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ptlu··on Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting
The Apollo client on iOS is wonderful. Not affiliated or anything, I just love it.

https://apolloapp.io/

ptlu··on “Adobe Flash is no longer supported in Safari”
Totally naive question: Would Unity + WASM cover the game space Flash used to well?
ptlu··on Zoom has a signed binary that runs any unsigned script
Link to the cached version of the tweet: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:a7E7do...
ptlu··on Zoom has a signed binary that runs any unsigned script
FaceTime? It probably doesn't work at conference scale but it is E2E.

> We designed iMessage and FaceTime to use end-to-end encryption, so there’s no way for Apple to decrypt the content of your conversations when they are in transit between devices.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209110

ptlu··on Electron apps cannot be submitted to the Apple store
React Native doesn't use Chromium under the hood, it renders using native iOS/Android components not a web view like Electron.
ptlu··on Electron apps cannot be submitted to the Apple store
As a user of macOS, I want developers who makes apps to use public APIs that will be supported so I don't get breakages on system upgrades or migrations.
ptlu··on Apple Is Sending URLs to Tencent?
Language and Locale are separate preferences. You can mix and match however you want on iOS.
ptlu··on 50 U.S. states and territories announce broad antitrust investigation of Google
These are states bringing g this issue. So it isn’t up to this particular administration in this case or even the DOJ.
ptlu··on iMessage: Malformed Message Bricks iPhone
Works in my FF 67.
ptlu··on iMessage: Malformed Message Bricks iPhone
As an FYI:

> Unrestricting, as this was fixed in the 12.3 update.

ptlu··on Intel Exiting 5G Modems
Non-competes are not enforced in California.
ptlu··on How Amazon’s Ad Business Could Threaten Google and Facebook
Hello!

I used to working on the AMS self-service advertising team as a developer.

Note all opinions are my own.

When I first joined the advertising team, I was unsure about a product that can have a seedy sort of reputation on the web. But I was very pleasantly surprised how much we care about the customer experience in regards to ads at Amazon.

The end goal is always to show the customer the best item for purchase, and Retail would always set a high bar for the Ads team. This has in-turn caused us to invest a lot into ensuring the relevancy of our ads is top notch, we do not want to display ads which are ineffective - this hurts both the retail customer and the advertiser.

Nothing would get approved without vigorous testing to ensure the ads had a neutral or positive impact on the retail customer.

ptlu··on macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty password
It is about the increased risk fellow users will have due to this style of disclosure. Who cares about the vendor, but they are best situated to resolve the issue quickly for everyone.
ptlu··on Elixir v1.4.0 released
thanks!!
ptlu··on What a graph of 8,000 fake Twitter accounts looks like
While in terms of metrics bots might help Twitter's numbers look better I would say Twitter has a large incentive to do something about bots.

1. Bots degrade the experience for the regular user. The site feels less authentic with bots, and the quality of the content overall goes down. If you're trying to get eyes on Twitter, bot content does not help you.

2. Bots are not helpful when looking at your ad metrics. Bots are not actually viewing ads and are not interacting with them. If you're goal is to get actual eyeballs on ads, and showing those ads have impact then bots make your site look weaker.

ptlu··on iOS holding my phone number hostage = the worst bug I’ve ever experienced
You can unlink your phone number from iMessages, and even deactivate iMessages totally avoiding this problem...
ptlu··on The new Galaxy Note 3 is region-locked
There is a difference between default apps and apps for which the manufacturer was paid to put on the phone in order to advertise to the purchaser.

Apple does not get paid by another company to load its default apps onto the phone.

ptlu··on If Tesla Would Stop Selling Cars, We’d All Save Some Money
The author blames a company which is able to take advantage of laws rather than blaming the lawmakers for creating such laws.

1. Tesla is able to sell carbon credits it earns from selling its cars. Due to California law, other car companies must buy these credits to offset the sale of their fossil fuel burning cars. 2. Its customers get a lower price on their vehicles due to tax-credits for electric vehicles.

These are the laws in place which help a company like Tesla grow.

I would imagine these laws are designed to do exactly what they are doing, which is helping an electric car manufacture grow and compete in a world dominated by vehicles using fossil fuels.

The hidden argument he is making is that fossil fuels and climate change surely cost us nothing and should not be included at all in the cost of items which generate a third of CO2 emissions.