The confusing alphabet soup of Wi-Fi versions got renamed. 802.11n became Wi-Fi 4, 802.11ac became Wi-Fi 5, and 802.11ax became Wi-Fi 6. Wi-Fi 7 is still in development so 6 is the best in-use version.
Disney has none of that. They also have a market cap of ~$160b. Apple would need to pay a large premium to do an acquisition. This would cost them well over $200b, maybe even encroaching on $250b.
To preface this, I don’t think this is at all a likely thing to happen but my understanding of the current theories is that Disney would first divest itself of some of its business units prior to a sale of the company. No more ESPN or ABC, for example. The acquisition would still be huge, of course, but not as big as Disney is today, perhaps closer to 5% of Apple’s value.
Editing to add alt text here, as Lemmy still does not support alt text in image posts: A fake screenshot of the FreeBSD Foundation donation page showing Apple, Inc. under the $5-$24 donation category. The screenshot is next to a poorly drawn four-panel comic....
Apple offers to match donations from employees so this is a case of an employee making a small donation and Apple matching it rather than Apple explicitly choosing to make a tiny donation itself.
Is this some simple virtue signaling (for closed source app) directed at users that are not technically inclined? I didn’t see this being promoted at this level in any other app.
I think it may have something to do with the fact that the UK is far along in a plan to effectively ban encrypted messaging, and many other countries are looking in the same draconian direction. They want non-techy users (AKA voters) to know about it and to understand that it's super important.
I don’t think there’s anything particularly partisan about the law in the first place so it’s not so much an issue of what any party supports but rather education of the electorate at large. People aren’t going to get excited about encryption but they will be angry when WhatsApp stops working (which is what is going to happen) and they need to know why. Ideally they’ll hear enough rumblings that literally all of their messaging apps are going to stop working before the law goes into effect to stop it in time.
The criminal justice system is intended to be biased in favor of the defendants as innocent until proven guilty. Consequently, if everything were working perfectly, I'd expect prosecutors to only charge people if they were extremely confident that they could prove the person's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Taking cases without solid evidence and regularly losing at trial would be indicative of a major problem.
I'm not sure what accidental journey through Gmail's options OP took but it looks to me that they inadvertently started setting up a passkey, which is tied to the hardware but can sync between Apple devices using iCloud Keychain. Apple certainly isn't blocking you from changing Gmail-specific settings.
In English, "American" by itself refers unambiguously to the United States of America because, (again) in English, there is no continent called "America."
America uses flush toilets unless you're on an airplane. Besides, we can clearly see a huge water tank, which is how flush toilets work.
they can be referred to as "the Americas" then i would deduct that all the objects within those Continents are also "American"
Unfortunately not though, because "American" is already used exclusively in reference to the USA. There is no adjective to refer to things from the Americas collectively. One of these two possible uses is extremely common and the other is extraordinarily rare. If you need the rare option, you need multiple words and can't shorten it.
In China, you can’t exist without a smartphone, because for all existential things you have to do (paying bills, buying tickets etc.) , you are forced to use the almighty wechat app. Smartphones are a tool to manipulate and to spy on the population. It is a tool utilized by the ruling class, to control the masses. I hate the...
What happened to “this note is legal tender for all debts, public and private"?
The key word is debts. When you want to buy something in a store, you owe money if you want it, but you have not incurred a debt. You can just not buy it. You and the seller start at an even place, trade goods/services for money, and end even. If you have a debt, you're starting the transaction at a negative place and are trying to get back to even.
these “things” that exist on the blockchain are sometimes representations of ownership (think like a deed for property: it’s just a piece of paper that represents ownership. that could easily exist on the blockchain, where the owner of the property is the person who is assigned the deed on-chain)… the you can have a smart contract that automatically releases funds to the seller once the deed has been transferred to the buyer
The idea that property can be accurately recorded on a neutral blockchain is absolutely ludicrous. What happens when the owner of the property dies and they are unable to update the record? What if there is a dispute among the heirs? What if the owner goes bankrupt and their assets are seized by a third-party, but they are still unwilling to update the blockchain record? There is a reason that definitive records for real property are maintained by the government itself. Anything of real value must exist within a legal framework and be subject to a change of ownership under law or court order.
