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dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24767378

I think Super is the author’s own product fwiw

Articles like these (I've read a few), while well-intentioned, seem to contribute to self righteous ideas about video calls... As someone who has invested in a video conferencing setup, I don't really think it's fair to expect any friend or colleague to do _any_ effort to make themselves sound good.

People often draw the wrong conclusions from posts like this. I've worked with people who've taken offense if anyone's video conferencing gear wasn't up to their bar, and it felt like a meta-topic that was never worth the time.

Also worth looking at their developer-facing status page, where a couple of their developer products are currently facing issues: https://developer.apple.com/system-status/

Pret is also in the US, have been before and didn’t notice anything that remarkable

Strongly second Rustlings. I found it to be quite fun — felt like playing a puzzle game... the pacing of the course is very well done.

Once you get the fundamentals of Rust down, I recommend writing something multi-threaded. It's not that much harder than writing single threaded Rust and a good test of knowledge; in my case I wrote a tiny web app:

https://github.com/ylukem/pin-go

Normally I’d agree, but in this case Twitter abruptly ended the thread, hiding it behind a click to ask me if I wanted Covid-19 info and show me tangentially related content.

https://imgur.com/a/LPXeSb4

Certificate Transparency makes this significantly harder to do stealthily. I’m not convinced that Cloudflare is a deep state operation either, but Cloudflare's ability to secretly MITM is a position afforded to a select few, and certainly not every CA.

Sketch has the same subscription model.

You need to compile your app with the new version of Xcode to target iOS 14, and you couldn't do that until the GM version of Xcode was released yesterday. Meaning that if there's any iOS 14-showstopping bugs, depending on the type of bug, you wouldn't be able to get a fix out promptly. There's also the work of e.g. verifying that your app works as advertised on the iOS 14 GM, which also was only released yesterday.

It's possible that the attack didn't happen through the regular oauth credential request flow — if the OP logged in to Facebook inside of an app-controlled webview, the app could have just exfiltrated the user's login cookie and performed the change using "first-party" Facebook APIs.

Instagram was acquired in 2012.

Many gaming streamers on Twitch play music (at least at a low volume) while they stream. A blanket ban like this doesn't make me think that Facebook is going to get a significant part of Twitch's market anytime soon despite their "Facebook Gaming" initiative.

Apple's blog post about their plans:

"We are committed to ensuring users can choose whether or not they allow an app to track them. To give developers time to make necessary changes, apps will be required to obtain permission to track users starting early next year. More information, including an update to the App Store Review Guidelines, will follow this fall."

https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=hx9s63c5

Nowhere in the linked post does it mention that Facebook explicitly receive "a cut", nor is that how it works (at least on Instagram). Sure, Facebook as an opt-in label for sponsored content that adds extra functionality (and helps with FTC compliance) but most sponsored influencer content on Instagram doesn't use these tools.

Parts of this fall flat as the author doesn’t grasp what they’re satirizing.

>Facebook actually gave some of the money it made from running those ads through its system to the business that paid for those ads. Which doesn’t make any sense but shut up, Facebook is the good guy, ok? And Apple is wrong to be doing this.

Facebook Audience Network, affected by these changes, includes display ads running in 3rd-party (read: not Facebook) apps. App makers showing ads receive a split of the ad revenue in those cases.

Google running the DNS resolver wouldn’t fix this problem; due to the nature of the requests that Chrome is making, the lookups would have to hit the root server because they wouldn’t be cached anywhere else.

Nobody has really “had their game shut off”. People who have Fortnite installed already are still able to play it indefinitely. Apple could have done this by revoking Epic’s developer certificate, but that hasn’t yet happened.

Oof. Depending on how they store authentication data, it might be possible to get someone's session token. Let's hope the cookies are "HttpOnly".

Can a brave soul upload a .pdf? I’m sure the mods would change the link to that.

Yep, Apple only used that account to run ads on.

Off-topic but I went to share the URL to this article in iOS Safari, and was surprised that the URL I shared was on a completely different origin (propublica.org). Now, that link appears to be the same story on ProPublica’s site, but that was pretty jarring; had no idea that browsers respect changing share links to entirely different domains.

We don’t know if the previous owner got the trackpad or not. For example, if there were a problem with the computer and it was swapped for a new one, Apple probably wouldn’t ask for the Magic Trackpad. Or even if it was returned, I imagine those two products have different pools of stock.

But not in the Tesla app. Apple Pay doesn't really seem relevant here.

This almost got me and then I looked at the date of publication.

I wonder how much this will enable another wave of "Adobo Flash Player Browser Toolbar"-like adware since the official source will be removed.

Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23500093

I've done something similar. I used to have a few Raspberry Pis with 3G modems attached to them, with prepaid SIMs that had "unlimited" SMS plans.

It actually did work for a while. The problem that you run into is that carriers rate limit the number of texts per minute that a particular phone number can send (this is a problem with Twilio too, but in that case it's much easier to spin up a new number).

I have a hunch they'll use the opportunity to kill Boot Camp, which has been unloved for years. However I hope to be wrong here — supporting ARM based operating systems would be a super cool thing for Apple to do.

> Prop 13 is just homeowner fiscal responsibility.

This argument doesn’t hold up when you consider that Prop 13 applies to much more than single family homes; commercial property is included and wealthy land developers benefit greatly from the measure.