StrangeDays

The last two episodes were so thrilling. The finale was SUPER intense. I was yelling at the TV! 

Needless to say, cannot wait for the next season.

freeassociate2 said:

DAalseth said:

You know that if Google and Meta were part of it that the LAST thing they wanted was strong privacy laws. Good for Apple for calling a spade a spade and heading  for the exit. 

You might want to reconsider using that variation of the phrase, which originated with “to call a fig a fig and a trough a trough”

Here’s a good article on the history of the phrase and it’s current connotations. https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/09/19/224183763/is-it-racist-to-call-a-spade-a-spade

(And my guess the organization is more akin to a Potemkin Village than a shovel. 

 

But from that article:

"To call a spade a spade" entered the English language when Nicholas Udall translated Erasmus in 1542. Famous authors who have used it in their works include Charles Dickens and W. Somerset Maugham, among others.

To be clear, the "spade" in the Erasmus translation has nothing to do with a deck of cards, but rather the gardening tool. In fact, one form of the expression that emerged later was "to call a spade a bloody shovel." The early usages of the word "spade" did not refer to either race or skin color.

...it's been used for 500 years w/o any sort of racist interpretation. The word in question has been used by *some* as a code word in a separate contextual use. The only reason one quoted source suggests not using it is "Rather than taking the chance of unintentionally offending someone or of being misunderstood". But if we abandon the non-racist phrase just because some use a word in the phrase for crappy reasons, then we have a whole bunch of other common words that should be removed as well. See the problem w/ that?

byronl said:

hopefully twitter’s censorship problem will get better

They don't have a censorship problem. They're a private website with a terms of use agreement, just like Alex Jones' own web forums and Trump's Truth Social do. If users violate the agreed upon terms of use, it's completely fine for them to be booted. What the terms are is up to the company, Twitter doesn't allow spreading disinformation, threatening people, calls for violence, etc. That's fine.

Handy reference chart:

nicholfd said:

StrangeDays said:

Yeah despite Gruber's reporting of the build number, I would be very surprised if this display were running a full & complete iOS 15.4. Simply because it is incapable of using maybe 90% of it? Too many vulnerabilities to leave them all there, right? I would imagine it's a stripped down version.

Why are there "too many vulnerabilities"?  It's current iOS.  It has no apps or external network connectivity.  Why build a "special" version, when they can just use the "regular version?

Every OS has exploit vectors, known & unknown. A monitor with an entire mobile-device OS running on it leaves exploit vectors that have no functional payoff due to it not being a mobile device. Thus I'd be very surprised if they just dropped iPhone's entire iOS onto onboard storage inside the display, rather than strip it down to something relevant to a display.

You may not have heard but there are wild exploits where hackers have built their own virtual computers running inside of iMessage attachments via bizarre PDF parsing hacks. There's no reason to leave the avenue open to stuff like that when the display cannot send iMessages.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/12/21/project-zero-nso-zero-click-deep-dive

https://www.hackread.com/nso-zero-click-imessage-exploit-hack-iphone-no-click/

highframerate said:

The Verge - a very pro Apple site - did mention this (in an otherwise glowing review):

Verge is not a very-pro-Apple site. Their editor is a silly man constantly charging Apple of being user-hostile, and w/ every new product decision makes a number of silly claims that eventually are forgotten as absurd. Like AirPods, or when he mocked the original Apple Watch in a lol moment online