If a judge determines a property belongs to someone else, the sheriff who comes to evict you isn’t going to care when you point to some record on a blockchain. If a blockchain record can’t be unilaterally updated by the government to change ownership, against the wishes of the current owner, then it cannot function as a true record. Consequently, any “smart” contract based on that record is unreliable as well since the seller may not actually own in the real world the thing their blockchain deed says they own.
US: Credit card only, almost exclusively using Apple Pay. If I somehow obtain cash, I deposit it so that I can spend it using a card instead and earn the rewards. I actively use about half a dozen cards, choosing the right one for each transaction to maximize rewards.
I have one theory and that it’s when Apple caves to EU pressure and releases an iPhone with a type C port, they will simultaneously release a folding iPhone with no port that is meant to be the future of iPhones.
Samsung has released their 5th generation folding phones and they’re still demonstrably unpopular. There is no evidence of any broad demand for a folding phone. Apple doesn’t make niche iPhones.
They didn't steal anything. He wrote a non-fiction account of a historical event. The Apple TV+ movie is a somewhat fictionalized account of a historical event with the direct support of the primary people actually involved. They don't owe him a penny. At most his contribution is an inspiration that, hey, this could make a great movie, which is not itself actually worth any money.
They literally committed a felony, bought what at that point was a stolen prototype, damaged Apple's property, and then tried to extort Apple in exchange for returning what was, again, Apple's own property.
The editor of Gizmodo knows very well that "Apple" gets clicks and in this case he's trying to generate free press for his obscure book. His suit doesn't quite meet the standard of "frivolous," so I don't think anybody is getting sanctioned for it, but it's certainly not filed in good faith. It's not even an issue of "trust." What he claims is inherently ridiculous. You can't copyright historical events, and presenting it as a Cold War thriller isn't some radical creative choice of "tone." The dry facts are pretty thrilling on their own, and the extra-thrilling parts (car chase) are inventions of the film.
How many other people are they doing this to?
Not stealing from? Literally billions of other people are being treated the same way by Apple every day.
For work I frequently need to look up information for patents. The specific data I need is spread around in multiple US Patent & Trademark Office databases. I created tool with Django/Python so I just have to copy/paste the patent numbers into a box and hit submit. It then returns exactly what I need in the exact format I need. It leaves me with more free time to play Cookie Clicker.
The whole iMessage/RCS conversation is really only relevant in the US; in other countries basically everyone uses WhatsApp or Kakao or LINE or whatever the local favorite is. In the US, there is no industry-standard RCS. It's theoretically a carrier-based messaging service but all of the carriers outsourced it to Google so, as an alternative to iMessage, the option is a proprietary extension of RCS running on Google servers, something that is exactly as open as iMessage itself.
If you want a true industry standard way to send messages to people, the iPhone has had that since 2007: email.
RCS the open standard is missing critical features. Google's implementation fixes that, but is not open. I don't think we should give a pass to RCS just because it's open. SMS is a legacy format but it's unconscionable these days to release a new messaging platform without E2E encryption. That's a minimum viable product feature, not a maybe nice to have in the future feature.
The western Allies and Soviets both actively took Germany, coming in from either side and meeting in the middle. They split the country because they were already there. The Soviet Union never really made it to Japan proper. They took over Manchuria and Japan surrendered ASAP to the US alone once it became obvious that the only alternative was to surrender to both powers later and likely be split like Germany.
It’s worth highlighting that this was the immediate impetus for surrender. The atomic bombs were basically non-factors.
I'm not really concerned at all with when Americans landed in Japan. The US unilaterally established air superiority over Japan and had successfully blockaded the country, bleeding it dry of oil. The Japanese mainland was functionally militarily defeated prior to any land forces making it there.
what do people think of the idea that if the U.S. had not dropped those bombs, a larger-scale nuclear exchange, possibly between the Soviets and the U.S., would have happened because no one would have seen the consequences in 1945.
I still think the use of the atomic bombs on Japan was inherently immoral and unjustifiable, but if I'm searching for at least some silver lining, I do think it's almost certainly true that if those two comparatively small bombs weren't dropped then, more and larger bombs would have been dropped later.
