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Re:Apple's smart home camera reportedly won't record video on Thursday October 01, 2026 @08:14PM (#49928493)
"They found the analytics control and other privacy settings had no obvious effect on Apple’s data collection—the tracking remained the same whether iPhone Analytics was switched on or off." (https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-analytics-tracking-even-whe...)
Re:Apple's smart home camera reportedly won't record video on Thursday October 01, 2026 @08:10PM (#49928474)
Sure, just like the Apple Watch doesn't "record" audio, it "flows."

"You think your watch records the audio around you? No no no. The audio flows into the Secure Enclave, and flowing is definitely not recording because it’s a different word." (https://leancrew.com/all-this/2026/09/new-apple-watches-have...)

I don't know how Apple has evaded regulatory scrutiny for their refusal to sign Nvidia's eGPU drivers since 2018.
Re:Apple Accelerates US Manufacturing on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @11:22AM (#47153647)
Not true. Here is a mirror of an image posted earlier in this thread: https://i.postimg.cc/MK86WX6s/TEmek6j.png
I've tried several times before to install syncserver using those pip instructions, on multiple platforms, without success.
Re:iOS 26 Shows Unusually Slow Adoption Months After Release on Thursday January 08, 2026 @08:01PM (#46548809)
> Apple now continues to support older operating systems with security updates, allowing users to remain on iOS 18 without immediate pressure to update or forfeit critical patches. This makes it much easier for users to remain on older software.

This is an incredible untruth to end this article on. MacRumors's own reporting (https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/19/ios-18-forced-ios-26-up...) showed Apple denying the existing iOS 18.7.3 security update to iPhones, and then shutting down the beta channel workaround the same day that MR drew attention to it, leaving iOS 26.2 as the only option.

Re:Hashcards: A Plain-Text Spaced Repetition System on Sunday December 14, 2025 @03:00PM (#46266264)
What was the root question of law?
Re:Apple Design Official Alan Dye Poached by Meta in Major Coup on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @03:52PM (#46139974)
I want to be optimistic, but Dye was just a symptom. The rot in modern Apple design must run much deeper.
Re:Apple AI chief John Giannandrea is retiring in spring 2026 on Monday December 01, 2025 @08:06PM (#46115981)
> For CLIs - most reasonable commands either have a `-h`, `--help`, `-help`, `/?`, or what have you. And manpages exist. Hunt the verb isn't really a problem for CLIs.

"Hunt the verb" means that the user doesn't know which commands (verbs) exist. Which a neophyte at a blank console will not. This absolutely is a problem with CLIs.

Re:Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead with Ads in Maps App on Sunday October 26, 2025 @10:11AM (#45712032)
There are already ads in Apple Maps: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255060954

This would just be more ads.

Re:Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever on Thursday August 21, 2025 @12:07PM (#44974461)
Thanks.
Re:Show HN: OS X Mavericks Forever on Thursday August 21, 2025 @11:11AM (#44973780)
Can you touch on how some of these patches were made/backported from and to closed-source binaries? Which underlying proxy is Aqua Proxy built on?
> Tai disagreed that Tai's model is simply the trapezoidal rule, on the basis that her model uses the summed areas of rectangles and triangles rather than trapezoids.

Oh my god.

Apparently "compact" here refers to the five lines of actual code.

Just use <bitstring.h>.

The exchange at 47:48 has been coming to mind more and more of late.

"Where do you see the future of Siri and other AI going?"

There's a lot of, I mean..."Siri and other AI," there's Siri, there's the..."Can you ask something a question?" Like, when we were doing Siri, I was blown away by it—having had my Master's in artificial intelligence—so when I saw Siri I thought, "Wait, this is supposed to be 20 years from now, I can't believe it's now." And I kind of thought, you know, Google is...if you go to a library and you look up in the card catalog, "What reference materials do you have related to this," and then you go and look at every one and figure out who's right. Siri is, you ask a reference librarian: "Go find the answer to this question." I think that sort of thing is very very interesting, and the more we can do to have that...now, if you look at AI, I think there's a lot we can do with AI that we're not doing right now that I hope we get to. I can talk about it if you want...?

"Let's go on."

Beat Saber's reveal trailer is still one of the best I've ever seen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIzRbI1JUe4

A tight 30 seconds of wordless, uncut gameplay that intuitively unveils the game mechanics while the simple track, just when it seems overly easy, crescendoes into the beat drop and trickier motions. The finishing touch is the missed note right before the hard cut to title.

Re:OpenBSD 7.7 Released on Sunday April 27, 2025 @04:47PM (#43814999)
A note to myself for future upgrades, from the upgrade guide:

• Check available disk space in /usr. Verify that the /usr partition has a size of at least 1.1G. With less space the upgrade may fail and you should consider reinstalling the system instead.

When this says "available disk space," it means "total" disk space of the /usr partition, not "free" space. I had less than 1.1GB of unused free space on /usr and had to verify that that was fine before proceeding.

Re:The 5 levels of configuration languages on Saturday April 12, 2025 @07:33PM (#43668776)
A top-level /AppleInternal/ directory on macOS, even if empty, will enable certain features in Apple developer tools.

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