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I should have clarified - I meant the mechanism of action for the new treatment.

Same. I have mine set to sit at ~50% while plugged in & still have 100% of my battery health.

It’s an M1 Pro MacBook that I’ve had since launch.

Do we know what the mechanism of action is?

I'm not defending blockchain, just pointing out that part of the example wasn't really a good one. Property ownership being something that's already completely public.

I have a public map overlay on my phone that gives me deed information for (AFAIK) every parcel I can see in the USA.

Some of it is, but things like property ownership are completely open in some countries. I have a map overlay that lets me see ownership for parcels.

Granted you can have an LLC own property, but that's a different obfuscation mechanism.

> So everyone you interact with knows where you work, how much you earn, what you own, where's your house, what you buy, what groups you belong to... and they can keep tracking you forever if you tell them who you are just once.

Granted public blockchain is a lot more discoverable, but a lot of this already is public. Property ownership is public (at least in the US), credit cards sell your data, facebook knows which groups you belong to, etc.

I won’t go over their history, but they’ve saved me in the past.

Here’s to hoping we get a modern FS soon!

It looks like some mirrors have packages going way back (http://ftp.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/), but depending on your use-case, it may be more beneficial to focus on the base system upgrades (documented in the upgrade guide) and worry about the packages later.

That many years of package changes could be troublesome to deal with, and it may be better to fast-forward to whatever the modern tooling would be.

What are you using them for? I feel a lot more comfortable using OpenBSD in production than Linux for the long-term (my personal opinion). I've been using it since ~3.5, and the 6 months releases have been ticking along nearly flawlessly for a long, long time.

Did you have softupdates turned on?

Counter-point: it can also be extremely cheap.

I’m in a seemingly small subset of people that is very happy with AWS for side projects. Granted I’m not doing anything that requires many resources.

Playing devil’s advocate - this was thought to be a real possibility during the Cold War, and it seems like we came pretty close a few times during that period.

I’m not making predictions about anything, but part of their job is to prepare for worst-case scenarios.

How does this statistic compare to experts?

Yes

It’s similar to how when I travel overseas, I have local currency in my account & that gets converted to local currency through an intermediary as I pay.

The intermediary usually charges a small fee. I only see local currency exit my account, and the seller only sees their local currency enter theirs.

We are much in the same boat :) Satellite has been a game changer for us as outdoor-oriented people.

I’m not sure I agree with this one. My Google results have gotten pretty awful lately.

I’ll usually go to an LLM for a very specific search term, then Google to find a reference or validate.

AI overlords to the rescue! /s

That sounds about like what I was expecting :(

Ah, that’s too bad. I think (please correct if I’m wrong) those have some trouble in canyons at higher latitudes. The nice thing about Iridium is if you wait a few minutes, a bird will usually show up overhead. It’s nice for SAR missions we help with in the mountains.

Exactly where Tesla’s marketing failed. It irritates me as a pilot that they have given it a new definition.

Autopilots have been around a long time, and have a very specific meaning. They require training, knowing what their limitations are, constant monitoring, and frequent manual input.

I’m not sure what Tesla thought they were doing by billing it as a “hands off” term.

Constant adjustment based on density altitude changes, waypoint changes, ATC inputs, depending on turbulence - disable or alter inputs, it is required to be constantly monitored (I am a low hour pilot, but have had one need to be disconnected due to malfunction).

It’s basically a glorified cruise control for airplanes. It will fly a general route, but anything beyond that requires manual input (at least for small plane autopilots).

A good example might be a cop rerouting traffic. This would be an ATC route change in the airplane world necessitating you to reprogram waypoints. I’m afraid of what Tesla’s “autopilot” does in this situation.

One last addition edit - in the airplane world, the PIC has ultimate control and responsibility over the airplane. There are a ton of disclaimers and training that goes along with a real autopilot that makes sure you know what its limitations are. Tesla also has failed here IMO.

Tesla’s marketing is awful, but “autopilot” has historically not meant “fully autonomous.” IMO Tesla adopted this term and twisted it.

Airplane autopilots still require a large amount of pilot input to operate.

$99 quarterly sounds like a good deal - was this with Iridium? That's unfortunately the only network that works well for my use-case.

I currently pay for an inReach Messenger, and use it on a weekly basis. The $12/mo base cost is peanuts for what it actually provides me.

I honestly see a heck of a lot of wedding photographers using them in some capacity now.

I also see a lot of outdoor photographers using them to save on weight (and pairing with some type of spotting scope when needed).

Digital cameras are definitely not on the brink of collapse, but I do see phones being used to either augment or replace specific scenarios more and more.

I think your prompt was written well enough to not need GPT-4. Don't undersell yourself :)

Another thing they've done more recently is HDR video (to my cave man brain, this means brighter brights).

They've paired this with much higher brightness on the screens, which makes the videos look much more realistic. I first noticed this on my M1 Pro screen, which absolutely blew me away (1600 nits peak brightness).

That's the biggest telltale "filmed on iPhone" trait I'm noticing right now. Yes, you can create HDR videos in other ways, and I'm sure it will be more popular on other platforms soon.

Do we know what the long term implications of this are?

Was this really its best hope? I still have my fingers crossed for an Alcubierre drive using antimatter as an energy source.

Hasn’t work been done in this area recently? I remember seeing an article saying it might technically be possible with a hilariously large energy source, but I don’t know if that has been disproven.

It’s still better than nothing at all! If you can physically see the connector, that’s a huge help. For USB-A, you often had to look into the cable to figure out which way it went.

I agree that HDMI can be heads or tails based on if it’s tucked behind a TV, but sometimes I can feel enough to get it right. That was never so with the original USB.

“Default configurations of software and applications”

The fact it’s 2023 and software still doesn’t ship with secure defaults blows my mind.

OpenBSD has been pushing secure defaults for a long, long time.