Comment Re:sideloading control and 3rd party stores (Score 1) 19
This problem needs to be solved by references, ask AI, people, is this program safe before installing.
This problem needs to be solved by references, ask AI, people, is this program safe before installing.
Google is now adding more rules to make sideloading more difficult while Apple never provided a way to sideload an app in the first place. People need to be able to build and load their own apps without permission from the OS manufacturer, a phone is a computer with specialized hardware, we do have ability to build and run apps on our own hardware.
Why?!
Target recognition. For example a particular building in a city.
Seems most likely to be a misinformation campaign. There's plenty of ways to navigate a middle and none of them require AI.
In an electronic warfare environment using visual identification is an important capability. Note “visual” is not necessarily limited to the human visual spectrum.
That’s not true for any Windows game.
Yes, it is.
Your ignorance is showing. Currently maintained games often require patches as new versions of windows and direct X come out. This can lead to changes needed in wine for example. And such changes will occur in higher profile games while lower profile games wait. You can deny other people’s experiences. You can deny Google’s findings. The fact remains I was one of the devs doing those periodic updates and despite Linux not being a target, I was testing under Wine and coding the changes to minimize the impact on wine. The need for it to be patched. I was a rareity doing so in the industry, being supported by senior management who thought it was cool 2% of our customers were running under Linux.
Even 70% is far far from you original "are exactly the same”.
God you are fucking retarded. 70% of the finished compiled products are the same. Within the 70% is the kernel, which is exactly the same across the board.
Then your statement is ignorant BS. The kernels different, each containing platform specific code.
The example you offered describes losing focus.
No.
It seems an opinion in this case.
No.
You got it backwards. What you claimed is what happenedin old Windows 10l It is Windows 10 and 11 that act otherwise to your claim.
No.
Details in previous posts prove otherwise.
Actually human/computer interaction has a lot of literature that says otherwise.
No.
Your ignorance is showing again.
You are speaking of prior to Windows 10. Windows 10 and 11 alls losing that focus.
They lost the user facing option and the older registry "hacks" because Microsoft hardcoded the feature to be always on.
You need to re-read that wiki.
The fact remains that the app could have done something to warn the user
Useless.
A silly opinion.
hidden the portion of the password already entered
Already does that and is useless.
Another silly opinion.
SpaceX is. Grok/Twitter/xAI isn't. And SpaceX themselves advise that most of the growth potential, and thus most of the future value, is in the latter, not the former.
From the wall street short term performance focus only.
However if you just mean not building new ones that it really seems like you do not. New renewables go up fast, and they are operational essentially immediately.
Renewables are increasing becoming delayed through court actions just like nuclear. We’ve had a wind project off of Massachusetts delayed over a decade. Some of it is NIMBY. Some of it is environmentalist, a local solar project prevented because it would destroy habitat belonging to some endangered critter.
The point is building nuclear and renewables displaces fossil fuel faster. Again, avoiding nuclear does nothing other than prolong fossil fuel use. Also, some newer reactor designs have an important secondary role. They can consume some of our store nuclear waste as fuel. That would be an important cleanup, avoid long term storage expenses we still have not figured out.
As we increase electrification of our economy and daily lives we are going to have increasing demand. Southern california is already struggling to meet current demand. Brownouts increasingly common during the summer. If the state achieved its goal of mandating EVs things would get far worse wrt demand.
Reality is that EV adoption will not be as fast as California wants. And renewable plant buildouts will not be as fast as advocates hope. And battery and other storage solutions will bot appear as fast as advocates desire. And this means we will just continue building more natural gas plants to backup renewables. We should be build nuclear, demand is going to be increasing for decades.
Carbon neutral fuels are interesting, although I tend to think of aviation fuel first. Special cases.
The contrast between nuclear and coal is on point, because the US has an outstanding safety record. Coal has literally released more radiation in the USA. That's a point that most people are unaware of...
Regardless of Hollywood context though, it's pretty much undeniable that what the original poster said about the catastrophic nature of something going wrong is correct.
Not quite, newer reactor designs are far safer. Some failure scenarios of the past no longer possible.
