For all intents and purposes where the packaging would be suited to the application, optical and magnetic tape comparable.

Oh, I love support folks. It’s a tough, thankless job, support very often has accurate, correct information (often information I don’t have or don’t know), and are a vital component of any organization, big or small. He may well be an excellent support person, and I’d be happy to receive support from him. There’s…

Hannah, however, was created in a lab to make people very angry online

The system grants your app a limited amount of time to perform its work once it enters the background. Don’t exceed this time, and use the expiration handler to cover the case where the time has depleted to cancel or defer the work.

I’m telling you exactly what the technical SDK documentation for iOS and Android tell you, me, and any developer writing software for those platforms. So yes, conspiracy theories are required to believe that closing backgrounded apps prevents them from doing work. Both according to the documentation, and based on…

“there is no way you could possibly know”

It’s background services. Closing those apps doesn’t stop them. Stopping their background services does. As I noted above, application address space and heap get put onto the phone’s storage medium (flash mem) and out of RAM if they’re not one of the last 3 or 4 apps you’ve used. It’s literally impossible for them to…

What can I say - you have a magic application there that somehow runs while the process memory and heap is residing on flash memory. I would show this off to all the software engineers at Apple and Google. It defies the laws of physics. I cannot make this any clearer - only the foreground app and maybe the last two or…

I’ve observed more than a few instances

“I’m not a bear that eats people! Why should I pay for bear fences?” says man who may or may not be eaten by a bear at some point in his life, but hasn’t yet and thus can’t comprehend the point of them.

SanFran? Riot? Attack on private property owned by a company? Mmmm, this is like porn for the law and order set.

Like, I love cold water sooooooooooo much more than room temperature water. I really dislike room temp water. Just not as much as I hate enriching some fuckers for taking advantage of my preference. I hate the very idea of not being able to tolerate something I don’t like once in awhile, and I hate the idea that not…

“ but I have to get to my overnight shift at the gas station and hope I’ll be able to grab a nap in my car from 6-7 before I start at my other job”

The difference with TikTok is they are collecting data on users. They’re allowed to. What they shouldn’t be doing is sharing it with a nation state. You can’t really check for that, because you don’t have physical access to the place where that would be happening.

The degree of exposure is precisely what I was pointing out. VW only had to fool a group of regulators, a small audience predisposed by industry convention to trust VW. It would be prohibitively expensive to manage every regulatory interaction from a position of zero trust, and aside from cases like you point out,…

I’m saying the content itself can be tagged with “Mountain Dew Major Melon” .. this could have be done ages after the podcast was made, entirely independently of the production of the podcast. In other words, content providers (roughly speaking, the website or app you downloaded it from), go back through all their…

the answer is, “because of technical details that you are not familiar with”

The claim is not that it’s never been done - it relatively trivial to do from a technical standpoint. The claim is that the big fish who are at the top of the list in terms of being monitored both by regulators, industry watchdogs, technical researchers, and customers are doing it when it’s against the law to do so.…

you sure studied it out there

Speaking as a guy who used to write ad servers for a living ... I’ve had to explain what’re you saying here over and over and over to people. You sum it all up very well. I like to thing that at a certain level of intelligence and self-awareness, intelligence is actually knowing what information about your own…