grahamj

I don’t see this mentioned anywhere but Safari on iOS already does this. If you try to access a local network endpoint you’ll be asked to allow it by Safari, and the permission is per-site.

Marketing is the manipulation of people for gain. Sounds like a great fit for AI.

yep. This is HN’s biggest flaw.

ah this takes me back. Thanks ;)

I dunno about lying; it used to be true in the Intel age so it might simply be a matter of their information being out of date.

imo the perfect small laptop has to have full-size keys and thus be at least ~11x5".

That rules out all iPads below the 12.9" due to their tall aspect (even in landscape).

The 11" MBA was ~12x8" and so darn near the minimum you could make it. ~11x7" should be doable but 2" is a pretty small trackpad.

imo the latest MBAs are more or less perfect: a great tradeoff of overall size vs. trackpad size. Although I actually preferred the tapered design of the M1.

From the title I wasn't sure if they were even found

The article mentions the display controller runs an Apple OS so I could see there being a secure way for an exclave to call into it for the onscreen indicators.

I would expect that to mean they're not included in screenshots so I'm curious now whether that's true for the iPhone 16.

heh my friend and I (young teens at the time) used to wire photoresistors into the analog in pins on the joy port. We put the sensors in toilet paper tubes on one side of a hallway with small lights across from them and wrote BASIC code that would turn on a light via the annunciator outputs when change was detected.

Then we’d see if we could sneak down the hall undetected, Mission Impossible style. I never noticed the detection speed varying with light level but I guess it did!

I’ve been full-timing it on iOS lately and yeah, pretty buggy. It comes with uBlock but doesn’t seem to work, and neither does bookmark/fave syncing.

Apple software is already largely written my Americans.

Somehow I don't think fealty will change its quality.

My first thought was payment to avoid sanctions for being "woke" (read: anti-discrimination)

Yes Apple controls the device so you're right, you can never be sure what it's doing. My thinking is that an encryption backdoor means the key generation algo is compromised. In that case you want to bypass that by generating the key yourself.

If the backdoor is some other method of getting your key off the device then all bets are off.