Every time anyone mentions anything about an Apple vulnerability the entire comment section turns into a huge pool of cringe Dunning-Krueger-fueled, smug but provably wrong, snort-laughing neckbeard idiocy. Go to any Apple forum and look to see what they say about Android or PCs when any of the trillion monthly CVEs make waves: youâ(TM)ll be looking for a good long time because nobody cares. Youâ(TM)re fighting a war with a million people that exist only in your mind based on the .05% of Apple fans that even think for a millisecond about other ecosystems. So WHO is in a tech religion? Get the fuck over it. Jesus.

In what apartment complex does everyone share the same open WiFi network?

Most AirPlay devices donâ(TM)t have authentication anyway, so hooking your streaming audio/video device like a Apple TV up to an open network is a pretty smooth-brained move anyway.

Yeah. It couldnâ(TM)t possibly be that people use it because it generally works well and has been readily available for 15 years on products many people already have and enjoy. If you think security vulnerabilities are somehow unique to Apple, you should get a refund for your defective brain.

AirPlay != Bluetooth. Itâ(TM)s a protocol that runs on IP that lets users push video and/or audio to devices like TVs or speakers. You canâ(TM)t push audio and video to mobile devices, let alone arbitrary peripherals attached to them. It essentially works the way Bluetooth speakers and screen mirroring works, meaning the protocol has no authentication. It is intended for small home networks with standard consumer-level authentication. Connecting an Apple TV or HomePod to an open network, or not using authentication on your home WiFi network yields the expected results. That doesnâ(TM)t mean vulnerabilities should be ignored, but itâ(TM)s not like this kicks open every iPhone to unauthorized streaming audio.

Appleâ(TM)s design is done in the US. Iâ(TM)m a designer. I know people have have done design work for them. They design their stuff in the US because US industrial design is just excellentâ" we have a pipeline that makes a lot of high quality people on the border of technical and creative that are actually good at being creative. Itâ(TM)s the same reason so much entertainment is made in the US. Itâ(TM)s not immutable, but itâ(TM)s the case right now., and has been for decades.

You do realize that these tariffs affect things other than phones right? You donâ(TM)t see how these rules applied broadly could possibly affect anything other than corporate profits? Beyond that, do you REALLY think corporations, rather than the people they patronize corporations, are going to be losing most here?

For the same reason theyâ(TM)re designed in the US and most Chinese-designed phones are terrible knockoffs. Workforce specialization isnâ(TM)t a bad thing. US manufacturing being so good is pure survivorship bias. If a company was good enough at doing their thing to keep making money here, then their product must be pretty great and/or require some specialized knowledge os skill American workers have. The assumption thatâ" economics asideâ" weâ(TM)re somehow fundamentally more competent than Chinese industry is pure hubris. Thinking we can somehow use economic incentive to create anything close to what the Chinese manufacture for us rather than the tariffs just siphoning more money from US consumers straight into government pockets is magical thinking. Itâ(TM)s not like nobody ever thought of doing this before â" we just learned through astonishingly painful experience that itâ(TM)s a stupid fucking idea.

Well that depends on what problem you're trying to solve. If your infrastructure needs to catch up with your usage needs, you can't just snap your fingers and make that happen, and decreasing reliability while that happens because you want to be the cool dad is fucking stupid.

Yes, as opposed to here in the US, where utility companies routinely work to protect the privacy and anonymity of their from energy regulawhat the fuck are you talking about? I don't like Russia's authoritarianism any more than you do, but where in the world would utilities companies refuse to give usage data to government bodies tasked with regulating energy usage?

I took a picture of a poster that had saw Mickey Mouse on it. That imagery is mine now! I'm about to go make Fantasia 2025 with impunity!

It would also really ruin the mystique if people could see the specific handful of human-made items that their prompts munge to compose "their" creation. I am extremely pro--gen-AI. This technology is amazing and is changing the world for the better. It's used in tooling that I useâ" with small, purpose-built, self-trained modelsâ" to save countless hours performing tedious, menial tasks. We've already seen novel cancer research boosted by it. Don't conflate that with vacuuming up the entire creative industries' professional work to sell sad simulacra at a fraction the price.

OpenAI has been in a flat-out dash to become as closed as possible for a long while, and they're speeding upâ" not slowing down. "Open" is short for "open your wallet."

The silicon valley fanboys perched firmly on on the tip of software giants' smelly knobs have been unknowingly reinforcing the bullshit adoption of the term "open-source" as a marketing term to silence critics long enough to build a moat and charge everyone to cross it. Easy! Buy off the nerds with cheap furry hentai and fan art generators, and the promise of on-demand video game creation, buy off the marketers with cheap garbage SEO content generators, and buy off executives with low-cost, low-quality labor replacement subsidized by investors, and they'll start defending this shit like they built it themselves. Just wait for the real price tags to show up when you have to start paying for the exponentially larger amounts of electricity and data wrangling for product improvement.

Hilariously, many of the people declaring these claims fantasy for people with misplaced confidence in their technical understanding drooling at the prospect of not paying developers are, themselves, people with misplaced confidence in their understanding of art drooling at the prospect of not paying artists.