The original guy got to keep using it. There was someone else hired for a brief time.

I remember the author's name but he really doesn't want to use it, so that's OK to respect. He's given me a lot to think about over the years. I remember when he wrote on his PBS site about unicast becoming cheaper than radio broadcast for TV, predicting that it would overtake by 2012 (IIRC). Youtube became huge around then. We were smart folks around the water cooler in the late 90's who could follow the math but had nagging skepticism. He wss right.

I think I have one of his science writing books under his real name about atomic energy somewhere. You can find it if necessary.

Nice to see Bob back on the Dot.

It doesn't seem that bad anyway. They can run arbitrary code, for that boot... But the flash encryption key is in the secure enclave, right? So all the user's data is safe, the OS can't be tampered with, and since it's only in memory a power cycle or probably even just a reboot will clear it.

I'm sure some Israeli company is working on a chained exploit as we speak, but I think if you are concerned about that you probably want to avoid Apple devices anyway. They are a very popular target for those companies.

Most people had pretty crappy soundcards back then. Credit to him that he came up with tunes that sounded decent even with the naff guitar and drum sounds on a typical Soundblaster compatible card.

Could also be interesting for cold brew iced coffee.

But this is all looking at the past. Now we have renewables and storage on a scale that was unimaginable even a few years ago, and especially given that new nuclear takes at least 20 years to build in Europe, even when factoring in climate change as a risk, it still loses.

Don't you see, AI is inventing ways for humans to consume less energy so it can eat it all.

> The lender can't repossess a college degree to make themselves whole.

No but if the borrower can't get a good job there should be cause of action for Warranty Act claims against the college.

Extremely few people go to college with the expectation of borrowing to be unemployable.

Almost like he's a campaign donor! Did he fly on AF1 to China with the rest of them?

Government very rarely runs on merit. It's a terrible way to conduct anything that doesn't require killing people.

Sure, but border guards and spooks probably already had this exploit so the difference is minor. Their PoC page also says there's no access to Secure Enclave so perhaps the damage is minimal?

Curiously I saw some commits for an iPhone platform in LineageOS a month or two ago. Perhaps an option for EoL Apple hardware with working exploits.

Nothing is perfectly safe, but lots of things are lower risk and lower cost than nuclear.

I just don't get why some people are so in love with nuclear as a means of generating electricity. We don't need it, so what's the attraction?

He's the same kind of con man as Trump.

He railed against the Banks so when Ron Paul's Audit The Fed bill came to the Senate he cosponsored it.

Then behind closed doors he killed it to protect the Banks. Same way he endorsed Hillary with zero concessions after she maligned him and stole the primary.

It's all Kayfabe and he's a multi-millionaire communist for his efforts.

This proposal is just the latest Theatre Kid stunt to get him some attention. The only kind of attention he deserves is derision.

You don't even want to know about the rumored blackmail event. ("Crying Bernie Sanders" is the most vile rabbit hole.)

> Just build some fucking windmills and stick them to batteries and you'll be fine

Please compare the human death rate of wind and solar to atomic energy.

Yes, workers lives matter.

Might as well do coal too.

Also, we have a moral obligation to transmute the 300,000-year waste that the postwar generation left us with (besides their mountain of debt and impossible Empire).

Well, they've had a few accidents, but nothing really serious. The cost though... They did it thinking it would be cheap, and it turned out to be the opposite. And then they screwed up their environmental goals by promoting diesel cars, again not knowing that they were so bad when the decision was made.

In 2026 it's not just renewables that have changed the landscape, it's the EU. Energy independence isn't a big deal at the member level. Although arguably it never was for France, because if you recall the EU was formed out of coal agreements with Germany, that were designed to make the two countries so dependent on each other that war would be impossible.

No, you don't have to decide if you want access to electrical power or not. I was there when it happened, the lights did not go out. Japan shut down all nuclear reactors, unplanned, and the electricity stayed on. The electric trains kept running. The price went up and people were asked to save energy, but it proved beyond any doubt that nuclear was absolutely not necessary for Japan to keep power on.

These days we don't need nuclear at all, we have much better and cheaper alternatives. We can install them at scale too. China generated, not installed nameplate, not counting wasted energy because capacity was already met, actually generated and fed into the grid as much new renewable electricity in 2025 as the whole of Germany consumed in total. On top of what they already had. And they are on track to install even more new capacity this year, and the storage to go with it.

Most countries don't have nuclear weapons and seem to be doing okay.

Ukraine, for example. A nuclear state attacked them, and Ukraine is winning. Of course Russia didn't nuke Ukraine, because that would be suicide. Similarly, if Ukraine had kept and maintained its nuclear weapons, it wouldn't have used them, because that would have been suicide.