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tmottabr··on DuckDuckGo AI Chat
This IA chat does not have anything from Microsoft other then having the option to use ChatGPT model that is the same one Microsoft used to build Bing Chat..

But it offer several more models as options to choose from, some even open source and not related OpenIA..

tmottabr··on DuckDuckGo AI Chat
But you used ChatGPT, that is not a search mechanism or SearchGPT that is their search mechanism?

ChatGPT is know to not be a reliable for this type of search as it know to make up answers..

tmottabr··on Cops suspect iOS 18 iPhones are communicating to force reboots
As far as i remember there is a single leaked document about a specific celebrite version that had iOS 17 marked as already supported for some devices up to version 17.0.3, versions 17.1 to 17.3.1 as coming soon and 17.4 as in research..

And that document is from last April, 7 months ago, no one really knows how things progressed after that..

Best assumption to make is that all those versions are supported by now..

support for iOS 18 could be available or not, we do not know.. So again i will assume it is supported until the opposite is proved..

But all the latest iPhones in latest iOS versions were only supported in AFU, that apple is handling with this reset feature, or IPR, that require USB being unlocked and is extremely time sensitive as there are already defenses in place..

tmottabr··on Tell HN: Telegram is most likely doing client side scanning; I quit Telegram
communication between client and server is always encrypted and they don't even need MTProto for that, a simple TLS connection would be more then enough, and likely better. Also, that is likely true for all modern messaging apps..

The question proposed is that Telegram was monitoring private chats on the client side, but they do not need to do that unless E2E is enabled..

If you do not have E2E enabled then everything you send is in the open while in their servers..

So, if you do not have private chat enabled then Telegram does not need to make any type of client side monitoring, they can just monitor what is going trough their servers because it is all in the open..

tmottabr··on Tell HN: Telegram is most likely doing client side scanning; I quit Telegram
MTProto is the protocol used for secure chats, that is the name of their E2E encryption..

If you do not enable E2E it will not use MTProto and not have E2E encryption.

And all of this is only available for private chats, none is available for groups chats..

tmottabr··on Cops suspect iOS 18 iPhones are communicating to force reboots
Why not both??

Two birds, one stone..

tmottabr··on Cops suspect iOS 18 iPhones are communicating to force reboots
But if court ordered then to do so they would have to..

In the previous case law enforcement retracted the request because they found an alternative..

If the alternative stop working i bet you they will go after Apple in courts again..

tmottabr··on Cops suspect iOS 18 iPhones are communicating to force reboots
I dont think it is related to how long it has or not reception.

Also, it would be easy for cops to create a spoofed celular network to keep those phones with reception.

It look like it is based on how long since phone was last unlocked, i would say 1 week is even a big long in this case.. Just a couple of days should be more then enough.

tmottabr··on Tell HN: Telegram is most likely doing client side scanning; I quit Telegram
no it is not..

There is E2E encryption for private ono on one conversations, but it is off by default and the option to enable it is buried behind a few screens ans several clicks..

And it is completely unavailable for group chats..

If you want more details, Matthew Green, the famous cryptographer from Johns Hopkins University have reviewed it recently

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2024/08/25/telegram...

tmottabr··on Bitcoin has made a new all-time high price
yeah, but that was more then 10 years ago..

i bet the analysis for that is all automated by now and built into their systems, making it much easier to go after the average individual.

tmottabr··on Bitcoin has made a new all-time high price
that is assuming every citizen has a crypto wallet, something is not even close to be true..

i would guess that percentage of people with wallets would be very small and a relative small team could with a relative small number of white vans and wrenches could get every single one in relative short time..

and for countries that heavily monitor internet usage, like china, i bet they could have a list with pretty good assumptions on who has crypto that they can target for further investigation before sending the wrenched goons..

tmottabr··on Ask HN: Your thoughts on Linus Torvalds' view on AI: 90% marketing, 10% reality?
That is the point..

AI is a useful tool for many professionals to have on their toolkit..

But it is not even close to replacing those professionals like many have being claiming..

tmottabr··on Ask HN: How did you replace Teleport?
yes, but new versions are no longer AGPL..

You could fork the last AGPL version but you would miss on new developments and fixes made after the license was changed..

Or you would have to work the re-develop everything from scratch..

tmottabr··on EU considers calculating X fines by including revenue from Musk's other firms
That is not even close to what would happen in reality..

first of all, all the communication infra is already in place, american companies pulling does not mean the infra goes down immediately... people communication and emergency services would keep working as usual for a long time..

And there are LOTS of chinese companies that would gladly come and take over the market..

This is why american tech companies will NEVER pull from EU.. EU market is huge and they need the money from it.. while the EU market have alternatives if they need to...

tmottabr··on Google Is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser Is Safe
well.. that is exactly what i said..

