Ah, live in Colorado too? Seriously there were something like 14 props/amendments on the ballot this year, most of which were insane right wing copypasta that some megadonor group apparently pushes every year in every state with direct ballot initiatives. The couple that were specific to our state were switching from flat tax to income tax (and a tax cut for everyone making less than $250000) as well as another right wing one to trick people into undoing the income tax change.

Funnily enough, both polling data and personal anecdotes I've heard are showing that more Americans already think the economy is doing better! CBS Source. It's inane to hear particularly small business owners I personally know say that Trump winning the election has directly resulted in their sales going up. The same small business owners that have never been able to plan ahead for ups and downs in the sales cycles and always seem to be getting by on the skin of their teeth. Some who went into debt for personal luxuries during a good month and then complain about how terrible the economy is (and how it's the government's fault) when they can't afford all their bills during a slow month.

It's not about senility. It's about the fact that if you're approaching the end of your life, you simply don't have the same motivations to make better choices for the future. You're not saving money anymore, you're spending it. You're not concerned with what the world will look like in 20 years based on geopolitical or resource management decisions.

That won't work here. Unsigned and non-notarized executables are prevented from running by Gatekeeper regardless of whether or not there's a quarantine attribute. That's a totally separate protection. Removing the quarantine attribute simply bypasses the prompt to ensure you want to run an executable downloaded from the internet.

I think you just described the fight over climate change policy.

There are no moderates in the GOP. GOP primary voters are so rabid and drunk on far-right propaganda that any of the "most moderate" GOP congressmen would lose in a primary challenge. Fox News and other right-wing talk show channels would blast any congressman who signed onto the discharge petition for "giving in" to "Joe Biden's communist take-your-money-and-spend-it-on-drag-queen-shows spending plan."

Hah. I have 9 cars. Most of them are worth under $3000. Most of them were purchased for $1-2000. I collect rare old Japanese cars. There's not a large market for them so they're not worth particularly much but they have sentimental value. I also have a couple beat up track cars that we run on a dirt track. My newest, "nicest" vehicle is a 2010 Subaru Outback that I bought from the totaled cars auction for around $3000 and fixed up. I'd hardly describe myself as living in the lap of luxury just based on the number of vehicles I own.

Apparently it's not just small startups. My employer, a fairly large tech company owned by private equity, apparently did a lot of banking with SVB. To the point that our CEO has been sending out updates every few hours regarding the financial situation, along with press releases and customer communication. They felt it necessary to maintain employee confidence in particular that our paychecks are still coming and we have "plenty" of cash for operating expenses.

FYI, If it was a business-managed laptop, then Activation Lock can be bypassed by the IT department of the company. example. It's the responsibility of the recycling company buying the bulk devices from the business to not pay for them without ensuring that they have been given the appropriate bypass code or credentials necessary to disable the activation lock. My company actually provides software/tools to electronics recyclers and we developed a tool specifically to mass scan iPhones and iPads and produce a report of which are activation locked.

The Hunter Biden laptop story was blanket banned because it was in a similar vein and being promoted by people who were already spreading other lies and conspiracy theories. There was a pretty credible belief that this particular story was political propaganda being planted into our media by a foreign government. For what it’s worth, I think all the platforms have admitted they jump on banning it too quickly because there was some legitimate journalistic interest in investigating the story. The problem of course is that dishonest actors on the right want to use the true statement “Hunter Biden had a laptop” alongside the unproven/false statements “his laptop was filled with child porn and records of bribes from Ukraine to the Biden administration” and then act like both statements are equal.

Reply to undo accidental mod. I’m sorry to hear about your friend’s experiences.

This breaks my heart. I own a Subaru SVX which is a fairly rare early 90s Japanese sports car that's not considered very collectible, despite it being a very unique and interesting car. It seems like every week another barn find example gets parted out and crushed because it's easier to make a buck off it that way than actually cleaning up and maintaining the car.

Heh you have no idea how true this is. In fact we often buy a car worth $5k and add $50k worth of modification. And if you then tried to sell the car as it sits you’d be lucky to get $10k. When someone gets tired of their modded car and wants to sell it, they usually pay a shop to take off the parts and “return to stock” so they can sell the parts and the car separately.

This is a blatantly false attention-grabbing headline. Apple Silicon Macs are in fact designed to run other OSes besides Apple’s in as secure a manner as possible. Asahi Linux’s own documentation calls out “Open to other OSes” as a design goal of the AS Macs. The boot process intentionally includes support for alternate software to an extent that’s frankly quite novel for an Apple product. This isn’t just the product of a single engineering building in back-doors or the Herculean reverse-engineering efforts of the OSS community. Product design decisions are being made with community support in mind. Part of the reason Asahi has been able to get off the ground so quickly is that to some extent there’s a path set up for other developers to follow. Could the documentation be better? Yes of course, it’s Apple (their documentation usually sucks). However right from the beginning, its been cool to see Apple engineers giving presentations about the new platform, how it works and how you can build software on top of it. Apple Silicon is in my mind a case study on how you can build a platform that’s both extremely secure but also extensible and open!

Gavin was one of the founders. He was booted out for his White Supremacist BS.