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Exactly this. Disney's argument is that a corporation can make a contract with someone, then launder it through a second corporation, at which point it no longer needs to uphold the obligations of the contract. Amazing stuff.
#DisneyMustPay
The comparison made was that if they are allowed to do this, it could mean any company could sell works they had contracted to a sibling company and thus rid themselves of the pesky need to pay the creator they had contracted with.
The
@49ers
won a significant tax victory, successfully appealing in getting the the tax on Levi's Stadium cut 50%. That means an immediate $31 mil refund, and $6 mil lower tax bill each year. the county said this will cause a big cut in educational funding
To image a black hole they needed half a ton of hard drives containing five petabytes of data. The fastest way to transfer that data? Airplane. An airplane data transfer from Mauna Kea to Massachusetts would have a data rate of roughly 14GB per second.
George Will: "The person voters hired in 2016 to 'take care that the laws be faithfully executed' stood in front of police and urged them 'please don’t be too nice' when handling suspected offenders. His hope was fulfilled for 8 minutes and 46 seconds on Minneapolis pavement."
A couple of months before the Flower Power and Blue Dalmatian iMacs were announced, Apple got very angry with us about these two Macworld covers. Only later did we suddenly understand why.
I don't care why Apple is listening to my audio and I don't care that it's happening in a "secure facility." I do not want my audio recordings to be listened to by human beings or retained for further study. Disclose this better and let me opt out.
Source: Apple contractors grading Siri responses regularly hear sensitive info with data that may identify user, often due to accidental Siri activations (
@alexhern
/ The Guardian)
When Apple ships a future device with the next generation of the U1 ultra wideband wireless chip, people will complain that Apple keeps putting U2 on their phones...
Apple: We've got iCloud folder sharing coming!
Me: Eh, Dropbox works really well for me and you're still missing some stuff.
Dropbox: Enterprise collaboration! Google Docs and Slack inside a Dropbox!
Me: Uh, you were saying, Apple?
This is a disgusting attack on software by
@RIAA
.
While Youtube-DL is a tool that can be used for piracy, it also has numerous legal applications. I use it almost every week, legally, to do my job.
@github
needs to get it together.
The music industry is trying to kill this clever piece of code which lets journalists and researchers download Youtube videos. Weaponizing the DMCA to attack tools, under the guise that they *could* be used to pirate material, is a very dangerous propsect.
Anybody who thinks that, during a week where the president of the United States incited a deadly attack at the Capitol and tried to overthrow a legitimate election, we shouldn't "get political" regarding stories about deplatforming those people, is welcome to stop reading. -j.s.
I’d have a lot more sympathy for
@TwitterDev
taking control of its platform if it had ever showed any ability to create great user experiences itself. Instead it’s been
@Twitterrific
&
@tweetbot
that have done the work to make the platform better.
#BreakingMyTwitter
Follow-up: This display is running a current build of iOS 15.4 and generates its own sysdiagnose file containing the phrase "iPhone-OS_AppleDisplay."
So it's basically an iPhone 11.
I've been editing
@theincomparable
on my iPad with an Apple Pencil for about ten months now. I thought I'd document my process in a video, so here it is:
<reads another complaint about there being too many subscription apps, websites, and streaming services>
Back in the day there were hundreds of magazines you could subscribe to. You had to pick the ones you wanted to read, pay for them, and not read the rest.
It was fine.
Did some work in macOS Catalina today on a Retina MacBook Air booted from an external SSD. Portability was ensured by worst possible method: duct tape.
Me: Oh boy a Dropbox survey! Maybe they're seeing the error of their ways when it comes to choices they're making for small businesses like mine!
Dropbox: Do you send faxes?
Me: .... No?
Dropbox: OK that's all we wanted to know!
iPad Pro dreams: If it's truly got an A12X processor, could Apple maybe make Safari offer a Mac user agent so we can not load mobile web pages by default? We've got a big screen and the best JavaScript benchmarks, we can take it!
I talked to an exec at a company that makes UWB chips to get a better idea how Apple's embrace of this tech in the iPhone 11 family could mean big things beyond AirDrop and tile trackers:
After 24 hours of trying to use Catalina in earnest with all my data and apps intact, the new security features are incredibly annoying. Apps constantly asking for permission to see various folders, lots of relaunches and trips to System Preferences. It's really unpleasant.
Me: "Hey Siri, play my playlist 'Top Songs of 2018'"
HomePod: "Here's CLASH's Top 40 Songs of 2018"
Rather than play a playlist of mine with that exact title, Siri decided I wanted to hear a random magazine's shared playlist.
I love how HomePod sounds, but this is garbage.
We’ve heard feedback (
#breakingmytwitter
) from our customers about the pain this causes. We’re committed to understanding why people hire 3rd party clients over our own apps, and we’re going to do better with communicating changes
This week
@AgileBits
said it would replace the native Mac version of
@1Password
. I understand the business decision (and the current state of SwiftUI is an accomplice), but in the end I'm just sad that the Mac isn't important enough for many developers.
WeWork's CEO tells WSJ there is an easy way for companies to spot their most engaged employees: They’re the ones who want to come back to the office. “Those who are least engaged are very comfortable working from home,” he said.
As someone who uses Up Next on an Apple TV every single day, pushing Up Next down to make room for stuff I didn't choose is a spectacularly bad decision.
This is like Netflix taking the shows I'm watching and hiding them amid dozens of other titles. WTF.
Would be a real shame if Apple suspended his account because they don't like that he's smart enough to uncover things they've accidentally shipped publicly. That would be petty retaliation.
Back in August, Apple locked me out of my developer account, preventing me from updating my apps on the App Store.
They didn’t provide any explanation or reason, and since then I’ve reached out to them many times, without success.
One of the weirder decisions Apple made for iOS 13 is to take this icon, which you're probably very familiar with as meaning "bookmarks", and redefine it to mean "Apple Books", and ban its use for anything else:
I know that watchOS 7 uses machine learning to notice that you're washing your hands, but perhaps Apple could use some machine learning to more accurately detect standing too?
The Fake News hates me saying that they are the Enemy of the People only because they know it’s TRUE. I am providing a great service by explaining this to the American People. They purposely cause great division & distrust. They can also cause War! They are very dangerous & sick!
Only mob I saw was the one you egged on, Senator Sedition.
Also, you might want to learn better lessons from Orwell. He was warning us about people like you.
@AstroKatie
Like 20 years ago I went to my doctor and said, "I think I might be dying?" and he said "No, you just have the flu."
Like everyone, I thought "the flu" was just a really bad cold. It is so not that. People still don't understand.
Clint & I have been blessed to be Rance Howard’s sons. Today he passed at 89. He stood especially tall 4 his ability to balance ambition w/great personal integrity. A depression-era farm boy, his passion for acting changed the course of our family history. We love & miss U Dad.
Apple historians only do stuff like this because Apple has no sense of its own history. Apple, if you want to post this stuff on your own YouTube channel, go right ahead.
The way it should work in a democracy: When you lose an election you try to figure out how to change your message/policies to appeal to a broader slice of the electorate.
Georgia GOP: Let's just change the laws again to make it even harder to vote.
GOP chair of the Gwinnett County elections board on why she wants GA legislature to impose new restrictions on voting. “They don’t have to change all of them, but they’ve got to change the major parts of them so that we at least have a shot at winning.”