This is such a lazy, dumb take. Nobody even complains about Cortana because nobody used it in the first place. People complain about Siri precisely because so many people are using is so often that they inevitably come up against its shortcomings. It can certainly continue to grow and evolve but it’s a real-world useful tool today.
IIRC in Seattle it effectively depends on whether anyone cares enough to report you. If your neighbors don’t mind you gardening naked in your front yard then you’re fine. If they gripe about it then you have to put clothes on.
That’s not the case. You do not have to put on clothes just because your neighbors don’t like it. Gardening nude is fully legal even if someone complains.
Nudity itself is not obscene, only obscene actions can make it obscene.
They’re slowly transitioning into the type of megacorp you usually only see in science fiction.
Apple isn't technically a bank in this case, but even if they were, it's pretty common and not at all a dystopian sci-fi thing. Sony owns a bank. Hyundai owns a bank. In the US, GM made a bank over a century ago, spun it off in 2006 (it's now called Ally), realized that was a mistake, and bought an existing bank in 2010.
I can’t fathom any reason why Tim Cook himself would even talk to him. In Musk’s mind, they’re both CEOs so on the same level, but he’s more on the level of one of Eddy Cue’s subordinates. Maybe a VP would take the call? Or just punt it down to some director.
Canada will be the first nation to start printing warnings directly onto individual cigarettes in a bid to deter young people from starting smoking and encourage others to quit....
Why not just raise the age limit? Adults don't start smoking cigarettes; children do. Younger teens get them from older teens (friends and relatives). Lots of 15 year olds can find an 18 year old to buy them tobacco, but significantly fewer can find a 21 year old to do the same. Canada just needs to copy the US on this. It's simple, highly effective, and can be enacted immediately without any required delay to allow for changes at the factory.
Voting to send Ukraine all of the weapons and resources they can possibly use. That is the only legitimate anti-war stance. It's a remarkably black and white scenario where an authoritarian country invaded its democratic neighbor. Russia could end the war immediately simply by leaving. Ukraine, on the other hand, needs to actually win the war. Anything other than an absolute Ukrainian victory where Russia is forced out of all of Ukraine is a victory for war. The real-world anti-war position is that war must not be allowed to be an effective means of aggression. If war works, we get more war. When dictators learn that war doesn't work, we'll have less war. As long as Putin isn't willing to pull back his soldiers and abandon all claims to all Ukrainian land, the only other option is to defeat him in battle.
Anybody who opposes arming Ukraine is objectively pro-war because the only plausible outcome in that scenario is a Russian victory.
This is the same News Corp. that convinced the Australian government that Facebook owes them money whenever anybody (including News Corp. itself) shares a link on Facebook to one of their articles, all with the justification that a link tax was needed in order to fund journalism.
Developers are going to hate this, but it’s good for the rest of us.
Some, but not all. There's no reason a developer should have to explain why they're using UserDefaults. It's a local-only place for storing very small amounts of data. The data is created in the app and read only within the app. There are no privacy or other concerns in its use. It's just a tedious waste of everyone's time to provide a reason.
Lina Khan's stewardship of the FTC has been one of high-profile failures, clumsily targeting big companies over things that are, in fact, legal. It's like she thinks she's a senator trying to win political points with cheap, lazy shots rather than being the head of a wonky enforcement agency. Fresh after failing to block Microsoft's purchase of Activision, she's now targeting Prime, a service that consumers overwhelmingly actually like. I have no doubt that Amazon likely has violated antitrust law in some ways, but I have no faith in Khan's FTC to actually target the legitimate violations with boring, relatively minor solutions. They'll overshoot and bungle the whole thing, yet again.
For a long time, I thought of the blockchain as almost synonymous with cryptocurrencies, so as I saw stuff like “Odyssey” and “lbry” appearing and being “based on the blockchain”, my first thought was that it was another crypto scam. Then, I just got reminded of it and started looking more into it, and it just seemed...
