tudor Now • 100%
Your username on a post about capitalism makes me giggle
tudor Now • 71%
“My people” you aren’t some king man
tudor Now • 93%
Elon, free speech advocate, this you?
tudor Now • 90%
Why I dislike web apps. They make the devs lazy enough to not bother making a native app
tudor Now • 100%
I tried fooling it myself several times with the aim of getting satellite connectivity in my unsupported country, to no avail.
Used a German SIM card (where this feature is supported), went in my basement where there’s no cell service so that it can’t read MNC or MCC from any networks nor can it read GPS precisely (the circle spanned almost all of Western Europe, that imprecise I mean), used a Raspberry Pi as a router with country code as DE, disabled Wi-Fi, used VPN, used the Xcode debugging tools to simulate iPhone location to Germany (this usually fools all apps into thinking I’m in Germany, including Apple’s own Find My), all to no avail. And there’s no way to feed countryd
any custom data.
It’s insane.
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As a developer, you don’t really get access to any of that.
Mainly, you can’t access any history of calls and messages at all, nor can you automate sending one. All interactions with calling or texting has to be done with user interaction. Namely, calling requires the user to confirm the call, and sending a message requires the user to confirm, and they can also edit the message beforehand.
I don’t think that’s bad, given that messages are some of the most private things on our devices, and personally, I never had to use any of these or required more access. But more choice is always appreciated.
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An European iPhone, aka an iPhone which will get these features, is identified by a background process named countryd
, introduced in iOS 16. Its only purpose is to compute and predict the most likely location of the user (as in country/region) and lock down features accordingly.
These are only some of the factors taken into the equation:
- GPS location
- Wi-Fi location
- Wi-Fi hotspot country codes
- Cellular/GSM country codes
- IP address
- Home and roaming operator regions
- Apple Account region
- Device region
- Satellite reachability
countryd
takes in all of these and more as input to provide the most likely country of the user. If that country is in the EU, then 💥 Sideloading, Default Apps, etc etc etc goodies
tudor Now • 100%
Buy your own router. Ditched my ISP modem, never looked back. The control, the features, all of it is now necessary to me.
tudor Now • 100%
I’d like some of them to connect to my local network, but not the Internet. I’ll work it out myself from there onwards and make some remote control solution myself, thank you.
tudor Now • 100%
This couldn’t have come at a worse time, given their DOJ suit.
tudor Now • 100%
Thanks for sharing your insight!
tudor Now • 92%
You see, in the States, your credit score is an indication of how likely you are to be responsible and comply with the terms of a loan or other bank-related contract. If you have a low score, you don’t get a loan, because the bank sees you as a risk that you will not give their money back. You can still live your life normally, even with a low score, and possibly even rebuild your score over time. Only what you do with money influences your credit score.
In China, the social credit score is an indication of how loyal you are to the regime. A low social credit score, which is earned by disrespecting the regime or not following the silliest of laws, forbids you from using public transport, buying stuff, or getting education.
You can’t miss that contrast.
tudor Now • 71%
But there’s literally zero phones which can use it
tudor Now • 100%
But AES is
tudor Now • 100%
Basically the mother of all search engines. Merges Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing, etc. into one.
tudor Now • 100%
As an AI language model, I can’t help you with that.
tudor Now • 50%
Pi-hole. Kind of annoying that you have to disable Private Relay for it to work but well worth not ever seeing ads again.
tudor Now • 100%
Using Voyager right now but I’ll give memmy a try.
tudor Now • 100%
Doesn’t Dark Sky live today in Apple’s weather app?