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I think the camera in my 14" M1 Pro is much, much better than the camera in my 2015 MPB. Also, people on the other end of Zoom etc commented on the improved picture quality.

The UK pricing is £1,249, up from £999, so 24% extra for the better CPU, webcam & display[0].

A bit disappointed to see them sticking with 256GB SSD as the base, feel like 512GB should really be the standard nowadays.

[0]https://www.apple.com/uk/mac/compare/?modelList=MacBook-Air-...

Will it though?

I don't know anyone who side loads onto Android, and even Epic gave up and put Fortnite back onto Google play[0].

I'm sure that any side loading will be hidden beneath layers of warnings designed to put off all but the most determined.

[0] https://www.polygon.com/2020/4/21/21229930/fortnite-availabl...

Not sure what db they're using for geolocating ips, but mine was miles off (thought I was US, but actually Europe, so not even the right registry!).

9.4 here, which made me wonder if Apple's new webcams add some beautifying filters?

The site also underestimated my age by 10 years (and then accused me of lying about my age!).

iOS 15 - interesting, assumed they’d only be attributing data they were actually using!

Apple’s forecast does vary slightly from the ones the BBC (using MeteoGroup) and the Met Office give, so I’m not sure what their source is if it’s not the weather channel.

Not sure for Central Europe, but for the UK, their app has logos for the Weather Channel, along with BreezoMeter for air quality info.

Doesn't feel as accurate as the Met Office's app, but not too bad (tends to over predict chance of rain).

That's also why it'd probably never get close to zero - its utility means it'd always have some value to someone.

Even if we were to come up with a way to produce a synthetic gold, the price of gold would only fall as far the cost of synthetic gold.

At least you'd still have the physical gold (which has utility) if the price went to zero. With crypto, all you'd be left with is a wallet address.

Also, Ethereum has dropped 37% over the last 7 days, 18% in the last 24h.

Could be an interesting week.

As I read it, the new laws are concerned with the chargers more than the devices being charged - if Apple just includes a lightning to USB-C cable (as they already do for the 12), wouldn’t that be enough to satisfy the legislation?

I would say it’s probably closest to a ‘live podcast’.

Zapp is a UK startup.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/zapp-c764

Yes, and it's dwarfed by the list of companies currently hiring (on the same site)!

https://sifted.eu/articles/revolut-back-market-startup-hirin...

Usually Reddit, since that seems to have replaced a lot of forums. Obviously pretty hit & miss depending how active a subreddit is…

Appletv+ is available on android, web, and quite a few smart tvs so you can subscribe without having any other connection with their ecosystem.

It’s more likely they pirate because apple’s library is pretty small, compared to others, so it’s easier to just torrent than pay for the couple of programmes they want to watch.

It’s also more difficult to share logins with appletv (no profiles etc), so you’ll get less of the account sharing that Netflix is now trying to crack down on.

For me, it was fine in Safari and Chrome, but got the 'checking your browser' message in Firefox

I thought they used a banner that pretty much forced you to log in to see more than the first few tweets in a thread now (same as instagram)?

I have an account that is logged in, but it has only sent 7 tweets since 2014 (and they're only to customer service accounts).

I would imagine Twitter would have access to analytics that third parties don't have, which would allow them to pretty easily work out which accounts are logged in and used for browsing and which are actually abandoned.

I made a little test file & purchase - how do I actually get paid?

First impressions are that it seems very expensive for smaller purchases - my $2.00 turned into $0.56 (and then I'll have currency fees as GBP wasn't an option).

I don't have an API key handy, but it's not marked as deprecated/removed in the documentation, so I can't see why it wouldn't still be in there.

The dislike count is also still present in the [0] video API response.

[0]https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/videos#resourc...

The dislike count is still in the data returned by the YouTube API[0], so they're probably getting it from there.

[0]https://developers.google.com/youtube/analytics/metrics#disl...

I'd be surprised if someone hasn't created a Docker file for that, to make self hosting much more streamlined.

What course/uni was this at?

I’m in a similar position (incomplete BSc, but 20+ years commercial experience) and was looking at the OU’s masters but wasn’t that impressed with the syllabus.

https://hardenize.com is quite pretty, but there's nowhere near $999/mo of value in it for me!

You don’t need anything peculiar in OpenSSL to do that. I’ve been monitoring my ssl certs with a simple nodejs script (it just connects to get the cert details so generally less than a second per domain).

Perhaps their service also tested for deprecated ciphers/tls versions?

Ah ok, so it sounds like an automated (though probably cutdown) version of the SSLLabs server test.

What features did SSLPing have that forced it to rely so heavily on old versions of OpenSSL?

One of my reasons for dropping Spotify was their desktop client!

I did play a game similar to that called Ingress (I think it was by Google, and they were presumably collecting GPS data to improve their pedestrian mapping).

I'll check out turfgame when I get a chance!