Hellion

> and memory on the computer to hold an entire page of pixels. I mean, at 72dpi that's 50KB just for the data!

Fwiw it was common for text editors at the time to render/raster in chunks and then send that off to the printer. For complicated documents, the printer sometimes had to take pauses while the computer worked

Applying the slightest scrutiny to this Twitter thread revealed that the Twitter thread was actually the complete fraud the entire time

You can just not donate.

That was just one example of an egregious mistake. There are more, many more.

also, It’s the fundamental claim of the thread, and it casts the rest of the logic into doubt. His correction is just as un based in reality and also has errors.

It’s worth noting that this tweet thread makes some major mistakes, both in dates and in roles. For example, while she was hired by NASA after Apollo 8, she had already been working in a substantial capacity on Apollo software at the Draper lab at mit, which was contracted/hired to do the work. Much of the software written for and by NASA at that time was not actually written by engineers under NASA’s employ.

Which is to say, by the time, NASA hired her she had been working on the software for many years. And, additionally, she had been working on similar software even before that!

I think that it would be safe to describe that Twitter thread as suffering from a deviation from reality.

The chat landscape is dire. I view Signal as a least bad option for my friends to use.

It’s vastly more complicated than “apple opens an api”. iMessage does a lot more than just messaging, and key components of apples spam and fraud story are tied to individual devices.

For Apple to open iMessage, would require that android manufacturers enroll the devices.

I use an iPhone, and I try to get all my friends to use signal

Feature by feature, and doing a cost comparison, shows that iPhones are very good value. But they don’t have a phone under $400. And even in the developed world that’s a lot of money.

Yeah, you can get an android phone that will take pictures, send messages, play, music, run Uber/maps, and take calls for under $50. Those phones aren’t great, but they are usable. They can do everything that you “need” a smart phone to do.

Considering the Phoenix like rise the platform made, it was accurate at the time but short sighted.

Credit Karma’s Karmanauts. Oof.

Very possibly, the FBI has some strong leads, and are building a case.

This is something on the national scale with lots of federal internal attention - reports likely even having hit the potus desk.

I doubt we’ll hear much about this again unless there’s an arrest.

Any shop worth their salt is going to embed the cert chain in their app. In fact, you get that for free with pretty much every drm lib, such as the ones major providers like steam, gumroad, etc suggest

Cert pinning can defeated, but like I said, easier said than done. Not super advanced, but still requires specialized knowledge and a willingness to put the effort in.

Gumroad is part of a movement of “friendly” drm. You’re paying for support and updates. Intercepting a tls call is easier said than done, but the ethos is around accepting pirates gonna pirate.

There are significant and effective federal regulations around this. If you are telling the truth, your steering wheel is way too high, and you need to lower it