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PrettyPastry··on How uv got so fast
I wish this were enough to get the flake8 devs to accept pyproject support PRs.
PrettyPastry··on Not an iPad Pro Review: Why iPadOS Still Doesn't Get the Basics Right
Does tvOS user switching do anything at all? I tried recently, and all the third party app data was shared across users.
PrettyPastry··on Microsoft / Activision deal prevented to protect innovation and choice in gaming
Cloud gaming is great when you are stuck without a console or gaming pc. It runs in the browser, so it works on phones and cheap laptops.

That said, the steam deck provides a better gaming experience than a cloud gaming on a phone.

PrettyPastry··on An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email
Some services even accept it to create an account, but not to log in.

One never let me change my email or password when I used the +.

PrettyPastry··on The High Privacy Cost of a “Free” Website
> One of the websites doing this, SunTrust Bank, sent the user name and password we entered to a third party, Jornaya, which says it encrypts and discards the data it collects.

Wow. Deep down the page is a nugget about suntrust just giving away your username and password. Big reminder to use unique passwords of every site.

PrettyPastry··on Copying is not theft, but censorship is (2012)
Interpretation as in a sign language interpretation.
PrettyPastry··on Zoom’s Use of Facebook’s SDK in iOS Client
You can listen to the iPhone with wireshark using OWASP zap as a proxy.
PrettyPastry··on Samsung: Anyone's thumbprint can unlock Galaxy S10 phone
That does not appear to be the case.

There is a video circulating these comments. It shows someone register their finger without the screen, slap the screen protector over top and unlock with a different, previously rejected finger.

Edit: https://twitter.com/sta_light_/status/1184475413252210688?s=...

PrettyPastry··on Software made me loathe my car
Unless they start doing the same thing the article describes, charging a subscription for CarPlay.

They literally added extra systems to disable it so they could charge rents.

PrettyPastry··on Software made me loathe my car
Does Tesla support CarPlay or Android Auto?
PrettyPastry··on Progressives Are Regulating Away Equality Benefits of Uber, Airbnb and Google
Let’s not forget Time was purchased by major right wing political influencers.
PrettyPastry··on [dead]
> There is no (intentional) intrinsic value to the problem you are solving when you mine a new BitCoin. If you were looking for interesting and valuable solutions to compute, you would almost certainly not pick any of the ones have been found as a result of BitCoin mining.

I agree that Bitcoin doesn’t have an intrinsic value, but I think he is missing the argument people actually make. The value isn’t in the problem they solve, but the power spent to solve it. At least, that is what I have always heard.