Ghostalmedia

Ghostalmedia, 11 hours ago

Looking at the sales estimates, the numbers appear pretty modest compared to the other gaming devices. They’re probably under 5m units sold since early 2022.

Ghostalmedia, 10 hours ago

Yeah, just saying that most of Valve’s value is probably in their software. Their hardware installed base is pretty small compared to others.

Ghostalmedia, 15 hours ago

Well, good news, Bluetooth trackers are trash and inaccurate if they don’t use Apple or Google’s network.

Ghostalmedia, 13 hours ago

This use case has been covered since these products launched.

Apple Find My to Apple Find My network got notifications. Android Find My Device to Android Find My Device got notifications. And if Android users installed Apple’s Tracker Detect, they got notifications.

Now cross platform tracking will happen without the user having to download and install an app.

If you were stealing bikes, and didn’t have something like Tracker Detect installed on your Android phone, you’re not the smartest crook.

Ghostalmedia, 13 hours ago

Both Apple and Google’s location tracking networks are end to end encrypted. Moreover, Apple and Google have refused to put backdoors into their encryption protocols because it’s a massive opportunity for security exploits that could tank their businesses.

If the cops want to find you, they’re probably just going to ask your phone carrier to triangulate you with their tower network, which they’ve been doing for decades. That’s way faster and easier than jumping through hoops to somehow use the Find My or Find My Device networks.

Ghostalmedia, 13 hours ago

Exactly. The tag IDs are anonymous and the clients are E2EE.

I’d be easier just to use cell towers.

Ghostalmedia, 12 hours ago

Times zones yo.

Ghostalmedia, 1 day ago

Abortion pills are safer than over the counter acetaminophen.

Ghostalmedia, 1 day ago

Parenthood is even slower and hurts in unimaginable ways.

Ghostalmedia, 1 day ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/795e5b09-8f08-44a1-912d-428a50fb57b1.jpeg

830?!

Fuck no. I’m out.

Ghostalmedia, 1 day ago

Pay wall:

archive.ph/Daew9

Ghostalmedia, 1 day ago

Yeah, but ignoring the delete requests, and storing the data puts them out of compliance with European and American deletion and retention laws. And if they were lying, and were using user photos to train models, they have more than enough non-deleted photos already.

I’m not pulling out my jump to conclusions mat quire yet. The database corruption issue sounds more reasonable. That stuff happens, and Apple isn’t zeroing data. Most people aren’t. Because the data isn’t zeroed, a file can resurrect when a corruption issue is remedied.

Ghostalmedia, 1 day ago

The difference here is that the files aren’t on Apples servers, they are on your phones internal disk.

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This is about files that are on iCloud servers. Specifically, some photos on iCloud servers don’t get properly flagged for deletion when the user requests it. Something was getting corrupted.

Apple fixed the corruption issue, so now a handful of photo files affected by it appeared to rise from the dead. The files were always there in the cloud, but something like a corrupted DB entry was hiding them from view. Users thought they were deleted, but they were in some sort of corruption purgatory. Not visible to the user, but still taking up storage space.

Once the corruption issue was remedied, the photo app recognized the files, didn’t realize they were previously flagged for deletion, then started to sync them to the device. AKA, download them.

And yes, you can run third party software on Apple’s operating system. There are quite a few third party apps for managing iOS and MacOS’s file system.

Big complaint isn’t a lack of 3rd party apps, it’s that it’s hard to side load apps that aren’t signed.

Ghostalmedia, 2 days ago

🧜‍♀️

Ghostalmedia, 2 days ago

The odds of being in a fatal helicopter crash are impossibly small. 0.63 out of 100,000 in the USA

airmedandrescue.com/…/us-helicopter-accident-rate…

And if you read up on what causes a lot of these fatalities, you see a lot of accidents with pilots and personal aircraft, or pilots trying doing things like high risk medical evacuations.

The chances of dying in a helicopter air taxi are insanely small.

Ghostalmedia, 3 days ago

Oh great, another log onto the raging fire in the Middle East.

Ghostalmedia, 3 days ago

Allow me to demonstrate something.

Ghostalmedia, 3 days ago

Nah, the US government will pander to the real estate industry and subsidize insurance, just like they have done in the south east for flood insurance.

California is the nation’s biggest economy and the nation’s biggest real estate market. If that were to get disrupted, people are going to freak out like they did in 2008.

Ghostalmedia, 3 days ago

If you want some big city live’n, this place in Wyoming’s capital is 160k and has a killer Kiss room.

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https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/0735c6c9-9cb4-48ee-8a2d-cf00e9592ca1.jpeg

Ghostalmedia, 3 days ago

With a room like that, do you need anymore?

Ghostalmedia, 3 days ago

It’s got one. Here’s the virtual tour from the listing. tour.corelistingmachine.com/tour/titan/?id=834730…

Ghostalmedia, 3 days ago

We’re been here before. People implement an extreme policy, the extreme policy makes life worse, then they say “the policy was good, but it didn’t work because it didn’t go far enough.”

Ghostalmedia, 4 days ago

We don’t have a democracy, we are a constitutional republic

This is the new battle cry of American fascism.

The opening of the American Declaration of Independence literally states that the country is going to establish a government that derives “their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

Ghostalmedia, 4 days ago

Yeah, probably has more do to with proximity to at least a B tier grocery store. If your local grocer is Target, Walmart, or Family Dollar, then you’re only going to have access to the vegetables from Veggietales and bread from a plastic bag.

Ghostalmedia, 4 days ago

GIVE TURD