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  • Kuo reiterates Touch ID in the iPhone Fold; unlikely to be in-display

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  • I have an iphone 16 as mentioned, regularly happens. Admittedly was worse on the iphone x I had before this, so they did something to improve it. Android sucks too you fuckin fanboy trash. No phone is truly unlocked anymore.

    “The mass users”. well fuck anyone who is different or disabled then. If it works for me then it doesn’t matter! And if anyone disagrees they must be a troll because apple can do no wrong.

    I still have devices with touch sensors including a 2019 macbook running arch. The touch id on there works great and is faster than face id on an iphone 6 years newer, doesn’t require a gesture, and doesn’t complain about my reflective glasses or misaligned eyes

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  • Okay? I’m not saying it never works for anyone, I’m saying for a subset of users with certain conditions it does not work well. If you are a person who doesn’t wear glasses or has glasses that aren’t extremely high index, don’t have strabismus/eye alignment issues then great for you, I’m so happy that you get a phone that works I guess?

    But I’m telling you that it doesn’t work for me and there are reports of people with the same issues:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/applehelp/comments/mozq7z/my_face_id_suddenly_wont_work_with_my_glasses_on/

    https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/7bgs6g/faceid_fails_due_to_lazy_eye/ (old but the next two are the same issue from last year)

    https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252296478?sortBy=rank

    https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255864129?sortBy=rank

    https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255562829?sortBy=rank

    https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255981605?answerId=261208009022&sortBy=rank#261208009022

    (Note the similar questions on apple boards).

    Now you’ve been told that it doesn’t work by multiple people (or do they not count because they’re not here to defend themselves). You sound like a shithead software developer who is convinced disabled people don’t exist so they don’t have to do the extra work of covering for edge cases. That is honestly probably what’s going on here, and could easily be fixed by just putting touchid in the new button to eschew faceid entirely for people that it works poorly for.

  • LSD shows early promise as a potential anxiety treatment (100-200 µg, no therapy)

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  • Therein lies the problem. I get it, we need novel treatments, and we need them yesterday. I work in the field and I have tons of people with treatment resistant mental health problems that I would love to cut loose to a novel treatment that actually works. It’s frustrating on both ends to just endlessly be stuck (though admittedly it’s worse for the person experiencing discord, obviously).

    But that’s the real frustrating part of this. MAPS/lykos had a unique position to study this stuff and while they knew it was an uphill battle thanks to the legal status and perception of mdma they rushed, likely out of the perceived necessity of getting the treatment out to as many people as possible as soon as possible. I get that but you have to shove that fire down when you’re dealing with these kind of regulatory processes and do things meticulously. Because look where it got them. Now the perception is damaged a bit more and more importantly it will have to complete another stage 3 clinical trial which will take at least two more years to achieve approval. If the goal was to get approval asap this is obviously counter to that and likely pushes back other project timelines (lykos/maps is not just mdma but psychedelic assisted therapy research).

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  • Iphone 16, regularly happens, doesn’t work reliably for users with high myopia. I am not the only one, you will find other similar complaints. Just because it works for you doesn’t mean it works for everyone?

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  • When they came to my brothers house they had ar15s

  • LSD shows early promise as a potential anxiety treatment (100-200 µg, no therapy)

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  • Fair warning this article opens up with a still image from the therapy video. In the still image the patient is supposedly being restrained (by the person she was later cuddled and spooned and allegedly sexually assaulted by) but given the context it’s a bit creepy.

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-mdma-therapy-videos-1.6400256

    A longer form exploration is from what that article references (cover story by New York magazine). The link in the article is dead but it is still available:

    https://www.psymposia.com/powertrip-2/

    I can’t get the page to load on my phone so I don’t know which specific episode it is but there are a few. The general theme of the series is “there are people that think psychedelic assisted therapy is so important that they’re willing to overlook terrible things” and honestly the reality appears to be exactly that when it comes to MAPS. I don’t disagree with their mission at all but I very much disagree with rushing things immensely in a way that puts patients and the entire trial at risk because you are so desperate to see it through as soon as possible. The more I’ve read the more it appears they recruited only therapists primed for expectancy bias with little training to counter for this, not enough screening for risk, etc.

    https://icer.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/PTSD_Draft-Report_For-Publication_03262024.pdf

    _this was the first report that came out summarizing the MAPS (by then called lykos) trials and studies by an independent body. It’s lengthy but dives right into the issues. This came out a few months before the expected fda ruling

    https://downloads.regulations.gov/FDA-2024-P-2148-0001/attachment_2.pdf

    This is the citizens letter, given to the fda shortly after the above where a number of people outlined similar issues

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-023-02565-4

    And the clinical trial itself, for reference

  • ELI 15: How do phone manufacturers "lock" bootloaders? Is that software truly unhackable?

