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Library of Congress, or local National/State libraries with legal/mandatory deposit requirements of publishers? No? The requirement is clearly there for publishers in Australia, at least https://ned.gov.au/resources/l...

Except you notice how he doesn't mention anything about how it addresses security concerns, because it doesn't. The type of USB C cables he's talking about are typically actually USB devices small enough to go inside the cable, or the connector. Nothing stopping you from buying a licensed MFi cable and doing surgery. Because that's not what MFi is about, and it's *normal* to have a USB cable plugged into a USB device, so what's it going to do? There's no special security sauce here.

The power thing is a red herring too, ignoring the fact that millions if not billions of devices are using the connector, that USB-C has an e-mark standard for high current capacity cables, or that if you're really worried you just buy cables that are USB-IF certified. https://www.usb.org/products/

Unless you're saying that power isolation on Apple products is so glaringly inferior to every other manufacturer that they require care beyond the actual specification (and by that I mean the industry one, not the corporate one).

I am genuinely uncertain how you think Apple faces, or rather addressee issues that are unique to it, it alone, and the solution is, conveniently, a licensing and certification regime to gatekeep the lucrative accessory market. I mean, I don't like to assume malice, buuuut... Just saying. That's some dope kool-aid you got going there.

So, I'm a bit of snark, my family is scottish and i grew up in Australia. It's hard to keep it in check. It also pains me to see people state grossly inaccurate things with such confidence, but I'll assume misunderstanding or misinformation rather than any ill intent. Please forgive the abrasive tone.

Oops, I just looked at the CUPS.org website, and can no longer blame you for believing the Apple marketing shills. *sigh* But please, just assume that Apple is pretty much always lying to you if they're telling you how wonderful they are about anything. They are, first and foremost, a product marketing company, and have been for a very long time.

Executive summary

1. Apple didn't invent CUPS, and didn't even hire the main developer until 2007. They didn't invent it, they don't own IPP in any way shape or form. CUPS is the defacto Unixy printer management system. Here's a link to the people that do try and manage that standard https://www.pwg.org//
2. Bonjour is an implementation of service discovery proposed by some other guys, that is based on the same method Microsoft went with, more or less. The draft RFC's from both companies came out in the same year, and there was *no reason* to expect them to interoperate.

Keep in mind names like AirPrint and (I assume) mopria are trademarks You see this with TV's and HDMI-CEC where each brand implements a standard, and brands it their own for marketing purposes (VieraLink etc).

In the case of Apple though, it's a certification thing that can be used to manage quality control or third parties, or gatekeep access to their customers. I bet most of Morpia is the print companies specifying a common set of features of the current (or new/upcoming) standard (IPP), and harmonizing the implementation of those features (many things in standards are open to interpretation, or alternative implementations).

Airprint (basically service discovery and configuration management?) serves Apple, wanting a feature for their ecosystem, control of the user experience, and an implicit "you should get a printer that supports airprint so it all just works" so they can charge certification and licensing to third parties.

More in depth. But seriously, it would take a full on book to just skim over the highlights of PC printing over the past 30+ years. But yeah. Apple invented nothing we currently use today that isn't a trademark of theirs for ecosystem control (and QC, but honestly, mostly control)

Read these.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUPS/ which predates OS X, (beta 1999, added to OS X 2002, main developer only hired in 2007). It handles printers and print queues, communicates via IPP, which was never Apples to open in the first place.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-configuration_networking/

  Please just read the article, it's not as long as it looks to get the gist of it. Bonjour is an implementation of a service discovery technique described by some other people. No shade on Apple for doing that, but they didn't invent the idea, nor even implement it *first*. Microsoft uses the same methods for service discovery, described in a different RFC. If you want to start dick waving, here are respective draft RFC's from both

  • https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-dnsext-mdns-00/ Microsoft and
  • https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-cheshire-dnsext-multicastdns-00/ Apple.

  Plus, you know NetBIOS. I will take this time to emphasize to the youngsters how much of a bit player Apple was in most sectors of the PC market. Beyond that, Apple was (and lets be real here, still is) the king of ecosystem lock-in. Where your RCS interop at, Apple? (or hell, MMS or 3G video calls on the original iPhone). If it's not a "special" Apple feature, it's probably not something Apple wants to support, unless they really had to, or it saves them a lot or money. Like. Billions.

You'd have to be *nuts* to try bringing any Apple standard to another platform and expect it to turn out well.

Normally I'm telling people not to ascribe malice to companies where it's often just stupidity, parochialism, or Silicon Valley bubble crap. You definitely need to stop taking Apples word on more or less anything though. All this stuff is well documented, and well known. There's wikipedia, there's mailing list archives going back to the time for all this, and it's just so annoying. Argh!

