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Comment · 9 days ago
YouTube and TikTok are also mass produced slop. I assume Disney at least had longer form content and high quality production WITHOUT ads. YouTube and TikTok are, by default, two of the most advertisement-ridden services I've ever seen.
Comment · 1 month ago
The core is C++ afaik.
Comment · 3 months ago
"- One object going out of scope may mean calling free once, but it also can trigger calling free billions of objects, even for the exact same object

- Even freeing one object can have largely varying running time, e.g. to coalesce free blocks or, because it happens to be the last block in a virtual memory region, to unmap a block of virtual memory, blocking the program potentially for an arbitrary time"

So, like C, C++, or anything else that you wouldn't call garbage collected.

Comment · 3 months ago
The squeaking [spare] wheel got the grease.
Comment · 4 months ago
It is painfully obvious that the "age assurance" push is to limit anti-zionist propaganda.

I wonder who or what will abuse this infrustructure when they fail.

Comment · 4 months ago
"or the culture shifts to reinterpret the thing"

Yes. You see it already.

"Actually it is good that I can't run programs that haven't been approved by Google on my own device."

Comment · 4 months ago
Are any of those actually pauseless like he asked for?
Comment · 4 months ago
"99% of apps would request it & not function without it"

Apple could refuse to publish them, then. Isn't that why we are forced to go through the App Store? Because Apple ensures every app there works in the best interest of the user?

Comment · 4 months ago
Even that is overkill if all you're interested in is if a change occured.
Comment · 4 months ago
I think something like a per boot delta added to a (per app?) random base would preserve such functionality.
Comment · 4 months ago
Volume creation date is pretty egregious. I don't see any reason that and Pasteboard changeCount should be so granular.

The "Installed Apps Probe" leak also surprised me. It is better than the current state of Android, though.

Comment · 5 months ago
You didn't write it, though. And it is slop. If you had actually wrote it, you might learn from some of the criticism or be able to engage with it on an objective level.
Comment · 5 months ago
On the contrary, you're only defending it because it is AI. If it were some other feature that many didn't want or ask for, you would empathize.
Comment · 7 months ago
Wouldn't it be something if, given all the surveillance already in place, law enforcement punished the scammers instead of the innocent?
Comment · 7 months ago
The keyword is "intentional".

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