I thought it sounded interesting when it was new but the more I've learned, the more convinced I am that it's completely useless. I've never seen anything done on a blockchain that couldn't be done faster, cheaper, and more securely in a SQL database. Even the not-a-scam applications are ridiculous and fall apart upon examination. Blockchain as a definitive record of ownership? Absolutely not. There's no way to force a person to update a record. Lose your house in a bankruptcy? The sheriff on his way to evict you isn't going to care that you've got some NFT saying you still own the house. Anything involving contracts at all? If a court can't unilaterally update the blockchain record, then the record is unreliable. But if the government can unilaterally update a record, then you're not relying on community consensus and immutability in the first place.
Blockchain isn't useful for anything important, and it's not a logical choice for anything trivial aside from literally just playing with blockchain stuff for the sake of playing with blockchains. I think it's a dead-end technology.
The Trump ally's acknowledgment came in a filing Tuesday related to the 2020 election workers' lawsuit about baseless claims of fraud that he made against them.
This headline is, ironically, false. This is a nolo contendre (“I do not wish to contend”) stipulation. He’s saying that he does not actually admit to making the false statements, but he has no defense to offer the court (because he of course absolutely did make the false statements), so he’s willing to just accept whatever punishment comes with it. The major benefit for him is that it applies only to this specific case, whereas if he actually admitted his guilt to the court, that would then be an established fact that could be used in other cases.
Because he's neither technically admitting that he did it nor will it be proven in court that he did it. He's saying, "For the sake of this case only, let's just assume I did it and act accordingly." If he told the court "I did it" then everyone else in other cases could just point to that and not even need to prove it in the first place.
As most of the Lemmy users are security/privacy minded, after a question about alternative voices I’m wondering. Why would you allow a virtual assistance to spy on you constantly? (Especially when you don’t need to due to other limitations)...
Why would you allow a virtual assistance to spy on you constantly?
Because it’s not? A low-power process on my phone is listening for the wake word. When it hears other stuff, it ignores it. When it hears the wake word, it processes my request, tied to a separate anonymous identifier used only for Siri itself. I’m not really losing any privacy at all.
And as a side note, is there a way to kill Siri completely on IOS (not just go trough all app settings and disable siri there)?
It’s just the first two toggles (Listen for “Hey Siri” and Press Side Button for Siri) in the Siri & Search menu that you’d need to turn off. There’s not much to it.
Twitter is transforming into X, as the site’s former bird logo has now been replaced by an official new X logo. Elon Musk, who owns the transformed social media site, began signaling the change early Sunday morning with a series of tweets, starting with one that said, “and soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and,...
US copyright law doesn't allow for protection of something like that. A dingbat, yes, but if it's very plainly recognizable as an X then the exact shape and output of that typeface isn't protectable. You can even print out a font, scan it, and create a new copycat font from it. The only thing you can't do is reproduce the actual typeface file itself, which is fundamentally a single copyrighted piece of software. Some other countries allow more protection on the shapes of individual letters, but I don't think you'd ever win a case anywhere on such a simple geometric shape as this X.
They moved the storage of encryption keys for Chinese users to servers in China instead of shutting down iMessage and Facetime.
These are totally separate things. Apple users in China can still use iMessage and FaceTime and those are still end-to-end encrypted. If you choose to store your iMessages in iCloud, those can be accessed by the government, but that's the same as they can in every other country. The UK's proposal is to directly break the security of iMessage itself, something worse than what China has done.
They still intended to start scanning your photos and that is worrying.
They wanted to scan photos stored in iCloud. Apple has an entirely legitimate interest in not storing CSAM on their servers. Instead of doing it like every other photo service does, which scans all of your photos on the server, they created a complex privacy-preserving method to do an initial scan on device as part of the upload process and, through the magic of math, these would only get matched as CSAM on the server if they were confident (one in a trillion false-positives) you were uploading literally dozens of CSAM images, at which point they'd then have a person verify to make absolutely certain, and then finally report your crime.
The system would do the seemingly impossible of preserving the privacy of literally everybody except the people that everyone agrees don't deserve it. If you didn't upload a bunch of CSAM, Apple itself would legitimately never scan your images. The scan happened on device and the match happened in the cloud, and only if there were a enough matches to guarantee confidence. It's honestly brilliant but people freaked out after a relentless FUD campaign, including from people and organizations who absolutely should know better.