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  • What kind of phone, laptop, game console, car, iot devices, etc do you have? I guarantee you support this stuff somewhere in your life. It’s inescapable.

    But to answer you more directly apathy and consumerism. Why do people buy the switch 2 despite extremely anti consumer practices? Because they want to play slightly better Mario kart. Why do people buy a macbook? Because they want a computer that largely “just works”.

    With phones it’s a bit different though. The choices are slowly being taken from you. It’s still possible right this second to buy something with an open bootloader but in 2030? Maybe not so much unless you’re cool with going back to a flip phone

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  • Not me but my brother because his daughter got in an argument with some ass online that thought attempted murder was a reasonable response to being told to fuck off

    I’m sorry it happened to you, it (understandably) seemed to really rattle my family. And while they knew why and even the methodology of how it happened no justice ever came to them, the small town cops of the area i grew up in were largely incompetent with handling internet crime and apparently got quite disinterested once it wasn’t an obvious slam dunk to solve

  • ELI 15: How do phone manufacturers "lock" bootloaders? Is that software truly unhackable?

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  • Different ways:

    Sometimes it’s a cryptographic key thing, if the bootloader doesn’t see an image signed with a trusted key it won’t boot.

    Sometimes it’s a flag set in storage that is secure and not writable. Bootloader checks the flag, if it’s set then it enforces signature verification.

    Sometimes it’s a hardware thing. Newer chips can come with programmable fuses that can be set to pop. This literally severs an electrical connection within the soc or cpu or whatever and then that is the flag. The nintendo switch’s tegra used this to prevent downgrading; if you upgraded legitimately you’d “burn fuses” and then would be locked on that firmware permanently. downgrading could potentially brick the system. (Maybe someone’s figured out a way around this now, I haven’t fucked with switch stuff since tears of the kingdom came out).

    There’s other ways too.

    Defeating these methods is generally quite difficult. Sometimes you get lucky and a glaring bootloader exploit is found early on (fusee gelee for the switch) or one that applies to many generations of hardware (checkm8, unpatchable bootrom exploit for iphone 4s-iphone x) but at the same time companies have learned to harden their shit as much as possible and throw money at people who do find these exploits. Even nintendo, who has been notoriously laughably bad at this kind of thing seems to have come much harder at the switch 2. The only thing released to date is a minor userland exploit and even if something more substantial is released they’ll just brick your console for finding/running it

  • LSD shows early promise as a potential anxiety treatment (100-200 µg, no therapy)

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  • Yeah that’s exactly the problem but you can’t just be like “sorry fda, the data is very suspect because the subjects knew they were being treated or not but pass us anyway pretty plz”

    Especially so when the drug in question is fairly controversial and (at least in the case of mdma) there are also other major problems with the trials that cause the whole thing to be suspect.

    I frankly think all drugs should be decriminalized and if you want to fuck with psychedelics go for it (assuming you’ve researched the risks and ideally spoken to some kind of physician who knows you that you trust that can let you know if it’s a terrible idea, especially if you’re on a bunch of medication already). You’re going to do it anyway. There is some interesting neurological research to support their use.

    But there’s also no getting around the fact that users anticipate a strong positive effect, see that positive effect, and that positive effect wears off relatively quickly (which may strengthen the idea that a placebo effect is at play). Further, aside from the posted study most of the lsd research supports it as an adjunct to psychotherapy, which is one of the places where mdma research was compromised.

    The MAPS program for mdma clinical trials was appallingly bad to the point it seemed like it was designed to sabotage the effort: the most egregious example is two therapists who were a married couple were videotaped spooning and cuddling a client during an mdma session. That same client later accused one of the therapists of sexual assault in an incident outside of session. Outside of that there were independent reviews of videoed sessions that found several instances of therapists coaching clients, high on mdma, to report better outcomes. The issue here is that the MAPS program was made up of therapists who were dedicated to seeing MDMA (and other psychedelics) become legalized as clinical supports so their bias was visible and MAPS did not do nearly enough to train against this. Ideally therapists would have been impartial (and not sex pests)

    That said one thing that is sometimes done here is “active placebo”, essentially microdosing. eg if they are testing the effects of 100um of lsd they may give the placebo group 10um (arbitrary numbers, I don’t know) to induce some kind of effect but not enough of one to create benefit. This was done in the Swiss studies on LSD for anxiety in cancer patients

  • Google deletes net-zero pledge from sustainability website

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  • This is more about the drive to be a leader in AI than the public goodwill.

    The antitrust stuff revealed a lot but one of the major things it revealed is that Google views chatgpt as the biggest existential threat to search. Younger users skip Google now.

    Of course this is because Google spent the past 5-10 years abusing their monopoly protected position to worsen their product so user engagement would go up (a more frustrating search experience means you’re more likely to search several queries, being delivered multiple pages filled with ads and tracking bullshit instead of just one).

