I doubt this. After all, you can download all the source code to the MacOS XNU kernel too, edit it, recompile it, and install it on your Mac. I think it's just that Apple has a lot better things to do with their engineer's time, especially when it comes to making money, than trying to get this to work and getting the documentation to widespread-distribution levels of quality.

I think COVID deaths in the US are probably under-counted. There are a lot of people desperate to have anything other than COVID listed on their death certificate. There are people who die of "heart attacks" or "kidney failure" which are actually affects of COVID. And that's not even counting people who are currently dying of otherwise survivable factors but can't get a hospital bed, or people who will die of preventable diseases in the coming years except they couldn't get screening now due to capacity. The "excess deaths" for 2020 were higher than the cited COVID deaths, and the age expectancy dropped by the most since World War 2.

And that also doesn't even address the people who will have permanent or long-term disabilities with smell, taste, endurance, lung capacity, heart and kidney function, and so on.

  All the data shows the official counts to be conservative. But they seem to be at least in the right ballpark, despite the right-wing trying to make it political.

The R value on any given day isnâ(TM)t indicative of what it will be tomorrow. A superspreader event among a less-vaccinated cohort could still easily happen and send the R value back up above 1. That R value is the sum of all the effects including people still observing mask wearing rules and distancing. Thereâ(TM)s no reason to believe that will stay at the same level. There is indeed good reason for hope, but âoeif we do nothing it will disappearâ is not a good analysis when the R value is still so close to 1.

If you want to browse web pages, use a web browser. If you want to build an app, build an App. All those browser limitations are a feature, not a bug, to most iOS users.

"I am not an entertainer."

LOL.

If Richard Stallman wants to do the academic work to receive that honor, he should do so. Otherwise, yeah, he's basically just bought a title. Why not just buy one of those 1m^2 plots of a castle and call himself Lord Doctor Stallman, too? Or one of those certificates where you get a Star named after you and call himself Star Lord Doctor Stallman? It's about as meaningful.

No, he hasn't earned a title of Doctor in an accredited program from a University, but whatever. It's entertainment, and he's an entertainer.

Part of the problem with digital vs human facial recognition is the set of faces being compared against. In this case, he was matched to his drivers license photo. Will a human really go through the database of all drivers license photos in the entire state and claim to pick a match? Of course not. There are aspects of this that are unique to the scale, methodologies, and obtuse nature of technological systems.

It is the other way around. A version release is tied to the disclosure. As of this past December, you cannot release a new version of your app unless you have done the disclosure, so Googles apps are stuck at their previous update until they do so.

I think for Apple it is not just about money but also about control. They really hated that Qualcomm had them over a barrel, and no matter what they did, they had to pay the same percentage to Qualcomm. (Add better screens and processors and memory and charge more? Qualcomm gets more money for the modem chip.) And the courts bizarrely said that it was all FRAND.

So Apple basically wants to create their own integrated CPU and modem, and not have Qualcomm be able to dictate any terms, financial or technological.

Thus, they need patents. Enough patents embedded into 6G that the mutual patent licensing deal will be on even terms and Qualcomm cannot implement it without them, either.

Google is still trying to figure out how much they can get away with without seeming as evil as Facebook. They haven't even updated their apps on iOS since Apple required them to disclose what information they're collecting on their users, so obviously they have a lot to hide.

It's basically about informed consent. If you believe Facebook and Google should be allowed to track you and take all your data to sell to the highest bidder without telling you, you're on Facebook/Google's side. If you think users should be informed and have the choice to disable it, you're on Apple's side. If you don't care about privacy either way, you're eating popcorn on the sidelines like the parent poster.

Simple solution: Apple should stop selling iPhones to anyone in North Dakota, instead of inflicting the shovelware and malware on the rest of the world.

The current M1 Macs, it should be noted, are the entry level, absolutely minimum-spec Macs. Apple still sells Intel laptops and desktops at the higher-end for this generation. I think Intel wants to create the conventional wisdom that M1 is slow/inferior while they have any leg to stand on. The fact that weâ(TM)re even debating about comparing a minimum spec, feather weight laptop that gets two working days of battery life against an i7 is telling.

You can already opt out of tracking for Apple ads by turning off "Personalized Ads" in Settings. You can also view at any time all the information Apple Ads uses to target ads to you in that same settings panel.

And this new feature doesn't automatically limit tracking, it just tells the user it will be happening, and gives them a choice to opt out. People can still choose to be tracked.

Even if you tested positive for COVID, the vaccine appears to induce a much broader spectrum and robust immune response. Both the Brazilian and South African variants appear to be able to easily re-infect and get sick those who got the virus naturally, but rarely those who were immunized. There is some debate whether you only need 1 dose instead of 2, but no debate about whether you should still be immunized.

And the lighter the case of COVID you had (it sounds like the parent poster got a very mild case) the fewer and shorter-lived the antibodies.

And at this point, tens of millions of doses have been given, so the âoeuntestedâ argument grows weaker by the day.

We are a net exporter of refined petroleum products. But we are a net importer of crude oil. That trend has been going on since long before Trump joined. The only big change he made was to allow the US to export crude oil more freely and not just refined products, taking away American jobs, but improving our import/export ratios without having to build more refineries.

So no, the US did not reach energy independence under Trump, but the energy situation did continue to improve at the rate it had been, so he didnâ(TM)t screw it up either.

According to this site, at around 500km a satellite might be expected to deorbit naturally in a decade. https://www.spaceacademy.net.a...