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FTA: The extensions, each measuring several metres, will replicate a folding wing in the fully extended position during a flight

So no, they are not foldable today - the headline submitted to HN is total clickbait.

-> and we are nowhere near a data center.

Please square that with a rational argument against data centers then?

Nobody wants to pay for a house that would take a year to build, with multiple 30 day work stoppages for concrete curing….

That is highly location dependent. Many cities had/have large lots in older neighborhoods and have transitioned to zero-lot-line construction or smaller lots in the past 30-40 years as demand for housing grew.

In fact in most of the western US that’s the norm…

Crucially, this is where, unlike with Apple’s standard child screen-time restrictions, you can choose to completely block internet browsing by simply not allowing Safari

Very odd take given that you can block access to safari with iOS screen time as well...

Headline is absolute clickbait: please don't use quotation marks when you just make things up.

Kids and convenience. 99% of the movies I’ve bought from iTunes are kids movies. Some of them were watched over and over and over.

DVDs and Blu-rays I purchased from the same era required a) advance planning and b) care. To the second point, most of the physical media is now destroyed (scratched, stepped on, lost, or just degraded), but I still have access to the copy of Cars I bought almost 20 years ago from Apple.

Healthy people spend roughly 15-25 days each year—about 5% of their lives—sick with respiratory infections like the common cold and influenza

This seems completely unbelievable to me. Totally outside of my personal, professional, and family experience.

The difference is that with a slate you’re not limited to buying one of the versions of the modular platform - you can swap them out yourself.

Want an open air 5 seater in the summer and an enclosed pickup the rest of the year, except for November when you really want an SUV? Sure, no problem.

So a disease that has killed 11,000 people in a country with a population of >200 million over 30 years is a ‘ginormous outbreak’?

This kind of hyper-scary overreaction from the CDC official being quoted and other government agents is a big cause of the current loss of trust in those institutions.

A few years ago monkeypox was gonna kill all of us and our dogs, I get “extreme heat” and “severe weather” warnings for days where the weather is 20* below the annual peak in my home town, and now a fungus is going to kill me and my cats.

Ok boomer - just stop worrying please?

You can do a perfectly good, very efficient mini split for USD $5k

That’s way high: You can buy 2 for that much if you want a big name brand that provides support for self-installs. 3-4 of them for $5k if you don’t care about that…

Source: I’ve done it

tax returns seem like an obvious alternative and they are already private and collected at a much more granular level.

Plenty of people don’t file tax returns (legally even, there’s a minimum income threshold).

Given the recent dramatic uptick in vulnerability discoveries, it's also prone to being quite insecure...

I wish the EU would regulate this kind of stuff.

Regulate what exactly? Bugs? That's what this was...

Then maybe a "lot of" you should not be buying Apple hardware?

An N100 with no RAM is $100 less, but throw in 16GB of ram and now they’re $150+ more…

Also you’re missing the point.

I don't understand how a product as popular as Tailscale can get this far while dropping certain ordinary types of packets.

I’d venture to guess based on this outcome that fragmented UDP over IPv6 isn’t really an ordinary occurrence. Given the preponderance of HTTPS traffic, the aversion to fragmentation in IPv6, and the weird corner case of there being a hardcoded packet size in webrtc, it’s reasonable to assume that this is a corner case.

A good one to be aware of, but not common.

Sure, but 20TB in “the only database you need” is mere hours or minutes worth of data for many workflows.

A native replacement for docker came last year with Apple Containers- this extends that.

Considering that this project was published less than 24 hours ago I’m guessing you assume it’s a different project.

This is not the apple container framework / that’s the docker alternative. This is a project to easily run full Linux machines in macOS containers.

If they’re going to retain any data, they have to allow for possibility of the legal system to require any of it to be used in some legal proceeding at some point.

You can’t tell a judge who’s ordered you to retain something that you can’t because you said you wouldn’t.

That’s 1 in 30,000 requests…

EU has the right to privacy.

Sure - the DMA has nothing to do with privacy though, so that's a straw man. or is it a red herring? I always get those confused.

A door with a lock is different from a wall with no door. Same argument that gets made with government-keyed or government-breakable encryption schemes: it's better for everyone to not have the backdoor at all.

Apple claims to protect user privacy all the time. But they can't offer a product in a major jurisdiction that has actually meaningful privacy laws?

The DMA and the GDPR are laws that at their core make each other more difficult. the stated outcome of the DMA - allowing any vendor/user full access to your device - is not easily supported when solving for privacy.

The DMA has nothing to do with Privacy - it's an anti-competition scheme. Apple is saying that privacy is baked in to their approach, and they can't ensure that if they allow every other AI provider the same level of access.

Nothing with WiFi will ever be coin cell battery powered.

Well, except for all the coin cell operated matter over WiFi smart buttons / remotes / switches you can buy from just about anywhere…

Please educate us - which accurate and provable events in history are censored by US based LLMs as part of a government enforced reeducation campaign?

This, for like 37 things in my workshop right now.