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Apple has been providing security updates for iOS 14, but so far no 14.8.2, strange since all other supported OS-es were updated today. Often the samen CVE’s get fixed in macOS, iOS, tvOS etc together. They are pushing iOS 15.2 though. I wonder if that means EOL for iOS 14?

In the PPC era I once installed X11 on 10.3 Panther and compiled KDE. I then had a MacOS X running a KDE shell and various X11 applications, while maintaining compatibility with OSX apps.

I'm wondering if something like this would still be possible on macOS 12 Monterey and using Nextspace as a shell?

"On Nov. 22, Life360 also announced plans to buy Tile, a tracking device company that helps find lost items. Hulls said the company doesn’t have plans to sell data from Tile devices."

I thought this sounded familiar. Combined with the acquisition of Fitbit by Google, for IoT devices you should therefore not only consider the current owner and its policies, but also future ownership?

This will make it even harder for me to buy anything from an IoT startup.

For the longest time I used my R7000 as a router and NAS with either AsusWRT-Merlin or FreshTomato. They might serve your purpose?

I wonder what Risc-V would bring them, other than some de-risking vs potential trade blockages for ARM as Huawei experienced. Would not having to pay royalties to ARM give this chip a cost advantage? By how much?

Thank you!

I recently picked up my retro computing hobby again after selling off my collection in 2015 - when it was still all WaMcOm and the original browsers. I was happy to find TenFourFox, Leopard Webkit are able to at least support the loading of modern webpages. But it becomes very clear how much the web has changed and evolved, and even machines that I used to consider be super-fast now crawl and grind when confronted with a modern webpage.

I hope pages like Oldweb and the recently posted 68Knews will keep the old machines somewhat fun to use - other than retro gaming and general exploration.

Having spent several years in Chinese supply chain activities, the factories building iPhones, XBoxes etc. Are some of the nicest ones around. Clean, large campuses with organized activities for workers etc.

There are several tiers of factories below that, with worse worker accommodations, Longer working hours, worse working conditions. Some of the smaller, poorer factories will provide little in terms of personal protective equipment, ergonomics, and make stuff for the local, African and South Asian markets where there’s little pressure on companies to have a “clean” supply chain. These workers would go there.

I read your comment and thought of the Big Sur QuickTime icon...

Does anyone know why the Mac port has not been updated since 2012 (but downloads are still being offered)?

Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Kind of like the silicon valley of Holland still with major tech companies around (Philips, NXP Semiconductor, ASML, Tomtom, Here) and a growing startup culture. Eindhoven University of Technology is a major force in e.g. Solar and rent for a centrally located appartment will be around 1000 Euro. Train connections to Amsterdam and Germany (Düsseldorf) and a local airport with cheap connections throughout Europe.

He correctly identifies the silicon labs Zigbee/Bluetooth chip but then remarks the Zigbee is not used? It's one of the major selling points of the Echo Plus and it was sold bundled with a Philips Hue bulb for launch. After this I doubt this guy really knows what he's talking about. Nice teardown though.

In Holland we just had a referendum on indiscriminant wiretapping, where the government was introducing legislation to allow more freedom for intelligence agencies to tap and store and share internet history.

The results were that the people rejected the proposal by a narrow margin, with older people voting in favor or the proposal, and younger demographics voting against. (Similarly, lower educated people were in favor, higher educated people against.)

So Privacy is not an 'old people issue' over here.

The Dutch police issued 9.2 million traffic fines on a population of 17 million. Most of this is a fully automated system from connected speed traps, to an 'invoicing system'.

I feel that if these things are fining apparently widespread behavior at such a scale the laws should change.

Last week a judge ruled that the Student Loan administration can use mandatory personal RFID equipped train tickets to detect scholarship fraud.

A mechanism no-one but the strongest privacy advocates had imagined would be used in this way.

It's strange they roll back these updates (microcode and BIOS updates) on all platforms. My HP Elitebook received a BIOS update after which the Microsoft powershell scripts reported the laptop as Patched (and working normally), then, last week a new BIOS update making the laptop vulnerable again.

Not being able to play local mp3’s Or even CD’s ripped through iTunes is a deal breaker for me.

So this microcode goes in /lib/firmware/intel-ucode (in ubuntu) will this then firmware update the CPU with the latest microcode, or only use this like a driver leaving the CPU alone?

Google could easily enable this on their Chromebooks, that run Android apps. Especially the ARM versions should be able to run the same code and use the same apps.

Last one to try to circumvent the petrodollar was Ghadaffi. It seems China now takes the opportunity of the current political climate to try it themselves.

(Petrodollar principle is explained well by Adam Curtis' documentary "Bitter Lake")

Only partially, I've seen places like you describe: there will be one or two 'trailblazing' projects but over the next 5-10 years all the surrounding area will develop with malls, more appartments and such.

There's an old video on Youtube called 'The Machine to build the Machines' which goes in-depth on their automated assembly line for mainboards. Could be a nice intro.

I'm prompted to read some now but can't seem to find any of his writing on the iBookstore, Kindle or project Gutenberg, does anyone know how to find a digital copy?

So we can be pretty certain that just visiting the Blackphone website has tagged you for Xkeyscore...

Here's a cool story on the Macintosh, and a totally unrelated -- but still very cool picture accompanying it.

Works pretty well in VMware Fusion, Kudos!

Don't call the PEOPLE using your software "consumers", they're people.

Well, one piece of the puzzle is in the Lulzsec Pastebin itself. the hacked file's original filename is supposed to be "NCFTA_iOS_devices_intel.csv" and a quick Duckduckgo gave me http://www.ncfta.net/ those contractors as source of the data.

How can I trust the content of this article when they get one of the reviewed products' names wrong in the headline? (it's "iWork" without the "S".)

Microsoft seems to be charging anywhere between $7 and $15 per android device for their patents. ( http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/reality-check-microsoft-... ) So while Apple's fee is much higher, it seems fair to me that given the many obvious similarities a form of patent licensing would be in order.

Until now most of the Microsoft reporting I've read has been "they need to move" and "they're feeling the heat from (Apple, Google etc.)". This is the first time they're past-tense, over and done with.

I'm not sure, though. They're surfing a wave of Windows/Office and XBOX cash and still very relevant for business with a huge ecosystem of developers, schools and universities educating future Microsoft users and sysadmins.

I don't mean to shill, but after trying all kinds of Netgear, Linksys and ADSL Modem/router combi's, I really love my Apple Airport Extreme. I haven't had to reset it once in two years, and it's every bit as fast and reliable as a wired connection. They are sold as tag-on purchases but really are a hidden gem.