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There's no reason to believe these are a bad idea beyond lowering entry cost to GPS trackers.

It seems like there's a bug going on here - otherwise everyone would have the same issue. This is something that can be fixed and isn't really related to these existing overall.

They use the same system

does this distinction matter at all, in any way to the point they were trying to get across?

It appears when you get the first alert - click to silence it, and choose "indefinitely." That option only appears for Family devices.

If you're in the same family account there's a button to turn off those alerts. It worked for my family.

There are projects, like for Node there's a dotenv package, that can load these files.

If I have multiple machines, I manually sync them since that's usually the easiest way to manage it as secrets in my experience don't change enough to warrant syncing them.

Credentials/tokens go in environment variables. For development, the convention is to make a `.env` file that's in `.gitignore` and load it into your environment variables. In deployed contexts, you often have a system to do this for you.

Low power mode doesn't affect autoplay for me in Safari

Yes, at least in Safari on iOS. If you properly mark it muted it will autoplay when asked.

I believe the user can change the setting to "Never Autoplay" instead of "Stop Media with Sound" but the default only affects with sound.

Yeah, that app store stack icon is a little funky. It's meant to represent a stack of apps - which that bar is, an app launcher for within messages.

Apple's view provides a photo library icon and shows as a half-screen popover unless the user starts scrolling, keeping context.

Correct

Hmm, that page says WebRTC is disabled but I can use Google Meet (which I thought used WebRTC) without any issue

https://i.imgur.com/b1NPYmr.png

How does WebRTC reveal my IP address in a way that regular browsing does not? Can you point me to a site to see what is being leaked?

Well given that this uses WebRTC, not surprising

You can't open a bank account with just a VPN. You also need an address in the US. And even if you do, how do you get money into that account? Do you think your employer in the Netherlands would match your 401(k) deposits?

>If you are a “US Person” you may find it impossible to invest, or deal with certain financial institutions and products at all.

That's literally taxes and paperwork... indirectly, of course, but all the same.

Paying $1,000 a year to file a form that says you don't owe taxes doesn't seem like a problem to you?

You could ask the same about Apple Pay: "Is the end Goal to make Apple Pay the only payment method supported on the internet and kill credit card numbers"

Not only is there nothing to support your claim, there's no reason to believe this would be the next step if your claim was accurate. Instead, they'd just...require ID on the internet, it's not like that's not currently possible.

The point of the priority system is that it isn't based on what you're doing ("camping") but instead on the actual network conditions.

If Starlink is ranked above 5G, then it'll never fall back to 5G. 5G should be ranked above Starlink, and then when camping and there's no 5G it doesn't matter the ranking.

The other thing is that travel planning is flexible and uncertain. Computers are inherently specific.

Creating a program that doesn't interfere with this "maybe we'll do this, and if we do this then the trip will be X days, but if we do that then it will be Y days" isn't easy.

Oh I hate Google as much as the next guy, but that's not something they've shown any interest in doing.

> rather ineffective against Delta

I mean, this isn't true... less effective, sure. But it's not ineffective by any measure.

That sentence is wrong. It simply isn't accurate of the current system. It relies on future changes to the system, not just changes to a database.

The iMessage feature is not a database comparison system, it's to keep kids from getting/receiving nudes unexpectedly – and it works based on classifying those images.

I don't dispute this is a slippery slope - one could imagine that a government requires Apple to modify it's classification system. However, that would presumably require a software update since it happens on device.

If you read the article, you'd understand that among ALL the issues, this is not one:

- Photos scanning in Messages is on-device only (no reporting to govt.) and doesn't turn on unless you're an adult who turns it on for a minor via Family Sharing controls. - iCloud Photos scanning doesn't take effect unless you save the photo and it's already in a database of flagged photos. So in your scenario, you'd have to save the photo received from the unknown number to get flagged.

They almost certainly have permission to use the phrases that way.

Bluetooth keys refers to headphones only - not bluetooth in general

Because people get pissed if you tell them that since they forgot their password the photos of their kids are gone.

There is a switch in Find my iPhone location settings for the "Find My network" that presumably opts you out of this.

They don't ask you to disable it for the mail, they ask you because they can't recycle it if it's locked out.