Every time people hear what it actually involves is outrage and opposition, at least all the way back to when Intel first announced that they wanted to hardcode identity numbers inside CPUs in 1999. But the corporations involved have been relentless, and have sunk countless billions of dollars steadily forcing it forwards, and building front organizations to obfuscate and whitewash it.

With Windows 11, Microsoft was finally able to FORCE Trusted computing hardware into every new computer. Not just every new Windows computer, but every computer.

Every new Intel PC CPU has built in Trusted Computing enforcement hardware. Every new AMD PC CPU has built in Trusted Computing enforcement hardware. Every new ARM PC CPU has built in Trusted Computing enforcement hardware. The only processor lines that DON'T have it are the microcontrollers.

There are some unlocked smartphones available, but as far as I can determine it's literally impossible to buy a smartphone that doesn't have hardware trusted computing built in.

I specified that enforcing Trusted Computing at the internet access level is still a long term goal, they couldn't get away with it today. However they are well on the way to success. Virtually all new hardware supporting trusted computing, all the front groups rolling out standards and systems, and as it gets incorporated into things everyone is going to increasingly running into situations where they get locked out of stuff if they're not Trusted Computing compliant. Streaming already restricts you to the worst quality if you're not compliant, and it's only going to get worse as pre-Win11 computers fade out and as more things require it.

I'd hardly call exact date of birth "low information content".

And yes this does reveal exact date of birth, regardless of the bullshit obfuscation that it supposedly only reports age range. The server simply tracks the reported result every time the user connects, and on some specific day the result CHANGES to announce their date of birth.

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This is based on SLSA (Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts), brought to you by the same fuckers making Trusted Computing and the TMP (Trusted Platform Module). It's part of the same shitstack to prohibit you from altering your software and to lock you out of your own files, and to send spy reports out over the internet so you can be cut off if you "fail" the Trusted Computing check.

The software can use a TPM's (Trusted Platform Module) Sealing function to encrypt your data such that it's impossible to access your own data if the software is modified. It can then pass control over that data only to software updates that carry a signed security certificate from Broadcom (or any other company using this system).

It is no longer open source, your system no longer works as you can no longer access your Sealed data if you change so much as a single letter of the code. Even recompile unaltered code won't work, unless you magically manage to get your build environment absolutely identical to the company's build environment and get byte-for-byte output. Even that may be impossible with the newer levels of non-deterministic compiler optimizations.

Also, with TMP's Remote Attestation feature can be used to transmit your machine's software configuration over the internet, so that you can be cut off if your system doesn't match Broadcom (or other company's) cryptographically signed certificate.

And then of course there's Network Access Control (NAC) / Trusted Network Connect (TNC). In the long term, the goal is for ISPs to use NAC/TNC to interrogate your computer for Trusted Computing compliance, and deny you any internet access whatsoever if your machine isn't compliant. Software with this sort of "security" certificate would pass inspection, while any attempt to alter the code would be detected as "tampering". You then get "quarantined". What "quarantine" means is that you are denied internet access - with the exception that you do get very restricted access which can only be used to download the approved software to "fix" your computer into Trusted Computing compliance.

We MUST be able to inspect and age verify every AI slop porn image to protect the fictional children!

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If you read the article carefully, they are talking about lenses THINNER than a hair. I see several of the posts here thinking the width/radius of the lenses is this small, a reasonable mistake given the way this was written. Having a radius that small would severely reduce their light gathering ability, requiring very bright light or very dim images or very long exposure times.

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Absolutely. Add fast as it was compiled to native binary as opposed to BASIC.

For high level code. For low level code on the Apple II we had the LISA assembler. It offered an IDE. It also parsed your code as you typed. So you would get an error message for a syntax error as you hit enter for the line.

Is this the same guy that proved time travel was possible by generating a negative energy density gravitational lens using any common coffee maker?

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Lisa becoming a Mac was retroactive. The original OS under Lisa was not Mac OS. Like Unix, Windows NT, and Mac OS X; Lisa OS had memory protection. The Mac would not get that for decades. Turning a Lisa into a Mac XL was a downgrade of sorts, one offset by more software available for it.

Only for those with $10K lying around. For the rest of us the Apple II was literally our development system for the Macintosh. We would add a 68K coprocessor card to the Apple II. Write our code in assembly on the coprocessor, test it the best we could. We learned that nice habit of separating functional code from the system code. :-)

Then when ready to test the system code we would download a binary to the Mac using a MS-Basic program that would read the serial port and "poke" the data into RAM, then jump to that poke'd code. Let's say debugging was primitive. Hex values in the corner of the screen. But it was doable, and so very very educational.

68K is still my favorite assembly language.

You still can. Apple computers (Macs) still let you load software from disc, from flash, from the net, etc. It's only mobile devices (iPhone, etc) that do not.

