I definitely don’t want conservatives to win in any western country, but this sounds suspiciously like vote buying or bribery…

This makes us look weak and hypocritical to the rest of the world. Stop the unjust war of aggression and annexation! No wait, I meant the other one. This one is a-OK.

It’s time for another episode of “Everything I Don’t Like Is Socialism” with Donnie Temper Tantrum!

Doing the Lord’s work there, Sonny!

Actually with a Synology NAS you don’t need Plex, they have a built in equivalent called DS Video with apps for Apple TV, iOS, Android, etc!

I’ve had an Nvidia shield in the past as well and it works reasonably well, but the video experience is definitely better on the Apple TV. The Android boxes make more sense if you want a place to install emulators that also occasionally streams.

Keep your Apple TV and use it as a streaming client for whatever you stand up on the backend. Personally I have a Synology NAS that I love and I use the net to get all my content. Use the net. 😉

Cloudflare tunnels are definitely the way, letting you expose a service to the open internet regardless of what your ISP thinks. I’m not sure how they would handle DMCA complaints but given they are just a DNS provider, I’m not sure they would do much given it’s the server owner’s responsibility for the content. Which in this case is you.

Not necessarily. NATO military tech can track rockets in real time and project a destination. If you can see a missile is headed for a sparsely populated area and unlikely to inflict casualties, then you are better off letting it go. To intercept the missile is to demonstrate your defensive capabilities. Right now, Russia is likely in the dark about that. Unclear whether showing their hand is strategically the right move for Poland.

It’s more than slight! I ran a 3090 in an eGPU for a while and it lost around 40% of performance compared to when it was in my case.

Yea, what is the expected use in this case?

Depends on the country but mostly WhatsApp followed in second place by Telegram

Cool, then I’m dropping GM from my list of cars that I’ll buy or rent. CarPlay is a must have in 2023, just like a backup camera. Literally nobody wants your shitty car OS thing, it’s guaranteed to be way worse than iOS and Android.

Seems like this ought to be a dealbreaker for many.

I doubt it’s about paying Apple or Google, so um much as their ability to extort car owners to pay them. Nobody in their right mind will buy the $10/month Bullshit Subscription ™ from GM when they can just plug in their phone and use Waze.

Edit: seems Apple doesnt charge automakers so it’s definitely about extorting you for money.

Former Apple engineer here. This architecture isn’t ideal if you intend the service to be portable - but we didn’t! Knowing the messages can only originate from a sealed application on a first party device eliminates a whole class of spam and security problems.

Beeper’s implementation spoofs Mac keys and requires you trust them with your Apple ID credentials if you want to be able to take full advantage of iMessage.

It’s just pointless. A huge security risk for Apple users and to zero benefit for Android users. Let Apple implement RCS as they promised and move on. Isn’t everyone on Telegram or WhatsApp anyway…?

Actually, you can, with Lockdown for iOS or Lulu for macOS. There are other alternatives available, these are just a pair of FOSS examples. You can totally block *.apple.com if you really want to.

Did you read the article? It says the federal government compelled Apple to comply and gave them a gag order.

Well, none. One assumes the aspiration is to implement Cocoa, to allow GUI apps to run.

Well, none. One assumes the aspiration is to implement Cocoa, to allow GUI apps to run.

Former Google and current Apple engineer here; this is definitely an insecure workaround with a lot of flaws. I think Beeper is basically doing the same.

The reality is that while we do have a lot of walled garden policies for business reasons (which I don’t love), iMessage and FaceTime are a bit more complicated than that, tightly coupled around the hardware encryption and keystore in the TPM in our devices. Unwinding this would be undesirable from a compatibility perspective as it would break any Apple devices not updated immediately to new OS versions that change the encryption scheme.

So the only way to plug into iMessage per se is a weird workaround like this where you basically AppleScript automate the Messages app on a Mac with its shields down.

There’s not a great way to fix this problem which is largely why we are bringing RCS support to iOS 18 to hopefully make such things moot.

But that said even as an employee I don’t think iMessage is a great example of a modern chat app. I mean, it’s better than SMS which is what it sought out to replace. But compared to an actual chat app - something like Telegram - it doesn’t hold up.

This is a really disingenuous argument even for /c/android. iOS has many pitfalls with the walled garden effect but it also has many advantages with regard to software quality, consistency and performance (particularly at an API level, speaking as a developer for both platforms). If we write them off as bad, dumb or irrelevant then we forego the opportunity to improve our own apps and Android as a platform. Google does not have a monopoly on good ideas nor on technical users - one could note that Android itself is developed on Macs, as Silicon Valley developer workstations are almost universally Apple hardware…