but ICE and troops hanging around poling stations and selectively harassing people
What's the problem?
If you're not a citizen, you aren't allowed to vote....why would you be anywhere near a polling station if not a citizen or worse....an illegal alien?
Like most companies, Apple has been ethical when it suited their interests. There's always been a slimy side there - Jobs cheated Woz before Apple even existed.
No, What Apple lost was taste.
They used to profit from producing products they'd want to use. Now they make profit-maximizing devices.
I'd argue that the OSes are starting to suffer, too. I mean, bugs are up again, but that's always been cyclic. But I feel like they're losing coherence, too. And a lot of subsystems more technical users like are rotting or being made much more difficult to work with (Gatekeeper and shell scripts, for instance). (I also find it ugly now, but that's subjective and it has has ugly iterations before, too.)
Anyway, yeah, Apple will make a ton of money for a long time to come. But I'm pretty sure it is losing its sense of taste. It might make the most popular and most profitable phone, but they aren't trying to make the phone people want anymore.
Apple under Jobs was always sleaze city... it's just that it's now the Reality Distortion Field has broken down and people are seeing through it.
Just 10 years ago, Fanboys would be defending the idea of putting ads in as revolutionary, unprecedented, imaginative and groundbreaking whilst jerking themselves silly. Now days the Apple crowd are 40 yr old dads in socks and sandals (and not the fashionable style of hippy, no this is Derek from Accounts Receivable socks and sandals) that has too many kids so no MX-5. I remember when
Apple's always been a cult, hence the tolerance of sleeze but it's not the cool cult that Tom Cruise joins, it's the cult that your boring dad joins.
I am a 40 something, but have a 2 seater sports car and no Apple devices (hence I can afford the "kid free" ride).
Ah, yes. The old "there's totally evidence to back up my statements, I just can't be bothered to give you enough details to find the evidence" routine.
The only instance that some googling shows up is the same one linked to in the summary of this story -- namely, that 404 Media worked with a "rare bookseller" (who they won't name) to put an airtag inside one of the books (which they won't name) in a shipment of 1000 books.
I mentioned this to the other guy but yeah they were destroying rare books. A rare book seller caught them by sneaking an Apple Air tag into one of his books that he shipped to them.
There's rare and then there's "rare." From what I've seen, the people involved have declined to say what the books involved were. About the only reason I can think of to hide that is because they know that people won't be as outraged when they find out what the "rare" books actually are. However, it was a bulk lot of something like 1,000 books, so it's a pretty safe bet that they weren't exactly valuable.
The 1973 manual for a toaster that I found in my grandfather's attic is certainly rare, but we're not losing anything if Amazon feeds it to their AI machine.
Most budget phones you are used to buying are subsidized, either by your carrier, by the bundled crapplets, or both
Except that Motorola sells a huge range of phones with costs varying by more than a factor of 5, all with identical Android images and unlocked. The only difference is the hardware specs. The only possible way these phones are subsidized in a way the flagships aren't is if Motorola thinks of the entry-levels as a way to get customers "hooked" on the brand and start paying for the more expensive (and presumably higher-margin) flagships.
I have a Motorola Edge 60 Neo, it was a reasonably cheap phone at £300 when it was relatively new (I think it's around £250 now. I'm yet to find all that bundled crapware the GP speaks of... hell it didn't even come with Facebook. I've gone and disabled all the AI stuff so it's now a decent phone with quite good hardware for the 300 quid category.
I bought my mum a G56 and it was largely the same story, except no AI as that was an older and even cheaper model (about £150). She loved it as it weighed half as much as the ancient Samsung she was lugging around.
I'm not particularly brand loyal though, I previously bought Nokias (HMD Global) but nothing they make is remotely good any more.
What people forget is that hardware isn't particularly expensive when you're buying it in bulk, especially before the recent RAMAGEDDON (which makes the full 8GB in my 60 Neo even more amazing). So production of cheap and mid range phones isn't that expensive especially when you're not customising the software to the Nth degree to preserve your brand. Margins are probably razr thin on a sub £400 phone but they're not being sold as loss leaders in the hopes of selling £800 phones to people who want £200 phones... You deserve to go out of business if you think that'll happen.
This is *within Canada*, you dimwitted pillock. The Canadian government doesn't require Netflix to broadcast Canadian content or French-Canadian language *in the US*, but the US government is trying to get Canada to change the rules for *within Canada*.
Canada is not projecting soft power within Canada.
The softest thing round here is whatever you call the mush between your ears. Soft yet pompous. What an absolute bell-end.