If your device locally analyzes your behavior and files, then Apple itself is not actually collecting and analyzing your data. The "locality" is a fundamental difference in who is doing what. If your private information never leaves your phone, your privacy is still fully maintained.
The UK's surveillance proposal is more draconian than China's current treatment of Apple, though. FaceTime an iMessage work exactly the same in China as they do in every other country. They're fully end-to-end encrypted and Apple's logging of metadata is extremely minimal. China's policies are deeply problematic they seem content to let Apple get away with the bare minimum of legal compliance, in contrast to local companies who bend over backwards to comply with every whim of the CCP. Could Apple make a principled stand against China? Sure. Would that make some self-righteous people feel good? Definitely. Would it do anything at all to improve the privacy of people in China? Absolutely not. They'd lose their most-private option. That's the real-world outcome.
The UK, on the other hand, is actually still a democracy. A combative and principled stand against government overreach can actually change government policy and preserve end-user privacy.
The scenario where they're lying would would mean they're falsely responding to countless subpoenas for data by claiming they don't have information that they do. This would be a massive globe-spanning crime requiring the coordination ("conspiracy" in criminal law) of hundreds or thousands of people, and also enormous civil liability. This would instantly wipe hundreds of billions of dollars off the stock and destroy their reputation, all so they could ... what? It's cheaper and easier for them to simply collect less data in the first place. Useless user data is nothing more than a liability for Apple.
Apple refers to them as “portables” rather than “laptops” for this exact reason
They may use the term somewhere when they want to collectively refer to MacBooks and iPads, but they absolutely use the term “laptop.” Big letters at the top of the comparison chart on the MacBook Pro page: “Which laptop is right for you?” The tag line for the M1 MacBook Air: “The most affordable Mac laptop to get things done on the go.” The MacBook Air line, incidentally, no longer has vents at all.
These specific prices are based on a single rumor, and even that was only "up to" $200 increases. Even if this latest "confirmation" were accurate, it could easily be $50 increases. A month ago Apple released a major update to the Mac Studio but kept the price the same, unveiled the 15" MacBook Air at a reasonable price, and dropped the price of the 13" MacBook Air. That doesn't really sound like a company that's about to announce a ~15% price increase to their most popular product but rather one that's being quite sensitive to price pressure on buyers.
When they released the iPhone X back in 2017 at $999, people were outraged at the price increase for the average iPhone price
I don't really remember it that way. It was explicitly presented as a bifurcation of the line. The iPhone 8 was the successor to the iPhone 7, with comparable pricing and the same year-over-year upgrades you'd expect. The iPhone X was positioned as a bleeding-edge offering for a price premium. Was there clickbait faux outrage and pearl-clutching at the price? Sure. Were actual customers outraged? No.
What does the 6 mean? (lemmy.world)
Apple buying Disney isn't the fairy tale it once was (www.macworld.com)
Not technically linux... (lemmy.ml)
Editing to add alt text here, as Lemmy still does not support alt text in image posts: A fake screenshot of the FreeBSD Foundation donation page showing Apple, Inc. under the $5-$24 donation category. The screenshot is next to a poorly drawn four-panel comic....
What's up with the end-to-end encryption notification all over the whatsapp?
Is this some simple virtue signaling (for closed source app) directed at users that are not technically inclined? I didn’t see this being promoted at this level in any other app.
Reality for thee, not for me (i.imgur.com)
What do I do now? (lemmy.world)
I was trying to make an app-specific password for gmail and this came up. There aren’t any new options in the apple id settings, so idk what to do
Toilet Rule (lemmy.ohaa.xyz)
I'm worried that in the future we will be forced to use smartphones just like in China
In China, you can’t exist without a smartphone, because for all existential things you have to do (paying bills, buying tickets etc.) , you are forced to use the almighty wechat app. Smartphones are a tool to manipulate and to spy on the population. It is a tool utilized by the ruling class, to control the masses. I hate the...
How would you feel about signing a smart contract? (details in description)
As a foreword, yes I am very aware of resources like web3isgoinggreat.com You don’t need to spam the comments with the link....
