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throwaway48476on Key IOCs for Pegasus and Predator Spyware Removed with iOS 26 Update

Apple isn't even trying to secure the iPhone. They could have rewritten the imessage parsers in a memory safe language. It would at least take a big byte out of the zero click exploits.

throwaway48476on Key IOCs for Pegasus and Predator Spyware Removed with iOS 26 Update

Aren't gifts to the president kept by the government? In the US usually bribery is done by giving jobs to relatives or favorable contracts.

throwaway48476on Key IOCs for Pegasus and Predator Spyware Removed with iOS 26 Update

You cant solve thefts with just technology. You need to lock up the criminals.

throwaway48476on Windows 10 Deadline Boosts Mac Sales

I hear Intel in unhappy because enterprise fleets are replacing win 10 with macs.

throwaway48476on Windows 10 Deadline Boosts Mac Sales

The start menu is now written in Javascript and horrifically slow.

throwaway48476on ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than Windows it ships with

Rockstars DRM is so bad they sell Razor1911 cracks on steam.

throwaway48476on ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than Windows it ships with

No it's just slowed down by windows bloat. Weaker and mobile devices suffer the most due to aggressive power saving.

throwaway48476on Greenland’s national telco, Tusass, signs new agreement with Eutelsat

Not all launches are the same. ULA is still more competitive in geo.

throwaway48476on Apple alerts exploit developer that his iPhone was targeted with gov spyware

"It's the implication"

throwaway48476on Getting DeepSeek-OCR working on an Nvidia Spark via brute force with Claude Code

Its also going to be unsupported after a few years.

throwaway48476on Apple alerts exploit developer that his iPhone was targeted with gov spyware

If you're developing tools you're likely testing against vendor network monitoring apps and in the habit of using them.

throwaway48476on Apple alerts exploit developer that his iPhone was targeted with gov spyware

Plata o plomo. Usually a combination of threats and bribery is most effective. The truly dangerous groups usually have the ability and willingness to pay well.

throwaway48476on Public trust demands open-source voting systems

An optical hollerith machine would be useful. It would sort paper ballots into buckets based on selection. It's relatively easy to flip through a stack of ballots and ensure that every one has the same selection. Saves the effort of hand sorting which is not error free.

throwaway48476on UA 1093

There are thousands of flights every day for decades. There's going to be a collision at some point.

throwaway48476on South Africa's one million invisible children without birth certificates

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/GDP_per_...

Temporal causality is not a difficult concept.

throwaway48476on South Africa's one million invisible children without birth certificates

Haiti and the DR only diverged economically after the debt ended. It's not a convincing argument.

throwaway48476on South Africa's one million invisible children without birth certificates

The Amish have a social security exemption.

throwaway48476on South Africa's one million invisible children without birth certificates

Haiti failed to develop, south africa is developing in reverse.

throwaway48476on iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency

If it was marketed it would be successful. Users are keenly aware of the lag modern programs have, even with top spec new hardware.

throwaway48476on iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency

I liked aero too, XP was too fisher price.

throwaway48476on When a stadium adds AI to everything, it's worse experience for everyone

On a society level I think everyone realizes the ship is sinking and just looting everything they can before running for the lifeboats.

Bureaucracies became a spoils system. In the 60s the civil rights movement would boycott companies and then demand favors. Minority groups realized the moral weakness of western society and are just in it to loot whatever they can. For them the 350 pages of spoils are very important.

throwaway48476on When a stadium adds AI to everything, it's worse experience for everyone

Its not the fault of the engineers, they just did a job. The parasites come from elsewhere. I read that in order to build a reactor in the UK they spent 350 pages in the plan discussing how jobs would be given to various minority groups. Everything government touches is a racket now.

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Moralizing people have some really bizarre moral utility functions. Somehow more people is always more better and any kind of finite reality does not apply. It's like a moral ponzi scheme.

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That's how it started but over time the program was captured by bureaucrat insiders to line their own pockets.

It won't let me reply, but I agree. I think when organizations are new and shiny the stakeholders are excited and pay attention. Over time attention shifts to the new shiny thing and only inertia and self dealing keep the organization together.

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Or it's going to be corrupt no matter what. Like life, corruption finds a way.

throwaway48476on When a stadium adds AI to everything, it's worse experience for everyone

Usually something is sacrificed in the name of extractive profit. With public spending it's just less taxes.

throwaway48476on iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency

Vista problems were largely nvidia driver crashes and low spec machines. Otherwise vista was fine.