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Sure it's not sufficient to formally prove security of the system e2e, but i'd guess it's sufficient for the average user. As for shipping a client with broken encryption... Aren't people using Signal (like the person I originally responded to suggested) at risk of the same thing? Nobody's verifying checksums on every update except for people who aren't using WhatsApp for their comms anyway.

Because the number of people who can actually validate the security of the open source options is vanishingly small and assessments like this provide sufficient evidence that WhatsApp's claims are not bunk.

Apple arguing developers need to be protected from those same developers newfound ability to add links to external payment options.

That's... quite a take.

MacOS is less intuitive to me than windows and I can already run Linux in Windows to get a good desktop + dev experience. I don't see the value in learning a third OS.

Minus the preventative part.

This is the correct answer.

Why do you think Apple pushes ipads for education?

As I understand it those same documents showed that actually they mostly _benefit_ teenage children.

Please no. Would be the most nickel and diming cloud in existence.

What does "politically unbiased" mean here, exactly? The way I interpret what you wrote is that you're against the current push for making it easier to vote and anything that disagrees with that will be seen as "politically biased" by you. Is that correct?

I guess the other option is that you disagree with expert witnesses as a concept?

> this small subset of self-selecting people who are okay with their tablet requiring a login to work, are okay with their devices requiring a login to work

I'll go ahead and assume English isn't your first language. I was saying the vast majority of people who own ipads are fine with needing to login to an account to get the most out of it. Doesn't seem like a particularly controversial statement.

Now go ahead and find some way in which the above sentence is technically incorrect, but you're starting to look silly.

FB is pushing AR and VR as I understand it. The VR part is just what's already shipped. I think it'll be similar to iOS/Android because FB will beat Google to the punch.

I'd argue Apply leveraged lock-in and the power of defaults.

What if they're resharing Youtube videos?

I wonder who you think I meant by "you"? Did you assume I specifically know the parent in person and how they use their ipad at home? If so, and I can only assume you did otherwise your comment would be nonsense, I can see how that would be confusing and seem disingenuous to you.

> I can root it and install alternative store

Well if you can root an Oculus you can do whatever you want there as well. That's the whole point of... root.

Oh? The overwhelming majority of people don't log into Apple accounts when setting up their ipads?

Do better.

Was still a breakaway hit.

You log into an ipad. What's the difference?

Given they made MORE money in this experiment, I suspect the decision to roll it back was more nuanced than a naive analysis and bad science experiment.

Citation needed.

If Facebook is not very good I'm wondering who, of any size, is good? As I understand it, Facebook is actually the best at this. It's just also the biggest.

Another way to think of it is she ensured none of the social media giants today (YouTube, TikTok, Snap) or those that come after will do this research.

I'd say "your network" has likely gotten too big for your original intent. I'm not exposed to the 3 billion people on the platform. I only have family and close friends.

Do you think that finally tuning their photo processing software to produce good results for people with darker skin tones (to match the good results they already had for lighter skin tones) is empty posturing?

They literally acted instead of talking about it.

Largely both I'd imagine. Facebook, Slack, and Etsy all still run PHP (or Hack which is a PHP flavor) as far as I know. I'm sure there are a ton of other large web properties doing the same for their web tier.

Anyone mad at the universities that actually collected this data? Or just Facebook?

> And how would you stop them from simply replacing their competitors?

Competent competitors will do that naturally. See TikTok vs Reels.

imo the issue is journalists living on Twitter. Journalists are becoming "creators" and trying to build their brands on social media like every else in an effort to parlay name recognition into more money/power.

How do you get more popular on Twitter? Well, you write (in an opinionated way) about Twitter controversies. This we are bombarded by news and articles that are primed to be controversial and that the majority of people in this country don't actually give a crap about.

> and why?

Because ease of use.