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Comment Re: I am not of sinji's opinion. (Score 1) 304

Few years ago, we got a long term rental due to a wreck, and it was the first time weâ(TM)d ever experienced it. It was the middle of winter, cold and snowy, and the colder it got, the longer it took for the starter to kick in when we would come to a stop. A few times Iâ(TM)d come to an intersection, try to accelerate to get through it, but the car would turn off the split second before I accelerated, and I would be terrified I was going to be hit because I wasnâ(TM)t used to having to think âoeok, when I accelerate to pull out I need 3 seconds lead time for the car to crankâ after 20 years of not having that in my muscle memory. Iâ(TM)m guessing theyâ(TM)re better now, the rental is probably driven hard and may be slower to crank than a normal consumer car, and it was frigid out, but with that being my only experience, I donâ(TM)t ever want that feature. I tried to find out if I could disable it but this particular model did not have that option.

Comment Re: Why is this silly? (Score 1) 87

You can easily tell who isnâ(TM)t a software developer in these comments. I too immediately thought âoeoh well of course theyâ(TM)re disabling them thatâ(TM)s a security nightmareâ when the reports started coming in before Apple said a word about why.

Now is money an ulterior motive here? Of course it could be. If it wasnâ(TM)t theyâ(TM)d probably just lock PWAs to Safari.

Comment Re:Ok.... (Score 3, Insightful) 136

Oh, that's all, is it.

Yep, you're right 1 hour max /s.

Browsers are the most insecure attack surface of any aspect of modern computers. Apple's s/w is built using standard engineering decision-making - can we rely on X being there ? Why yes we can, so we can delegate this function to that system framework which we've tested is all secure.

Except that all breaks down when someone installs a 3rd party browser. Now the security model of the system depends on the security model of the installed browser, and that's just not acceptable. It may be the user's fault that they installed but you can guarantee that Apple will be holding the can at the end of any argument over why their nudes are now all over the internet.

Comment Re: At what age do they become atheists? (Score 3, Interesting) 242

Freshman year in high school there was a classmate of mine who still believed in Santa. The other boys found out and just literally ruined his entire worldview in the span of a few minutes in a brutal fashion. He literally ran crying out of the classroom. So yeah, it happens.

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