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whycome··on MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
It would be cool if they had an add on battery that fit seamlessly. Or imagine a swappable battery? And then ensure you only use the 100wh when flying?

The airline rules are a bit arbitrary. They have allowances for mobility devices but don't seem to take any extra precautions for them when they have bigger batteries. There are still a lot of dangerous gaps in airline safety when it comes to lithium batteries.

whycome··on MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
I'm in that class. My iPhone has more power than my MacBook it seems. But I do love the m1 still for what it can do.
whycome··on MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
With the surface books, the bigger battery and graphics card in the base ensured that it was the heavier part.
whycome··on MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch
My god they finally did it. After all the fears of canibalizing iPad sales and gorilla arms. An Apple touchscreen MacBook.

Absurd it took this long when they basically led the field in touchscreen innovation (especially on the UX side of things)

I always thought the Surface Book design by Microsoft was very Apple like and it always seemed like the logical step: let the screen detach but keep the extra horsepower in the base.

whycome··on Police are using AI to pull over drivers for 'suspicious' behavior
Using transit or roads outside of normal commuting hours?? How suspicious. Driving somewhere without a destination? Suspicious.
whycome··on New iMac with M6
The one place where size and thickness don't matter is when it's a non-portable device.

I'm surprised they haven't yet gone the route of making a hyper thin screen and hiding the actual cpu somewhere else (something akin tot he puck for the Apple Vision display). Hell you could probably do a proprietary wireless signal and have the display be completely detached. (Or existing wifi6 or something?)

The edges of the thin monitor could be actual transparent glass.

whycome··on New iMac with M6
I agree. In the case of the older 27" iMacs-- you couldn't really get a 5K screen of that quality for any reasonable cost. It made it actually useful.
whycome··on New iMac with M6
It's like a 24" MacBook Pro with no keyboard and less portable?

If it were back to 27" and hidpi screen again it might make sense

whycome··on NBA announces partnership with prediction markets Kalshi, Polymarket
Now players and teams will be displayed on screen with odds baked into the presentation and have it not even addressed by the commentator. Just normalized completely.
whycome··on NBA announces partnership with prediction markets Kalshi, Polymarket
Who could have predicted this?!

But also, this shouldn't be allowed in any major sport wife they use any kind of public funds.

whycome··on Lula wins election after final votes tallied
> "son of a failed coup organizer" is an absolute false statement

But, his dad:

> Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is serving a 27-year prison sentence after being convicted by Brazil's Supreme Court for plotting a coup following his 2022 election defeat

I don’t see how to read it any other way. Explain?

whycome··on Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you
How far away is communism from me?
whycome··on Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case
Ad campaign? We are lucky they didn’t make the settlement in “Meta Quest Cash” or “Ad Buy Credit”
whycome··on Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case
That’s all framing. If they use the win for their reelection campaign…they just won’t mention the appeals process.
whycome··on PHP2Shell: AI uncovers critical RCE in PHP
No way. Forums are still incredibly popular. Something like RedFlagDeals has an entire business based around their forum and get close to 40m page views per month and more than 3m uniques.

And there are at least 3 other hugely popular php based forums that I occasionally check — and those are just for my own niche interests.

whycome··on PHP2Shell: AI uncovers critical RCE in PHP
It’s still popular af. Almost half of any cms site online is powered by Wordpress. Many sales sites use woocommerce (Wordpress plugin). Message boards for sure (phpbb!). Moodle and other similar learning management tools run on PHP. Other cms systems like drupal and joomla make up another big portion of cms installs. I think the custom Wikipedia (mediawiki?) is php.
whycome··on Updated PHP version released to GitHub
I’d rather just some sort of tag. Because sometimes it can be useful. This is a case where the community here can scrutinize the output and actually pull out useful data or steps or even starting points when information is coming in so fast for a developing story/issue
whycome··on Security advisory: Critical remote code execution vulnerabilities, update now
Are there security patches for servers running old versions?

There are so many keeping old php versions alive for compatibility with whatever software

whycome··on Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads
I think there’s a solution that fits within the Apple Design culture that they already use. If you’re connected to a display you can already click the “AirPlay” icon to change the audio output location. (Eg I’m connected to a display via usbc cable but want the audio to go to a Bluetooth device or headphones)

So, just let me select the app that gets the display output. And make “share screen” a discrete choice.

whycome··on Capturing 400 American Girls and Their Most Meaningful Objects
Did they meaningfully object to being captured?

These photos appear truly weird through western eyes. But they aren’t unlike so many other anthropological photo series that we saw in the past in photo-heavy magazines like National Geographic. There’s something about making someone pose who may not have enough power to say ‘no’ that makes this odd.

whycome··on Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads
I have no idea what stage manager is and I don’t wanna look it up. And I have an iPad. But it’s also running the older ios
whycome··on Plex vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild to drop a cryptominer
Well damn. Here I was thinking I’m okay because Plex is up to date even if my OS isn’t…
whycome··on Plex vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild to drop a cryptominer
There seems to be widespread disdain for it. AFAIK they switched to a shared codebase to make it easy for the devs to deploy to multiple devices. But, it came at the expense of UX for pretty much all devices. They don’t use native video services on things like iPhone.
whycome··on Chicago O'Hare digs up 50-ton boulder under airfield, asks public for name ideas
When Toronto had to name their team, I’m sure that the success of Jurassic Park helped the finalist (Raptors) win. I’m surprised “Rocky” didn’t make a finalist here (via Project Hail Mary).

Maybe that’s too Philadelphia.

O’Hare “Rocky” Dolomite

whycome··on Chicago O'Hare digs up 50-ton boulder under airfield, asks public for name ideas
Wish I saw some of the larger list. This still seems weak.

ORD as an acronym? O Rock D

O’Hare Rock Dolostone O’Hare Runway Dolomite

Rocky.

Da Dolo

whycome··on I electrified my push scooter with a power drill
Don’t worry, that baby is air cooled when you’re at cruise speed
whycome··on Tesla Roadster
If the boring company potentially slowed competition for other Tesla focused options, is that not success?
whycome··on Tesla Roadster
Just wait til all teslas are roving cell towers connected to star link. Always capturing 3d data of every single street driven. There’s still so much room for weird big things with the network being built. Scary.
whycome··on Tesla Roadster
Uh isn’t the “for you” literally the algorithm based feed for your direct interests? My for you page shows zero trump. And this is exactly the reason why it’s still so valuable, it can feed the echo chambers for individuals and keep them engaged (and seeing ads)
whycome··on Tesla Roadster
How is that a trick? So far it seems that was exactly what was advertised?
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