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Evilcoleslaw ,

Plus some insanely low pro rata payment for play store purchases in the last 7 years. So probably $2.35.

Evilcoleslaw ,

On the consumer side another article I read said that the settlement should provide $2 each, and then a pro rata payment based on the amount of app store purchases between 2016 and the settlement date.

Evilcoleslaw ,

So averaged out, this settlement would be about 5-6 days of revenue.

Evilcoleslaw ,

Reverse engineering it is not, sure. And Beeper could do that and run their own messaging service with their own infrastructure running their reverse engineered version.

Evilcoleslaw ,

They can reverse engineer it and run it as their own service with their own infrastructure. But that doesn’t mean they can then start accessing Apple’s implementation and using Apple’s resources without permission.

Evilcoleslaw ,

They have reverse engineered the iMessage API

Yes, this part is legal and fine.

and are using that to connect to the iMessage servers.

This is not allowed because Apple doesn’t want to allow it. They own the infrastructure serving the API, they get to determine who is authorized to use it. They can block whoever they want. And technically speaking, using it in an unauthorized manner could even rise to the level of a criminal violation of the CFAA.

It is literally impossible to do as you suggest (use entirely their own resources) because iMessage is centralized and cannot federate with any other server, even if one did exist.

Partially correct. It is not impossible to do as I suggested, because I never suggested that they should have interoperability with iMessage.

Evilcoleslaw , (edited )

The websites in question getting crawled and indexed are generally open and available for anyone to browse. There are parts of the web that are gated off and require authentication and authorization to access. Imagine now that Google found a way to authenticate as you with your bank’s website and index your online banking portal. (It’s not a perfect analogy to what’s happening with Beeper, but I’m just using the one you laid out.)

In a similar way, iMessage as a service requires authentication and authorization to use. It is not open for anyone to use. Beeper is doing something to spoof or otherwise fool Apple into giving the client access. This is the part that’s illegal. And potentially not just “file a lawsuit” illegal but criminally so.

It doesn’t really matter why Apple doesn’t want Beeper or anyone else to use it. The fact that they simply don’t is all that matters.

This “smoking gun” killed the McDonald’s ice cream hackers’ startup | Three-year-old email shows evidence of plot to undermine repair business (arstechnica.com)

This “smoking gun” killed the McDonald’s ice cream hackers’ startup | Three-year-old email shows evidence of plot to undermine repair business::Three-year-old email shows evidence of plot to undermine repair business.

Evilcoleslaw ,

The article is a little hard to follow, since it’s about an email about sending an email. It wouldn’t surprise me if Taylor gave themselves enough plausible deniability to survive a motion for summary judgement, but I think if this goes before a jury it will be obvious what was going on.

Evilcoleslaw ,

McDonald’s has a lot more power over its franchises than many other chains since they own the land under every single location and lease it to franchisees. McDonald’s itself is only tangentially in the restaurant business. Primarily they’re a corporate landlord, marketing company, and kitchen supply broker.

Although there’s a little back and forth because some of the larger franchisees get a lot of input on some of their internal committees. Like with the Taylor ice cream situation, one of the people involved runs one of the larger franchise organizations but also sits on their kitchen equipment committee. He allegedly violated his NDA with Kytch and gave Taylor one of the devices to analyze. Presumably he’s getting a cut of the Taylor-to-McDonald’s Corp kickback money.

Evilcoleslaw ,

Well in the case of Russia it seems the safer play to not allow them in. Or next thing you know you have separatist republics set up trying to become Russian oblasts.

Evilcoleslaw ,

This was also present in Threadripper 5000, per the article.

Evilcoleslaw ,

The article talks about those mobile systems, but the actual benchmark on Computerbase tested these on a desktop.

Ryzen 7 5800X

Scythe Mugen 5 cooler

Asus ROG Strix B550-A Gaming

32BG DDR4-3600-RAM (CL18-22-22-44)

Sapphire RX 6700 XT Nitro+

Tested @ 1080p 144Hz, Freesync Off

Evilcoleslaw ,

Cool story Joe. Lost my vote.

Evilcoleslaw ,

Not sure yet. Maybe a Green Party candidate or Cornel West. I’ve previously tried to vote for the lesser of two evils, but when this is what that entails, it’s not worth it.

Evilcoleslaw ,

He’s held positions antithetical to most of conservatism for quite a long time. Still some things bother me. His religiousity, issues of his personal finances, etc. So I’m still quite undecided. I’ve got 10 months or so to decide.

Evilcoleslaw ,

If the Democratic party wants my vote all they have to do is put up a candidate who isn’t onboard with ethnic cleansing and genocide. If that’s too much to ask, and they lose to Republicans, they have no one to blame but themselves.

