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When teachers are also parents how will schools staff classes on day five?

Work week length might be an all or nothing proposition.

Not OP, but STEM = Science, Technology, Engineering, Math; so on its face it does not include social sciences or humanities

It’s hard to imagine Apple pursuing a strategy that would surrender control of so much of the end user experience

A lot of my ebooks are sitting in Apple Books for the convenience of syncing, this looks like it has the ability to do better library management and metadata editing. Fingers crossed it continues to thrive.

This is really fun to navigate; the nostalgia is very effective

Hopefully this can be implemented in keyboard maestro

Desktop first made me think of Superintendant[0] which I’ve enjoyed using

0: https://superintendent.app/

Got it, thanks. A blind spot on my part there. It's funny how quickly the concept of losing access to a phone has taken root, I'm fortunate to have never had that happen to me and I need to remember how easily it could.

I wouldn't know, but doesn't the point still hold if I can sell (let's say) 1000 tickets at movie ticket prices, which I wouldn't otherwise have been able to sell? Call it $15 * 1000 people ... ?

I think the made up hypothetical figures distracted from the main idea, I was questioning the position that NBA would lose value when it seems like technology like this would open up a new audience of consumers who might now be willing to spend some money that they wouldn't otherwise have spent.

Really? We're talking about a transformation from a fixed and time-bound asset, the live experience of being physically present, into an entirely digital experience which can be replayed.

Doesn't this change the potential customer pool from people within traveling distance at the right time with enough money, into a global market?

Consider this: Sell the live courtside seat for the same 1000+; Open up sales for the virtual experience for 20% and sell it to anyone you like -- and, the next day, put the same no-longer-live experience available to pass-holders at $x/season and on-demand for $50 --

Haven't you just transformed your $1000 seat into some hugely increased figure?

Just chiming in to ask -- the immediate need for account recovery is in cases with lost or forgotten passwords. Am I right in assuming that account recovery becomes a much smaller attack surface when using passkeys? Or are there scenarios I'm overlooking?

I would speculate that roles which are filled through networking never get to the posting / interview stage. If that were the case it would make sense that being involved with interview boards would lead to seeing very few candidates getting a position through their network.

While that sounds like it would unlock some very cool experiences it also scares me to think about the potential abuses of making personalized voice models fairly easily available. It seems like the sort of thing that would need to stay secure on your own device. It would be great to see some kind of middle ground where a text to speech mechanism would generate audio output and send that, rather than make the model itself available.

I’ve experienced a lot of exasperation recently as the sports and clubs that my kids are involved with only communicate the practice schedule and meeting times over WhatsApp.

It's all well and good that the copyright office deems that protection only applies to the parts of the work where a human was in control of the traditional elements of authorship, and that there is a duty to disclose the use of generative technologies ... but now one can plausibly assert that they are the sole author of a work which was produced by one of these models, and be 100% confident that no one can dispute that.

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Career educator and current high school assistant principal with a background as a data focused district administrator supporting leadership to manage and iterate on production systems. Hobby level experience in SQL, python, ruby, and heavy on excel, which has made me the top expert in the room for most of my professional contexts. Looking to pivot to a position where my strengths will be useful that I’ll also have the ability to learn and collaborate.

You mention that removing the DRM isn’t exactly legal— is this something that right to repair would address? Are there places where DRM circumvention is legal? I had thought that at least in some jurisdictions breaking the DRM on things you’d bought yourself was a protected activity, but I confess I know next to nothing about where things stand.

First, even if the book lost copyright protection people would still be free to support the author by buying copies,

Second, if the book lost copyright protection wouldn’t Donald, losing that revenue stream, then be motivated to replace it by writing a follow up book?

Artists should be able to benefit from their works, but your question implies (to me) that because a work is popular artists have a right to continue to profit. You ask if they should be “forced” to “give up their copyright”. I think it’s good to keep in mind that anything copyrighted is being withheld from society at large; that we collectively pay a tax to authors in the form of giving up our collective right to remix and recombine works and profit from them in turn.

Particularly in the modern world of effortless free duplication and distribution, that’s a heavy burden to pay and it makes no sense to me that we would collectively agree to pay it for many decades even after the original author is dead.

I wonder - is there an existing script / tool that allows a user to copy a chunk of text and then automatically apply their private key to sign the text and paste it back with the signature?

Yep, those two specific examples are pointing to events that don’t really happen in the books. It’s actually a good illustration of the kind of specific false facts that tend to crop up.

I’ve been reading Babel by R F Kuang and greatly enjoying it.

Not OP, but the thing which bothers me about this is that it’s not a real choice from an end user perspective. So many employers quasi-require people to use their phones as part of their work. I can just see something like Microsoft teams becoming a wedge that pushes people to disable lockdowns from apple that, in their personal lives, they’d rather keep.

I do think that could be solvable. Something like different personas on the phone could be the next step for the new “focus” features on the iPhone— maybe if you could disable App Store lockdowns but only for isolated profiles on your phone?

This is a favorite of mine, I find myself returning to it from time to time and using the concept to frame how I prioritize throughout the week.

I’ve definitely had a better time with maintaining my collection of digital books through more than one move to different countries. I’ve kept three or four of my most cherished books, but my digital collection are independent of location.

I’ve always made a habit of trying to get digital copies of any book that I’ve felt was worth buying. DRM is a completely different story, giving books a shelf life which is limited to the lifespan of the retailer and often less.

This year I discovered the Dungeon Crawler Carl series by Matt Dinniman, currently five books. I read them with my son and we also had the audiobooks, which are really the best audiobooks I’ve encountered because of the voice acting.

At first I found the concept of the series so outlandish that I really couldn’t imagine what to expect, but it turned out that the series is incredibly complex and has a lot of interesting twists and character development. Big recommendation from me.

I used to think of this in terms of, “it doesn’t hurt me if other people can install whatever they like on their phones.”

However, when I thought it out, I realized that if the App Store wasn’t the one and only distribution model for apps, then profit motives would push companies to use those other mechanisms—presumably competing app stores like steam, or just installation of apps ala carte.

I realized that I’m not even completely in control of which apps I need, because if there’s an app I need for a car, or I need to install something for work, I’m just not always in a position to decide NOT to install something.

So even though I like the idea of keeping my App Store and letting anyone else do what they want… isn’t there some truth to the idea that if there were ways around the App Store then it would create a wedge that effectively forced a lot of fracturing?

They may and if I had epilepsy then I'd look to do the same, but that won't absolve us of the need to take care so that people without special equipment don't need to worry.

Big appreciation for this post. Ironically recently I’ve been drowning in emails and this walkthrough made me think about how I can apply the same reasoning to managing my inbox.

Thanks, that’s helpful- and I agree with you that the time and energy required to learn a new OS is a big investment for users who are comfortable with what they have.

But, it sounds like you and I land on two different sides of this. Your point seems to be that other OS machines shouldn’t be included because of that significant entry barrier, and my point is that if the review is being presented as a comparison of the best hardware options, then it’s not accurate to eliminate MacOS machines on the basis of software. I’d sooner see reviews either (a) compare exclusively same-OS machines and say so, or (b) disclaim that users might face that bigger entry barrier, but show the comparison and leave the decision of whether learning a new OS would be worth it to the reader

This metaphor is what the article is built in though: that excluding MacBooks from comparative reviews is a denial in the same way that Fox News denies climate change—

Both of which should be non-political topics, according to NASA[0]

[0]: https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/