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by Bud 4d ago
Even the screen itself can be used as a microphone, and a pretty good one, too.
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by Bud 3mo ago
Let's actually not hope that, and let's not indulge the EU regulators' fantasies that they get to dictate the product design of products from non-EU countries. Force Apple to support all kinds of arbitrary models? That's
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by Bud 7mo ago
BBC calling encryption "controversial privacy tech" is deeply disappointing and dangerous.
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by Bud 10mo ago
From their viewpoint, you have to think about what happens if, after they became aware of this vulnerability, there was then a crash because they weren't prompt and aggressive enough in addressing it. That's the kind of thing that
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by Bud 10mo ago
Same company that is planning to deprive customers of CarPlay even though virtually all of their customers want it.
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by Bud 11mo ago
He is, but it's certainly not plausible.
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by Bud 11mo ago
It raises questions that James Comer keeps raising to attack Fauci, but which never seem to get anywhere close to being proven. It's now been four years. The various libels against Fauci remain unsupported.
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by Bud 11mo ago
It should be noted that massive tree-planting efforts do not magically create "forest". They create tree plantations. Forest is a complex ecosystem that takes some time.
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by Bud 11mo ago
It's reasonable to say this is wrong. But really, this seems like a tiny subset of users. Who bought a Mac Pro in 2023 after Apple Silicon had been out for 3 years already? Almost nobody, because it wasn't a real performance impro
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by Bud 11mo ago
Which shady marketing? Because I found out about the APPro 2 support from Apple.
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by Bud 11mo ago
Not sure what is up with this, but I just flew from Italy to the US with my AirPods Pro 3 and did not experience any issues. So it's apparently not present 100% of the time. Also: battery life is VASTLY improved on the APP 3. Rated tim
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by Bud 1y ago
There's no reasonable expectation of pervasive video/audio capture, permanent recording, and complete AI analysis of all actions in public by all citizens forever, either. But that's the direction in which we're rapidly
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by Bud 1y ago
Neither of those things occurred, here. Kimmel's remarks were extraordinarily mild, and they also happen to be entirely true.
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by Bud 1y ago
I have an Ioniq 5 and I have had nothing but perfect experiences with my Hyundai dealer. Both for sales, and service. Not that service has been much of a thing, since EVs require so little service. It's also clearly not just me, as the
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by Bud 1y ago
Uh, they were BUILDING the factory. Which was then going to provide hundreds of jobs to Americans. Seems hard to characterize this in any way other than calling it incredibly stupid.
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by Bud 1y ago
A lot of this is true, but also, look at the safety records of those modern vehicles. They protect the driver a LOT better. A totaled car is just a car. Getting paralyzed or killed is a lot harder to fix.
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by Bud 1y ago
This is literally why I've been a professional choral/solo classical singer for 30 years. It works! It's a great way of life.
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Beloved by bands and bank robbers, the Ford Transit turns 60(bbc.com)
3 points by Bud 1y ago|0 comments
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by Bud 1y ago
There's at least as much reason to believe the opposite. Much of today's obesity has been created by desk jobs and food deserts. Both of those things could be reversed.
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by Bud 1y ago
Having a very expensive car just randomly roll to a stop on a highway is a "vibe", too. More of a vibe than anything we might reasonably claim to be picking up from this guy, I would opine.
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by Bud 1y ago
Atari 400 couldn't really compete. I had one as a kid. Neighbor kid had a C64. That membrane keyboard was a big handicap. The Atari sure had some nice games, though! The full IBM PC wasn't really a competitor; it was 3x the price
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by Bud 1y ago
The power loss is due to the fact that the power source is plutonium. Which decays over time. So, your lump of plutonium contains less and less plutonium over time, and thus generates less power. A more modern generator doesn't really
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by Bud 1y ago
Basically none of this is true. The wild card system has resulted in an NFL where well over half the league has playoff hopes very deep into the season. It's completely false that "by about the 4th week of the season", the le
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by Bud 2y ago
It's unfair to pretend that all journalists have the same level of professionalism (or lack thereof) with regard to sourcing. They don't.
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by Bud 2y ago
I ran a stack of Apollos in the 90s at the U of Iowa. Student hobby thing. We bought them from university surplus. Had a DN5500, a DN4500, and a DN3500. Ran email, a telnet BBS, and web services on them.
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by Bud 2y ago
Soldered? It's not soldered. It's part of the actual SoC. Could we please update our research to more recent than 20 years ago?
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by Bud 2y ago
2002 was actually quite late in the Palm era. The iconic Palm V, for instance, dates back to 1999. And BlackBerry had a mature smartphone by 2002. Nothing compared to an iPhone of course, but quite capable.
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by Bud 3y ago
That's for a court to decide. It's certainly reasonable to guess that that court case is coming. The only question is how soon.
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by Bud 3y ago
This is cool, but it'd be nice if they had evaluated Apple Watch, which is far more common than the devices they measured for. I've been tracking sleep for years with mine. My sense is that it's pretty accurate, but the probl
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by Bud 3y ago
This whole thing definitely looks highly anecdotal, rather rare, and basically 100% certain to be a bug. No way is Apple quietly forcing Sonoma upgrades on purpose; this wasn't intentional. Apple Support's responses to some affect

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