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> and memory on the computer to hold an entire page of pixels. I mean, at 72dpi that's 50KB just for the data! Fwiw it was common for text editors at the time to render/raster in c…

Applying the slightest scrutiny to this Twitter thread revealed that the Twitter thread was actually the complete fraud the entire time

You can just not donate.

That was just one example of an egregious mistake. There are more, many more. also, It’s the fundamental claim of the thread, and it casts the rest of the logic into doubt. His cor…

It’s worth noting that this tweet thread makes some major mistakes, both in dates and in roles. For example, while she was hired by NASA after Apollo 8, she had already been workin…

The chat landscape is dire. I view Signal as a least bad option for my friends to use.

It’s vastly more complicated than “apple opens an api”. iMessage does a lot more than just messaging, and key components of apples spam and fraud story are tied to individual devic…

Feature by feature, and doing a cost comparison, shows that iPhones are very good value. But they don’t have a phone under $400. And even in the developed world that’s a lot of mon…

Yeah, you can get an android phone that will take pictures, send messages, play, music, run Uber/maps, and take calls for under $50. Those phones aren’t great, but they are usable.…

Considering the Phoenix like rise the platform made, it was accurate at the time but short sighted.

Credit Karma’s Karmanauts. Oof.

Very possibly, the FBI has some strong leads, and are building a case. This is something on the national scale with lots of federal internal attention - reports likely even having …

Any shop worth their salt is going to embed the cert chain in their app. In fact, you get that for free with pretty much every drm lib, such as the ones major providers like steam,…

Gumroad is part of a movement of “friendly” drm. You’re paying for support and updates. Intercepting a tls call is easier said than done, but the ethos is around accepting pirates …

There are significant and effective federal regulations around this. If you are telling the truth, your steering wheel is way too high, and you need to lower it

Mercedes put a bunch of these in the $100k plus EQS. Car companies: we are begging you, please stop with controls without pressure sensitivity and haptic feedback. Copy apple if yo…

If I’m paying them to answer me, yes.

The page linked doesn’t say a lot, but it does say “local web interface”

Apple has really set the standard on battery life - 10-11 hours would be considered on the short end for any modem Mac laptop. My air performs on par with some high end ultrabooks,…

While I believe that this is actually a simmering threat to society, I have a lot of trust that the current slew of devices are not eavesdropping on you. I believe smartphones to b…

I bet that’s at cost tbh. You’d be surprised how cheap things have gotten. However, r&d and every single Alexa request costs money. So from day one, it’s losing money.

Teslas are fine(ish) cars, but they seem resistant to forming deals to provide skateboards to niche applications, like Chinese companies are doing. There’s big money there!

When people see small fines like this, they assume it’s a slap on the wrist. And it is. Because the message is loud and clear: don’t make us pay attention to you and fix your shit.…

> not my experience, overblowing It absolutely is my experience as well. I suspect there’s a sizable majority of people who have no issues with their Tesla ever. But there are stil…

He was running scams out of Dubai. Big bad look for them. If you take your winnings and lay low, they’ll probably leave you alone.