Sep 25
Georgia Republican Official Compares Trump To Satan, Says He’s Out to Steal The Party’s Soul
Posted in: Today's ChiliLt. Gov. Geoff Duncan points to Charlie Daniels’ song “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” ahead of Trump’s rally.
Sep 25
It’s no secret that Twitter has less than great video quality, but that’s finally starting to change. The company has announced a new adjustment to its video tech that reduces how pixelated videos look, improving the experience for people who use the platform to catch the latest movie trailers, video game teasers, and more. Though some videos looked decent enough … Continue reading
Sep 25
Portable power stations, sometimes called solar generators, are great sources of quiet, safe, and efficient emergency power. Sooner or later, however, they too will need to be refilled in order to someday provide power to your appliances, whether at home or off the grid. While an AC power source might be the most convenient at home, these outlets aren’t readily … Continue reading
Sep 25
Both Samsung and Apple have released their flagship wearables for the year 2021. The big smartwatch war has thus unfolded virtually, but for everyone, this time it’s a little different tussle than in the previous years. This time smartwatches from both the tech giants are confined to their ecosystems, which means, choosing between the options would be more a decision … Continue reading
Sep 25
Twitter has been trying to limit the toxic replies you can get on its website by giving you tools that allow you to be more proactive in preventing them from going through. In the future, those tools could include a feature that lets you filter potentially offensive replies and another that lets you limit potentially unwelcome accounts from replying. Twitter Senior Product Designer Paula Barcante has released a sneak peek of the features, which are merely concepts at the moment, to seek input from users.
Barcante says Twitter will ask you if you’d like to switch on those controls if it detects potentially harmful replies to your tweets. If your reply filter is on, Twitter won’t show you or anyone else — except the user who wrote the response — the harmful tweets it detects. If you decide to limit unwelcome accounts, users who’ve recently shown patterns of breaking rules won’t be able to reply to your tweets at all.
If potentially harmful or offensive replies to your Tweet are detected, we’d let you know in case you want to turn on these controls to filter or limit future unwelcome interactions.
You would also be able to access these controls in your settings. pic.twitter.com/ok5qXOf33Z
— Paula Barcante (@paulabarcante) September 24, 2021
Since the process would be automated, Barcante admits that it may not be accurate all the time and may end up filtering out even respective, non-problematic responses. That’s why the company is also exploring the possibility of giving you the option to review filtered tweets and limited accounts. Of course, the final iterations of the tools might look vastly different from these previews if they do get released.
When asked if toggling on the reply filter would filter out all tweets from an account or just the tweet the website has deemed potentially offensive, Barcante didn’t have an answer yet. She said what she showed was just an “early concept that requires testing and iteration” and that Twitter will provide more details if it decides to launch the tools.
Sep 25
Delta Wants Airlines to Share No-Fly Lists to Keep Crap Passengers Out of the Skies
Posted in: Today's ChiliAs if we needed any more problems, passengers from hell are a thing now (or more a thing than before, anyway). They assault flight attendants, toss food and alcohol around, and throw their masks on the ground. Delta Air Lines has apparently had enough.
Sep 25
When Apple launched the iPhone 13 series, the company was rather vague on the battery life of the phones except to say it will be about 1.5-2.5 hours better compared to previous models. We later found out the more exact sizes, and it turns out that Apple’s claim of 2.5 hours better battery life was not an exaggeration.
This is according to a battery test conducted by Mrwhosetheboss on YouTube, where he compared the entire iPhone 13 series against its predecessors to see how it adds up, and the results are actually pleasantly surprising because in the test, the iPhone 13 Pro Max managed to squeeze out close to 10 hours of battery life (9 hours 52 minutes to be exact).
Even the smallest of the iPhone 13 series, the iPhone 13 mini, managed 6 hours and 26 minutes. Comparing it against older iPhones like the iPhone 12, that only managed 5 hours and 54 minutes, while the iPhone 11 only got 4 hours and 20 minutes. The 2020 iPhone SE was kind of disappointing with just 3 hours and 38 minutes.
It should be noted that this can hardly be called a scientific test and it doesn’t necessarily represent real-world usage, but it is clear that the battery in the iPhone 13 Pro Max is a beast and if you’re looking for a reason to upgrade, battery life alone could be a good enough reason why.
iPhone 13 Pro Max Does Very Well In Battery Test
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Sep 25
One of the changes Apple announced at WWDC earlier this year that would be coming to Apple’s services would be iCloud Private Relay. Basically this feature is meant to help prevent third-party tracking of IP addresses, user locations, and more – essentially it is meant to provide users with better privacy.
However, it seems that a flaw in the system made it rather unsecure. This was discovered by researcher and developer Sergey Mostsevenko who found that a flaw actually resulted in the user’s IP address being revealed. A proof of concept of this flaw in action can be found on the FingerprintJS website.
Mostsevenko explains it by saying, “Because Safari doesn’t proxy STUN requests through iCloud Private Relay, STUN servers know your real IP address. This isn’t an issue on its own, as they have no other information; however, Safari passes ICE candidates containing real IP addresses to the JavaScript environment. De-anonymizing you then becomes a matter of parsing your real IP address from the ICE candidates — something easily accomplished with a web application.”
The good news is that the flaw seems to have been patched in the latest macOS Monterey beta, but it remains unpatched in iOS 15, but we imagine that Apple should eventually get around to it.
This Flaw Makes Apple’s iCloud Private Relay Not So Private
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Sep 25
Mary Trump Quips That Her Uncle’s Lawyers Now Probably ‘Operate Out Of Strip Malls’
Posted in: Today's ChiliAnd she thanked Donald Trump for helping her sell more books by suing her.
Sep 25
The Republican congresswoman’s top aide, Patrick Parsons, says it’s “time to move on.”
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