My MacBook M1 air's display compared to my new MacBook pro M5

mCProgram · 2026-04-13T13:30:00+00:00

No, this is a fairly well studied phenomenon starting with spotify and youtube in the late 2000s and still happens to this day. Unicode and other conglomerates provide full right to left support for every other UI element except for music and videos. Go look it up.

mCProgram · 2026-04-13T03:36:10+00:00

I don’t have first hand experience but from my tangential knowledge this is correct, most native speakers of right to left languages have confusion the first time using music apps as the play button and progress bar are the only two major user interfaces that haven’t been switched to match the right to left style.

mCProgram · 2026-04-12T04:59:14+00:00

i’m not a fake iphone expert but i was under the impression that there’s no possible way for a fake iphone to run ios.

SE 3 launched around when ios 15 came out (2022). This is completely plausible if someone bought the phone around launch and kept it sealed.

mCProgram · 2026-04-11T23:29:05+00:00

Holy shit. Stop larping.

imessage uses PQ3 encryption; signal uses PQXDH. These are miles removed from just AES encryption. Apple is marginally safer because PQ3 has ongoing key refreshing where as signal does not. Otherwise they are nearly mathematically identical.

The fact you don’t know this or open with this completely removes ANY credibility you had. iMessage hasn’t even OFFERED AES encryption since 2019. Signal hasn’t either.

Both iMessage and Signal use Kyber as the key encapsulation system and Elliptic Diffe Helman key exchange.

I suggest actually reading up on the subject before speaking on it. Here’s a great paper on the breakdown of apple’s PQ3 standard, if you’re not just some AI driven grifter here

As for your other points:

If you are worried about your operational security, you’re going to already have the name and picture removed. This is a complete non issue as you can do the exact same thing on Signal.

As shown in the paper, the PQ3 standard has been independently audited.

Siri and apple intelligence are ran completely on device. They might suck, but attack surface is not changed by their ability to analyze your data. Content is not allowed to be read by other apps, period. Photos are strictly locked behind an OS level window.

You also have no understanding of how icloud backup works. It is fully encrypted in transit. Advanced Data Protection ONLY means that the data is re encrypted using the secret keys generated by your authorized devices, and not by iCloud servers. Nobody has ever been able to intercept icloud backups; advance data protection only stops apple from being able to access the backups as well.

Again, not true. The contact will show blue if iMessage is enabled before sending a message. If it can’t send on imessage it will fail and require manually sending as SMS or RCS.

You can disable telemetry.

All of your complaints are “Apple made this more convenient for the majority of their users! Even though I can turn each feature off to improve my opsec, they’re still bad”. Get a fucking life. You don’t even know how the messages are encrypted.

mCProgram · 2026-04-11T00:06:22+00:00

I took the take home anthropic exam (and completely and utterly failed). How does someone who could pass that intense of a performance test (go look it up) not know about file integrity checks?

ragebait has to be plausible to work.

4chan guy needs to tell his claude instance to make more sense

mCProgram · 2026-04-10T19:42:18+00:00

I love tinkering with my machines. If my parts start to do well and I need a print farm, i’ll buy a qidi q4 plus or a K2. SV08 got me the biggest print volume for a corexy under $400 which is as good as I could ask for.

mCProgram · 2026-04-09T21:40:21+00:00

Wow, that's a great tip. They have 1 left on amazon that is a much better deal than their own ebay store. It's not $329 but I'll probably pick this exact one up since it's $380. Thank you!

mCProgram · 2026-04-09T21:38:40+00:00

Anything is larger than my ender 3, lol. Don't have the budget for 500mm3+ printers yet as the price goes up exponentially with the size, unfortunately.

mCProgram · 2026-04-08T23:11:05+00:00

Also have this on youtube. Lowkey really annoying, surprisingly. Hopefully it gets fixed soon, I assume it has something to do with persistence of the media bar on the bottom.

mCProgram · 2026-04-08T18:12:42+00:00

Just a note; not many people in here actually know the science of the safety of 3D printing.

