Gyroscopic Investing

dualstow wrote: ↑Fri Jan 16, 2026 8:14 am Good lord, what has the ipad OS update done to my keyboard?
(Version 26.2)

dualstow wrote: ↑Fri Jan 16, 2026 8:14 am Good lord, what has the ipad OS update done to my keyboard?
(Version 26.2)

yankees60 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 16, 2026 3:03 pm

dualstow wrote: ↑Fri Jan 16, 2026 8:14 am Good lord, what has the ipad OS update done to my keyboard?
(Version 26.2)

All my iPads are so old that it's been many, many years since any of them were able to get any form of update.

Mountaineer wrote: ↑Fri Jan 16, 2026 6:27 pm

yankees60 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 16, 2026 3:03 pm

dualstow wrote: ↑Fri Jan 16, 2026 8:14 am Good lord, what has the ipad OS update done to my keyboard?
(Version 26.2)

All my iPads are so old that it's been many, many years since any of them were able to get any form of update.

Better not advertise that you have very hackable out of date hardware and software. Sure hope you aren’t keeping revealing photos of your garden fertilizer collection process. AI will have a field day (pun intended).

Mountaineer wrote: ↑Fri Jan 16, 2026 6:27 pm

yankees60 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 16, 2026 3:03 pm

dualstow wrote: ↑Fri Jan 16, 2026 8:14 am Good lord, what has the ipad OS update done to my keyboard?
(Version 26.2)

All my iPads are so old that it's been many, many years since any of them were able to get any form of update.

Better not advertise that you have very hackable out of date hardware and software. Sure hope you aren’t keeping revealing photos of your garden fertilizer collection process. AI will have a field day (pun intended).

dualstow wrote: ↑Mon Jan 26, 2026 9:04 am the ipad OS update woes continue. Firefox for ipadOS doesn’t want to show all the tabs anymore. You can force it to by tapping Window, then Show All Tabs (downward stroke just to get the menu that includes Window). God knows what that keyboard shortcut is. I’ve tried everything.

But as soon as I open a new tab, all of the above disappears. Sometimes even the address bar vanishes so that I cannot paste an address in. Crazy.

Mountaineer wrote: ↑Mon Jan 26, 2026 1:33 pm I hope all my Gyroscopic friends have survived the recent blizzard conditions across much of the US. At least we didn’t lose power in our neighborhood; just a lot of snow and sleet and ice. We have been on level 2 emergency since Sunday - basically means only emergency vehicles and approved snow removal vehicles allowed on the roads.

Mountaineer wrote: ↑Mon Jan 26, 2026 1:33 pm I hope all my Gyroscopic friends have survived the recent blizzard conditions across much of the US. At least we didn’t lose power in our neighborhood; just a lot of snow and sleet and ice. We have been on level 2 emergency since Sunday - basically means only emergency vehicles and approved snow removal vehicles allowed on the roads.

dualstow wrote: ↑Mon Jan 26, 2026 3:29 pm I think you forgot a sentence about snow before “this measured.”

dualstow wrote: ↑Mon Jan 26, 2026 9:21 pm Can Meta read Whatsapp messages?

yankees60 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 27, 2026 9:45 am

dualstow wrote: ↑Mon Jan 26, 2026 9:21 pm Can Meta read Whatsapp messages?

I just checked to confirm that you are part of this forum's team.

Can any person on the team read any of private forum communications with one another?

That is important to know.

In Bogleheads once I established a level of communications with someone I requested we move it to email which is far easier to do than clunky forum private messages.

But now that I've received this arbitrary 2 week ban in Bogleheads I don't trust that they will not read my private messages in that forum.

So, asking it here since the same software is used at both places.

There is this whole thing with Apple iPhones that it's extremely difficult to get into anyone's texts on them? The police don't have the capability to do so. They have to request Apple to do so, who will only do it in extreme cases?

Getting back to my original question.

i ask it in the spirit of me not trusting those in charge at Bogleheads while trusting those who are here.

There they act extremely arbitrarily and is to adopt a stance of: they are the parents and we the children.

Not at all the case here. Xan only gets involved at the extremes and treats us all as adults. Total opposite form of moderation.

Xan wrote: ↑Tue Jan 27, 2026 10:41 am

yankees60 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 27, 2026 9:45 am

dualstow wrote: ↑Mon Jan 26, 2026 9:21 pm Can Meta read Whatsapp messages?

I just checked to confirm that you are part of this forum's team.

Can any person on the team read any of private forum communications with one another?

That is important to know.

In Bogleheads once I established a level of communications with someone I requested we move it to email which is far easier to do than clunky forum private messages.

But now that I've received this arbitrary 2 week ban in Bogleheads I don't trust that they will not read my private messages in that forum.

So, asking it here since the same software is used at both places.

There is this whole thing with Apple iPhones that it's extremely difficult to get into anyone's texts on them? The police don't have the capability to do so. They have to request Apple to do so, who will only do it in extreme cases?

Getting back to my original question.

i ask it in the spirit of me not trusting those in charge at Bogleheads while trusting those who are here.

There they act extremely arbitrarily and is to adopt a stance of: they are the parents and we the children.

Not at all the case here. Xan only gets involved at the extremes and treats us all as adults. Total opposite form of moderation.

There isn't any capability within phpbb for anybody, even admins, to read private messages. However, they are stored on the server in the database, and anybody with access to the database could go in and see them if they wanted.

In general, unless there is end-to-end encryption, which is you encrypting on your computer and the recipient decrypting on his, it is possible for people in the middle to read and modify your messages. (You can defend against modification without encryption by using signatures.)

dualstow wrote: ↑Tue Jan 27, 2026 3:50 pm I don't like using PMs in forums, not because of privacy concerns, but because I don't usually keep track of it all. I'm on top of email. And Signal and other messaging apps.