We need a way for people to formally register they opt-out from (emergency) health care while being held responsible with all their goods for each person they infect.

I forgot to mention: I didn't find a use-case for sharing access, yet. Guests or the cleaner usually don't need to operate the more eclectic aspects of my house and the rest is either automated or has switches that at least look normal.
But I think it's good that it's there.

I have registered my "smart-devices" to my Apple-Home installation, which in turn is registered to my AppeID. That means I can control my lights (*1) etc. from each Apple devices menu bar (actually: Control Center) or I can use Siri to control them, whether at home or remotely (*2).
I can invite other peoples AppleID to control (aspects of) my Apple-Home installation, so guests or the cleaner can switch the lights / blinders. They then get an email with an invitation-link they can accept and my Apple-Home is added to their set of places they can control.

It seems that one can setup an Apple-Home with a maliciously named device and then ask people to join that Apple-Home. They would have to accept the invitation, though, but I can see some people failing for this.

(1) in my case the brain of it all is "homeassistant" on Linux exporting some components to Apple-Home.
(2) It's quite an ingenuous architecture: The router responsible to control devices is automatically elected from all Apple-Devices registered to the AppleID and can be reassigned dynamically. So if any one Apple device is at home and in reach of the "smart" devices, they can be controlled. Of course, if you have an AppleTV or HomePod, that will usually be the router, but it could be an iPad, too. The database is distributed to all devices using Apple's CloudKit and Communication is done E2E encrypted by (basically) iMessage. Very special but very nice system, it really "just works" in most cases.

> I should probably actually try this thing about before commenting on it,

I am not sure, but in a way this is an insightful comment.

(Dang, there went my mod points!)

on the blockchain, with smart contracts and quantum computers.

The plane is not crashed until the metaverse collapses.

> With covid, many countries require you to install a phone app with a backdoor to prove you're vaccinated.

And the backdoor is in the basement of a pizza parlor

“The James Webb Telescope, named after homphobe racist James Webb who ruined the careers and lifes of many gay people” is a nice line that should be used every time the JWT is mentioned until NASA properly addresses this.

I’m a big fan of the telescope and the science and I’m not even sure it should be renamed, but I don’t think that NASA did handle this point with the respect it deserves.

Do you have a proper source for this?
That’s quite a sensational story so I guess that paper must have been well cited!

I was wondering about the centripetal acceleration, too. The idea is completely nuts and I like it.
Maybe they will find an ingenious way to embed the load into (solid) propellant somehow.

112 is the European emergency number, so from next year on the UK will use 157079632679 + the number of your private health insurance contract.

All of it is factually wrong.
You are explicitly asked if you want to turn on this feature and Apple does not know who is searching for what because their protocol was not developed by some random, clueless poster on slashdot.

It’s quite nifty, actually.

> When the flare hit, the EMP hitting the earth caused damage a lot of Zip disks.

I'm old enough to remember the click of death (and all the funny sounds competing products like Syquest drives made when dying).
This is the first time I hear about it being related to sun flares - do you have any source for this idea?
I find it really hard to imagine that a sun flare can overcome the coercivity of the ferromagnetic particles in a ZIP-disk on earth.

If Trump really removed the copyright notices, and thus very obviously broke the licensing contract, isn't each transmitted graphic from the source a copyright violation that could be stopped by a DMCA takedown notice?

That sounds like a dream, is it real?
If it is real I‘d expect excellent IT security and recovery plans.

Whoever helps Sinclair fixing their systems should go to hell to admin their Windows ME for all eternity.