Yeah, kids.. Shut up and get off my lawn already. :-P

They are PLANNING to drop their coal reliance in 12+ years. However, they have not dealt with issues on AE. In the last 12 years, they have gone from 4.8% wind/PV to a whopping 8%. And hydro only provides 2% of their energy. That means that currently, 10% of their energy is clean. All the rest is FF.

You need to be careful when looking up and talking about this. Those figures sound like energy consumption.

In terms of electricity generation (which is typically what we're talking about when we talk about coal, in particular).

In 2021, 29% of Australiaâ(TM)s total electricity generation was from renewable energy sources, including solar (12%), wind (10%) and hydro (6%).

https://www.energy.gov.au/data/renewables

The South Australian grid where the Telsa battery is (which is separate to the East Coast and West Coast grids) is almost 70% renewables.

And for those following along at home, the Telsa battery is over 7 years old. I can't find any hard figures on capacity drop, but these types of installations are typically run on a much kinder duty cycle than typical appliance or even EV. which greatly extends their life.

You want to keep them in the sweet spot of charged capacity as much as possible. Take a look at the DoD table here https://batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-808-how-to-prolong-lithium-based-batteries but even that's a simplification.

Honestly, while chemical batteries are great for load management, I expect/hope we'll see more pumped hydro for bulk storage. It's already being used in some disconnected situations in WA https://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/McGowan/2022/12/Celebrations-over-WAs-first-pumped-hydro-solution.aspx

I would have thought the right would be thrilled with this, too. Less call for abortions (not that anyone wouldn't be thrilled at fewer abortions but since that particular procedure seems more important to some than the actual lives of real, fully formed people...)

Because if you grew up in a foreign country and find out about the US's insane tax regime, you need to find a few grand to find an accountant that can get you up to date with the IRS, then pay the US$2350 fee at the consulate to actually renounce your citizenship, whenever you can manage a booking.

Stuck in there is the shitshow that is tyring to get your SSN if you're all grown up, never lived in the states after you were a toddler, etc. I ended up having to fecking *fly to the phillipenes* (closest social security office) to get mine, after around 5 attempts at the local consulate (each with a multimonth round trip time)

So.. yeah. I'd love to have given up my citizenship earlier, but they really don't make it easy, either.

And if you're too poor? Hah. Screw you harder then. We hates them poor people.

(You can do it without all the IRS stuff, but they could still come after you, and it would make visiting or sending gifts to family members there a pain in the ass, to say the least)

Or.. the US could follow the global model and not be an entitled shit.

The problem with this scene is that mountain view prices are, if anything a tad higher than SF, and the young workforce would just rather not live in the middle of the concrete wasteland that is the Silicon Valley urban nightmare.

There's more to SF's housing issues than tech companies. Like the Californian property tax situation, etc. Unfortunately those issues are ones the people complaining would actually be able to make changes to, if they put in some effort and, more problematically, thought. Which would get in the way of whining.

Oops, by non u2f I meant non u2f *only* keys. All current yubikeys support u2f I think. The u2f only ones are just cheaper, and don't support any other form of OTP or smartcard functionality.

The more common profile used these days is FIDO U2F, which has individual keys for each service, and doesn't involve Yubico.

https://www.yubico.com/solutio...

You can also run run your own Yubikey server for the other profile, you can download it from their website. It's basically a FreeRADIUS setup from my vague recollection (could be wrong).

The fancier (non u2f) yubikeys also act as smart cards, so you can install your own X509 cert and/or GPG key on them as well (in addition to the two OTP profiles, and FIDO U2F profile). Not sure if TOTP is supported, since they don't have a battery for the time. But that's plenty of on-card secure options for you.

As I said, most web sites will be using the U2F profile, since it's a standard, works with multiple security key vendors and has web browser support.

I dunno. Maybe you publish the methods you used to train your models, mention which data sets you trained it on. So other researchers can, maybe, I dunno. Reproduce your work?

Sort of like you're meant to be able to do in a scientific paper.

-David

Look at the dashboard.

ICS is 0.3% of current devices checking in. Gingerbread is 0.2%

Half a percentage point is a very very small number, and I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of those were emulators, at that.

I wouldn't worry about Android 5+ just yet, as one poster was. Lamentably, 5.0 still has 3.5% of the market, 5.1 over 14%.

https://developer.android.com/...

These comments always amuse me.

Trust me, if Google was the evil you think they are, they'd be doing a much better job of it. They're not nearly that incompetent. (No, seriously. If Google was trying to be evil you'd be way more screwed and not even realise it, but this applies to most large corporations.. There are only a few I'd class as truly evil, Google isn't even close to getting on that list. Naive, narrow sighted, culturally tone deaf, sure)

Actually SRE's do.