sense, people who care about whether the recipient of a text has imessage do care about UX, I just wish the avg person understands that most if not all of the features and consistency imessage provides can be achieved with signal or whatsapp.

I highly doubt most who claim to be "Power Users" on the internet would be classified as such in the truest sense of the word; they simply enjoy complaining about trends in technology, & engage in posturing & outrage when a feature or design is gradually phased out over time. Most who extol the supposed "customizability" of android phones are highly unlikely to use any feature they mention on a day-to-day basis. Android's most useful feature, in my opinion is to side load apps. However, it seems this isn't something most android foresee the average user utilizing on a daily basis, and possibly as a vulnerability; from my understanding, modern android phones require you to enter a password to enable the side loading of apps. It's cell phone, I really dont' understand these advantages outside of say price point (apple cannot compete with android when it comes to budget), and the flexibility of side loading software in extenuating circumstances(say the app store complying with a government's request restrict access to e2ee messaging apps).

> Power users know better - they use whatever tool is best for the job.

I completely agree, actual power users simply use the device that is the best fit for an application, rather than crusading in the replies of threads across various sites, spreading the word of how greedy & terrible the design decisions <insert company here> makes.

The same self proclaimed "power users" will often imply that individuals who choose to use certain products possess lesser tech literacy. I don't really understand the logic behind that sentiment; obviously if a company markets their products as "just working", it will attract the average person. That's not an indication of tech illiteracy or laziness, it makes sense. Why wouldn't I want my cell phone to simply "just work?" on demand, with as little friction as possible (i.e software updates, particularly security updates are pushed out in a timely manner, overall software stability)? I know plenty of extremely tech literate people (PhDs in Computer Engineering & Computer Science) who choose to use an iPhone year after year. If you're expending most of your mental energy in your research & work with technology, why would you want the communication device you use on a daily basis to be something you have to tinker with, and configure in a non-standard way? That sounds like something I would do with say a raspberry pi, a piece of technology that I like employ my above average understanding of tech on, to customize it or achieve some really neat end goal.

Also to add, I agree, non standard hardware design is anti user and annoying, but apple doing so is not news, (in other news, the sky is blue type thing). If we want to prevent this, we need to push for regulations that force apple to comply.

If you don't sync imessage to iCloud, I thought it quite literally only stored on device in that case, besides when it in transit to be delivered. Referencing this official apple article, messages that are waiting to be delivered to devices can sit in the message queue for up to 30 days. https://support.apple.com/guide/security/how-imessage-sends-...

How is it that difficult to imagine how someone could be outed as gay etc if another party has the right to read through all of their messages etc lol.

Is there a way to get a mirror of this without the word "normie"? I supposed I can just copy and paste the content and send it to someone lol.

ITT: we observe the sheer amount of ignorance & naivety that rears its ugly head when stemlords attempt to discuss any sort of social issue / concept. It's crazy how one would interpret you pointing out the slight misogynistic undertones of the phrase you quoted as "making things political". I'm not going to mention any popular figure by name as that would be quite inflammatory, but it's not wonder certain individuals can disguise terrible opinions as the "facts & logic" based take & especially dupe men who are in a stem field. Really reinforces the stereotype of male engineers/scientists who think their field's knowledge somehow universally applies to the less "technical" sciences such as social sciences.

Interesting. Something that is off putting regarding lastpass is the complete lack of a native client, it strikes me as pure laziness & complacency. Maybe lastpass does in fact run natively, outside of the broswer, but requiring a web browser is ridiculous. I'm aware there's a native app for windows, but it's horrific.

To add to my comment, if one's response is to point out it's difficult to trust the company's opsec, handling of your data etc then use something like bitwarden. If a fully open src online pw manager doesn't calm your nerves, self host it.

Exactly... of the relatively tech savvy people I know who use this incident as some sort of vindication for their choice to not use a pw manager, are the same people who either store passwords in plaintext electronically, or write them down but use passwords that have a weak keyspace and are under 10 chars. I'm pretty sure I read an article from a month ago wherein 4 rtx4090s could chew through the hashes of 8 char passwords with a strong keyspace in a few days or hours.

It's been a minute but here's the first thing that pops up, I'm pretty sure this is what I'm thinking of. https://www.pcmag.com/news/lastpass-android-app-contains-7-t... Again, imo trackers in a pw manager is unacceptable.

Define "old" in this context. Is old considered 7 years ago, around when this guy was an employee at logmein?

I understand the connivence, but I still don't get why one would want to expose their pw manager to something like an internet browser.

I don't understand why tech savvy people are doubting the security of a pw manager with a strong master pw; this wasn't a failure caused by a flaw in the concept of a pw manager itself, but by a company's shitty implementation and design (I mean c'mon, certain fields were encrypted but others weren't, and they didn't make it super obvious?).

The red flags were fairly evident 2 years ago, even to someone like me who's not very observant; if I recall correctly, their android app was found to have tracking mechanism purely used for marketing purposes etc. Really? Trackers in a password manager, something that should be quite private. Combined with a few data breaches they had over around 2 years ago, I couldn't recommend them to anyone in good conscience.

Lol why? Are you completely against anything that uses chromium?

> don't need to go on a bunch of side missions every time i run npm install

Lol what a great way to describe what running a simple "npm install" entails.

Maybe this is a 'straw man', but this is what I refer to when I say I prefer iPhones for their reliability and stability, or at least what I perceive to be more reliable than most android phones. The closest issue I can recall on iPhone was that issue where saying some nonsense to siri caused an erroneous dialing of 911.

I get it, this is sorta a one off thing, but it irks me when super basic functionality of the phone is unstable, such as making a literal phone call.

Traditional institutions will always be dominant in some capacity, as many people are attracted to the convenience they offer. Unless something catastrophic occurs, crippling traditional financial systems or are truly compelling/easy to use platform releases, I can't imagine anything not owned by a "Traditional institution", let alone anything close to what Web 3 proponents preach regarding decentralization & where ownership lies.

I only have a very surface level understanding of linux, how does code running in user mode incur a bit of overhead as opposed to Kernel?

Wow, a pacemaker malfunctioning due to a stray cosmic ray is incredible/alarming; I've only heard of these single upset events in the context of aerospace applications, not a medical device.

I agree, in my experience, MacOS is one of the most reliable operating systems I've used in terms of lack of crashes or spurrious bugs; the most common bug I see is my mouse pointer dissapearing, which is fixed by opening the tasks view.