Pretty sure he means the rails the solar panels are fixed to. That part does not seem automated. Also, this is really stupid in that we are covering farm fields with solar? Why not industrial and distribution rooftops and parking lots? Fuck I would even settle for partial cover of roads and freeways. There is no need to ruin nature like this. We are taking fields which have high productivity with photosynthesis and converting them into low albedo solar arrays, when we could be turning roads and rooftops and parking lots which already have low albedo and making them cooler and nicer with some shade. This is absolutely stupid.

Upstream Debian has the same thing in at least one of their primary terminal apps.

I highly doubt this has to do with recent features. It more likely has to do with Mac shipping the BSD version of awk, rather than the GNU version.

"For those of you still grandfathered in with local accounts, this will be your future too, before long."

No, it won't. I use Pro edition.

Windows peaked with 2000. It most definitely does NOT get better over time.

Issue is overblown. It's essentially limited to things like Actions that aren't their core offering, but a way to drive Azure revenue. If your automated code checks and PR notifications are delayed by a couple hours, it's rarely that big of an impact. In addition, finding a slice of time with 90% uptime is not the same as operating with 90% uptime.

Stagnation for Microsoft is basically them shoveling money into their coffers. Innovation is where they fuck up.

I was so proud of this robot that I went up and gave it a hug. Everyone around me started yelling at me to get away and then the robot tried to install a solar panel on me. Long story short, I ended up in the hospital with a restraining order against to stay away from the robot.

THIS ROBOT IS NOT FRIENDLY.

You probably can't see how because of the same vision problem that prevented you from reading my post.
"simulate materials without ever having to construct them."

Consume, consume, consume, yep, that's all you can do on modern social media - pointlessly shout into the void or read the insipid ramblings of people who are more rich/famous and/or more socially/politically connected than you. Because if you're just Joe Nobody, may the algorithm have mercy on your soul. Come back when you're wealthy or a public figure.

That's why I haven't bothered with BlueSky. If I wanted to circle jerk over famous people or shout into an empty void, I can still do that just fine over on the site formerly known as Twitter.

I don't think dating and casino apps are the best examples, because any app where you're going to be providing billing information already has a de facto age gate in place.

The idea that the user knows best was idealistic and from a time when the majority of people who used computers were technology enthusiasts. Nowadays, the bulk of people using connected devices just want to scroll through social media, take pictures of their kids/pets, and don't understand why they shouldn't click the link claiming their driver's license is about to be revoked for unpaid traffic tickets.

From the perspective of people who aren't interested in the inner workings of technology, software that protects you from your own dumb mistakes is a feature. Look at how much praise the MacBook Neo has been receiving as "this is the computer to get for your boomer parents".

It's probably why there hasn't been much backlash against age gate laws outside of the tech sphere. To people who don't follow this stuff, it just amounts to being automatic parental controls you don't even have to bother setting up. From that perspective, what's not to like about that?

Presumably, the sysadmin's age. If literally no one can log in, you are having a bad problem and will not go to space today.

The Christmas before last, I was over at my partner's relative's place to see his family. One of his teenage nephews asked me if there was a way to get a fantasy football app onto his iPhone because the rest of their family wanted him to join in. Turns out that since the phone was set up with parental controls by an aunt who'd given him the phone, there was no workaround I could think of that would allow the app to be installed. Even adding a second Apple account to the device wouldn't allow the app to download.

Apple's stuff locks down pretty good, and short of getting the adult who set it up originally to turn the parental controls off, a kid is probably not getting around them. Even if you wiped the phone and reinstalled iOS, it'd still remain iCloud locked to the adult's account and you wouldn't even be able to use the device.

Kids being crafty and finding ways around this will likely look more like "going to Walmart and buying a cheap prepaid device", rather than hacking the phone their parents/relatives gave them.

I guess if that's the hill you want to die on. If you read the article, it's not even going to age check users where Apple already reasonably knows the account belongs to an adult. I'm fairly certain I made my Apple account around when the 3rd gen iPod was released, so that'd be back in 2003. I also have an Apple Card, which they already needed more information than just the fact that I'm a middle-aged adult in order to approve me.

So, if this comes here, I'll literally have to do absolutely nothing to be verified as an adult, because Apple already is in possession of all the information they need to make that call. Ironic thing is, most people have set up some sort of billing through their Apple account anyway, either to purchase apps, use the credit/debit cards they already have with Apple Wallet, or like me, have an Apple Card, so for them this process will also be completely transparent.

If you've somehow managed to navigate the mobile app ecosystem in 2026 without giving your billing details to either of our smartphone duopoly players, neat, I suppose. That ship sailed for me when I decided to buy some music for my iPod.