ryanmcbride

It's more a policy problem than a phone problem. Apple could add as many pins as they want but until there are proper legal based privacy protections, law enforcement will still just be like "well how do we know you don't have a secret pin that unlocks 40TB of illegal content? Better disappear you just to be sure"

For as long as law enforcement treats protection of privacy as implicit guilt, the best a phone can really do is lock down and hope for the best.

Even if there was a phone that existed that perfectly protected your privacy and was impossible to crack or was easy to spoof content on, law enforcement would just move the goal post of guilt so that owning the phone itself is incriminating.

Edit: I wanna be clear that I'm not saying any phone based privacy protections are a waste of time. They're important. I'm saying that there is no perfect solution with the existing policy being enforced, which is "guilty until proven dead"

The way its bandwidth is too low to broadcast and receive at high quality at the same time meaning everyone calling into the zoom call with their fancy airpods sound like they're calling from the other side of the moon while my 5$ plug-in earbuds sound like a damn recording studio in comparison.

It doesn't matter. The judges who pass these sentences don't know enough about the systems to understand whether or not a crime has been committed and they simply don't care.

who is going to do the building? Because PE is the one doing that too.

Sounds like trickle down housing to me.

Me: "should we stop allowing private equity to hold property?"

My Strawman: "nah let's build more houses to be snatched up by private equity, that way eventually maybe they'll be really nice and decide to lower prices for us someday due to the infallible balance of supply and demand that definitely hasn't been rigged to hell over the past half century. They certainly won't just continue to rig the system to benefit themselves"

Not if private equity just snatches it all up.

Yes build more. Also regulate the oligarchs until they no longer exist.

It's nowhere near my industry and I know virtually nothing about what really goes into these sorts of things, but seems like maybe whichever organization is doing the rankings should simply make that a negative metric. Like, a super negative metric.

I think we can blame both and I think it's weird that you think we shouldn't.

welp, at least we got 2 or 3 good DC movies before now. It was great while it lasted. I'm so tired of living in hell

Holy shit those sliders are so funny what was it even trying to do?

That's why I don't think they should be able to trade stocks at all. Why are they under less scrutiny than low rung engineering employees at one of the big 4?

It was mostly about compatibility but looks like photoshop supports it now so I guess I can now officially say I don't really care one way or the other.

oh well as long as it's only happening to some people no problem then huh? That's okay?

You're making quite a few assumptions

Sometimes companies become irrelevant while following the market, while other companies revolutionize the market by NOT following it.

It's not "swim with the tide or die", it's "float like a corpse down the river, or swim". Which direction you swim in will certainly be a different level of effort, and you can end up as a corpse no matter what, but that doesn't mean the only option you have is to give up.

honestly hate webp so happy about this

just one more cycle of bottom line chasing at the expense of user satisfaction, I promise you guys just one more price rise, just one fewer device allowed it's okay though we have stranger things! You guys love that right?

oh wow this timing is incredible for me thank you, this is exactly the type of thing I needed and this is EXACTLY my aesthetic

Nah the owner will get a filtered truth from the middle managers that present them with information that everything's going great with AI, and the lost money is actually because of those greedy low level employees drinking up all the profit by working from home! The entire software industry has a massive Truth-To-Power problem that just keeps getting worse. I'd say the software industry in this day and age feels like Lord of the Flies but honestly feels too kind.

That's the difference between a license and a product my friend

ok

The more you look around the more commonly you'll start seeing things like this. The RS3 OSRS split itself happened because Jagex recovered their lost source code and was suddenly able to do it.

Since I'm already doing armchair stuff I'll just say that there's an argument to be made that consumer electronics HAVE to be cheaper due to the extremely inflated cost of essentials right now, which is the result of lack of regulation. It's not the system regulating itself it's just more bottom line chasing.

Rounding is such a weird boogeyman to me because people are like "the companies are just going to use it to get more money from the customers" but, they're doing that anyway. They don't need this excuse to raise prices they'll just do it anyway.

Same thing when people complain that raising minimum wage will increase prices, meanwhile prices have increased for 50 years completely separate from wages. They don't need the excuse to raise prices they're just gonna do it anyway.

If they want companies to not raise prices the only answer is regulation, but regulation is communism and therefore bad.

I'm so god damn tired.

That wasn't actually why I posted that I was just guessing and thought it'd be funny if I was right.

wow, if they add Good Enough™ video editing I can probably cancel my Adobe CC subscription

You thought we wouldn't notice that you used AI on this comment but you were wrong.

Here I was self conscious about my homelab setup and turns out I was already way ahead of the second most technologically advanced nation in the world!

Because apple enforces things asymmetrically based on where the eye of the conservative news cycle is.

NSFW content for tons of apps is buried in account settings that can't be changed from the iphone app but have to be changed from the browser. They've been doing this for a damn decade bro.

Eh it's not new, Apple is pretty much the reason tumblr got rid of nsfw content (I've heard it's sort of back now but idk I'm never going back to tumblr).

It's why even if an app in the app store is rated 17+ it still can't really have nudity in it.