But maintaining a fork with the legacy v2 code is not trivial to do or cheap..

Google has the money to maintain a browser and i do not even trust then.. i for sure would never trust any of those forks..

tmottabr··on EU considers calculating X fines by including revenue from Musk's other firms
what a hilarious take..

american tech companies need the world more then the world need then.. specially social medias..

twitter was banned in Brazil for a month and life here just kept going as usual, in the end it was Elon that came back crawling with the tail between the legs..

American tech companies withdrawing from EU would be a glorious day to EU..

tmottabr··on Ask HN: How did you replace Teleport?
Because the community edition is no longer AGPL and no longer being developed and the new license has this clause:

Companies may use Teleport Community Edition on the condition they have less than 100 employees and less than $10MM in annual revenue (AR).

Like op said in his post..

tmottabr··on Google Is Killing uBlock Origin. No Chromium Browser Is Safe
Except that google already told that they will not keep V2 for enterprises..

enterprises have a 6 months extension compared to the rest of people, actually anyone can enable a policy that re-enable V2 but google said that it will maintain that only for additional 6 months..

After that they will remove V2 entirely even from enterprises..

i doubt that google will keep the code around to support V2 for long after that.. Browsers that want to keep it will have to maintain the code themselves and deal with any problems and costs that it causes..

tmottabr··on X reinstated in Brazil after complying with court demands
Sure.. but this law was never challenged and thus it was never deemed unconstitutional.. Something only the supreme court can do when the proper process is started..

Until this happen the courts must assume the law is valid and apply it as such..

tmottabr··on X reinstated in Brazil after complying with court demands
Article 4 from the constitution talk about international relations.. not sure how that would apply here..
tmottabr··on X reinstated in Brazil after complying with court demands
the marco civil da internet has provisions to take illegal content published in sites or social media via court order..
tmottabr··on X reinstated in Brazil after complying with court demands
There was congress election in 2022, the congress back then is not the same as congress today..

And regardless of who indicated him, the right is not happy with him and would gladly get him replaced, but they will not while a left wing president is the one appointing his replacement..

tmottabr··on X reinstated in Brazil after complying with court demands
This has nothing to do with political speech..

Article 286 from the penal code prohibit to incite the practice of crimes.

Any speech, political or otherwise, that incite violence toward another is a crime..

tmottabr··on X reinstated in Brazil after complying with court demands
He does not have the support from majority of congress..

But congress will not impeach him while there is a left wing president appointing his replacement..

Even tough right wing politicians make a theater of wanting him impeached, and even send requests to impeach him to congress in the back is all negotiated that those impeach requests will not go forward..

tmottabr··on Apple is still limiting the iPhone 16 to slow 24-year-old USB 2.0 speeds
why the hell are you using airdrop??

upload it to icloud and have icloud client in the computer sync it.. It will just show up there automagically..

That is what i do, i have not plugged an iPhone to a computer in ages.. my last three were likely never plugged at all..

tmottabr··on Telegram will now hand over phone number and IP for criminal suspects
i disagree completely on this..

If you are serving people in Iran or France then you are operating in those countries regardless of where you or your servers are and so you do have to comply with their laws or risk facing the consequences.

Now, depending on where you are at the reach of the consequences can be negligible and not impact you at all or can be a major problem.

At minimum you will get your service banned in those countries.

tmottabr··on X working again in Brazil as Elon Musk finds way around ban (using Cloudflare)
not only they did not offered any resistance.. but they were the ones that reached out and offered to comply without even requiring a specific court order..

when i posted they had already announced they would comply to the block, i wa referring to that..

that they isolated twitter traffic to 2 specific ip address that can easily be blocked.. the block is already in place for the big ISPs and the rest should have it blocked by the end of day..

tmottabr··on X working again in Brazil as Elon Musk finds way around ban (using Cloudflare)
They don't need any of that..

They just need to send a court order to Cloudflare to have then block Twitter..

That is pretty much what already happened and Cloudflare already replied informing they will isolate Twitter IP range from the rest of the customers..

By this time tomorrow it will be blocked again..

tmottabr··on Twitter/X migrated to Cloudflare, bypassing Brazilian block
Because it does not work..

Sure, it makes technically harder to block.. But governments don't rely only technical solutions for problems..

China, like Brazil is doing, would order Cloudflare to block Twitter and they would have to choose either comply and help China block it, like they are doing in Brazil, or challenge and not comply and face the consequences and likely a full block..

Having Cloudflare fully blocked in both countries would be terrible for business as they have many other customers so it is economically best to comply and potentially loose one customer then challenge the order and loose the entire market..

tmottabr··on Twitter/X migrated to Cloudflare, bypassing Brazilian block
They already do content blocking all over the world..

The precedent is already set, this is nothing new..

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