Re:Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
by sigmoid10 on Friday October 23, 2026 @06:51PM
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I guess you don't browse any modern webpages? Otherwise I can't explain your perspective. You basically lose up to 95% of performance in anything remotely resembling a JS heavy web app. So it would run the same as on a cheap Android phone.
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Re:Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
by so-gala-massey on Friday October 23, 2026 @08:51PM
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Send me a webpage that you can’t view in lockdown. I haven’t had a single problem. I guess I’m just not really relevant in your eyes.
Re:Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
by ShinyLeftPad on Friday October 23, 2026 @10:01PM
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it's very rare that they break but there's some popular ones like booking.com
in my experience like maybe <5% of the web break
Re:Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
by sigmoid10 on Saturday October 24, 2026 @08:24AM
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Breaking is not the issue (at least most of the time), but the performance loss is everywhere.
Re:Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
by troyjfarrell on Saturday October 24, 2026 @11:25AM
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Turkish Airlines site does not load in Lockdown mode. Users cannot log in at rei.com with Lockdown mode on.
Re:Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
by anakaine on Sunday October 25, 2026 @06:09PM
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Now is this an unanticipated fault, or is the phone preventing some shady happenings, as that mode is designed to do?
Re:Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
by Gigachad on Friday October 23, 2026 @10:15PM
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My experience has been the iPhone chip is fast enough to still run pages just fine. Maybe those ones that load 300 adverts and relay out the page 5 times as they load won’t work but they hardly worked before anyway.
Re:Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
by sigmoid10 on Saturday October 24, 2026 @08:26AM
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Everything that runs with such a major performance decrease will also run fine on a cheap phone. If this is your normal use case that's fine, but it simply means you also didn't need such a powerful Iphone in the first place. It's like buying an RTX5090 and then playing 2048 in a browser and saying you don't understand why people always install Nvidia drivers.
Re:Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
by giancarlostoro on Saturday October 24, 2026 @09:21AM
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> It's like buying an RTX5090 and then playing 2048 in a browser and saying you don't understand why people always install Nvidia drivers.
Whoah don’t get personal now. I just prefer open source.
Re:Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
by sigmoid10 on Sunday October 25, 2026 @04:41AM
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You can do so and that's fine, but it doesn't change the fact that it's stupid to buy a crazy expensive GPU and then only run it in a limited way because of some personal preference in an unrelated field.
Re:Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
by throawayonthe on Saturday October 24, 2026 @01:45PM
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i run Vanadium on GraheneOS with javascript JIT off (the default configuration) and it's fine basically everywhere