This is just awesome, installed iOS 12 on iPod Touch 6 and my react-native app has stable 58-60fps during scrolling of the large list of messages!
Impressive!
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Also several of the iCloud services are E2E encrypted and designed to withstand adversarial clouds. They talked about it at Blackhat.[1] Doesn't help things like mail or photos, of course, but it is extremely notable in the China context for one big reason: it does E2E encrypt messages. WhatsApp was banned from China when they implemented this. Apple stands out in this way... although they're probably getting away wi…
Yeah but even if they use e2e, which btw was found to be flawed at the protocol design level by prof. Matthew Greene and his team, they also automatically back-up the messages to iCloud with no way to disable that without disabling the whole of icloud. It would sure be nice if they changed that.
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "e2e was found to be flawed"? Is the paper available online?
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#233Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even private VPNs? I'm not that smart about networking but it seems like it would be difficult to distinguish an SSL/TLS connection to your DigitalOcean server because you're doing normal stuff and one where you're tunneling HTTPS through it.
It's not hard to distinguish a VPN connection by behaviour pattern really. Some simple features to detect: Both small packets and maxing out the window size in one stream. Lack of DNS queries from the host. Single connection dominating the bandwidth. There's a reason for all of those of course, but put them together on a residential connection: almost certainly a VPN user. And these are all really simple heuristics.…
There was a post recently about how someone was able to set up his own vpn which bypassed it. Something about the server padding out its response with garbage data?
Re: iOS 12 released
#234This was a bit jarring to me: Apple takes a big stance on privacy as a fundamental human right but feel free to spy on what your kids are up to?
It can be taken too far, but generally, if you paid for their device and you're legally responsible for their well-being and things they do on the internet, then I don't see the issue.
Combine this with the fact that the kid doesn't have to use the device for anything/everything.
It's like wanting to know where the kid is driving if you paid for the car, the insurance, and you're legally and financially responsible if they hit someone/something.
Again, I do believe this can be taken too far (and I don't know exactly where the line is). Paying for a phone doesn't give you right to spy on absolutely everything. I haven't seen anything that is beyond just app usage time, though.
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#235After installing it, head to https://purecycles.com/products/urban-commuter-bike to see the best feature. Placing 3D models in your house via ARKit right from Safari. Writeup on this Shopify rollout: https://www.shopify.ca/blog/shopify-ar
That's really cool. I'm looking forward to more sites implementing this. Imagine if every Amazon product had this.
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#236Earlier quoted context omitted.
The way they describe the implementation, it basically sounds like they're intentionally trying to screw Facebook and Google. That it also benefits the user is likely just a side-effect, but that's what marketing is for.
That’s how capitalism should work, buddy—companies competing with each other to win users. I absolutely do not see why this is a problem.
I didn't say that it is a problem. I'm just saying that it's a more likely explanation than Apple suddenly being sincerely concerned about everybody's privacy. If it benefits us, I couldn't care less either way.
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#237I'm still on iOS 10 on my iPhone SE. Why should I upgrade? Even if there was a convincing reason to, I'm afraid performance will tank, as it often does on older iPhones getting their last update.
"iOS 12 on the iPhone 5S, iPhone 6 Plus, and iPad Mini 2: It’s actually faster!" https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/09/ios-12-on-the-iphone...
Faster than ios 11. Unclear if it's faster than ios 10.
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#238I hope they've fixed the bug in Mail.app where it fixates on a particular message from a month ago, which then requires you to scroll like a hamster to get to the latest messages. And then then next time as well. This has been around for a while, so I'm not really holding my breath.
I'm personally hoping for correct message ordering in iMessage. It frequently puts replies to questions before the question had been asked, so reading back through conversations makes very little sense. That's been around for years as well, so again no holding my breath. At least it's faster!
Do you use multiple iOS devices or perhaps Messages on Mac? This bug has been driving me crazy for the last year at least, and I've noticed that it happens more often when I'm using messages on the laptop and phone.
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It has the 6S's internal hardware, not the 6's. So it's way more powerful than the 6, let alone the 5S.
There are actually two phones called iphone se. It was updated from iphone6 hardware to iphone6s hardware partway through it’s life cycle withou a change to the name. The updated SE is also availible in rose gold while the original was not.
The iPhone SE launched with 6S internals and has never been changed except for a storage bump and a price drop.
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Anyone notice any major downsides, regressions, feature removals? The original app was powerful but quite complicated to use, I imagine Apple dumbed it down a bit for widespread adoption.
I lost most of my publishing shortcuts, which was expected, but lost the complication in the Apple Watch and its button launcher, which was critical for my commutes...
They added the ability to record a custom Siri command to trigger a workflow, perhaps that might help.