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selsta

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    Comment #37641909

    Apple has a list of all metadata that uses regular encryption instead of E2EE: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303

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    Comment #34054089

    The linked post is incorrect, Apple Music doesn't touch or replace any local files. iTunes Match has also been DRM-free since launch.

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    Comment #33781159

    Pixel 7 is made in China according to this tweet: https://twitter.com/vvaiibhav/status/1580454957580681216

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    Comment #33781045

    WhatsApp runs on devices with iOS 12 or newer, that means even an iPhone 6 can still run it.

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    Comment #33109381

    5 years of security updates, not necessarily full OS updates.

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    Comment #33109115

    Google has been completely silent about it, just yesterday another person reported the 911 bug with the Pixel 6 Pro. https://reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/xwjnf2/pixel_6_pro...…

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    Comment #33074763

    These two are not the same thing. Every app is allowed to serve you personalized ads, without asking. ATT is about cross app/site tracking between other companies, which is somethi…

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    Comment #32973916

    The Huawei Fit performed significantly worse compared to the Apple Watch in this sleep test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPqtfC70QTU

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    Comment #31249349

    monero, without dev tax and pre-mine, simply doesn't have the funds to compete in research with other, more well funded projects. I don't see how a different emission curve would h…

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    Comment #29214620

    Low power mode wasn't enabled by default on my machine.

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    Comment #28999498

    Apple asks you if you want personalized ads in the app store and news app: https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/2/22654121/apple-personalize...

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    Comment #28975892

    I have found AMP to be an awful experience. It messes with native scrolling physics, pages are often incomplete or straight up broken. It also disables Reader mode on iOS so I'm al…

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    Comment #28975733

    FWIW Amplosion (paid iOS extension to automatically redirect AMP pages) is quite highly ranked on the app store. It clearly isn't only techies that dislike it so much that they act…

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    Comment #28643931

    These images appear to be significantly downsized for the blog, you can't use them to judge sharpness.

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    Comment #28522005

    The CLI does support Ledger but it uses the same monerod binary as the GUI. Did you export your view key with Ledger? If you refuse it can cause hanging and crashes. With exported …

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    Comment #28520637

    When was the last time you tried the desktop GUI? It has improved significantly over the years. Also you should try out Feather wallet[1], it has a more classic Qt design. [1] http…

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    Comment #28520557

    The Wikipedia article is incorrect, Monero still uses ring signatures. Bulletproofs are used as efficient range proofs in RingCT to hide the amount in transactions. https://www.get…

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    Comment #28520486

    Did you open an issue? There is no known bug like you are describing regarding hardware wallets and full nodes.

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    Comment #28305983

    This has always been the case when uploading something to the cloud unencrypted. You never had any privacy in the first place.

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    Comment #28177496

    > Last year, for instance, Apple reported 265 cases to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, while Facebook reported 20.3 million According to [1] it does seem like…

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    Comment #28163406

    The CSAM detection technical summary [1] only mentions iOS and iPadOS. If it does come to macOS it will be part of Photos.app, as that's the only way to interact with iCloud Photos…

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    Comment #28125059

    OCSP isn't "scanning". It checks if a certificate is revoked. https://blog.jacopo.io/en/post/apple-ocsp/

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    Comment #28125024

    Don't use the cloud if you care about privacy, or encrypt the data yourself before uploading. Has always been the case.

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