Shekelphile

> Beeper Mini does not MITM messages - it's a reverse engineering of how iMessage works, and runs entirely on-device, without putting messages thru Beeper's servers. It talks directly to Apple and pretends to be an iPhone.

It doesn't matter. It's closed source and not easily audited - they could easily just be doing a naive solution and piping every message back to themselves after it's decrypted by the client.

Yeah I really don't get the hype at all. I played through a fair bit of act 1 and dropped it quick. I've played other crpgs without issues but had my ass handed to me pretty quickly in bg3 with the constant ambushes and having to jump between quests constantly just to progress enough to level up.

No. Mostly Samsung lied and put oleophobic coatings on all the vulnerable points that washes away from a few weeks/months of ambient humidity. Phones like that are not waterproof in the real world, and if you want a hard example of that you can just look at Samsungs folding devices (they have to use the same coating ‘cheat’ there to get any ip rating)

bitcoin has no usecase as 'digital cash' anyway. plenty of other coins fill that role better for years now.

Amazon only comingles inventory among FBA sellers, and gives each an option to opt-out from it if they want to. They never comingle 'sold by amazon.com' items. In cases where I've bought amazon.com items and not from FBA sellers I never received bad products, and I've easily bought dozens of SD cards, flash drives, SSDs, etc.

Probably chinese sellers on all those sites. I've noticed a common thread with people who complain about counterfeits is that they're literally buying alphabet soup brand fakes from chinese FBA sellers instead of buying products directly sold by amazon or from more traditional retail channels.

Hynix's flash is just fine. It's the controller at fault for this.

Pretty much every brand uses phison controllers in at least some of their products, even wd/samsung/intel who design controllers in house use them for their cheapest offerings because phison is all about making the cheapest product possible.

2/12 is not good, especially if the drives that failed were using off the shelf phison controllers which is basically the entire market besides sandisk/samsung/intel.

It's essentially impossible to prove in court that training data was obtained or used improperly unless you go and tell on yourself. And even then it requires you to actually make someone with a lot of money mad, or to not have enough money yourself. Certainly microsoft would have already caught lots of flak for training their models on every github repo, instead they got a minor paddling from the public eye that went away after not much time had passed.

The reddit app uses an undocumented graphql based api seperate from the publicly available rest api used by third party apps.

I don't think getting training data is that hard still, the biggest platforms that locked down their APIs still use them for their mobile apps and can easily be reverse engineered to find keys or undocumented endpoints (or in the case of reddit, an entirely different internal API with less limits and a lot more info leaks...)

There's plenty of options on the market for phones with headphone jacks. You won't find an apple or samsung flagship with one because it directly impedes waterproofing and isn't desired by the vast majority of people buying those devices. It's common to see on low and midrange phones.

> Besides, I think you mean UP to Android's level.

Uh no, considering RCS is seriously flawed in design and implementation and doesn't encrypt messages end-to-end or even in flight.

> It's pressure to adhere to standards. Maybe you can't see it, but it's a good thing.

Calling RCS a standard is loaded. It was all but abandoned for years until google started forcing it on users and tacking proprietary extensions on top of it.

> What if you hire a contractor for some work and they need to send you pictures/video from an Android?

I would absolutely not want to do business with a contractor that uses an android phone. That's a serious red flag for someone doing work on a (usually very expensive) home to be using cheap tools.

This is extremely unethical to offer as a service. Apple account credentials have to be stored as plain text to continuously reauthenticate with apple's servers and the broken e2e means they can store whatever they want from your messages (as well as all other parts of your apple account, like photos and icloud backups).

If they wanted to do this properly the answer is to reverse engineer whatever protocol imessage uses under the hood and make their own client - this is most likely just a simple rebrand of the few FOSS tools that already do the same imessage relay thing.

And of course, when apple inevitable does fight this, the average person will chimp out thinking it's apple doing apple things when in reality no other company would allow a third party to harvest their user's credentials and data in this manner.

None of that matters. Plants only sequester carbon that was already in the atmosphere and it goes right back into it when they die. Methane breaks down to CO2 in a number of months/years and has no effect on geologic timescales.

The only solution to climate change is to stop introducing carbon that was sequestered hundreds of millions of years ago. Championing causes like 'you need to eat the bugs' is not a productive use of time and does nothing to change the status quo in the end.

The methane emissions from farming do not matter in the slightest anyway. They can only release what they already absorbed from their feed. We should stop adding more ghg to the atmosphere that hasn't been there for millions of years, allowing the carbon cycle to continue with that ghg currently in atmosphere does no harm.

