MrSpArkle

MrSpArkle , 6 days ago to Technology in NASA and Boeing say Starliner astronauts ‘are not stranded,’ but will be on the ISS for a few more weeks

It’s a weird moral grey zone. Everyone has forgotten the hundreds of people Boeing murdered as a result of their desire to skirt modern safety regulations. I just flew my family across the country yesterday on one of these end-stage-capitalism products for lack of any other option.

Were I to be ash this morning, I would be forgotten too.

But if astronauts were killed, maybe the outrage would finally be enough for all the greased palms to be sheepishly shoved in pockets just long enough to get justice, ground all those affronts to safety, and jail enough executives to maybe make Boeing stop being a global safety risk and a national security concern.

MrSpArkle , 9 days ago to Technology in Apple finally adds support for RCS in latest iOS 18 beta | TechCrunch

Apple couldn’t get the carriers to do shit. They blocked eSIMs for years on iPhones, meanwhile the iPad eSIM implementation was happily allowed.

Even up to the iPhone launch nobody wanted to collaborate with Apple(especially for the voicemail) except Cingular.

MrSpArkle , 18 days ago to Technology in Apple Reportedly Suspends Work on Vision Pro 2

HomePod is still mid. But people really sleep on how terrible the first Apple Watch was, and how AppleTV is a media juggernaut now.

MrSpArkle , 1 month ago to Technology in US to impose tariffs on Chinese EVs next week

This is unhelpful and reductive.

MrSpArkle , 2 months ago to Technology in Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles

Get a Porsche Maccan.

MrSpArkle , 2 months ago to Technology in Almost all Chinese keyboards have severe security flaws that can be (mis)used for mass surveillance, report reveals

The real nightmare here is that her girlfriend is a Uyghur.

MrSpArkle , 2 months ago to Technology in Hashicorp signs agreement to be acquired by IBM

Crossplane has also had internal providers in development for 3 years. Bottom line is unless the actual cloud provider is devoting developer resources to a provider(like they do for the TF providers), it's unlikely to happen.

MrSpArkle , 2 months ago to Technology in Hashicorp signs agreement to be acquired by IBM

They wish. Nobody is gonna replicate that effort successfully any time soon.

You’d sooner get the cloud providers to standardize on an api.

MrSpArkle , 3 months ago to Comic Strips in Let’s Outlaw Being Homeless! That’ll Work!

Open sufficient shelter and then ban camping.

Sorry, but I’ve worked in SF and Portland and getting yelled at while avoiding shit and syringes is not great.

MrSpArkle , 3 months ago to Technology in ‘Even stronger’ than imagined: DOJ’s sweeping Apple lawsuit draws expert praise

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/fake-signal-and-telegram-apps-sneak-malware-into-thousands-of-android-phones-delete-these-right-now

The signal code is there for transparency and individual use, not for redistribution. Again, this is signal themselves discouraging users from third party apps for things that have and will happen.

MrSpArkle , 3 months ago to Technology in ‘Even stronger’ than imagined: DOJ’s sweeping Apple lawsuit draws expert praise

And what data would this client be handling via the API?

Even Signal discourages third party apps for this reason you are indeed missing.

MrSpArkle , 3 months ago to Technology in ‘Even stronger’ than imagined: DOJ’s sweeping Apple lawsuit draws expert praise

How would a third party client guarantee e2e encryption with iMessage?

And by what mechanism was that company enabling that bridge? Did that mechanism store iCloud credentials? Did it encrypt the drives the users iCloud data could have been downloaded to? Did they have access to iMessages in clear text before forwarding them?

MrSpArkle , 3 months ago to Technology in ‘Even stronger’ than imagined: DOJ’s sweeping Apple lawsuit draws expert praise

What are you asking for? For iMessage to become the standard for messaging?

It’s the telcos fault SMS sucks and it’s the telcos fault RCS is a joke unless you use Googles implementation on Android.

MrSpArkle , 3 months ago to linuxmemes in Does sanitizer work instead

I think Darwin is still open source, and WebKit is still open source.

MrSpArkle , 3 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in Someone gets killed by a car, so they restrict e-bikes.

This doesn't seem so bad. I live in the PNW and have seen people absolutely hauling ass on home-made e-bikes and scooters, easily 40mph and passing traffic in the bike lane.

I'm not against people building their own e-bikes, but at some point it's not an e-bike, it's a motorcycle, and they need to be in traffic and ideally have the brakes to match.