jki275

How about Fortran 77"

Have they ever, in known history, done any of that in any manner one could call effective?

Congress is a pile of squabbling children and has been at least my entire lifetime.

I've personally worked in such a system. I can tell you -- as someone who asked the question often -- that often, the answer is "because we wrote it that way in 1975 and no one has bothered to spend the time to learn how to make it better since then.

It is not necessarily true something written forty years ago is right. It is not necessarily true that something written forty years ago has some secret logic in it that cannot be improved upon. It is not necessarily true that something written forty years ago cannot be improved by fresh eyes.

Obviously one must not change things recklessly -- but there are often improvements that can be made.

It appears to be conflating things that may or may not be real with other things that are being misreported in the news and making up sensational stories out of them.

Unclassified government networks are mostly connected to the internet. The government is mostly bad at cyber security. These are well known facts. Whether or not "DOGE" has any actual connection to this is not really in evidence at this point, this is a highly partisan person's attempt to influence other people to their point of view.

You've never heard of courts? The world does not work the way you think it does at all.

False. They don't give anything to Google, and I just removed the News app from my phone just to prove it could be done.

iOS isn't locked down for "Apple's profit", it's locked down for the users' security. This isn't really controversial, only really hardcore Google shills who don't know anything about Apple would argue otherwise.

Apple can't access the data on the devices. They've spent absolute fucktons of money building their infrastructure that way, and they give up hundreds of millions of dollars that Meta and Google gladly suck up by not monetizing their customers' data.

Apple provides me with the devices I want that do the things I want them to do. "restrictive model of computing" is a concept that doesn't really mean anything. I can do anything I want on my Mac. My iPhone is way more locked down, and it doesn't bother me a bit. My guess is that like most Apple haters, you don't use Apple devices and have taken up a cause against them based on things that don't have any effect on you.

You're not understanding the issue here.

The government wanted Apple to backdoor iOS at their command.

Apple told the government to go fuck themselves.

None of that addresses whether it was technically possible or not. You've made up a theory in your head about how it was possible based on what some dumbfuck government lawyer made up to file with a court, but that doesn't make any of it true.

And again, none of this had anything to do with that phone. The government wanted to establish precedent that they could order Apple to create a backdoored iOS for them, so that they could use that to spy on people. They gave up when it became obvious Apple wasn't going to roll over for them and rewrite iOS so they could use it the way they wanted to.

Your beliefs about some theory about Apple claiming something about "provable trust" or whatever are really probably unfounded and don't even make any sense.

That statement simply isn't true.

The government attempted to force them to write a new operating system for them that would allow them to get the data on the phone. This was never about the San Bernardino phone, everyone knew there was nothing of any use on it and everyone involved was dead. It was about getting precedent on record that they could force a company to backdoor their OS on a court order. They eventually dropped their request when it became obvious Apple wasn't going to roll over for them.

Your post reeks of some personal vendetta against Apple, and has no factual basis.

Anybody can write a subpoena, but Apple is on record as having absolutely no problem telling anyone who does so to go fuck themselves and then backing it up with litigation.

The data passes through any devices in the vicinity -- but they can't read the data unless they've got the private key to that tag.

You absolutely do not have to bake wifi creds into an esp32 app in plain text. ESP-IDF provides multiple ways to do this, the way I generally do it is to come up with a wifi AP, serve a web page that allows the user to input credentials, and then store those credentials in encrypted flash. All of this is very easy to do in ESP-IDF using C++.

Read the New Testament then.

That's exactly what they don't do.

That's not an assumption. It's easy enough to look at what Apple does.

Wow -- as already posted, this is absolutely false. This is not at all what happened, the iterm2 folks are way more sensitive to their users' feelings than that.

It's very much the opposite of Apple's brand. Apple simply does not do this.

That's a really inflammatory way to put "paying a ridiculously low fee to make a bullshit lawsuit go away".

LM Studio on Mac is your friend. You can choose any model you want, run a server for other tools, or chat direct with the model. It can use either MLX or just plain llama.cpp.

That's a significant misunderstanding of the NT.

Jesus drove the money changers out of the Temple, because they were violating the Temple with their presence and their actions -- preying on poor people there.

Jesus' primary message was love (Love thy neighbor as thyself), peace, and the path to righteousness (Sell all your goods, give them to the poor, and follow me -- no man comes to the Father but through me).

The OT is far more violent, but given for a specific people at a specific time and those things are not ordered for modern day Christianity -- modern day Christians are commanded to spread the gospel to the ends of the earth, but also to be meek, and every example we have after Peter's ill-advised attempt to defend Christ the night of his crucifixion is an example of following the law where possible and being peaceful.

Still does exactly that in Sequoia.

That claim is absolutely false.

he has actually cashed out and donated small amounts (30k or so) at least a couple of times already.

Oh come on, that's not even hyperbole, it's straight out flame bait, and it's absolutely false.

I've used Thuraya in a region of the world not far from there as well. Globalstar, Iridium, Inmarsat were all available at the time as well.

That ship sailed long ago. there are tons of satellites that make that completely impossible to control.

We fought and won a war against the Nazis. imposing one's law on another country can be done by that method of course.

Putin doesn't give two fucks what the ICC says. As I pointed out in another comment, issuing warrants that one cannot enforce is worse than useless.

None of these things affect the accuracy of my comment.

They're making noise, but they will absolutely not act on them. That would be a career ending event for many political figures in both countries.

There is no such thing as "international law" in the way you use the term.

There are treaties that countries either sign or do not sign. The US isn't breaking treaties it has signed, at least not in the general case.

Definitely does not work that way.