Skip Navigation
InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)BT
btmoo @lemmy.world
Posts 1
Comments 78
DOJ And EU Authorities Call Apple’s Security Defense Bogus
  • As an Apple fan, I do not want what these governments are pushing. Apple is vertically integrated. As a consumer, I like that. So is Nintendo, and your favorite car company, etc.

    We don't need to use the law to force Apple to horizontally integrate. If Apple's charging too much, just say so and force them to lower it.

  • Need advice on multiclassing
  • I'm just here to say that bards are awesome.

    If you go with Bard, eloquence is the power build, but Valor might be more syngergistic if you still want to get in melee. You get medium armor proficiency, shields, all the spell casting goodness of bard, plus extra attack at level 6.

  • Beeper vs Apple battle intensifies: Lawmakers demand DOJ investigation - Android Authority
  • Thanks for the links! I enjoyed reading about how iMessage is built on top of APN. That probably explains why I can reply to messages in arbitrary apps on my Apple Watch. :-)

    However, that doesn't change my argument. Beeper is not a trusted party in this exchange. When they show my messages to their users, they are decrypting my messages and user activity in a way that is outside my zone of trust. They can then be nice and show it to their users in their app, or they can be nefarious and send that data to any other 3rd party for whatever purposes they want.

    This is a major security hole at the application layer, despite the network layer security that you've linked to.

  • Beeper vs Apple battle intensifies: Lawmakers demand DOJ investigation - Android Authority
  • The beeper application is not trusted by anyone except Beeper. As an Apple user, I trust Apple by buying their devices and participating in their services. I have no trust relationship with Beeper whatsoever. They have the the ability to decrypt my messages unbeknownst to me, and do whatever they want with them. Maybe they'll display them to users nicely in the app. Maybe they'll do something nefarious with them.

    Having user activity flow into 3rd parties is a major security problem. Maybe you don't see it, but it's real and it's there. We're still trying to clean up the adtech mess on the web after how many years?

  • Cable lobby and Republicans fight proposed ban on early termination fees / Customers should be allowed to cancel cable TV without penalty, Democrats say
  • I feel like conversatives just learn first principals and stop there. It's kinda sad. The FCC, FTC, etc exist in order to keep our markets fair and consumer friendly.

    This weird, free-trade utopia that they dream about does not exist, has never existed, and cannot exist. Instead when you remove all the regulation, you get anarchy like we see today in many 3rd world countries.

    I would love to see our government get more efficient and targetted with its regulation, but to simply argue against it is extremely naive.

  • Fair Conjure Animals choices

    Hey everyone, I'm running a campaign and we just hit level 5. It's a Faerun setting, and with regards the Conjure Animals spell, what are some fair choices? I want to avoid 8 velociraptors and other encounter breaking options.

    What are some good mid-level choices that feel good for the player but don't break the game? How does everyone handle this spell?

    5