Evilcoleslaw ,

When even the lesser of two evils is complicity in ethnic cleansing and genocide, then I think I’ll opt to vote for someone not evil instead.

Evilcoleslaw ,

I voted for Clinton in 2016 as the lesser of two evils. She lost. Maybe the Democratic party should listen when voters are telling them their candidate is shit.

Evilcoleslaw ,

I don’t need a historical precedent. This is a democracy. The votes are not owed. The votes must be won. If 4% is the number who are telling you something and you can’t win without that 4%, it might behoove you to pay attention to what they’re telling you.

I didn’t downvote you. It’s almost like other people exist in the comment section and can vote.

Evilcoleslaw ,

Sure. I’ll take my naive principles, you can have fun endorsing genocide. You can cry about the downvote this time.

Evilcoleslaw ,

The lesser of two evils is currently arming, funding, giving military planning and operational guidance to, and vetoing UN resolutions for an apartheid state that has bombed thousands of women and children in the last two months. A state that has 2+ million people living in a squalid hellhole somewhere between a ghetto and a concentration camp. Where the majority of people are now displaced, lack food, and clean water. Where there are likely still thousands of bodies decaying under rubble all paid for with our tax dollars.

Worst case scenario I’ll end up in a mass grave here too. But I’m not going to actively vote for it to happen to someone else so that it won’t hypothetically maybe happen to me.

Evilcoleslaw ,

Probably not in the US if you agree to it. Also it’s only for the first year, and you can sell it. You just have to give Tesla the right of first refusal, at the final paid price - $0.25 per mile driven and any repair costs needed to meet their used sales specifications.

Evilcoleslaw ,

Manifest V3 doesn’t really have the real client side DRM. It just has the ad-blocker breaking API changes. The real DRM will be whatever comes of the abandoned Web Environment Integrity API. (It’s not really abandoned just shifted over to only Android WebView.)

Evilcoleslaw ,

Yeah any time I scroll through YT Shorts (Revanced doesn’t block those ads rn) 99+% of the ads are just the “This new government program gives everyone $6400/month trust this bad AI voice of Steve Harvey.” scams.

Evilcoleslaw ,

Probably because they have some geo-locked content now (e.g. NFL games) and also because VPNs and proxies can potentially be used to bypass ads.

Evilcoleslaw ,

Gross

Evilcoleslaw ,

I dislike a couple things – swipe to reply in general, hiding the server member list within search, and the way they laid out the new tab that combined DMs and friends list. Making the friends list horizontal profile pictures to scroll through is just annoying. Other than that it’s fine.

Evilcoleslaw ,

That is extremely unlikely to actually occur. For that figure he would have to be convicted of every count, given the maximum sentence for every count, and sentenced to serve it consecutively.

Consecutive sentencing is pretty much guaranteed not to happen. So you can immediately reduce the high end to whatever the most serious count is. Then since it’s federal, the judge will have sentencing guidelines that will add up a whole bunch of aggravating and mitigating factors to arrive at the final sentence.

Evilcoleslaw ,

Well the UN is Hamas, so is it any surprise that Reuters is too?

Evilcoleslaw ,

The article quoted the researchers who indicated it can be done with remote access by using other attack vectors. This is because most UEFI systems store the logo on disk in the EFI system partition. It doesn’t need to do anything crazy like compile and flash a modified firmware. All it needs to do is overwrite the logo file on disk.

Evilcoleslaw ,

If I’m understanding this correctly this isn’t necessarily the very first logo that would appear but one that appears as the firmware starts to boot an OS from the EFI system partition. So technically installing your OS puts the original non-malicious logo there.

Evilcoleslaw ,

So, this has been a standard phase of the Windows product lifecycle for 20+ years now. It doesn’t really answer the problem with Windows 10 retirement and unsupported hardware on 11+ but it shouldn’t be a shock to anyone.

Evilcoleslaw ,

Yep

Evilcoleslaw ,

In my experience it’s a pretty common symptom of a drive that’s about to die or is connected improperly. (I had a PC where the vibration from a fan on the hard drive cage would cause a SATA cable to come loose over time.)

Explorer gets hung up trying to read data, becomes unresponsive, and crashes or causes a BSOD.

Evilcoleslaw ,

Alternatively, if you’re only really bothered by the new one missing shell extensions* then you can use Custom Context Menu to add your own context menu entries. I couldn’t stand not having “Add to VLC Playlist” or 7-Zip shell extensions, but otherwise I don’t mind it.

*Which is really on the third party devs, as they could easily register them for the new context menu.

