I'd like to know how much of that price drop is now supported by increasing ads and ACR served up by these TVs. And how prices might be affected if actions like those in Texas and elsewhere expand.

Some version of this title/question has shown up about every year for decades. What's changed? The distributed organization of the open source community is quite intentionally the opposite of a single, structured company. Without such a single, focused vision of what the desktop should be, across the whole community, which would most likely be at odds with many of its constituents, this is not likely to happen.

Exactly. I've got order receipts back to 2005, including a wind-up Bender, a Piet Hein supercube in the form of a drink cooler (extra points for knowing about this from an ancient Martin Gardener column), one of the first RFID-proof wallets, and a lot of t-shirts.

The Verge's analysis makes a good case for why Santa's behind schedule: he's relying on Copilot.

The rebuttal first says:

then:

Spoken like a true group loyalist.

Isaac Azimov predicted lying, even under his 3 laws, but the result of challenging the lie was much more interesting: catastrophic failure; though not as spectacular as Nomad's. So no, no big surprises here.

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.