Turns out they CAN and they WILL. The character has always been special on all Apple OSes.

You can use emojis as passwords, do you think that's a good idea? They work now, there's a good chance that they won't be the same forever. See what happened to the family emojis

I think there's a distinction to be made between 'is it a good idea for someone informed enough to know how these things go in the real world?' i.e. the HN audience and 'should this be a real worry in a sane world?' to which I say no, it shouldn't be a worry that if I was allowed to enter a password today I may not be able to tomorrow.

That's just excuses for moronic decisions of trillion dollar companies.

Passwords are more secure if they are higher entropy, so it makes sense to support a larger variety of characters, Czech or emoji.

It seems paramount that the OS should not allow password input of any characters which it theater takes away. At the very minimum if this is absolutely necessary to make this breaking change, the user should be warned several times that a character in the password is no longer valid and maybe even prevent the OS from upgrading before the password is changed to a forward-compatible one.

In my password, I have the Collectivity of Saint Martin flag emoji and United States Minor Outlying Islands flag emoji next to the French flag emoji and US flag emoji. For good measure, also the flag of Chad next to the flag of Romania. I am sure it's not going to cause any issues.

Did the underlying bits (hex/oct/… or whatever representation) actually change or just the visuals?

The best part is that this kind of popups have been introduced with OS X Lion in 2011, which only came 4 years after Vista.

While it's definitely surprising that the OS caches this data after the notifications have been swiped away, I always thought that notifications are an obvious hole in the whole E2E encryption setup.

AIUI, Signal push notifications just saying a message was received. Signal then fetches the E2E encrypted message from the server and decrypts it locally. So Apple/Google cannot read the messages, nor can Signal servers.

AIUI, Signal decrypts the E2EE message locally, but then sends the decrypted message to iOS in order to display the notification to the user. iOS then stores this data and it persists after the user dismisses the notification.

This makes sense and there's really no way around it without a change from Apple. If iOS is going to show the user a Signal notification with the decrypted message in the notification body, then iOS must be given the decrypted message. iOS could (and probably should) delete that data off the device as soon as the user dismisses/engages with the notification. But it sounds like they do not.

I agree. My point is that this isn't an "obvious hole in the whole E2E encryption setup", because no network actor (e.g. Google, Apple, Signal servers) can read the data.

This "hole" in E2E is the same as any malware on the device. If the device cannot be trusted, no form of E2E will work. The E2E encryption is functioning properly. The problem here is completely unrelated to E2E encryption. E.g. you could have a personal notes app that makes no network traffic, but generates notifications occasionally regarding your notes, and it could have this same problem, even though no messages are sent over the network, and in fact the phone could have all networking capabilities disabled and still have this problem.

>This makes sense and there's really no way around it without a change from Apple.

There is a bit of a workaround: Signal has a setting to not put message content in the notification. That fixes this AIUI.

> a European perspective on politics, culture and values

To be honest this does not sound much better. 40 years ago maybe I would have preferred EU values over the US' puritan values. Nowadays I'd just expect a different flavor of poison.

If they were a monopolist, sure. But as an alternative, I'll take it.

At least when you have a few different values you can pick and compare but yeah.

I think a lot of them just are not aware of the issues until they dropped hundreds of thousands of dollars and used the tractors for years

Could that be true over the past decade that we've seen this in the headlines? Wouldn't there be plenty of bellyaching at the feed store?

Maybe they're really reliable and people are just finding out now...

It's not so simple. The game must be fair.

What if 100% of the bets you place in a slot machine go to the owner? It's the exact same thing here.

Slot machines are regulated so the game is fair and they're not simply machines where the rich steal from the poor. Such a machine would be scam by definition.

I'm not a polymarket gambler or a gambler at all really, so I have no skin in this game but why does it have to be fair?

I would say casinos and slot machines are already stealing from the poor and giving to the rich and already a scam, people play them (aside from addicts) because there is a chance they will win, they know not everyone wins.

I'm in favour of people being treated fairly I just think regulation isn't what is required here, more education "play this but the odds are tilted away from you".

It would actually be better if slot machines never paid out and 100% of their bets went to the house. Very very few people would use them. They're addictive exactly because they do pay out sometimes.

This is the most American shit ever. Pro-consumer regulations are rejected to the point that they start regulating against their own constituents.

This is one of the benefits of living in Europe, which is relatively densely populated compared to places like the US.

Does New York, LA etc have 25 Gbit internet?

Density doesn't cause faster internet but it certainly facilitates it. The US has far too much lobbying to favor consumers.

Now you are moving the goalpost.

I must say, the homepage simple style is extremely pleasing. I was always a fan of Metro UI and this perfectly matches it.