And this is just how much power the US has lost due to the Republicans. 25 years ago, just after Clinton the idea that you'd say no to the US was absolutely unthinkable for a nation like Canada, Australia, Mexico, et al. anyone who was an ally of the west. The US used to literally put laws on the books of foreign countries via trade treaties, even the EU wasn't powerful enough to give an outright "no". This is how US drug laws and US copyright laws became "international". I watched it happen to Australia in the 90s and early 2000s but then the US elected Bush and that power began to wane. The Australian and UK prime ministers followed Bush into Iraq with tails wagging like the sycophantic little lap dogs they were. This was when the US started losing it's power because it became embroiled in a war it couldn't win despite Bush declaring it won (TBF he didn't do it 17 times).
Now Bush, to his credit, what little there is didn't abuse this power too much but countries were finding the new copyright laws to be... well, frankly retarded as the MPIAA tried to do speculative invoicing in Australia and constantly running up against judges who would actually apply the laws fairly and justly (you know, "activist" judges as they like to call them). This was the late 00s. Obama came in and realised he'd have to start negotiating because the power the US had lessened. Started building up good will. Then you had Trump that pissed all that away... the Republicans kept doing damage as best they could through Biden and now you've got Trump 2, you've got nations that were once willing lapdogs telling you to go do one.
The Canadians, one of the, if not the nicest nations on the planet is telling you to fuck right off... if a British politician had done this we'd have quietly shuffled him off to the Svalbard consulate with an Apology to the Norwegians made on a copious quantity British vodka so that the worst he could do is offend Pingu.
This was widely criticised as an incredible atrocity and recognised as one of the darkest moments in American history. The fact of the matter is people are using this dark period of the past to excuse the acts of the present is a major issue which just shows that America has learned nothing.
American history is filled with such moments, trail of tears, Wounded Knee, et al. up to Mai Lai.
Kiwi history only has a few smudges in comparison.
Covering up such crimes is as American as selling beads to natives and then force marching them.
Notarization is Apple's strict code signing process, which makes it hard for non paying and anonymous developers to distribute third party Mac software. Linux lets you run unsigned software without compromise.
Thanks for the definition.
So far, I've not run into a problem with this....
And with specific regard to my local AI and OpenClaw experiments and tools required for that....haven't run into a problem at all yet.
So, not a barrier of merit.
Especially with AI and ARM64 server development. Having to go through brew, containers and Apple's notarization process makes MacOS not a serious platform compared to bare metal Linux. In a twist of fate it is MacOS that is not ready for the AI desktop. Asahi is stuck on M1 and M2 so can't help you with M6 Macs.
Err...actually, OSX, so far in my experience is quite adapted to local AI.
Brew? What's wrong with that...pretty much the equivalent of of apt-get on some Linux installs, or whatever package manager you use there...
Docker is easy to run on Mac...actually it seems to give a bit more isolation they way it works on Mac...but set up is a breeze and while containerization is not required to run AI or OpenClaw on a Mac, it IS a good idea for security reasons to do so....Mac or Linux!!
Not familiar with any 'notarization" on my Mac set up, please explain?
OH...and running stuff on ollama, you get to take advantage of of the MLX framework for running local AI models....really speeds things along....
So, not quite sure why you are trying to say Macs aren't good for AI work....they actually are quite good for it AND I guess a bit more plug and play to get things set up and running.
And with any platform the more secure you make it, well that adds complexity, but it's worth it....I'd not want to turn OpenClaw or the like free on any platform without guard rails....
Ancient Rome made amazing aqueducts. One day they had built all the ones they really needed and with no new projects for a new generation to learn from, they quickly just forgot how to make aqueducts.
"Big Tech" is now entering this phase. In a generation all innovation will be gone.
900$ for a base model with 256GB SSD is pathetic.
"[Racism] is right twice per day" is the phrase that comes to mind.
Racism....where does that come into play with this?
I don't see anywhere where any specific race was targeted or any restrictions were based on skin color, creed or sex, etc.....it just says that H1B (which could be anyone in the world) would be more $$ to bring into the US.
You're really reaching on this one.
If I'm mistaken PLEASE cite and point out where this is meaded out by race in the exec order or rule....
The money is already earmarked to go to funding ICE and enforcement. Which, well, I'm not even sure how to word what that vibe is.
Hmm...how about:
Amazing!!
Fantastic!!
About fucking time...
Getting what I voted for...
Were you looking for something along those lines?
Can't wait to see the comments on this one!
H-1B abuse is Huge in the tech sector and traditionally lamented here. But on the other hand, Trump is the one doing the fixing.
Should be interesting to see how those displaced by H1B workers in the past try to justify more cheap H1B workers
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha.... You think Trump is fixing this?
Nope, as per usual this will be ignored if you make a generous tithe... erm... donation... erm... gratuity in advance to the Trumpublican party.
It's a law that won't ever be enforced... unless you're a company the tangerine thundercunt doesn't like.
The end game is not to protect US workers, but strip what few rights they have down so that they're as cheap as the Indian workers.
"Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth." -- Milton
