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Comment Re:Or you could just go outside (Score 3, Interesting) 84

by pengeek on Sunday October 06, 2019 @03:04PM (#59276192) Attached to: Microsoft Will Model the Entire Planet For 'Breathtakingly Lifelike' New Flight Simulator

And fly your plane?

Comment Re:VR (Score 1) 84

by pengeek on Sunday October 06, 2019 @03:02PM (#59276184) Attached to: Microsoft Will Model the Entire Planet For 'Breathtakingly Lifelike' New Flight Simulator

Yes, exactly what I was thinking! As you noted, might be too graphically intense. Plus at this current start of graphics you are probably better served with a large array of curved monitors for maximum immersion.

Comment Hm (Score 4, Informative) 118

by pengeek on Sunday October 06, 2019 @01:43PM (#59275934) Attached to: Did MacOS Stop Allowing Changes to Wifi MAC Addresses?

Troubling if confirmed as not a bug, but doesn't seem to be in keeping with Apple's latest trend of privacy-as-a-service. Does seem to be true: https://forums.developer.apple...

Submission + - MacOS no longer allows changing wifi mac address 2

Submitted by ugen on Saturday October 05, 2019 @10:52PM

ugen writes: Something I discovered today, while trying to change a MAC address on a new Macbook Air (as I did for years on other Macbooks): ifconfig en0 ether "new mac" no longer works. It appears that this is a change made sometime last year, applicable to all Apple newer Macbooks. Implications of permanently fixed MAC address on privacy and security are hard to underestimate. Given that Windows now supports complete Wifi MAC address randomization — I am sad to admit that Microsoft looks like a champion of privacy here. What are your thoughts? Solutions anyone knows of (I'll take a reasonable technical hack).

Here are a few mentions of this elsewhere:
https://forums.macrumors.com/t...
https://github.com/feross/Spoo...
https://stackoverflow.com/ques...

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