PurpleFoxy

I have tested them. If you nfc scan one not in lost mode, it opens a page explaining what airtags are and shows you it’s serial number. If you put it in lost mode, scanning shows the same page but with a phone number and a lost message.

Being in lost mode will also give the owner a notification when it is found.

The airtags are also account locked the whole time and must be manually removed by the owner before someone else can use them.

It isn’t. The tags have to be moving around and away from their owner. And if they really do go off and annoy someone. It’s trivial to twist the backs off and the coin cell battery pops out.

Just wait till your bike is on the move, then get a group to recover it.

Agreed. Previously I could not find lost or stolen items. Now I can find lost items. That’s a pure improvement in my eyes.

What police should do is keep a record of reports and their location and if too much shows up on one address, they investigate.

I have also seen reports of actual police knocking on people’s doors looking for things that show as on their house but we’re inaccurate.

People have posted the steps to do it. It’s not very hard. But if you are willing to strip the airtag to bits, it would be easier to plant a cheap android with a sim in someones car.

The point is that stalking has always been possible, it’s only important that apple doesn’t make it way too easy. Also when you find an airtag you can bring it to the police and they can get apple to give the owners details. Removing the speaker shows proof of intent.

The main difference is Apple made it work way better and more accessible. Tile users are pretty rare in the wild.

The ultimate dream was being able to hook up a few spare hard drives and then earning enough tokens to host your backups for free. The problem is defending against malicious actors makes everything too complex.

The crazy thing is there are no nearby cars. There is a highway about 1.5km away which I assume it must all blow from. There is nothing else within 1.5km

First we have to get to the point where basic insulation and noise dampening are figured out. House quality is really terrible.

You can get some really high power induction stoves now. This one we have goes up to 12KW at full power. Boils a pot of water real fast.

I have noticed every time I open my windows, the no2 levels reported on my Dyson filter spike. Not sure what to make of it but it’s interesting.

Yes, reducing pollution always makes more sense than cleaning it up after the fact.

The cost would be so insane that no one would bother. Just park at the perimeter and take a tram or walk to the last part of your destination.

Ironically, following this advice makes the problem even worse as you now require a car to do anything.

IMO, cities should just ban almost all car traffic from the centres so people can live car free without being poisoned.

I think it’s highly likely that in 20 years we will view diesel cars like we do leaded fuel. An insanely bad idea that we knew was bad at the time but continued to use.

The problem is that “reward users for accepting tracking” very easily becomes “punish users who reject it”. The reward will be getting back the stuff you had before this change so you are no better off.

Apple believes that everyone should have access to privacy.

It’s because it makes no effort to prevent people doing insanely insecure things. Rails has a lot of safeguards for insecure things like using user input to update a record.

PHP won’t even fix bugs due to backwards compatibility. They worked out their sql string escape function didn’t escape properly but instead of fixing it and telling everyone to check their code, they duplicated the function and prefixed the name with “real_”.

If learning a couple of basic tools like an ORM and JS build tools is too much of a barrier, you probably shouldn’t be let anywhere near a database with real users data in it.

PHP is too easy to get started with and let’s you do some truely horrific things trivially.

And then everyone gets their hands on this tech so the mining difficultly goes up and you are back to square one.

My IDE had that feature and on all but the most basic project. The diagrams would come out so large you’d have to zoom 100x to see anything.

When I was in uni recently I was learning UML and wondered why all the FOSS tools for UML sucked. I quickly worked out it’s because no foss programmer actually uses or cares about UML

Because HTML elements are forever while js modal libraries change yearly. It’s best for browsers to wait a few years and if there is one thing that has consistently been used and will be forever, then add it. The details element is a good example.

And even when we have an element, most devs end up replacing it with a JS version anyway. The HTML select element is a good example. The built in one almost always gets replaced with something that looks nicer and has more features like icon support and themeability

Isn’t pumped hydro a realistic solution? There should be a massive amount of energy in moving all that water up a mountain.

Ok to reword. I’m going to get the iPad since it is the best value drawing tablet. I don’t need or want a MacBook. With some realistic changes apple could let me run full desktop apps on the iPad when I have it docked with a keyboard and mouse

Hacker news is spam as a service, not letting the public post is a necessity.

Or we could acknowledge there is a space between complete unmanaged access and no access.

I have been sat next to a drunk person on a plane before. The attendant got me a new seat and the person was arrested at the airport. At the very least they should be able to move you if there is a free seat.

I need an iPad for drawing. I could use the iPad for everything if the software allowed it. Why make me buy 2 devices that do the same thing and have the same hardware?

Some people want to use the iPad with a keyboard, mouse and external monitor. The iPad supports these things so why not let those users run full programs.

Emoji are for communicating to other people. I can’t imagine why you would ever send someone a message with a ram stick in it. OP sounds like they want the icon for a task bar. In that case they can simply import any SVG they want.