Apple's macOS. Apple contributes code and employs some FreeBSD developers.

Its a little more complex. Apple does derive some of FreeBSDs userland and some services. However its a myth that the kernel is a modified FreeBS. Its a modified Mach microkernel, XNU (technically actually a hybrid, like most real world microkernels, that has a small amount of non core kernel in ring zero for performance reasons, that has some services that have FreeBSD derived code in it, namely the network stack, process model and IOKit.

Chinas single timezone is bonkers. If your in Beijing its great, but in those back end industrial cities, you've got the sun rising at 10am and setting at midnight. That would *massively* fuck with your sleep cycle and I half suspect that western regions probably got some of the highest rates of melatonin prescription..... and sleep disorders.... on the planet.

Its space. When it comes to radiation, an X-Ray machine is by far the least of their worries. Astronauts come back from space missions utterly glowing with radiation.

Admittedly the cancer rate amongst astronauts isnt THAT much higher (just under 1/3 of astronaut deaths compared to just over 1/5th of the general population), but this is also a cohort that have mostly been non smoking tea-totaller health conscious non-junk-eating people so its definitely a thing.

Like yeah, over exposure to medical X-Rays is totally a risk factor, but astronauts go into space knowing that space is actively trying to radiate them, freeze them, burn them, pop their lungs, boil their blood and suffocate them. Its a soldiers gambit really.

Grandmas stupid baby photo collection create more positive utility for humans than a petabyte of stupid slop images of crayfish aranged into a jesus face ever will.

Im more wondering if we're gonna start seeing clankers ordering "Victorias secret vacuum cleaners" catalogues getting orders in the mail leading to claude-bots in raincoats atendending seedy industrial machinery video screenings at 2am in the bad part of town.

"grease me daddy."

Honestly, IBM would do well to just stick to their course. This AI thing is due for a pretty severe market adjustment to bring some rationality back into the tech decision makingl, We're already seeing a lot of companies shitting the bed over token costs and realiseing they laying off the entire tech staff would just cost them more. And this flows on.

Or this is wishful thinking on the part of myself, a 50yo whos been feeling a lot less secure about my future job prospects lately if I dont stop rejecting any and every offer to go into management..

Tbh I'm wondering if Trump purchased any intel stock beforehand.

They've had those demos for years , decades even, and they still dont release it. Its not hard to escape the verdict that he's not telling the whole truth on this one.

Meanwhile the chinese EV makers have entire cities where you can literally get in your EV and it'll just drive you there, complete with RF interaction with traffic lights, automated battery replacement systems, the whole kit, in far more insane traffic conditions than the americans will ever have, thanks to vast amounts civilians on bicycles and scooters.

FSD isn't impossible But for whatever reason Tesla just cant seem to get it to work to the level it needs to. While the competition is

My point was more that politicized interventions in universities tend to fail miserably, because they ignore the economics of the sector and create perverse incenstives instead.

The FS itself is likely not being removed because it is one with implementations outside of MacOS (For instance my camera can be hooked to an HFS drive) But HFS Encrypted was always a take-your-life-into-your-own-hands thing. If you got a sector corruption, thats an unrecoverable loss of the whole FS. Whereas unencrypted, it just took a rebuiold of the FAT and you could at least recover the majority. It *highly* unlikely anything other than MacOS supported the encryption.

While its a PITA to lose that support, theres really not a lot to lose by doing so, whilst losing unencrpyted HFS breaks a lot of third party device integrations.

Its insanely tone deaf too. Almost everyone I know (I hang in a circle with a lot of professional photographers and artists) either have, or are planning to, removed their instagram accounts.

Meta grossly misunderstands the level of sheer animosity the photography and arts community , the people that built it, has towards a technology that has laid waste to the economy of the creative industries and put so many photographers and artists out of work.

I still like RTMark's idea from back in the day about this stuff.

If the courts insist that corporations are people, then the court should be willing to sentence a corporation to death when it kills people.

My little conspiracy theory on all this is Microsoft central put the order in that everyone has to use vibecoding from now on to write their code, and the ID engineers pushed back because theres no way even the high end Fable type models would be able to handle game engine kernel code. Fuckin thing cant even understand threading properly (At least in my experience) and so HQ decided they where "Unproductive" and fired them.

Management are in for a rude shock when it comes time to ask Claude to write the next IdTech engine and it shits the bed.

We need better ones who do their jobs instead of wasting their time being political activist

Well if I ever meet one I'm sure I'll pass that message on. But the vast majority of scientists are profoundly uninterested in activism. Which is a bummer. I work in climate science and most of those guys really OUGHT get political but its just not how the field rolls.

Oh man theres a comical tyrany of perverse incentives when it comes to government interventions in universities.

We had this turbo-conservative govt here in australia, John Howard, awful dude, but his govt tried to smash the humanities by adjusting how the uni fees work (We pay fees, but they become tax loans that start being paid off once income hits average wage. Its a fucked system, but there are more-fucked systems so, que cera. I *guess*).

Anyhow the plan was , was to massively increase the fees paid to do a humanities degree while slashing the fees for science degrees. The problem was, they lowered the fees so much that the universities couldn't afford to put on the more important science degrees, so universities started dropping sciences and focusing on the now highly profitable humanities degrees. It didnt effect much what students chose, because 17yos are rarely good at reasoning about money and future incomes, and anyway, statistically humanities graduates get higher incomes (science wages suck, trust me. Especially if you work in a field the govt actively wants to shut down like climate change, like I do.). So engineering, metalurgy, chemistry , *especially* physics which was always an expensive course to run, all those degrees started closing down and the "degree in surfing"* humanities degrees that the govt bitched about thrived.

So the govts idiotic attempt at market manipulation just made the whole thing even more skewed against their desired goal;- Stopping students from questioning their world.

*although ironically the "degree in surfing" the govt used as its example was refering to a unit in the sports medicine degree that dealt with injuries in water sports. It actually didn't do great because of those funding cuts to science.