There is, in fact 880 tons of what they are calling corium barely kept cool by constant pumping of water underground in Fukushima right now.
Negligent operations that (1) can be addressed by regulation and oversight, if (2) not avoided by using newer designs. If southern california we have a coastal reactor. It could conceivably lose power for cooling. Besides onsite backup generators, additional mobule backup generators are stored on a nearby UIS Marine Corps base. The Marines have ample heavy air lift capability to deliver these backup if needed. But again, newer designs can avoid the failure mode in the first place.
As for SMRs specifically, my concerns boil down to economies of scale and essentially the square cube law. Everything suggests that SMRs produce less power per unit of pretty much everything involved.
Again, we are talking about complementing renewables, not displacing them. The SMRs would still be able to provide backup when renewables are not operational. We have not really solved the storage problem. We are still building natural gas plants. SMRs could displace these gas plants.
Let's not forget that the anti-nuclear stance of Greenpeace was mostly about nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons testing.
The 1960s/70s Green movement, including greenpeace pretty much lumped in nuclear power with nuclear weapons. Greenpeace vigorously opposed it all.
Basically at present, nuclear is pretty much doomed to be relegated mostly to niches for the foreseeable future because there seem to be better alternatives.
And I expect we will continue building natural gas plants as renewables and storage tech do not deliver as hoped, as demand massively increases as we increasingly electrify.
I'm playing games that straight up don't need any attention to begin with.
That’s not true for any Windows game. They are inherently dependent upon updates to match Windows APIs, DirectX APIs, etc.
Not just *some*, it's most of the code. Around 70%.
Even 70% is far far from you original "are exactly the same”.
Finding a bug in a feature is quite different than Apple lying about the feature.
That is assuming Apple classifies it as a bug, which they do not, which makes it a lie by omission.
We’ll see, Apple has fixed other bugs that enabled exploits.
And the former happening doesn't mean the latter happened. Hence why they are separate.
Focus steal is a subset of losing focus. The example you offered describes losing focus.
However, sometimes it is from bad design. And in this case, it is.
It seems an opinion in this case.
You are mistaken that its not a problem under Windows. “Microsoft Windows-based systems use pop-up dialogue boxes which can steal focus from the current application. On versions of Microsoft Windows prior to Windows 7, there is a user setting that will by default prevent a cooperative application from stealing focus when launching another program or popping up a new window or dialogue box.[2] This same method does not work in Windows 7 or later.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
I do not care about anything older than Windows 10.
You got it backwards. What you claimed is what happenedin old Windows 10l It is Windows 10 and 11 that act otherwise to your claim.
Simple can still have options for customization. Or be allowed to be replaced with something else entirely.
Actually human/computer interaction has a lot of literature that says otherwise.
And if those inputs had the expected end result, focus wasn't stolen.
You are speaking of prior to Windows 10. Windows 10 and 11 alls losing that focus. See wiki above.
Consuming specific inputs, like a keyboard shortcut, to do a specific thing isn't focus stealing.
That’s not what I am referring to. I am reffering to 3rd party code getting it inserted into the input processing hierarchy.
The user being unaware isn't the problem (or at least not one that I care about at the moment). The problem is the focus stealing itself. It doesn't have to be a password or other sensitive data field - those are just the security risks around this topic. So even if you hardened the sensitive inputs, it's still annoying when it happens elsewhere.
Annoyed is a valid opinion. The fact remains that the app could have done something to warn the user, hidden the portion of the password already entered, etc.
SpaceX was a massive pump-and-dump, and Anthropic probably is too. Just wish we could hurry up and get to the crash so I can buy some more HDDs.
Most initial public offerings have a pump and dump element. This doesn’t change the fact that SpaceX is a genuine market leader offering valuable services, an industry innovator and disruptor.
And no, I haven’t bought SpaceX stock yet. Stock price is something different than actual accomplishments, something that doesn’t take away from the latter.
"Unibus timeout fatal trap program lost sorry" - An error message printed by DEC's RSTS operating system for the PDP-11