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kohtatsu
·hace 6 años·discuss
A lot of us are just assholes don't worry.

It's for somewhat good reason, but yeah overall I thought it was good.

They mentioned privacy a lot, but I think they could have reaffirmed it more with the 3rd party video doorbells and translation in Safari and such. Opening up about differential privacy and what telemetrics they do collect when you opt-in would have earned more goodwill from me. Earlier in the event they did specify that translation was on-device though.
kohtatsu
·hace 6 años·discuss
It's just a neat way of porting iOS code to native mac apps, to expedite development.

It isn't an iOS emulator or anything cheap like that.
kohtatsu
·hace 6 años·discuss
I really think the equivalent of paper journals is the way to go.

As well as some way to report to grocery stores etc you've visited after testing positive.

Heck an answering machine at the grocery store that reports known cases, which everyone calls each Sunday would be enough.
kohtatsu
·hace 6 años·discuss
For anyone on the fence about trusting Apple's sell on privacy, I urge you to check out these pages;

https://apple.com/privacy this isn't the Privacy Policy, just a very high level overview of investments/innovations (ETA 20-60 seconds)

https://apple.com/privacy/features deeper dive, no cute graphics, links to papers (3+ minutes)

They really, really messed up by not being upfront with Siri's contractors, and they are not taking a hard stance on E2E iCloud Photos/Backups.

You can back up yourself using the native encrypted backup format using the CLI on Linux/Windows/macOS using https://libimobiledevive.org idevicebackup2

Using ifuse from them too you can read the SQLite database the Photos app uses, see things like the on-device processed metadata (including recognized faces, tho obviously not the face data from FaceID).

Using this I made a script to only transfer only favourited photos for my girlfriend; https://gist.github.com/aurorabbit/592bbc76df317f86c1a6ef64c... (will work on linux too, surely Windows but idk powershell)

/info dump
kohtatsu
·hace 6 años·discuss
FWIW the iPhone 5s received iOS 12, and has had a patch as recently as March 24th (2020).

It was released Fall 2013.

It was also the first 64-bit smartphone, and remained that way for more than a year from what I can tell. It also has the first Secure Enclave; i.e. a fingerprint authentication system that had any hope of being secure, and a decent FDE system.
kohtatsu
·hace 6 años·discuss
On this topic: I'm in the process of making a compiler for a DSL I designed to help with the schema design process.

https://gist.github.com/nomsolence/69bc0b5fe1ba943d82cd37fdb...

Pictured is the compiler internals; the attached .syrup is the DSL. (It started as a tangent on a project I'm doing for my girlfriend, the schema described in the .syrup has been improved a bit since)

Note: things after # are comments.

I find even just defaulting to NOT NULL and not having to worry about commas is a boon for when I create schemas.

The DSL will of course support things like compound primary keys and SQLite's WITHOUT ROWID.

I'll post the code here, likely before the weekend: https://github.com/nomsolence/syrup
kohtatsu
·hace 6 años·discuss
It's limited to Google properties.
kohtatsu
·hace 7 años·discuss
It's possible using DNSCloak, under Advanced Options > Enable Cloaking.

You'll need to add a hosts file to your iCloud Drive.