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selstaon Where’s the Apple M2?

Apple announced a two year transition, the two years are not over yet so why should they be out by now?

A new MacBook Pro with M1X will come out this fall according to credible sources.

selstaon Where’s the Apple M2?

No credible leaker (Ming-Chi Kuo, Gurman) predicted a new MacBook Pro at WWDC.

selstaon El Salvador Plans to Use Electricity Generated from Volcanoes to Mine Bitcoin

> The problem comes from privacy coins like Monero, which arguably should be outlawed (if not already)

Are you also in favour of outlawing Tor, E2EE, HTTPS? I am always surprised that some people want privacy outlawed.

Disclaimer: Monero contributor

selstaon Apple advances its privacy leadership with iOS 15, iPadOS 15, macOS Monterey

Private relay is only active when using Safari on iOS / macOS.

It's not a system wide VPN that can be used by spamming tools.

selstaon U.S. to give ransomware hacks similar priority as terrorism, official says

Kraken lists Monero in US. Other US exchanges don't have Monero listed, but that does not mean that they "banned" it.

selstaon Apple-Developer Relations

The Apple ad setting is about personalized ads, not tracking.

> App Tracking Transparency allows you to choose whether an app can track your activity across other companies’ apps and websites for the purposes of advertising or sharing with data brokers.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212025

Apple does not track you across other companies' apps and websites so I don't see how this is related. Facebook can still do personalized ads even if you click on "ask app not to track".

selstaon U.S. to give ransomware hacks similar priority as terrorism, official says

Do you have a source for your claim that the majority of Bitcoin uses are criminal? Research by blockchain analysis companies show that only a small percentage of Bitcoin usage is illicit [1][2][3].

[1] https://www.elliptic.co/resources/typologies-concise-guide-c...

[2] https://ciphertrace.com/2020-year-end-cryptocurrency-crime-a...

[3] https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/2021-crypto-crime-repor...

selstaon Apple-Developer Relations

Personalized ads can be disabled in Settings -> Privacy -> Apple ads.

selstaon All-new iMac features the M1 chip

> Configurable to 16GB unified memory

https://www.apple.com/imac-24/specs/

selstaon All-new iMac features the M1 chip

If your use case needs more RAM then simply chose the 16GB option.

8GB RAM is fine for a large portion of casual users and if it keeps the base price down I'm okay with it.

selstaon All-new iMac features the M1 chip

https://www.apple.com/imac-24/specs/

> Configurable to 16GB unified memory

selstaon Et Tu, Signal?

MobileCoin does not use any Zcash technology. It is Monero + stellar consensus protocol.

selstaon Signal adds a payments feature with a privacy-focused cryptocurrency

Why does the README mention CryptoNote when the project seems to be based on Monero + SCP?

https://twitter.com/fluffypony/status/1379559273504641025

I guess the whitepaper mentions it, but that isn't suprising considering koe wrote it.

selstaon Signal adds a payments feature with a privacy-focused cryptocurrency

XMR transaction can show up instantly once they are in the mempool, a user does not have to wait for a confirmation to see a transaction. Obviously there are uses where you want to wait for confirmations, but for the use case of sending money to friends it isn't necessary.

Fees are also in a similar range (0.01).

selstaon IRS offered $625,000 bounty to anyone who could “crack” Monero; no one succeeded

As a follow up I recommend monero's blog post on supply audibility.

https://www.getmonero.org/2020/01/17/auditability.html

selstaon Ignore AMP

In my experience AMP website would always be missing features like comments or be bugged in other ways so I usually have to load the full website anyway. It just wastes my time and is one of the reasons why I switched away from Google search.

selstaon Apple Silicon M1: A Developer's Perspective

Single core vs multi core.

The top Intel MacBook has 8 cores and only beats the M1 (4 performance cores) by 1 minute.

The desktop Hackintosh most likely has way more cores, expecting the low power M1 to beat it is unrealistic.

selstaon Apple Silicon M1 Macs do not support eGPUs

Is this really surprising? Apple said the transition is going to take 2 years. As predicted, they only updated their entry level devices yesterday.

More pro machines (e.g. 16" MBP) will probably get announced Q1 - Q2 2021. These will also have more available RAM, support more displays, etc.)

selstaon Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable Mac computers

They only upgraded the entry level Macs, as expected. The previous 2 port 13" MBP was also limited to 16GB RAM.

The 4 port 13" MBP will most likely get upgraded early next year and also support more RAM. Apple did announce the transition will take them two years, not sure why people are surprised that their high end hardware is not updated yet on day one.

selstaon Introducing the next generation of Mac

All these things work with 8GB RAM. macOS uses all available RAM aggressively, so if you have 32GB RAM it will appear as what you are doing requires 32GB RAM, which is not the case.

selstaon Introducing the next generation of Mac

macOS use RAM aggressively, so it appear as your task requires more RAM than they actually do.

selstaon Apple blocks game streaming services unless individual games are approved

Apple encourages streaming services to use Safari: https://www.engadget.com/luna-amazon-cloud-gaming-interview-...

selstaon Apple blocks game streaming services unless individual games are approved

Apple does encourage streaming apps to use Safari, they even worked together with Amazon to improve Safari for game streaming: https://www.engadget.com/luna-amazon-cloud-gaming-interview-...

So no, they are not going to block websites.

selstaon Apple's “Disposable and Unfixable” Airpods [video]

Apple is still providing security updates for the iPhone 5S, that’s an over 7 year old device.

selstaon Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com

I have reported a large amount of phishing domains and never received a reply, they also never got taken down.

selstaon Tell HN: Never search for domains on Godaddy.com

Unrelated but I have reported phishing domains to Namecheap and they have completely ignored all abuse tickets for over a month now. How should I proceed here?

selstaon Microsoft submits Linux kernel patches to enable complete Hyper-V on Linux

WSL2 is a simple virtual machine. Nothing you couldn’t do on macOS with e.g. multipass.

selstaon Implementing 'focus and reply' for Fastmail with JMAP

So you started spamming their support and then you were surprised that they didn’t get back to you immediately?

I had great experiences with Fastmail support.

selstaon Exciting Days for ARM Processors

The GUI does not display all options. You most likely can use csrutil to disable it, see the “Platforms State of the Union” WWDC talk.