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fckgw··on MacBook Neo
For people, new to the Mac (which make up half of all Mac sales), who don't go hunting for refurbs or want to buy used gear, and where a $1099 price point is cost prohibitive.

Basically every regular computer user who shops at Amazon or Costco.

fckgw··on MacBook Neo
Why is that confusing? The A chip is cheaper, hence is goes into their cheaper laptop. The more expensive laptops get the more expensive M chips.
fckgw··on iPhone 17e
Exactly, every older person I've seen has the Plus model (RIP) with screen text turned up to 150%. A small screen for someone with poor eyesight sounds like torture.
fckgw··on Never buy a .online domain
.online, .top, .xyz. info and .shop are some of the top TLDs that scammers use, precisely because of their rock bottom registrar fees that make them attractive for sites that have a shelf life of a few hours or a few days before being blocked. As a result, many places have a blanket "suspicious" flag for fresh domains under these TLDs.

If you plan on building a legit site, do not use any of these cheap TLDs.

fckgw··on Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston
Apple announced their Private Cloud Compute nodes in 2024 and started shipping them last October.

https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/

https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/servers/apples-houston...

fckgw··on FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled
No, it's been part of the power button since then.
fckgw··on Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability
It triggers within a certain radius that you can change in the settings to be wider or narrower. It's not specifically when it loses contact with the device.
fckgw··on Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday
Yeah, it's this. It's a hosting platform, not a social media platform. You see a ton of people who have short films, art projects, commercial portfolios and stuff like that hosted at Vimeo. They don't need/want comments, discoverability, or to deal with things like automated DRM takedowns. Clean, simple, video hosting.
fckgw··on Apple Creator Studio
Mac Studio is still on M4 Max and M3 Ultra chips.

I could see a press release refresh on that day to M5 chips.

fckgw··on Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs
Which is fine! That's me making the explicit choice that yes, I want to close this box and yes, I want to lose this data. I don't need an AI evaluating how important it thinks I am and second guessing my judgement call.

I tell the computer what to do, not the other way around.

fckgw··on The Gemini AI Studio "Context Tax": How a 10-word prompt cost me £121
If you can't see that this post was obviously "enhanced" with AI then I don't know what to tell you. They had a small anecdote about their experience and then asked AI to flesh it out into a multi paragraph post.

I mean, the cute section titles are a dead giveaway.

fckgw··on Ask HN: How do you manage kids' accounts?
If you're already in the Apple ecosystem, get them separate iCloud accounts with their own email and join in a family plan. You can manage their devices and setting from one location. You can also use the Passwords app, create a family group and add the shared passwords there so there's a central access to everything.

My family does this except we use 1Password app instead of Passwords. Kids have their own devices, allowance is paid via Apple Cash and they can use either Apple Pay or their virtual card number to buy things in the real world or online. Google and game account credentials are stored on their device or on their PCs via Chrome plugin (which Apple Passwords has as well).

fckgw··on TP-Link only works with a permanent internet connection
I have the same C200 camera and recently had a 24hr+ internet outage and the camera stayed on just fine. I am also using RTSP with Frigate and Scrypted.
fckgw··on Samsung may end SATA SSD production soon
What does this have to do with consumer SATA SSDs?
fckgw··on Free static site generator for small restaurants and cafes
Squarespace is like $20/mo for a basic site promoting your Brick and Mortar business. That includes domain, hosting, and a template/CMS. It's not that pricey.
fckgw··on Researchers discover security vulnerability in WhatsApp
No. Firstly, there was no "leak", the data was never shared. The experiment was conducted by researchers then the data set destroyed. Secondly, there's 3.5b WhatsApp accounts. They just send the same message to everyone and the majority of numbers will have an account regardless.
fckgw··on Court settlement calls for NPR to get $36M to operate US public radio system
Or we just continue to use the infrastructure that we already have and works?
fckgw··on Drilling down on Uncle Sam's proposed TP-Link ban
I'm sorry but your cousin did not lose his bitcoin due to some TP-Link hackers.
fckgw··on Drilling down on Uncle Sam's proposed TP-Link ban
I dunno if they're the next biggest, but they are one of the largest in the consumer space. They've been the best selling networking devices on Amazon for nearly a decade and ISPs use their products when bundling WiFi setups with ISP service (although those are usually centrally managed by the ISPs themselves)
fckgw··on Two billion email addresses were exposed
The problem with breaches like the latest data set is that there's no source on where the breach came from, it's an aggregate from multiple breaches. They can't tell you that info because it's not in the initial data set.
fckgw··on Tron: Ares Set to Lose $132M+
Correct. This was initially being developed shortly after "Legacy but the failure of "Tomorrowland" canned the whole thing. Leto came on years later, offered to produce it and star in the film and brought the project back from the dead. This is basically his film, it doesn't exist without Leto as the lead
fckgw··on Email bombs exploit lax authentication in Zendesk
If you start getting an email bombed out of nowhere, being signed up for hundreds of newsletters or other email notifications, take a quick look at your credit card statements for any unknown purchases. Email bombs are often used by card thieves to hide legitimate purchase notifcation email from retailers when they use your stolen creds.
fckgw··on The day my smart vacuum turned against me
>"The manufacturer had the power to remotely disable devices and used it against me for blocking their data collection."

He posits that some low-level support person triggered a remote "kill switch" because he dared to block some telemetry servers which is, frankly, ridiculous.

fckgw··on Vertical Solar Panels Are Out Standing
It's not just about production, it's also about reducing maintenance costs (don't collect snow, less dust build up on panels) and land usage. If you can take that 77% average, but maybe stick a couple more panels on land to reach your energy goals in an overall smaller footprint with less maintenance work, then maybe it's a good solution to specific problems.
fckgw··on Kmart's use of facial recognition to tackle refund fraud unlawful
In the US we just got rid of the public toilets instead.
fckgw··on Internet Archive's big battle with music publishers ends in settlement
YouTube has built a whole content ID and revenue sharing agreements as a direct result of getting sued nearly into oblivion by numerous organizations. Most "infringing works" on YouTube are permitted under an agreement laying out revenue sharing with the rights holder, and if not, is flagged and taken down when found.

None of that is in place with IA and I fear their laissez-faire attitude in this current climate is gonna bite them in the ass.

fckgw··on American Prairie unlocks another 70k acres in Montana
Words change. Meanings change. This has always happened an always will. If enough people are ironically using literally, even if unknowingly, then yeah, the meaning will change and we need things like dictionaries to describe this new meaning.
fckgw··on An attacker’s blunder gave us a look into their operations
Who's trust? Their job is to hunt down and research threat actors. The information gained from this is used to better protect their enterprise customers.

This gains more trust with their customers and breaking trust with ... threat actors?

fckgw··on iPhone Air
"Apple releases new product"

"I'm done with Google, Adobe, ..."

It's just a rant for the sake of rants

fckgw··on An attacker’s blunder gave us a look into their operations
> The standout red flag was that the unique machine name used by the individual was the same as one that we had tracked in several incidents prior to them installing the agent.

The machine was already known to the company as belonging to a threat actor from previous activity

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