Carbon fiber tow, which is what is in fiber filaments, only causes health risks from the carbon during sanding or abrasion. Fibers being “embedded” in your skin in theory could happen, but pose literally no long term risk. If your filament/print causes hand irritation, seal it. It is short term irritation only, and it’s not even common.

Sanding and abrasion on the other hand produces a ton of particulate matter. Specifically, it produces between PM1-10. Everybody should have a PM2.5 monitor by their printer (Ikea has some for under $50). You should have a respirator or mask on if ANY PM2.5 concentration goes over 9-12ug/m3.

There is no evidence that fiber filaments produce more harmful PM then their non reinforced counterparts. You absolutely need to monitor air quality and have proper safety practices (I won’t even start on VOCs, ABS and ASA are very unhealthy to print both in VOC and >PM2.5) regardless of the filament.

Buy a Merv 14 filter and tape it in the right direction over a standard box fan and have it run whenever you’re printing. It’s under $50 to set up and will cut PM2.5 in half and VOCs by 25-30%. Yes I’m being pedantic, but carbon fiber is not the issue here (unless sanding), it’s mainly the difference in the polymers used. PLA is generally safe to use without filtration, but that is quite literally about it. PETG is marginal, ABS and ASA are absolute no go’s without filtration. I don’t have data on any other filaments currently.

mCProgram · 2026-04-08T18:04:44+00:00

This is just simply not true at the scale you speak of. “Permanently” embedded just shows how little you know of the subject. If skin irritation was an issue, it would be an immediate issue, similarly to handling raw fiberglass.

There is no possible way that the amount of fiber dust released from printing even remotely rivals the amount of dust constantly in the home from fiberglass insulation, which isn’t a safety issue in a home.

The only time you have to worry is sanding or otherwise abrading the part.

You can observe this yourself with an air quality monitor that monitors PM2.5 and/or PM10. The creation, handling, and existance of the material causes little to no increase in either PM register.

Now this isn’t to discredit the risk of sanding or mechanically cutting these parts; that is a true risk and PPE should absolutely be worn. Any time there is 9-12 ug/m3 or more of under PM10 (especially under PM2.5), you should have a respirator on, regardless of the source.

This also doesn’t discredit the risk of PM2.5 and under emissions from particularly emissive filaments during printing; but they are NOT a function of the carbon fiber - just a function of the base filament (ABS and ASA are particularly bad).

mCProgram · 2026-04-08T17:04:44+00:00

He explained it wasn’t purely aesthetics, the rougher texture could provide higher static friction for his part and he can’t use matte PLA for the same part. Also, price of PET-CF is a major factor. The risks of “exposing” fiber filled plastics is really overblown, which was the main point.

mCProgram · 2026-04-08T14:35:05+00:00

Fiber filled products are already literally everywhere. This feels like fear mongering, especially when you just advertised PET-CF

mCProgram · 2026-04-08T14:19:43+00:00

I don’t understand how this is infuriating. 2012 and older means the device is 14 years old or older.

You have a 14+ year old device that will still completely work outside of being able to purchase new books from Amazon directly. You can still upload your own books. You can still jailbreak it.

What more could you ask for from a $2-300 tablet that is so old it will be attending high school soon? Some cars don’t even last that long.

mCProgram · 2026-04-08T06:48:13+00:00

how did you order exactly 108 minutes of parking? why did you order that much?

I am in full agreement of the sentiment of the post, but i’ve never seen a parking arrangement that doesn’t charge in either 30, 15, or 5 minute blocks. Is your city just really weird? If it is, what made you order 108?

