And it's written in Python.
Actually it's mostly patch files but they're ignored by github.
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joshjob42 commented on The Culture novels as a dystopia boristhebrave.com/2025/09... · Posted by u/ibobev
In the sense that your freedom to enact change ends at the boundary of your skin.
People leave the Culture, and you can form communities of various sorts, you just can't force people to not leave them. In a world with unlimited abundance, no disease, optional death, and more or less unlimited morphological freedom and the ability to form any consensual voluntary community you like with freedom of exit for all members, what possible change could one be demanding?
> I dropped from the Pro Max to the Pro last year because I was tired of how much it hurt when I dropped my phone on my face.
Now this, good people, is a real use case. If it seems like an edge case to you, I guarantee Apple’s design and product people know of — and optimize for — use cases much more rare.
Maybe it's just me but I do semi-regularly have my phone slip out of my hand and hit me in the face while in bed, haha.
Why can't Apple, of all manufacturers, produce a watch that can last longer on a charge than one or two days?
Garmins easily last a week.
My OG Ultra lasts 3 days if I turn off the always on display, which I do because it doesn't serve much of a purpose, I can just tap the watch to wake it. It charges from 0 to full in 1.5 hours, pretty linearly, so dropping it on the charger for half an hour or an hour while I'm on a work call every other day or so keeps it plenty charged.
This one will have even more battery life, and gets 12 hours of use in 15 minutes, which I suspect will mean for me without the always on display I may well be able to charge it only while I'm actively in the shower (when I'd take it off anyway as I hate wet bands) and be good for the day.
Why should a phone sit flat on a table? What's the advantage of that?
I seriously don't understand this (common) complaint that I see. If anything a slight tilt makes the screen a bit more readable.
I don't want/need the whole thing to be flat but I do prefer it to be stable. For instance if the plateau were a bit thicker so that the camera lens was flush with the surface (even just an extra bar sort of inside the plateau) it would mean that when I put it down it would never rock back and forth when I'm tapping at it on a table.
It's 17% heavier than the iphone 13 mini.
Source: https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/?modelList=iphone-13-mi...
But lighter than any iPhone since except maybe an SE.
Can someone that is actually interested in this explain the appeal? Thin on its own I get but thin with a giant bump 100% defeats the whole point for me. Seems clear at this point there is little hope of them engineering their way into thin cameras.
I'm going to preorder one because I want a light phone and a large screen. This will be the lightest iPhone in years while also having a bigger screen than most. I dropped from the Pro Max to the Pro last year because I was tired of how much it hurt when I dropped my phone on my face.
I don't have much call for most of the camera system, and my battery life on my Pro is just fine. I have plenty of chargers typically, and for emergencies or times I know I'm going to be out I could potentially get the battery pack.
I basically never use cases on my iPhone, and at most will maybe use an ultra-thin one or some sort of structure adhered to the plateau just to make it flat across so as to not rock on a table.
joshjob42 commented on Signal Secure Backups signal.org/blog/introduci... · Posted by u/keyboardJones
This post says disappearing messages are included in the backups. You have to enable disappearing messages with a timer of less than 24 hours to ensure that you can opt out.
Sure but the backup happens each day and then gets overwritten/deleted when the next days backup happens (which then deletes the disappearing messages that are expiring express the next backup). It just ensures you have access to any messages that you’re supposed to have access to according to the timers on said messages.
joshjob42 commented on Signal Secure Backups signal.org/blog/introduci... · Posted by u/keyboardJones
It's not Signal's fault that Apple does not let you access the most basic feature of an operating system - the filesystem.
They do and have done for years now. There’s been a files app since 2017. They’ve had Advanced Data Protection available for iOS backups since 2022. Signal has just been lazy and found maintaining the Android backups to be a pain, so they refused to implement it for iOS.
joshjob42 commented on Signal Secure Backups signal.org/blog/introduci... · Posted by u/keyboardJones
There's a difference between someone in your chats acting adversarially and Signal supporting/encouraging adversarial behavior as part of the way the app works. If Signal published a change to the protocol that removed forward secrecy, we wouldn't consider it a non-event and say "well anyone could screenshot messages anyway," even though that may be true. They're calling this "secure backups," but in truth it appears to reduce security
I don't think it's appropriate to call someone you're talking to with disappearing messages turned off making a backup of the conversation so they have the (non-disappearing) message history if they drop their phone in a lake as "adversarial behavior".
If you don't want them to have a history only communicate via disappearing messages.