chillacy (u/chillacy)

chillacy commented on France fines Apple €150M for “excessive” pop-ups that let users reject tracking arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/sebastian_z

johnnyanmac · 9 months ago

>Apple’s not sharing data with third parties for their internal stuff

Yes, they do.

>Apple does not sell your personal data including as “sale” is defined in Nevada and California. Apple also does not “share” your personal data as that term is defined in California.

From their privacy policy (C. 1/31/2025) It's enough to comply for a definition under a single state in a single country. They make a billion off ads so I'm sure they loophole the heck out of that.

chillacy · 9 months ago

You can make still money off untargeted ads (just not as much).

chillacy commented on France fines Apple €150M for “excessive” pop-ups that let users reject tracking arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/sebastian_z

AlanYx · 9 months ago

This is for system-level permissions. In third-party apps, the app asks whether you want to enable X permission and then you get an OS-level confirmation request. It's not just in Europe.

Likely they'll fall back in Europe to double-prompting as well in system apps.

chillacy · 9 months ago

Afaik the apps don't have to ask you, they could just request the OS-level permissions. They don't do that because if you reject the request at the OS level, they can't request it again, you have to go to the Settings app to enable it and it's harder to do. So apps prefer to just nag you again and again until you say you're ready.

chillacy commented on Ray-Ban Meta glasses have sold 2M units, production to be increased uploadvr.com/ray-ban-meta... · Posted by u/achow

unsupp0rted · 10 months ago

If "just" requires ordering specific electronic components and soldering, it's not "just" for most people.

chillacy · 10 months ago

Also not the easy kind of 1990's LED soldering, like tiny surface mount soldering.

chillacy commented on Ray-Ban Meta glasses have sold 2M units, production to be increased uploadvr.com/ray-ban-meta... · Posted by u/achow

josefritzishere · 10 months ago

Putting aside the obviously dystopian qualities of this product... I find it strange that I know zero people who own this device which has sold supposedly over a million units.

chillacy · 10 months ago

2M units globally, so maybe generously 1M in the US (assuming you're from there but multiply by some factor proportional to your country's consumeristic tendencies), divided by the population is only something like a .3% rate of ownership. So not quite as prevalent as gopro, which has sold something like 35M in the US over the past 10 years [1]

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/688306/number-of-gopro-u...

chillacy commented on Type 2 Diabetes and cardiovascular disease attributable to sugar beverages nature.com/articles/s4159... · Posted by u/tchalla

ricardobeat · a year ago

I take it you haven’t tried a nice ripe mango from subtropical regions, or a pineapple, white grapes (or grape juice), watermelon, navel oranges? They can be sweeter than Dr. Pepper.

Sugarcane also exists and you can chew it.

They just tended to 1) come with fiber, 2) not be as easy to acquire or eat in large quantities 3) not available all year, or all at once

chillacy · a year ago

The fiber is afaik a big factor for slowing rate and amount of sugar absorbed (amount because apparently some of it makes it far enough to feed gut bacteria in the large intestine).

chillacy commented on Ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to Community Notes model about.fb.com/news/2025/01... · Posted by u/impish9208

insane_dreamer · a year ago

NYTimes with more on this: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01/07/business/meta-fact-c...

chillacy · a year ago

Ironic that the NYT's article here focuses on the political angle instead of just the "facts" so to speak...

> It is likely to please President-elect Trump and his allies.

chillacy commented on Ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to Community Notes model about.fb.com/news/2025/01... · Posted by u/impish9208

silverquiet · a year ago

The older I get, the more I realize that people just live in different realities and so many contradictory facts can be true. Obviously this is a source of conflict.

chillacy · a year ago

The idea of some kind of universal fact is also misleading, some statements of fact are only statements of belief, others are so ill-defined that people end up debating two different things.

chillacy commented on Ending our third party fact-checking program and moving to Community Notes model about.fb.com/news/2025/01... · Posted by u/impish9208

photochemsyn · a year ago

Only one of those questions (earth warming rate) is clearly defined and scientifically addressable, as all the others have fairly subjective definitions (what is poverty? what is crime? how do we measure inflation objectively? etc.)

Even with warming, a 'fact' would be a data point at a particular time and location, assuming your sensor was correctly calibrated. You have to look at millions of data points across the entire globe for decades to get a sense of the current warming rate (which could be negative, flat, or positive). You have to do complicated statistics on all those data points to get a warming rate, and you'll have error bars on that, and the end result is not a 'fact' so much as a bounded estimate (+0.1 C / decade +/- 10% is plausible for the average surface temperature change averaged over the entire planet).

We can't even say with real certainty that 2100 will be warmer than today, as a supervolcano, asteroid impact, or global nuclear war could reverse the trend.

chillacy · a year ago

I think prediction markets (polymarket et al) get this right. Every question as vague as "is the earth warming" has resolution details which define some way to resolve the question such that all parties (even those with economic interest to disagree) have trouble disputing the outcome.

For a question like the earth warming, it would usually be something like "according to ___.org website on Y date", which in that case the final prediction becomes: will the average temperature in the period from 2016-2026 be greater than Y on ___.org, which is a bit different than the original but easier to arbitrate.

chillacy commented on Apple Vision Pro review: magic, until it's not theverge.com/24054862/app... · Posted by u/Handy-Man

soniman · 2 years ago

Is the DOD buying these? I can see soldiers using these as enhanced night vision goggles. No need to look at a map with a flashlight or bring a computer.

chillacy · 2 years ago

In case anyone else finds this interesting, the DOD has night vision goggles which have nearly-zero latency (all analog), amplify much better than digital cameras, and emit very little external light (hard to spot by adversaries).

This veritasium video at 12:00 shows how these goggles work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAeJHAFjwPM

That said I wouldn't be surprised if someone in the DOD was buying them for general tech exploration though.