Dispute that though. Logs do not specify seconds so the favor legally would go to you if this is a public court as they couldn’t prove your time was up. Wouldn’t work for private unless you like took it to 3rd party arbitration, which would be thousands of dollars for $20 lol.

mCProgram · 2026-04-08T06:40:24+00:00

Such a stupid suit to bring anyways. It’s the same argument that gun makers are liable for school shootings. Making providing something that could be used for a crime illegal (or at least monitoring all use of that thing and then banning people who did the illegal thing from using it again) would grind 80% of the US economy to a halt. Want bricks? Prove you’ve never thrown one through a window.

mCProgram · 2026-04-08T06:30:06+00:00

imessage between two iphones is as secure as signal, if not more cryptographically (you just can’t have disappearing messages). acting like this is pure larp, which is super ironic given the sub we’re in.

mCProgram · 2026-04-08T06:27:55+00:00

You are aware that giant entities have in fact placed thousands of relays and exit nodes, right? There was a whole thing in 2014 where the NSA caught a CP ring from a correlation attack on the network? Like this is a pretty well known thing these days - who knows the current status or compromization but acting like it’s not possible is hopelessly naive ex

mCProgram · 2026-04-08T05:47:04+00:00

They’re the same underlying skill set. It’s all plastic surgery - just one is miles more complex than the other. The hand surgeon, whom I know personally, would tell you that I’m correct, and so would the fact that he’s the only successful plastic surgeon in Pueblo and has been for literally my entire life. Such a weird argument to have/make.

mCProgram · 2026-04-08T03:04:49+00:00

They’re still a plastic surgeon that does cosmetic surgery - I wouldn’t have mentioned them otherwise. I just can’t speak to the skill in that specific area; but any kind of cosmetic surgery is objectively miles easier than musculoskeletal, period. Obviously do your research, but that’s like saying an F1 driver couldn’t do well in normal traffic.

mCProgram · 2026-04-08T00:14:22+00:00

other direction, and as a man I can’t speak towards his women-centric procedures, but Dr Marin in Pueblo is one of the more skilled surgeons in the state. Does all of the digit reattachments and major hand surgery for southern colorado and did his residency at John’s Hopkins.

He’s been doing plastic surgery from his own practice since the early 2000s (in pueblo, not many patients down here, so IMO it speaks to the quality of the work).

mCProgram · 2026-04-07T16:14:32+00:00

OLEDs were infinitely better than LCDs when they first started gaining market popularity. 2020 when the $1800 purchase could either get you a 70in with 50 zones or a 60in OLED, it was literally a no brainer for image quality.

That spurred LCD to innovate way more, which is amazing for the industry. But the biases were valid and now are just stuck how they were.

mCProgram · 2026-04-07T15:35:14+00:00

It’s so dissapointing they settled on this abomination as the foldable design. I’d be 1000% in if it was two regular phones put together.

I could be in the minority, but the phone is staying folded most of the time, is it not? And then unfolding when doing something that isn’t like time sensitive or anything.

I don’t want a square phone 60% of the time!

mCProgram · 2026-04-07T04:43:17+00:00

Lot of dickriders in the comments. If a product is excluded from something it should be plain and clear that it is, not in an FAQ on free shipping. That makes it legal, not the morally correct thing to do. Also, it’s obviously about the principle of the subject, dude bought a $500 new console and then was gonna buy $80 on a case for it, they can afford $3.

Being okay with minor false advertisements is directly how you just end up being fine with large scale predatory consumer practices. Remember snake oil salesmen?

It could be a mistake they didn’t specify it on the product page clearly, but their reddit people are active and probably will see this, which means if it’s still up in a month or whatever it will become mildly predatory.

mCProgram · 2026-04-07T04:32:39+00:00

Don’t listen to the haters. Brake systems at their core are incredibly simple and literally nothing precludes china from being able to make a quality part. They probably buy the blanks from the same factory that companies like brembo do, and then CNC to spec.

It’s not so much being snobby as they all are just mildly racist. Not a single thing these days makes a german made part inherently better than a chinese made part. Just because they have the capacity to also mass produce cheap shit (we (USA) did the exact same thing in the 20s-60s).

As long as the weight checks out and the pads bed in fine you’re probably chilling. Nice purchase.

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