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can someone explain how different is the iphone ecosystem anti-competitive practices vs sony playstation ecosystem?


Nobody needs a games console, but a smartphone is increasingly an essential part of daily life - for things like accessing government services, transport, payments, identity, commerce etc.

If you are a company or other organisation that depends on making your service available through smartphones, then you may be affected by Apple's policies.


I can't explain it but one fairly straightforward argument is just scale - everyone has a smartphone, few people (comparatively) have Playstations. There is a more obvious case for legitimate government interest in the regulation of a market that affects a much bigger proportion of consumers and consumer activity.


a few hundred million users vs about 7 billion users tells you a few things, among them which is that game consoles don't effing matter one bit and smartphones are a necessity for modern life. do you not even think before posting stuff like this?


Would syncing to iCloud would compromise E2E encryption?


Fair question, and it actually depends on how iMessage is being backed up to iCloud (sorta). By default, iMessage is included in your iCloud device backup, which when Advanced Data Protection is disabled, is NOT E2E encrypted. That said, if Messages in iCloud is enabled, which instead syncs your messages to iCloud, They are always E2E encrypted, regardless of if ADP is enabled [1]. Even more confusingly, if ADP is off, the keys for Messages in iCloud are still stored in your iCloud backup [2]. So essentially, the only way to use iMessage E2E encrypted is with Advanced Data Protection enabled, regardless of if you're using Messages in iCloud or not.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/102651

[2] https://support.apple.com/guide/security/security-of-icloud-...


> the only way to use iMessage E2E encrypted is with Advanced Data Protection enabled

If iMessage backup relies on ADP encryption, will ADP move to PQ3 Cryptographic Protocol?


It is data at rest which is different from the exchange of messages themselves.

I believe the backups are protected via AES.


to developers of sandstorm, can you guys add newly popular apps such as baserow.io


The folks working on it right now are a pretty small group, so we are definitely looking for help adding and maintaining app packages.

At a glance, probably the biggest pain point for Baserow would be that apparently they decided to "deprecate" installing it with anything except Docker[1]. Presumably between the deprecated guide and the Dockerfile, one could figure out how to do it anyways, but it would probably be a pretty significant amount of work.

[1] https://baserow.io/docs/installation%2Fold-install-on-ubuntu


what's the advantage of native backend compared to git repo backend?


> At this time, there's practically no reason to use the native backend. The backend exists mainly to make sure that it's possible to eventually add functionality that cannot easily be added to the Git backend.

From the README, no advantage for now.


basically, making ikea products fall apart in two years instead of 5 years. What a shame, just increase the prices slightly.


They’ve increased prices in loads of items the past few years too. And not just by a little bit


Already fully switched to bing few weeks ago on all my browsers


Wait I thought the LLM was only available on Edge?

Are you able to use it on Chrome/Firefox?



For chrome there was Bing Unchained, until it got removed from the chrome store.


Difference is scarcity


How to turn off/on Box process, it keeps taking too much CPU utilization



Personally I use rclone to mount my Box files as a volume. It's a little slow, but at least it's predictable.


awesome from first try on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Mac, it even recognized that I have two screens and split them in the remote application 1-2 and can click on 1 or 2 to select what screen to show

also, it has shrink feature to make bigger screen fit on the local screen


I removed DDG from my browsers after his tweet. they are no different from Google


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