timetopay's comments

Unix is both a family of operating systems and also a trademark. The name is overloaded - "Unix" is more than one thing at the same time. In addition, the trademark is "UNIX" and the operating system family is "Unix"

MacOS is both UNIX and also not Unix at the same time.

If the trademark holders decided to UNIX certify my cat, which is well within their legal right to do so, would that make her UNIX?

Unfortunately, (or fortunately depending on how you look at it), new security issues tend to be found over a device's lifespan.

It also shows a (potential) lack of understanding of what's happening internally at the upper levels DigiCert. This might have been a known issue or some other very poorly handled thing, is part of a larger pattern or issue, and he's been given the chance to "resign".

Don't condemn people until you have all the facts, which multiple reporters are working on figuring out right now.

It's one of those things where if someone does the work, they're allowed to show off how they like.

Next time you do an interesting display mod or port, you can choose whatever video you like.

It just is a thing, tbh. It manifests in the data pretty clearly.

In aggregate, in large data sets, race comes through - especially with a few datapoints. For example, when I worked at a fintech company: with household income and zip code, we could accurately target race with >80% accuracy [0]. Add a few more datapoints, and this would very quickly get closer to 95% accuracy.

That was an _actual_ party-trick[1] demo we did, alongside also de-anonymizing coworkers based on car model, zip code, and bank name.

[0] I worked as a SecEng and were trying to prove that we were(n't) inadvertently targeting race, for compliance reasons. In the end, the business realized the threat and made required changes to prevent this.

[1] We were doing this to make a case for stricter controls and stronger isolation/security measures for storing non-PII data. The business also saw the light on this. Sometimes we'd narrow them down to 30 or 40 people in their zip code, and sometimes (such as a coworker with an old Bentley), it was an instant hit.

Confidently wrong, as usual.

This is not an issue about "old hardware" or "old games", it's about an emulator for a currently selling system. I don't agree with what Nintendo is doing, but I understand why they're so angry.

>The fact that it is Google's customers which are being scammed could be part of the reason why Apple doesn't prioritize safety in this case.

this is conspiracy bordering on paranoia. apple has problems, but willingly abusing customers who use the competitors is not one of them

Neither has anyone in the US - they're relatively niche pre-cursors to the SUV, sold a respectable yet tiny amount (500,000), and haven't shipped a product since 1980.

The article is pretty clear that it's going to be a service offered as a secondary option instead of core functionality.

>Apple is preparing new capabilities as part of iOS 18 — the next version of the iPhone operating system — based on its own AI models. But those enhancements will be focused on features that operate on its devices, rather than ones delivered via the cloud. So Apple is seeking a partner to do the heavy lifting of generative AI, including functions for creating images and writing essays based on simple prompts.

fwiw a 320w cpu isn't running at 320w all of the time. if you're powering something off of batteries in a consumer situation, a 240w vs 320w cpu isn't going to move the needle unless you're really running it hard (like a game)

Full self driving is a misleading name, Level 2 is not Level 5, Tesla is overpromising a solution, and I wouldn't consider something in "beta" that is safety critical to be considered shipping as GA.

A few months ago, I had to quickly bang out a script to output about 20 million lines of text, each the output of a hash function. My naive solution took more than a few minutes - simple optimizations such as writing every 10k lines cut the time significantly. Threading would have helped quite a bit as well.

The problem with this logic is that users _are_ pounding sand: to macos and ipados, which has been steadily ticking up.

You're right, it was closer to two decades prior. My bad.

> Apple's biggest successes have come from being the first mover in a brand new space.

I would say that only one of the examples you gave was unambiguously the first mover in a brand new space. I will give you "category defining", though.

For example, the iPod had tons of competitors already in the field when it launched.

Airpods were not even close to the first wireless earbuds.

One of the Apple Watch's major competitors (fitbit) launched 8 years prior. The first smartwatch that could sync with a computer came out in the 80s.

The iPad came like a decade after Microsoft's first major tablet push. ATT and Sony/Magicap and Apple all released "smart tablets" in the early 90s.

The iPhone was not the first capacitive touch screen smartphone, and certainly not the first smartphone - over a decade late to that game.

The Macintosh was (sort of) a sequel to Apple's own Lisa, which itself was also not a first mover. The Mac was incredibly innovative and successful, but was preceded by the LISA, PERQ, Alto, various Lisp Machines.

> In fact Apple is terrible at throwing its hat into an already crowded space, and doubly so when it comes to software.

Couldn't be farther from the truth.

Linked-in style white noise content.

The absolutely insane pattern of making people click "back" after seeing an email/password login screen to create an account without logging in...

Tbh telemetry is really useful for identifying bugs, feature requirements, and security issues. It's anonymized, not really that invasive, and the way they gather it is pretty responsible.

However...

It's my operating system. Can they not understand why people would be sensitive about this? It blows my mind that, at least, there isn't an on/off toggle in the Pro version. It's really disrespectful to those of us who care.

It's wild how annoying Windows UX can be when it's something that microsoft wants you to use, to help improve their services revenue.

TBH, I'm on board with some of the negatives you listed, but I feel like the entire enthusiast community has been screaming about edge, telemetry, and start menu search for years. Microsoft seems determined not to listen, it's astonishing.