Someone came along to mod me down for complaining about literally the worst software company in all history. Rent free!

My favorite thing is how when I open an office document when I've got one already open in that program, the other window MAY (or may not) un-maximize and rise to the top before the new window appears. That doesn't fuck up my workflow or anything... wait, yes it does, it fucks it right in the ass.

I also especially like how Outlook appointment notifications usually don't come to the top even when you're not typing, they just show up under other Office windows, and cause the taskbar icon to flash. They occasionally work correctly.

No joke. The way you can't even drag windows when Office apps are busy is hilarious coming from a composited X11 desktop, where not only can I drag busy applications, the mipmapped thumbnails update.

Whether those were actual attempts on his life is a matter of debate

Is that why we were discussing one of their allegedly patched vulns still not being patched years later... like two weeks ago? They take stock prices seriously, security not so much.

Apple made their OS open, then closed portions of it, so you cannot trust them, just like all of the other closed source vendors. That doesn't mean no operating system is trustworthy, only that Apple is no more trustworthy than Microsoft.

"The fact that they managed to keep up with this and publish massive amount of patches is a sign of excellence."

That's assuming they did meaningful fixes and not just some AI slop bullshit that will create more problems than it fixed.

I don't give Microsoft the benefit of the doubt, they have proven that is not sensible time and again.

Oh look the dipshits who get mod points haven't heard of Snowden either

The ancient American cars people are thinking of when they think of Cuba were made of thicker, softer metal, which is easier to work on. Those vehicles were made of 100% virgin steel. Modern cars have substantial recycled content and the steel is much harder, therefore harder to work, and they use harder steel specifically so that they can make it thinner, which is also harder to work without destroying the metal. You simply cannot restore a modern vehicle as easily as you can the older ones, even putting complexity aside.

That's literally what this story is about.

Realistically, this will accomplish nothing significant in the positive direction, while it will hurt a few people. In the process it will cost a lot of money. Therefore it's a shit plan.

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"we don't have warrantless searches and other intensely invasive government surveillance right now"

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I like to place reading comprehension tests on the internet for people to, apparently, fail.

No one suggested that it should be. Don't make things up to be upset about.

The precise automation systems depend on humans doing their job correctly.

This is a signal that they will be underpaying these employees even worse than they are now. They are expecting churn and turnover so they don't have to pay people at salaries earned through years of service.

The AI solution won't need the data to be perfect going in. Of course, the data coming out also won't be deterministic, as you say. It'll be GIGO as per usual.

What you're saying is that the infrastructure doesn't protect your privacy from Apple now. If they had built an infrastructure which protected the users from being snooped on by Apple, then it would also do the job of protecting them from being snooped on by other providers. Instead you have only their word that they are not misusing your data, when they could have made it impossible.

People who trust Apple are exactly the same as people who trust Zuck.