Evilcoleslaw ,

As the other reply said, I’d definitely give Linux a try. Even the gaming situation has gotten a lot better though it’s still not perfect.

The CPU thing with 11 is kinda dumb but I do see why they did it. They wanted users running all the virtualization-based security features that were optional in 10. Some of those depend on a feature to minimize the amount of times the virtualized parts of the OS needs to swap to the hypervisor and back when it needs to change between user and kernel mode memory pages. All the Intel CPUs supported and all but the earliest AMD CPUs supported have a hardware feature called MBEC/GMET that speeds this up drastically. Unsupported CPUs (and AMD Zen+ which are supported) have to fall back to an emulated version of this feature but the performance penalties are high. When I was running an AMD Zen+ architecture CPU the difference in game performance between virtualization-based security being enabled/disabled was often in the range of 15-20%. It’s likely the earlier CPUs from Intel and AMD suffered from far worse impacts. If I had to guess Microsoft opted for the bad press from incompatible CPUs instead of being inundated with news about Windows 11 being dogshit slow.

Evilcoleslaw , (edited )

The Palestinian Authority only has exclusive security control of roughly 18% of the West Bank – Area A. However the IDF basically enters it whenever they deem it necessary anyway, so exclusive is a misnomer.

The PA has joint security control with Israel in 22% known as Area B. The rest of the West Bank – 60% in Area C – is under direct Israeli control. Area C is where all the illegal Israeli settlements are. Palestinians are also pretty much never granted building permits, etc in Area C. And it’s worth noting that Areas A and B are non-contiguous as dotted islands of control inside of Area C.

Evilcoleslaw ,

Meh. This seems relatively minor, and geared towards people purposely gaming it. Which, yeah, I’ve done at one time or another. Lately I’ve just been getting the points from searching. It might take a couple extra days to get enough for each $5 gift card. Oh well.

Evilcoleslaw ,

Bing’s fine in general. Meanwhile any time I get curious and use Google, if I have to go deeper with anything past the first 2 results, it will be absolute garbage.

US tells Israel it will announce visa ban on violent settlers in coming weeks — officials (www.timesofisrael.com)

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken notified Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during meetings yesterday that the Biden administration is preparing to announce a series of visa bans against Israeli settlers involved in attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank, an Israeli official tells The Times of Israel. A US official...

Evilcoleslaw , (edited )

Well, this is pretty much nothing, so that checks out.

It’s about as milquetoast response to actual terrorism and ethnic cleansing as you can get. Years late, no real effect or punishment, won’t apply to a relatively large number who are Israeli-US dual-citizens and thus don’t need visas, etc.

Edit: Oh and Israel has a visa waiver agreement with the US right now so unless that’s suspended it’s absolutely useless because nobody even has to apply for a visa from Israel.

Evilcoleslaw ,

Which two Democrats voted against expulsion and which two voted Present?

Evilcoleslaw ,

She voted to expel him last time. I’m assuming she just wasn’t there today.

Firefox is giving Android users a sneak peek at its open extensions (www.androidpolice.com)

• Firefox for Android is reintroducing an open ecosystem of extensions, set to be available on December 14, with a dedicated extension page for easy discovery. • Mozilla has released a preview of the upcoming extensions, including popular ones like Bitwarden’s password manager and AdGuard’s ad blocker. • Firefox aims...

Evilcoleslaw ,

Have you tried using collections for that?

Evilcoleslaw ,

but now Plex has data on all your users and logins and possibly viewing habits as well.

They absolutely have that. Plus they’ll ban your server just if they don’t like where you’re hosting it. I’ve also seen a few reports of them banning users hosting using residential connections sharing with a handful of friends and family, followed up with sending all the users emails informing them that the host was running a commercial piracy operation.

Evilcoleslaw ,

It’s not even really difficult to do it the manual way and completely free. DuckDNS supports Let’s Encrypt DNS challenges now and it’s fairly easy to do. No paying for your own domain name.

Evilcoleslaw ,

Also Plex has been cozying up to media companies and the more they do the more action they’ve taken. Banning whole hosting providers (Hetzner) and even banning some small-time users running small servers.

Evilcoleslaw ,

I don’t know what the deal is. Being from SC I’d half expect it if he was rich and had a high profile local lawyer or something. But his attorney appears to have been a public defender as well. Not sure wtf is wrong with the judge.

Evilcoleslaw ,

Because using Chromium and Chromium-based browsers reinforces Chrome’s market share dominance which will harm comparability as more and more sites will only be tested against Chrome and in many cases refuse to serve pages to other browsers without user agent string fuckery.

It also cultivates dependence on Google for the extension ecosystem, etc

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