So, is this incoming mess one of the not-yet-announced reasons that Goldman has been recently trying to drop Apple's credit card, and Apple's been looking for another suitor, along with previously disclosed problems with actually making a credit card business out of this? In other words, did Goldman see this coming and tried to exit from the deal in hopes of avoiding it?

If theyâ(TM)re relying on those health reports for this, as it seems they are, then I donâ(TM)t trust this. I have a fair number of sites that are on separate domains yet use single logons. E.g., a health insurance provider and its captive pharmacy. My password manager complains about these, but itâ(TM)s as designed. It also happens following mergers, while the old site is still supported.

So Meta's opposite of Apple would be... that their stuff doesn't work.

This has always been true. I check the temperature ranges of my meds, and both summer and winter temperature extremes have been beyond the ranges of many, for many years; not something new or recent. And then there's the potential for mailbox theft, mail delays, and misdeliveries for potentially critical meds. Yet my medical insurance companies have continued to nag me incessantly to switch to their mail-order pharmacy. They use phrases like "might save you money". I checked; most local pharmacies here are in-network and still lower under their own plans. It's really to keep themselves the cut that they pay to the local pharmacy; note that they could have used this cut to undercut the local pharmacy's pricing, but they don't. It's just for themselves. So my answer has always been thanks, but no thanks.

Oh, wait...

Using DDT on a PDP-10, a debugger that ran directly in the address space of the subject program, I always had the sensation that I was "inside" the machine. I've never gotten that from ICE or IDE-based systems. It made patching on-the-fly more exciting, too.

There was a PDP-10 program that would accept a music notation and "play" the resulting music on such a radio. It could also print player piano rolls on a plotter, taking paper thickness into account (though one required some skill with an Xacto knife to cut out the holes...).

I initially read this as "The Mystery of an (Alleged Data Broker)'s Data Breach.

Yes, in the past, I resorted to Keychain's secure notes when Keychain deleted my password comments. I used them for things like recovery info Q&A. But then, it was an extra step to get to them, and they're still not available on an iPhone. Today's Passwords in Settings at least resolves my main use case, but like you, I still use secure notes for other things.

Passwords are not "currently only accessible via a menu in Settings". Today, they're still available in the Keychain app (even the ones that Settings puts there, if you wade through the relatively new metadata entries that it creates), and some things are still only accessible from there. But there's a lot of stuff in Keychain that regular users should probably not fiddle with, so the relatively new Passwords section in Settings has been great, if somewhat limited. And I don't miss Keychain's knack of deleting my comments associated with a password, which it used to do with ruthless vengeance. I suppose that even if the Keychain app gets removed, there might still be CLI access.

Lots of tech-related reasons speculated here so far. While many of those seem valid, to me, it's much simpler than any of those. From here:

Imagine that those companies had web sites, Facebook, etc. pages. Stuff like that, things that become obsolete quickly, is going to explain a lot of that churn. And that's just companies.

At least one comment mentioned Wikipedia. What does it mean to say that one of its pages is no longer there if the entire editing history is retained? It's simply moved.

I may not be entirely up on all the issues with sudo, but when someone tries to offer me a better security solution, and then tacks on "is more fun to use than sudo", i.e., "it will tint your terminal background", then I'm done. "It's a dessert topping! No, it's a floor wax!". Specifically, I may have my terminal set up with my own color scheme, and I don't want it messed with by a bunch of system utilities. And anything in there that's not directly related to its security function just adds more code to worry about.

We keep reading about high pressure on the nation's grid, its security issues, etc., and have for some time. So it would be good to know how much of this upgrade is really stuff that should be (should have been?) done by now regardless, and how much is specifically in support of EVs. Many reports I've read suggest that just dealing with the non-EV part would likely require major grid changes, if not wholesale replacement over time.

I wasn't in the path of totality, and overcast skies prevented any hope of a partiality view. So what'd I do? I streamed from services that were showing the eclipse live. exploratorium.edu's Texas viewing site was also overcast at the big moment, but other services worked.

Ah yes, reminds me of this episode in which Polly tries to indicate to Basil in front of the guests that the chef for the Big Night (another dinner disaster) is drunk by accentuating a long list of such terms.

Exactly. It's only unthinkable because they had no imagination. How long has it been since a battle situation first depended on GPS, or even that it would one day depend on GPS, or that civilian society would become so highly dependent on GPS? Plenty long enough to realize the implications of losing it through a (GPS) arms race and plan to do something about it.