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  • Apple & Google accused of supporting 'gender apartheid' by hosting Saudi woman-tracking ap...

    looplessloopless
    I am not sure how many people read the story of the Saudi woman who recently 'escaped' to Canada and got political asylum. The only way she was able to do this (after getting her passport by 'stealing' it from her father) was by getting into this app on her father's iPhone ( she obviously had the password) and changing the notification emails/texts to her own email/phone number. This meant that when she left the country she was able to deal with the text alert when her passport was scanned. Saudi Arabia is the worlds largest women's prison.
    StrangeDaysrobbyxmontrosemacspatchythepiratewatto_cobra

  • Australia passes contentious encryption bill opposed by Apple, other tech companies

    looplessloopless
    The current conservative government in Australia is self-destructing just like the Republicans in the US, hopefully the next government will change this stupid law. 
    And don't knock Australia's democracy, it is a far more democratic country that the US. No gerrymandering, no dis-enfranchisment of minorities, and a far greater percentage of eligible voters actually get out and vote (on a weekend!) And far, far fewer guns. Oh, and universal healthcare. But I digress...
    derekcurrieberndogbaconstangjahbladelostkiwiwatto_cobra

  • Hundreds of iOS apps leaking data due to misconfigured Firebase backends, report says

    looplessloopless
    I have developed a Firebase app for learning purposes. I don’t think most people understand...this is 100% the fault of the app developers. Not Apple. Not Google.  Unless you add authentication someone could just suck the data from your Firebase database via a URL. Google can’t stop stupidity from an app developer. But.....It’s so trivial to add authentication however it boggles the mind why any app developer would not add it as it is simple and the default setting. That is one thing that bothers me about this report. I think the apps they are talking about are highly unlikely to be apps developed by professional developers and more likely to be fringe hobby apps and they are hyping it up to get people to buy the report.
    gatorguylostkiwiGG1jony0

  • Why macOS Mojave requires Metal -- and deprecates OpenGL

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    Deprecating OpenGL will be the 'kiss of death' for many CAE and CAD programs on the Mac. CAE/CAD software has different needs to games. Typically large amount of 3D data with simple rendering - and OpenGL does just fine, thank you.

    Most people may not realize that Microsoft has been deprecating OpenGL for many years without killing it.

    Windows ships with OpenGL 1.1 -the vendors ( nVidia/AMD/Intel) have to provide OpenGL implementations for their cards, not Microsoft. The reason they do is that the CAE/CAD software industry is mainly OpenGL based, sells a lot of high end Windows workstations for Microsoft and Dell/HP and I honestly can't see them moving away from OpenGL anytime soon. So Apple will kill OpenGL on MacOS,  and the CAD/CAE companies will just stick exclusively to Windows.
    elijahgshell3000ElCapitanloquiturcgWerkswatto_cobraAlex1N

  • Some game developers hint at abandoning the Mac if Apple phases out OpenGL

    looplessloopless
    I am not sure people realize that Microsoft does not support OpenGL either. Out of the box windows only supports only an ancient version of OpenGL -v1.2. Every graphics card manufacturer for windows has to ship their own up to date OpenGL drivers. The problem on macOS is that Apple controls the hardware and has to supply the drivers. 
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