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Beeper Cloud is a MITM that relays through a Mac. Beeper Mini spoofs a real Mac's identity but connects directly to Apple. At first they were just using their own Macs for this, but then Apple blocked them, so now they're asking individual users to either use their own ID or beg a friend to auth them on theirs. Which is clearly not a reasonable business model, which is why they're now appealing to politicians.

There are pulse to tone converters: https://www.dialgizmo.com

> I assume the iPhone 16 in fall 2024 will support Wi-Fi 7.

I wouldn't bet on it; Apple tends to lag behind on WiFi standards. The first phone to support WiFi 6E was this year's iPhone 15 Pro (the non-Pro 15 still doesn't).

I shipped a car across the country a decade ago, and I didn't go through any of this. I used a website, it gave me a price, I paid it, and a truck showed up.

The one that was announced in 2006 and was released in 2008?

And here's the discussion from a few hours ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36436375

Because they'd still prefer you purchase it, or maybe a later version.

In Windows 10, if you don't activate, all that happens is that it displays "Unregistered" in the corner and refuses to let you change the desktop wallpaper (and you can even get around that by rearming the "trial").

FF is front engine, front wheel drive

FR is front engine, rear wheel drive

Fujifilm is a twenty billion dollar company. Imaging is just a hobby for them.

Though I agree that if it were truly hemorrhaging them money, they'd have sold it (like Minolta or Pentax) or spun it out into its own entity (like Olympus).

So we just need Stephen King to chime in again?

Edit for context: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1587312517679878144

"Another thing is also bad!" does not justify the first thing being bad.

Only marginally. The iPhone 14 non-Pro has the (also enormous) camera system from the 13 Pro, only with the telephoto lens removed.

Those companies all spend money to create and/or license content. Twitter seems to want users to pay $8/mo and continue to see ads for the privilege of creating the content that brings users to Twitter?

Origin story: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Swedish_Campgrou...

Do you remember when Garmin made phones? Maybe not, because it was only for a year. They released their flagship Nuvifone with much fanfare (to T-Mobile customers, anyway) in June of 2010. They announced that they were withdrawing from the phone market that October. To be fair, they did release one update after that.

Garmin makes dedicated devices for this. They start at $350.[0] Plans start at $15/month.[1]

[0]: https://www.garmin.com/en-US/c/outdoor-recreation/satellite-...

[1]: https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/837461

The stuff with licenses Apple likes is relatively up to date; it's definitely not bleeding edge, but no worse than you'd get from Debian or RHEL. The criticism macOS gets for shipping ancient software is because one of the licenses they don't like is the GPL3. So there's a GPL2 version of bash from 2007, rsync is from 2006, etc. The end user can, of course, install newer versions of these separately.

I forget if that's the default or not, but if it is you can disable it. You ideally wouldn't use the selfie camera, though; the rear camera has a bigger sensor and a better lens.

They also still use leaded fuel. As an industry they move very, very slowly.

Love that bullet point toward the bottom:

> If you still can’t recover your account, you can create a new Google Account.

Difficult to believe that someone wrote that with a straight face.

This is going to be a really out-there take on this, but what if, instead of pride and posturing, the Russian government changed their course because they realized what an awful thing this is for the Russian civilians they purportedly represent?

Flash existed for Android. Ignoring the fact that it was slow, buggy, and power-hungry—the same arguments against it everywhere else—why didn't it thrive? Why couldn't it compete with the Google Play store, if it would have been such a keen competitor to the Apple App Store?

You're way too hung up on this idea that everyone loved Flash until Steve Jobs commanded them not to. My understanding was that it was pretty easy to create animations and rudimentary games in it, so, sure, maybe creators were pretty fond of it? Maybe even too easy, which is why we saw "look what I can do!" Flash websites in places where it was entirely unnecessary and unhelpful (restaurants were notorious for this). But end users never liked it. Or Java applets, for the record.

One in twelve of all security issues—in a period that begins when Flash was already on the decline and extends far beyond when Flash was at all relevant—were caused by a single web browser plugin and you're trying to handwave that off as not a big deal? Adobe has the highest percentage of exploits listed there for any company that is not an OS vendor, and Flash has the most of any single product that is not Windows (in an era when XP was still supported!) or IE (which it ties with).

And, yeah, Flash did suck as an end-user experience. For a few years it seemed like every restaurant in existence had an all-Flash web presence, and, no, waiting for endless animations while wading through some entirely non-standard "rich media" experience, while listening to my laptop fans kick into overdrive, did not "surprise and delight" when I was just trying to find their hours and a menu. It was absolutely infuriating.

This is ignoring that one of the major malware vectors that wasn't a zero-day at the time was to just put up a webpage claiming that Flash was out of date, and then linking a fake updater. Sure, that wasn't entirely Adobe's fault, but if they'd done a better job of keeping it up to date on their own it would have been an awful lot less believable to end users.

Paying the creator was also the classy thing to do. Spending "low seven figures" is not a big deal for the NYT financially, but it's a significant token of goodwill (well, to everyone other than the author of this article).

I prefer Kottke's take:

https://kottke.org/22/02/wordle-sold-to-the-ny-times-and-tha...

They specifically said so in their statement: "We have detailed content policies in place and we’ve removed over 20,000 podcast episodes related to COVID since the start of the pandemic." [0]

They just won't touch their golden goose.

And remember, they're not just not removing Rogan's misinformation, they're producing and promoting it.

[0]: https://deadline.com/2022/01/neil-young-leaving-spotify-joe-...

Thom Hogan: https://bythom.com

I hadn't seen these names before, so:

ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 is AstraZeneca

BNT162b2 is Pfizer/BioNTech

I would think the newer 5G modem would help, too.

Oracle itself still sells and supports software that runs client-side as Java applets in IE (the "server" that comes with it is an old HP desktop).

If you ever peek at the software some industries are running, you may find yourself extremely surprised. A lot of it is incredibly specific, and truly terrible.

Ferarri and Maserati are already part of Fiat. Lamborghini is owned by Volkswagen.

Edit: My mistake, Maserati is owned by Stellantis, which is the parent company of Fiat's parent company, and Ferrari went independent in 2015. So this does still apply to Ferrari.