The people crying about this are simply serving an agenda of people who want to force the average citizen to eat bugs to make literal pennies more in profit for them and their family. It's absurd. We won't do anything about climate change by stopping agriculture, it will simply ruin food supply.

The discourse around the subject seems to be overwhelming disgust by the people who would be victimized by it and unending enthusiasm by the rich who would not be forced to eat bugs.

I think at this point it's sane to say that if this trend continues the only option left will be violence against the people pushing this (as well as their beneficiaries) onto broader society, if government will not step in to stop businesses from pursuing this agenda.

I'm confused by the idea that torx could be superior. I don't think I've ever touched a device or car with torx heads that didn't end up with half of them being stripped.

Using an emulator does not make you a pirate.

> I question a 30% developer fee for using Steam.

30% was more reasonable in 2005-2006 when steam was getting it's first third party games on the platform (and games were cheaper as well, a selling point for digital distribution at the time, which has no longer existed for many years due to greed) and when compute and bandwidth was massively more expensive than it is today. These days the cut should be closer to 5-10% at most.

> Destroying nearly every mod and skin community.

I miss those days so much. When I was a teenager there was always new maps and mods for hl1/hl2 to try out. Now modding in pretty much every game and it's community doesn't compare, most developers won't ever release tooling for their engines and will sue people who reverse engineer their games to make third party tooling. Even 'mod friendly' developers like paradox and bethesda don't like people making changes that affect core gameplay too much and will strip out functionality to prevent people from doing it because they would rather pump out shovelware DLCs to make money.

Valve lucked out by doing all the enshittification in the late 2000s/early 2010s when their reputation was at it's highest. If they had cultivated this same following today and then rug pulled in the way they did in the past they would have killed their business entirely. Imagine if CDPR/A ctiblizzard/EA announced they would never make a game again and would only sell third party games through GOG/Battlenet/Origin, their distribution platform. Their business would be gone in a matter of months.

One telescope can't watch one star for decades to find planets in larger orbits. All transit-based exoplanet detection will naturally bias towards detection of large planets in short orbits around small stars.

> All major OSes compress memory at this point.

zswap won't compress pages until they're swapped to disk, so essentially only once you've run out of memory to use and have begun experiencing the horrid performance degradation that comes from swapping to disk. you can use zram instead and put swappiness to a high value so the kernel aggressively swaps pages to the fake swap device made by zram, but then you lose the ability to have on-disk compressed swap pages.

i'm surprised that more work hasn't been done to fix this because memory management on linux is clearly lagging behind and affects a lot more than the minority of people using desktop linux systems, every android phone ships with 1.5x-2x more RAM than the equivalent iphone and performs worse when a bunch of apps are running in the background because of the poor memory management.

Never seen this claimed, but apple absolute does trounce qualcomm and everyone else in terms of perf/w. iPhones with 3300mah batteries are getting longer sot than android flagships with 5000mah (and greater) batteries. The state of the android ecosystem is a complete joke and has been for years.

> Are these drugs fixing/replacing a system failure where people don't feel satiated normally? > Can the same effect be replicated by eating a higher fiber and higher fat diet with more whole foods to feel full longer and slow gastric emptying?

I think it simply takes a long time for your body to adjust back to where it should be after a period of extended binging and these drugs make it happen much faster. The only time I consistently lost weight in my life was when I lived in a food desert and had no car and not much money, so I was forced to only buy the cheapest vegetables and meats (usually chicken) and make what I could out of that and make it last for the week. Even then it took more than 6 months before I felt normal eating that way.

Of course, it's extremely easy to fall off the wagon when your body works this way too. Even a day can wipe out weeks of gains and you can always 'relapse' even after months of doing the right thing, and end up stagnating or completely reversing any progress you've made. In a way it seems that food is the most addictive drug of all. You can easily quit alcohol, cigarettes, hard drugs with a couple weeks of willpower (and I have multiple times). You can't ever stop eating food if you want to be around to experience life.

Some states have weaponized this. In Florida for example a huge amount of offices are staffed by NPs but they have passed legislation to lock certain groups of people out from receiving care from them as they are the target of the current political hot button issue. Being told you need to find an MD when most offices won't let you see one and may not even have one in the building at the time is laughable.

Even if they did that there would be no guarantee the price would remain the same. Google has done unannounced price increases for premium at least 3 times in the last year or so.

I don't think they will lose. The average luddite doesn't care about seeing ads and will look perplexed at you if you tell them about ad blockers. Other services injecting ads into video streams have already been 'winning' for years. Ultimately youtube will push the envelope until even the people paying for premium will be seeing ads and savvy people will move on to pre-downloading videos and stripping ads from them before watching or similar janky solutions.

Acceptance of and capitulation to reactionaries.