Natanael @ Natanael @slrpnk.net

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Authoritarians all of them

Are lawyers involved? You should sue to get it for free, not to pay more, because contracts like that usually put a penalty on the supplier if they break their promises

The point of such an early dev kit isn't to commit in advance but get people to try out what works, then select what will be in the final product (and maybe releasing updated dev kits on the way). They're would be a general plan, but this isn't like a game console dev kit where almost all specs and major features are set in advance, so you'd expect devs to implement multiple variants of each software feature and see what they require of the hardware, how people use it, how popular they are, etc.

See: Twitter bots with paid verification

Viture looks neat, still missing some things I want to see but they seem to understand what this kind of device needs

Extremely high density pixels

Yeah, I'm pretty convinced we need to be able to make the headsets lighter, and put more compute in an accessory and have the headset just do low complexity stuff like low latency last-millisecond angle adjustments to frames as you move.

Exactly. Not promoting it as a dev kit was a major failure. This is the kind of product where you CAN'T do without external feedback, not everybody will use one in a clean office (or even one that stands still), not everybody has the same spatial awareness or motor skills, not supporting controllers locks out numerous people with limited hand movements, etc... As a dev kit it could've worked much better at getting the kind of feedback they need from devs working on useful AR stuff

But you can't detect such things without either server side scanning (kills E2EE dead) or client side scanning (will always be limited in what it can detect, and it's easy to patch out of clients, AND there's still the risk of govs maliciously pushing detection of banned media)

Some of them care more about power than even their own quality of life

Also, sundowning

Had to bring one in a time machine to make the aliens happy

https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-gear/bikes-and-biking/carbon-fiber-bike-accidents-lawsuits/

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/giant-facing-legal-claim-of-over-pound200000-after-bike-collapse-causes-broken-back

What these manufacturers needs to do is to start embedding indicators for stress damage (common in industrial machinery, etc), but so far I haven't heard of anybody at all doing that in this industry. Until they do I don't trust it.

It takes quite a lot to get a judgement which extends beyond just barring the person from speaking about the victim again, and taking away their tools to speak. Despite how horrible this dude is, it's still not the kind of crime that causes the government to take silence him.

They'll have recourse available if he talks about the same victims again, but they don't have standing for shutting him up entirely.

That depends on how well Apple explained the features and behavior, IMHO. A lot of liability issues comes down to what expectations the seller has set for the buyer

https://www.bikeradar.com/features/are-carbon-fiber-clinchers-safe

They have limited tolerance for heat that you can't solve without either improving cooling or reducing hard acceleration / deceleration (using additional material) when used in wheels. When used in frames you need to reduce stress points with very good dampening.

They can certainly be strong, but they have similarities to tempered glass where damage accumulates over time and can't self heal so they have a best before date built in.

I Googled "motorcycle carbon fiber wheel" and autocomplete immediately suggested adding "failure" and doing that search has endless relevant results

Carbon fiber has very limited lifetimes when used for something with a lot of hard impacts, so if you're not sticking to smooth surfaces the bike can literally split apart with little warning

Not fully encrypted unless you enable lockdown mode (and losing various features)

The perceptual hash algorithm was broken in hours, then so fully broken that modified images were visually indistinguishable from unmodified images, so you could send people images with hash values that match flagged photos.

Also, then there's the thing of the risk of various jurisdictions pushing for adding detection of other banned content.