    But they won’t reflect on that and improve their product. They will leave it as is and try to make their shit AI blurb at the top of search work better. This is inherently foolish vs something like chatgpt because google search is typically fed much less robust prompts. They get something like “best bank account” or “2014 nba mvp” whereas users are conditioned to given chatgpt a conversational prompt, “what bank has the best rate for savings accounts right now?”. The former is part of why you see much more misconception, incorrect information, and hallucination with googles ai shit.

    But again they won’t reflect on this. They won’t bow out. They won’t partner. They will simply eat power and literally burn the world to make something that’s not as good as the already underwhelming gpt5 to keep that stock price rising because the investors are stupid and need to see buzzword bullshit even if it comes at tremendous cost

  • LSD shows early promise as a potential anxiety treatment (100-200 µg, no therapy)

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  • It will be extremely difficult to pass phase 3 clinical trials if it makes it that far. One of difficulties with mdma was blinding, it was fairly consistent for participants and researchers to realize whether they were in treatment or control group.

    The mdma research had other problems though (unethical behavior by researchers and a lot of participants, like almost half, had used mdma prior to joining the trial)

  • What do you think of the future of the Internet? Will the "Splinternet" become reality for most of the world?

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  • These aren’t actual “splinters” though. These are just pissing matches between platforms. The idea of disconnecting a range of users from the internet (such as a country geo blocking another country) is quite a bit different, like if reddit was suddenly no longer available to lemmy users and vice versa.

    I for one hope for the balkanization of the internet because while it will be extremely disruptive and kind of a nightmare it will potentially facilitate and popularize a replacement like ipfs, yggdrasil, or more federation to displace this corpo nightmare we’ve found ourselves in

  • What is your opinion about adsurdism and stoicism?

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  • Stoicism is frequently misunderstood and generally the concept of equanimity is a positive one, which is why it transcends stoicism. upekkha as one of the four divine attitudes in Buddhism, the abrahamic religions generally push the whole “god did it so trust in the plan” angle (Christian forbearance and I forget the Jewish word but Islam comes from aslama, peace from surrender), etc. Even Epicureanism had ataraxia

    Absurdism makes sense in a post religious world (depending on audience, obviously) and is more hopeful than nihilism. Existentialism is interesting in comparison: can we create meaning? Is meaning that we create transient? I don’t know.

    Both absurdism and stoicism make the important acknowledgement that reality is indifferent to your plight

  • Linux is one of the last bastions for the tinkerer

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  • That’s frankly been the case for a while now unless you’re a AAA gamer or 3d rendering or doing LLMs or something. I used a laptop from 2012 until 2022 then replaced it with a 2019 laptop (i9, Radeon 5600) which I’m using now and plan to use until at least 2030. For the vast majority of us that just browse, watch videos, use office software, teleconference, compile small projects, and the occasional indie game/emulator old hardware is fine. Consumerism makes you think it’s not.

  • Officers who shot and killed autistic teenager Victor Perez will not face criminal charges - East Idaho News

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  • “Following the Eastern Idaho Critical Incident Task Force investigation, the Attorney General’s Office conducted 15 additional interviews. The officers involved in the shooting spoke with the task force but declined to be interviewed by AG investigators.

    “Instead, they provided audio recordings and transcripts of interviews they completed with a third party,” Nye wrote.”

    Well I hope if I’m ever involved in a controversial shooting and the AG asks to interview me I can just be like “no thanks bro, here’s a tape of my friend asking me about it” and that’s the end of it

  • If Trump loses his tariff lawsuit, America may have to refund businesses more than $200 billion

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  • A class action just passes the money from one elite class (corporations) to another (class action lawyers). Consumers will get a virtual prepaid debit card for $1.97 in 5 years that can’t be spent anywhere because it can’t be used online and it costs $5 to have them mail you a physical card

    Should get out guillotines

  • How Members of Congress Get SO Rich (Video 14mins)

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  • This is a very good point and why they’re scams and you should not give them money. Like if you look at the pelosi index I linked there are no trades since July, and it’s very unlikely that she hasn’t played the extreme volatility (that was easily predictable for someone in her position) in the past month. I assume most people on here don’t fuck with the stock market but I I’ll edit my initial comment to make this more clear just in case

  • How Members of Congress Get SO Rich (Video 14mins)

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  • There are scam sites that have capitalized on this. Because members have to disclose their trades the sites offer subscriptions to basically a “pelosi index” or whoever that you use as a buying guide for your own portfolio

    https://www.quiverquant.com/congresstrading/politician/Nancy%20Pelosi-P000197

    For reference the s&p has shown growth of about 245% over the past decade whereas pelosi’s portfolio has shown growth of 761% in the same timeframe which is why i use her as an example. How consistently lucky she must be, it’s not suspicious at all