After Jobs 1.0 was fired from Apple, Woz helped with the Mac and slots were added to some models. Today, many of the things that once required slots and specialized adapters now use standardized interfaces likes usb or thunderbolt. Want to engineer your own device and connect, no problem, there is no shortage of support for such hacking via usb. See Adafruit or Sparkfun.

Once you needed a slot and a specialized adapter to add a drive. Now you can do that with USB.
Once you needed a slot and a specialized adapter to add a monitor. Now you can do that with Thunderbolt. Hell, you can add an eGPU graphics card via Thunderbolt. Jobs 1.0 was premature with abandoning slots, Jobs 2.0 still leaned against slots, but I recall some Macs with slots too during his 2nd reign. Maybe Jobs 2.0 was better described as a little too early rather than wrong like Jobs 1.0.

While significantly smaller it is still an interesting size from a business perspective. While people do not buy Macs to play games, people who have bought a Mac for some other reason may still want to play games on it. It’s the computer they have, they want to play games on it.

Basically not releasing a Mac version is leaving money on the table.

Not true at all. The simple truth faced by game developers is that people with "gaming rigs" with high end GPUs are not the norm. The game buying public is more likely to have a PC with a low-end CPU, little RAM, and a low-end integrated GPU (most likely Intel, AMD if very lucky). Such people are a large part of the gaming market, even low-end Macs are comparable to these.

Basically not releasing a game that supports modest PCs is leaving money on the table.

Argentina is not banning emoji, Italy is not requiring all babies to be dressed in pink or blue, and Morocco is not going to require GPS to tax bicycles by the mile.

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Apple actually supports Linux, not in the dual boot sense but in the virtualization sense.

macOS' Virtualization Framework has let people create console Linux VMs for a while now. With the recent release of macOS Ventura GUI Linux VMs are supported on Apple Silicon CPUs. With full GPU support, integration with the host macOS desktop for transferring files, etc.

Linux may be a second class citizen to Apple, not being allowed to dual boot, but it is not incomplete and behind when run from Apple's virtualization framework.

If you don't like my source then perhaps you can provide one that is better.

I just reviewed every result on the first page of Google search for: beef greenhouse climate. EVERY SINGLE ONE explains, in one way or another, that beef has a significant and grossly disproportionate impact on the climate. The Economist, Scientific American, The Guardian, Forbes, World Resource Institute, Vox, BBC, Science(published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science), Sciencedirect, the United Nation's FAO, and countless more. Take your pick. Or you could try
Environmental impact of meat production with over 200 sources cited.

Global warming in general, and the impact of beef in particular, are all way past the point where denialism requires actively avoiding and disregard wall-to-wall sources saying the same thing.

If we are concerned about the global warming impact of eating beef then I'm thinking we did so well with the big emitters of coal, petroleum, natural gas, cement, and metal refining, that we are looking to the teeny tiny impact of beef.

If you are bleeding from multiple wounds, I'm sure you know full well that was not a valid argument AGAINST bandaging the easily fixed bleeding immediately, while experts attempt to get the more severe and difficult bleeding under control.

We have not remotely halted global warming. We have barely begun to slow it down, due to decades of sabotage by denialists. The only way we can possibly solve this problem is a few percent at a time in many different ways and many different places. As all of the top Google search results explain, reducing beef consumption is the quickest and easiest thing we can do to immediately and significantly shift things several percent in the right direction. Several percent translates into years of difference, and a lower peak temperature.

As for the rest of your post, I very carefully checked and double checked. Not one sentence was remotely addressed how much impact beef does or does not have. I'm not sure why, but you spent four paragraphs 100% dedicated to arguing that your signature is false and absurd.

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Beef is one of the top cause of climate change?

Yes.

I thought I'd look that up and a study from Oklahoma State University says beef production causes 1.9% of the CO2 emissions from human activity.

That's called confirmation bias. You went looking for a specific answer, you ignored all of the reliable sources and all of the evidence contradicting the answer you wanted, and you latched on to the first random thing that kinda-sorta looked like the answer you wanted.

In this case you quote a fragment about CO2, and you utterly disregarded methane. Methane is 25 to 80 times more powerful of a greenhouse gas than CO2, and beef production accounts for approximately one third of all human caused methane in the US.

Beef is indisputably an order of magnitude more environmentally damaging than any other category of food. You could buy anywhere from 10 to 200 pounds of virtually any non-meat food, eat one pound and literally burn all of the rest, and it would have less environmental impact than a pound of beef. Beef is obviously only one of many contributors to global warming, but it is a significant factor.

Global warming is not remotely "solved". Temperatures are rising, we haven't stopped the increase, we haven't even managed to slow the increase. Temperatures are still on a basically straight-line increase. There are various initiatives to eventually try to get things under control, but we're nowhere near achieving that. Temperatures are going to continue to rising for decades to come, because denialists have spent the last decades devoted to sabotage.

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