Do you pay with cash or card?
Does your choice depends on somehing? And from what country are you?
Samsung has released their 5th generation folding phones, where is a folding iPhone?
I have one theory and that it’s when Apple caves to EU pressure and releases an iPhone with a type C port, they will simultaneously release a folding iPhone with no port that is meant to be the future of iPhones.
Apple's 'Tetris' movie ripped off tech writer's book, lawsuit says (www.reuters.com)
Is there anything creative you've made that you're particularly proud of?
Can be any form of creativity, whether that be drawing/painting, music, photography, writing, game design, video making, ect.
USB-C confirmed for the iPhone 15 in new leaked part images (www.macworld.com)
Why was Japan not occupied jointly by the US(/Allies) and the Soviets after WWII?
This is a bit of an Ask Historians question....
Cortana, once a flagship feature of Windows phones, is slowly being shut down (arstechnica.com)
Microsoft shuts down Cortana, Apple should do the same with Siri (9to5mac.com)
Cortana is Microsoft’s virtual assistant, which was introduced in 2014 back when Windows Phone was still a thing. Similar to...
Is it legal to be out in public in just underwear?
You’re not quite naked, but you’re not quite dressed either. Is it legal? I don’t know and I’ve always been curious.
More Than $10 Billion Deposited in Apple Card Savings Accounts (www.macrumors.com)
Elon Musk says he’s going to talk to Tim Cook about adjusting the Apple tax (www.theverge.com)
Elon Musk is going after Apple again.
Canada launches warning labels on each cigarette (www.bbc.com)
Canada will be the first nation to start printing warnings directly onto individual cigarettes in a bid to deter young people from starting smoking and encourage others to quit....
Why do Americans keep falling for the Democrat and Republican scare mongering and propaganda?
Is it due to what we eat, our social media, the alphabet propaganda machine (most likely)?...
News Corp using AI to produce 3,000 Australian local news stories a week [via [email protected]] (www.theguardian.com)
The Data Local team uses AI technology to generate stories on weather, fuel prices and traffic reports for hyperlocal mastheads....
App Store to require developers to describe why their apps use certain APIs (9to5mac.com)
FTC readies lawsuit that could break up Amazon (www.politico.com)
A case would be a high-water mark for FTC Chair Lina Khan who gained prominence criticizing the company’s dominance.
Is the blockchain an interesting innovation, aside from cryptocurrencies ?
For a long time, I thought of the blockchain as almost synonymous with cryptocurrencies, so as I saw stuff like “Odyssey” and “lbry” appearing and being “based on the blockchain”, my first thought was that it was another crypto scam. Then, I just got reminded of it and started looking more into it, and it just seemed...
Rudy Giuliani concedes he made 'false' statements about Georgia election workers (www.nbcnews.com)
The Trump ally's acknowledgment came in a filing Tuesday related to the 2020 election workers' lawsuit about baseless claims of fraud that he made against them.
Why would you use a virtual assistant?
As most of the Lemmy users are security/privacy minded, after a question about alternative voices I’m wondering. Why would you allow a virtual assistance to spy on you constantly? (Especially when you don’t need to due to other limitations)...
Twitter is now X as the little blue bird disappears (www.theverge.com)
Twitter is transforming into X, as the site’s former bird logo has now been replaced by an official new X logo. Elon Musk, who owns the transformed social media site, began signaling the change early Sunday morning with a series of tweets, starting with one that said, “and soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and,...
Apple says it would remove iMessage and FaceTime in the UK rather than break end-to-end encryption (9to5mac.com)
Apple says it will remove services such as FaceTime and iMessage from the UK rather than weaken security if new proposals are made law and acted upon. (www.bbc.com)
Apple slams UK surveillance-bill proposals (www.bbc.com)
The technology giant says it could remove services such as FaceTime from the UK over potential changes
Why do most gaming laptops have vents on the bottom?
If you’re using the laptop as intended (i.e., on your lap), wouldn’t those be almost entirely blocked?
New Apple Leak Confirms iPhone 15 Price Shock (www.forbes.com)