Why do you fear that? That's exactly what I want! Everything is already too cloud-connected, and AI is increasing that dependency. We are on course to a world where every application needs full-time internet connectivity. Moving AI out of the cloud rental space and onto the end-user is exactly what we need to prevent that.

What are you talking about with the foreign credentials thing? I am an American who works with a great many immigrants whose degrees are from outside the US: off the top of my head: China, Canada, Ireland, England, Iran, India, Netherlands, and Germany. Mostly India and China.

Based on what evidence? Faith in Musk?

Over one billion miles driven using FSD.

Looking that that graph is should be obvious where it is going, and how soon.

The last I heard about the taxi idea, they mentioned they were considering letting people send out their cars as taxis when not in use, and thus owning a Tesla could actually make you money.

That does depend on true self driving to work but it seems like they are pretty close now.

A fact which renders these trackers completely useless as anti-theft devices

Not really, even if a thief is alerted something is being tracked if they can't find the tracker they will throw out the object they stole... which you can then recover. and also potentially get video evidence from around where it was dumped to ID the thief if they still have something from your backpack...

I have a hidden compartment in my backpack where I often put cash so I very much would be happy to recover even just the empty backpack without contents.

Or if you had an AirTag hidden in a car they might just ditch the car rather than take it to a chop shop, and you can at least find where it was ditched.

Also did you forget "unintentional theft" exists, where for example an airline rather than flying your bags to your destination, takes them elsewhere... and when that happens sometimes they have no clue where the bags are. If you have a tracker, you can tell them what city and facility your bags are in, and even play a sound to help locate them.

AirTags (and the new Android form) are incredibly useful even with tracking detection abilities, you are really missing out on this super cheap insurance and recovery aid.

Got it, thanks - good to know!

I guess since it considers it an "unknown tracker" it would only warn you about it, not feed back to Apple information about that AirTag location.

Didn't see this mentioned in the summary, when support for this launches does this mean Android will also warn you if an AirTag is tracking you? Which would mean it helps with the recognition network being larger for both tracking devices.

Or has Android already supported detecting AirTags tracking?

There is a famous investment quote that goes "the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent".

If you join in the pack shorting something like this, you open yourself up to the possibility some kind of irrational buying flood comes in and wipes you out.

Remember that these days very few stocks are actually priced according to value, so it doesn't seem like a Trump based stock would be any exception.

I bought an AirPods Pro, received a *case* instead.

Returned by Amazon denied my return since I didn't send back what I had ordered.

Tried to reverse the charge on my Amazon credit card, Amazon denied it and refused to reverse the charge.

So I was just out of luck on that one. However since then I buy pretty much anywhere but Amazon if at all possible, even if I pay more. And I cancelled Prime. In the end I guess it was a cheap way to learn the lesson you cannot trust Amazon in any way.

Isn't Google the #1 company you are trying to keep your information away from? It makes no sense to use a VPN made by companies like Google or Meta!

Next you will tell me that I should use PutinVPN when I talk about Russian oligarchs and PRCVPN to discuss my thoughts on China and Taiwan.

It'd be like a FOREX trader moving ~$2.25B USD.
Unsure if the impact on FOREX would be as pronounced as it was on BTC, but I bet it'd be something

Only 3 billion USD? Not even a quiver of movement.

Total M2 money supply - 20,783 billion

National debt? Rising at 1 trillion every 100 days, or 100 billion per day.

With so many dollars sloshing around you'd have to go into serious numbers to even have it be felt.

No, no. Nothing needs to be sent back to the servers. That doesn't mean it won't be.

It does if Apple says it does, because they actually have a track record of stuff not going back to servers if you don't want it to.

If they say they aren't collecting your data? They're lying.

Maybe you are incapable of running a traffic proxy to verify but many are not. Apple does keep their word on this.

Even Apple couldn't make the Smart Home concept "just work", which told me all I needed to know about the reliability of other similar systems.

So I've stayed away (except for a few security cams) until I can see a solidly working concept in action, that stays working... holding out hope for Matter in this regard.

René Descartes wrote about this concept in 1641. He theorized that all that he sees, hears, and feels could really be controlled by a great deceiver. It is what leads him to the conclusion "I think, therefore I am."

That's impossible because the theory that we are in a simulation is nonfalsifiable.

For any test result, one can simply say "That is how the simulation is programmed." The only thing available is to do the opposite: prove that we are in a simulation. That probably involves breaking out of it somehow - which would be really awesome, but unlikely. As soon as it happened, the creators would just rewind it and patch the bug.