Coeur · HackerTrans

My guess is that it's deliberate - that Siri window hovers over all apps so that you remain in your current context, and can add files/images/texts from any app to the Siri conversation. There might also be a Siri app on the Mac that was not yet shown.

Coeur

3 months agodiscuss

This seems to be part of a type of brand marketing where a brand claims it has invented something, but the only thing that ever exists of significant economic value is the attention raised by the promo video / article. Not the thing/service.

Examples:

- Samsung safety truck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GNGfse9ZK8

- Citroën motion sickness glasses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aco63dlq_WE

- Amazon Prime Air https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AVVTBmtDdo

- IBM Smart Ads https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbEMVdzXiCY (implies they created lots of ad posters, but they only made 3 posters for this video)

- Lexus Hoverboard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFf7Meqkim8

I wonder if there is a term for this. "Vaporware marketing"?

Coeur

4 months agodiscuss

Well there was ZCam, which was a time-of-flight add-on for ENG cameras. It couldn't really handle edges perfectly and existing bluescreen tech was good enough for TV production, so they pivoted into gaming and sold to Microsoft for the Kinect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZCam (Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7Kcmx29RCE )

Coeur

4 months agodiscuss

Mullvad's focus on privacy has been fantastic so far. But this ad made me reconsider: I want a VPN service that silently does its job in the background, not one that screams "look at me" with silly stunts and attempts at becoming viral.

Coeur

4 months agodiscuss

Many countries in Europe do indeed require consent. More details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights#France

Coeur

4 months agodiscuss

This already exists: https://c2pa.org , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_Authenticity_Initiativ... . Support by camera makers is - spotty.

Coeur

5 months agodiscuss

Not sure Wero will succeed, but European country-specific mobile payment systems like Swish (Sweden), Vipps (rest of Scandinavia), Bizum (Spain), iDeal (Netherlands), Bluecode (Germany and Austria), Twint (Switzerland), BLIK (Poland) etc. are also working on interconnectivity under the EMPSA association. Combined they already have 110+ million users.

Wero is like a monolith, while EMPSA is more like mobile phone roaming. If I would bet, I would bet on EMPSA.

https://empsa.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Mobile_Payment_System...

Coeur

5 months agodiscuss

Note that the exact date in May has not yet been announced, but there is a hint: in all the videos and screenshots of displays the date and time is shown as "Mon 25 10:10".

Now when Ive was still at Apple, the first screenshots of iPhone showed a time of 9:42 because that was the time they expected when the device was first shown. And that time was placed in all the official PR images well in advance.

Extracting from that, a Monday the 25th could be the time we'll first see the full car. Going through all 25ths of each month this year, May is indeed the only month where it falls on a Monday, so it's probably the 25th of May.

Coeur

5 months agodiscuss

Thanks for posting this, celias! Much appreciated.

Coeur

5 months agodiscuss

"Mobile phone (cell phone) microphones can be activated remotely, without any need for physical access"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_listening_device#Remote...

And the linked sources are:

- Kröger, Jacob Leon; Raschke, Philip (2019). "Is My Phone Listening in? On the Feasibility and Detectability of Mobile Eavesdropping". Data and Applications Security and Privacy XXXIII. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 11559. pp. 102–120. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-22479-0_6. ISBN 978-3-030-22478-3. ISSN 0302-9743.

- Schneier, Bruce (5 December 2006). "Remotely Eavesdropping on Cell Phone Microphones". Schneier On Security. Archived from the original on 12 January 2014. Retrieved 13 December 2009.

- McCullagh, Declan; Anne Broache (1 December 2006). "FBI taps cell phone mic as eavesdropping tool". CNet News. Archived from the original on 10 November 2013. Retrieved 14 March 2009.

- Odell, Mark (1 August 2005). "Use of mobile helped police keep tabs on suspect". Financial Times. Retrieved 14 March 2009.

- "Telephones". Western Regional Security Office (NOAA official site). 2001. Archived from the original on 6 November 2013. Retrieved 22 March 2009.

- "Can You Hear Me Now?". ABC News: The Blotter. Archived from the original on 25 August 2011. Retrieved 13 December 2009.

- Lewis Page (26 June 2007). "Cell hack geek stalks pretty blonde shocker". The Register. Archived from the original on 3 November 2013. Retrieved 1 May 2010.

Coeur

5 months agodiscuss

So dirt as a factor that clogs up the sensor does not play into it at all? It's all just about moving it into different environments to measure?

Coeur

5 months agodiscuss

I still don't get it. The outside is dirty, right? He said in his post "You dip this probe into beer, sewage, or canned food a-stewing". So when you say "when really the window is just dirty" I don't get it - yes it will always be, because that's what it is placed in, no?

Coeur

5 months agodiscuss

Now I would really love to know who the other operator was.

Coeur

6 months agodiscuss

Remember when the original dev of TrueCrypt (the VeraCrypt predecessor) suddenly abandoned the project and wrote that people should use BitLocker instead? [1] [2]

We now know that BitLocker is not secure, and an intelligent open source dev saying that was probably knowingly not saying the truth.

The best explanation to me is that this was said under duress, because somebody wanted people to move away from the good TrueCrypt to something they could break.

[1] https://truecrypt.sourceforge.net

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueCrypt#End_of_life_announce...

Coeur

6 months agodiscuss

Nice. This obviously references https://doodle.com/ , which was super popular 15 years ago (in Europe), but then turned unnecessary complex, added intruisive advertisements and aggressive monetisation.

Would love to see a popular option that stays free.

Coeur

6 months agodiscuss

Also #124 was proved using AI 49 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46094037

Coeur

6 months agodiscuss

I fell in love with early macos as well, but it was the enormous amount of care they put into it that got me. Maybe it was actually the same thing for you, not puppy love.

Coeur

6 months agodiscuss

That's interesting, could you tell me more? Like which side and port (front/back) was throttling, which side and port was not? Were you using a power supply to charge or was the mbp connected to a display? Did it only throttle during charging or also during while fully charged? Thanks!

Coeur

7 months agodiscuss

Here's the mentioned segment from "Diagnosis: Murder": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WeZKOPcaeA

Coeur

7 months agodiscuss

Of course the irony ist that if a big corporation publishes a year-end reading list, it has the implicit message of "hey we are not just a group of boring corporate robots - we're people, with real feelings, and hobbies like reading, and taste."

And now we realize that this is just a PR charade. They might not be people with hobbies like reading, and taste.

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