tudor

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brazilian court orders suspension of Elon Musk’s X after it missed deadline⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  salon.com/…/musks-x-censors-coverage-of-arlington…

  Elon, free speech advocate, this you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When EV startups shut down, will their cars still work?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as the car isn’t dependent on an Internet connection or the manufacturer’s server and the ports aren’t proprietary, I think you’re good. I expect a car to have these.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iPhones in the EU get ability to set more default apps, delete more built-in ones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried fooling it myself several times with the aim of getting satellite connectivity in my unsupported country, to no avail.

  Used a German SIM card (where this feature is supported), went in my basement where there’s no cell service so that it can’t read MNC or MCC from any networks nor can it read GPS precisely, used a Raspberry Pi as a router with country code as DE, disabled Wi-Fi, used VPN, used the Xcode debugging tools to simulate iPhone location to Germany (this usually fools all apps into thinking I’m in Germany, including Apple’s own Find My), all to no avail. And there’s no way to feed countryd any custom data.

  It’s insane.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iPhones in the EU get ability to set more default apps, delete more built-in ones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a developer, you don’t really get access to any of that.

  Mainly, you can’t access any history of calls and messages at all, nor can you automate sending one. All interactions with calling or texting has to be done with user interaction. Namely, calling requires the user to confirm the call, and sending a message requires the user to confirm, and they can also edit the message beforehand.

  I don’t think that’s bad, given that messages are some of the most private things on our devices, and personally, I never had to use any of these or required more access.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iPhones in the EU get ability to set more default apps, delete more built-in ones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  An European iPhone, aka an iPhone which will get these features, is identified by a background process named countryd, introduced in iOS 16. Its only purpose is to compute and predict the most likely location of the user (as in country/region) and lock down features accordingly.

  These are only some of the factors taken into the equation:

  • GPS location
  • Wi-Fi location
  • Wi-Fi hotspot country codes
  • Cellular/GSM country codes
  • Home and roaming operator regions
  • Apple Account region
  • Device region
  • Satellite reachability
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Buy your own router. Ditched my ISP modem, never looked back. The control, the features, all of it is now necessary to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ecovacs home robots can be hacked to spy on their owners, researchers say⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d like some of them to connect to my local network, but not the Internet. I’ll work it out myself from there onwards and make some remote control solution myself, thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patreon: adding Apple’s 30 percent tax is the price of staying in the App Store⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This couldn’t have come at a worse time, given their DOJ suit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia launches "social rating" platform to determine a person’s comparative “social status”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for sharing your insight!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia launches "social rating" platform to determine a person’s comparative “social status”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You see, in the States, your credit score is an indication of how likely you are to be responsible and comply with the terms of a loan or other bank-related contract. If you have a low score, you don’t get a loan, because the bank sees you as a risk that you will not give their money back.

  In China, a low social credit score, which is earned by disrespecting the regime or not following the silliest of laws, forbids you from using public transport, buying stuff, or getting education.

  You can’t miss that contrast.