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Allezxandre commented on iPadOS Identified as Digital 'Gatekeeper' Under New EU Tech Rules   macrumors.com/2024/04/29/... · Posted by u/tosh
meindnoch · 2 years ago
Chrome is a resource hog spyware. I only use Safari, both on desktop and mobile/tablet.
Allezxandre · 2 years ago
Is it?

My experience with Arc (which I would assume would be heavier than Chrome) has been that it adds a lot of scary entries in the Resource Monitor App, but doesn't impact my day-to-day use on my 16 Gb M1 MBP.

With Safari, on the other hand, I've experienced audio stutter and delays when using resource intensive wep-apps like YouTube, Figma, Netflix and others.

Allezxandre commented on The Busy Beaver Challenge   bbchallenge.org/... · Posted by u/bmc7505
Allezxandre · 3 years ago
Wikipedia [1] has a problem statement that I find explains the game quite simply:

> the busy beaver game aims at finding a terminating program of a given size that produces the most output possible.

The Busy Beaver Challenge website [2] also has an explainer page with interactive Turing Machines.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy_beaver

[2] https://bbchallenge.org/story

Allezxandre commented on Level responds to lock picker opening its $330 Apple Store lock in seconds   techradar.com/news/the-ap... · Posted by u/stacktrust
Allezxandre · 3 years ago
I understand where Level is coming from with this response, but cybersecurity has taught us better.

Yes, less than 10% of attacks use this exploit, but now that it’s public that you’re vulnerable to it, you become a target for 100% of attacks involving this exploit.

So for instance, if the delivery address of Level customers leak (and given the security of their physical locks, I would say them having bad cyber-security practices is not something too far-fetched), a malicious attacker would essentially have a database of home addresses with users that have bought a $300 locker that he can break into with the help of any YouTube tutorial

Allezxandre commented on Are our phones becoming too smart to do dumb stuff?    · Posted by u/irisedhaze
jdsully · 4 years ago
Press and hold doesn’t work if you have Siri enabled.
Allezxandre · 4 years ago
It does, just hold the buttons you would hold to turn the phone off, not the button you would use to trigger Siri.

On FaceID phones that means holding both the Lock and Volume Up buttons.

Allezxandre commented on Are our phones becoming too smart to do dumb stuff?    · Posted by u/irisedhaze
evilbob93 · 4 years ago
Somewhat off the subject of this post, but I believe we lost something when calling for help stopped being as simple as grabbing at the wall and punching a couple buttons. What are children supposed to do these days to call 911 or 999?
Allezxandre · 4 years ago
On iOS, just hold the button you would use to turn the phone off, but hold longer, it will loudly count down to 0 and call emergency services. You can also press the side button 5 times and it will call without you having to hold the button pressed. Works on iPhone and Apple Watch.

More info here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208076

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