So glad to be retired from IT before all this stuff became day-to-day.

as evident by the quote "the Digital Crown -- as Apple grandly refers to the button on its Watch". The term crown has been used, for who knows how long, to refer to the knob on the side of a watch. Either the writer has no knowledge of watches, or is intentionally making Apple appear "grandiose". Yes, Apple has it's issues, but when an author slants an article, you don't know the reliability of the rest of what they have written.

I keep reading that AI will be replacing junior positions and that senior positions will still be in demand. Where will the next generation of senior developers come from? How will the develop their skills if AI is removing the junior roles?

I periodically try Duck, Duck, Go, and promptly revert to Brave. I'll try searching in DDG for the exact text of the title of an article, blog post, tech support post, etc., and it doesn't find it, even on major sites like MS. DDG always leaves me scratching my head, wondering what internet they're indexing. I'll give qwant a try and see how it fairs.

I don't know if it's US federal or state-based, but I know that in Washington State, if you contact a prior employer, they will only confirm the employment dates and position.

I'm curious about what constitutes focus on people. How close to a person is a violation? I see lots of YT videos shot in the EU with a lot of people in them. (Not trolling. Genuinely trying to understand.)

Look up prosopagnosia. I have it to a mild extent, and it can be extremely awkward socially. Having smart glasses that would show me the name of the person I'm facing would be great, but every other aspect of them is just plain creepy.

It also has twice the storage, so it's not all about the Touch Id. Everything costs money, even the Touch Id. If Apple intends to offer the cheapest laptop it can, then it does make sense. We got along just fine for a long time without biometrics. Touch Id mostly adds convenience. And, given what I've observed, people tend to use their laptops with an admin account and either no password or a simple 1234 style password.

I avoid PayPal if possible, as I'm tired of them trying to push crap at me before I can even get to why I went there in the first place. Perhaps if they allowed customers to use their product without constantly trying to advertise to them they might be more popular.

All one has to do is click on the link to the cited article immediately after the title, in this case "(pnas.org)". But, yes, linking to the article in the summary would also be good.

It seems as though our present administration wants to revert to the 50s. Trying to block wind turbines is just another example of actively fighting against progress.

Our local police department has a drone, DJI I believe. While they have used it for searching for a suspect, its primary use is SAR and supporting wildland fire suppression. It has already saved lives and helped mitigate wildland fires faster than without. We are a small rural county with a limited budget. Replacing it with a US based solution is cost prohibitive. Not replacing it could cost lives.

Given that Facebook is a sewer pit of consistently wrong and/or misleading posts, and that the FB algorithm tends to create a strong echo chamber for a user, this approach will do nothing but make the social media shit show even worse. No good will come from this.

The DJI consumer grade drones have gotten very capable. It makes me wonder if there is a growing concern within the US government that individuals can, or already are, using them to monitor government activities. After all, we can't allow anybody to watch the watchers.

So obviously, there isn't a problem.