GoofballJones

What a PR disaster this will be for Apple. I can't see how they could possibly spin this or defend it at all.

That is, if it's true. It probably is, but I'm always dubious of "a person with knowledge of the meeting said".

I'm just amazed it took this long.

Oh, good lord, why didn't I think about that?!?! WOW! Hey everyone, just stop eating sugar! CyberDildonics has solved it! Collect your Nobel Prize in medicine!

/s

It's tantamount to people telling others with clinical depression to "just cheer up and stop feeling sorry for themselves. Have you tried not being depressed?"

Absolutely, REAPER. While it may be a little obtuse to learn, it is absolutely as powerful as the big guys in music production such as ProTools. Plus it works on both Windows and Mac, unlike Logic.

There is a big community around REAPER also, and tons of YouTube videos around it. Plus, you can download it and work with it for free, but after a while, it will want you to pay for it, which is only $60...but you can keep using it if you don't (though I would encourage you to pay for it if you like it).

I use Apple products and I am in no way, in any sense of the word, "rich". I'm not even close.

And why is it that someone tries to show how expensive Apple products are, they always list the highest end, most tricked out product? "oh, a Macbook Pro costs over $5000 dollars, but you can get a Windows laptop for only $450!"

I'm typing this on a desktop Mac that costs less than a typical video card on a PC. But hey, I'm "rich".

I'm currently on it and it was prescribed by my doctor for my diabetes. I just started it. Yes, the side effect may be weight loss for me, which will also directly help my diabetes in and of itself, but the weight-loss is only a side effect.

But since so many are using it JUST for weight-loss, which their insurance probably doesn't cover, I sometimes have to wait because it's sold out. So me, having a legit reason to be on it due to my diabetes, can't always get it because someone else wants it just to lose weight.

I used to be a professional photographer, and have been out of the game for about 10 years. For the last 15 years of my profession, I really embraced the digital SLR in my work.

But I still had a big 8x10 field camera that I would take portraits with. DSLRs totally took over the film world...and I would NEVER go back to 35mm or even medium format. But you can't get the same thing with digital that an 8x10 platinum contact print from a large format camera can give you. That's really the only time I can see using "obsolete" tech in photography. These Polaroid things can ALL be simulated in digital. Are they instant? No. Which is good.

The "inshitification" now extends to our cars.

Thanks for linking to a 4 year old story. Now link to the follow-up stories to where Apple no longer does this and they were sued for breaking their privacy policy. Google still does it, as in their TOS they basically say "yeah, we're going to be looking over your shoulder at everything you do, as that's how we make our money".

It's like the owners and managers of Reddit have no idea how Reddit operates. "Mods? Who needs mods? Or users? That's not what our company is about. And what is a "subreddit?"".

Just reading the headline I was like "why X-ray them? Couldn't they just take them apart to see what's inside". But clicking on the article made me go "Oh, I get it now. This is damn interesting and very informative."

Well done!

This is always on a case-by-case basis. Just because THIS particular person can't work everything on an iPad doesn't mean EVERYONE is the same.

My mother-in-law, for instance, does everything from an iPad. She doesn't own a computer anymore. She does her emails, bills, spreadsheets, printing, reading...etc etc...from her iPad. She has a keyboard she can hook up to it to write long things, and then puts it away when she doesn't need it.

Could I work like this? No. But again, this doesn't mean everyone is like me. It all has to be taken case-by-case. I would suspect that the vast majority of readers to Hacker News can't work like this either, nor could they think of why anyone would want to...so confirmation bias kicks in big time.

1993 was around the time I first installed Linux. I can't remember much of it though, but I think the first distro I installed was Slackware? Maybe? I just remember being kind of jazzed about configuring it to look much like IRIX, which I was using on SGI machines at the shop I was working at the time.

I remember Debian coming out then too, but forever reason I went with Slackware (I think) as my very first install. My brain is all fuzzy now.

This seems a little...unbelievable. Kinda semi-sensationalistic reporting.

"...is deeply invested in building stuff for the movie industry".

I mean, they both are. That's the whole point of this post here, to show Weta and Unity and the tools they have for movie makers. With your "Unity... Well.", what did you mean? Weta and and Unity aren't doing this?

It's good that Weta/Unity has competition now with Unreal and vice versa. We've seen what happens when one entity controls nearly everything (Looking at Autodesk here).

I'm sorry, I'm not trying to obtuse here, but did he take some secret knowledge with him to the grave or something? Can others not figure out the code? I can understand it may be quirky, but is the future of vim really in peril?

Not sure if you're being factious or not. vim is an open source project and he wasn't the only person working on it. The future of vim is fine.

The person that posted it here made the mistake, my bad and apologies on that part. I read the article, and it's still ridiculous on many levels, number one being that they haven't even used the fricken thing. It was all just speculation via using something "similar", and then interpolating some meaningful result from it.

Indeed, the most ridiculous thing about this article.

Maybe read, think, and then don't reply to my remarks. While Apple can serve ads to you, it's what they do with that data that matters. No matter what we do, if we want to have any presence online, meta-data is going to be collected. But that doesn't mean we should just throw up our hands and go "welp, everyone is doing it, so what does it matter". It matters. While I don't trust anything totally, at this point in time, in 2023, I would trust Apple more than Google or Facebook in how it handles that meta-data. They aren't in the business of selling it.

That could change at the drop of a hat and a change in their TOS though, so it's best to be ever vigilant.

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking that it's the Steam Deck that's skewing these. Which is fine. Both Linux and MacOS are dwarfed by Windows.

The weird thing is, for me personally, is that of all the games I collected over there years when I did Windows gaming, many of them are now Apple Silicon native. Sure, the big ones like Elder Scrolls and Fallout franchises aren't there, but many others are. Even the brand-new Baldur's Gate 3 is on Apple Silicon. No Man's Sky is now too.

I'm not a big gamer anymore, but it's just interesting to see.

Someone gave me a book about the Bell Witch in the 1970s and I just remember it scaring the hell out of me. I usually don't get scared easily, even back then. But things like that did for some reason.

Yeah, sounds kind of like the old Renderman RIB files. Does Renderman still use RIB files?

I've been so out of the loop it's insane. I learned not long ago they no longer use the original Renderman Shading Language.

The late, great Ricky Jay was one of the very best card magicians who ever lived...plus a fantastic magic historian.

Though the article did hit the nail on the head with this statement from the Teamster's head: “Today’s news is unfortunate but not surprising. Yellow has historically proven that it could not manage itself despite billions of dollars in worker concessions and hundreds of millions in bailout funding from the federal government."

The workers conceded quite a bit over the years, but despite that and the bailout, the management of Yellow still couldn't make it work.

Yes, sideloading is the key.

Meanwhile, from just today: https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/07/android-malware-use...

"That's all going to the government! I ain't gonna use that!"

ok...

I take it you don't use Apple products, because there are a bunch of 3rd-party apps out there that use the Face-ID or Touch-ID all the time. For instance the password manager 1Password uses biometrics to get into the app, if you choose.

Guess the old replies to that of "oh, but it's open source! Anyone can see the code...so there's no need for security because the OS is secure because anyone can see the code! See? Any bugs and they're fixed in like hours. Don't worry!"

At least that's what I used to hear all the time. We've now seen that was hogwash.