skulblaka

While you may be correct I think you’re still missing the point. CLI is for super nerds. While you and I may know how to use it, the average person doesn’t, and is unlikely to put in the effort to learn. That is the innovation that Apple made in bringing computing to the mainstream. It was precisely because people didn’t have to learn how to navigate the CLI environment and instead got an easy point-and-click interface that computers caught on with the public at large, and that gained Apple an absolute ton of cash money and noteriety.

Your phone has to be informed somehow, from the internet, that it has data to present as a notification. The fact that you got a notification at 3:32 and then again at 3:35 is trackable data, pretty much no matter what anyone does with it, encrypted or not. Doubly so if someone has MITM attacked your data stream. They may not know what the notification contains or even what app it was sent to, but the act of transmitting and then receiving this data packet over cell network or internet is a trackable event. And I don’t really know what Apple could even do about that beyond attempting to build Internet 2 solely for the purposes of keeping the cops out of it, which is unlikely at best.

Right, and the first Starlink launch was in 2019. So, at absolute maximum, these satellites have a total lifespan of 4 years, if the ones coming down now are the very first ones ever launched into orbit.

That’s, if you’ll excuse my language, fucking abysmal. This is what’s supposed to bring reliable internet access to the distant corners of the globe? A constellation of million dollar satellites that crumble into dust on re-entry every four years? Maintaining this, and God forbid scaling it up to actually serve a majority of the world population, would be a stupendous and recurring waste of money, materials, and labor. Elon has a stable full of actual rocket scientists over at SpaceX, fucking use them. Max lifespan of four years for a “permanent” satellite constellation is actually laughable. The ISS has been in stable orbit since 1998. DIRECTV had better satellite longevity than Starlink.

By all means, design them to deorbit so that when humanity cooks itself off the face of the planet next century we aren’t left with 300,000 starlink satellites trashing up our cosmic lawn for eternity. But maybe design them to deorbit later. At this rate we’ll be turning a percent of the world’s GDP into literal smoke each year as a fifth of the Starlink constellation rains down over the plains of Africa.

a plurality

Yeah, about ten guys who were bought and sold by Russia and a couple thousand other folks that fell for their con. By no means a majority and also by no means a reasonable stance.

Exactly this. “Properly” covering the topic would require 18 movies covering several hundred years of history and containing both World Wars. Sometimes it’s just out of scope for the project you’re trying to make. It would be great for a podcast series or for a long series of documentaries, not so much for a single movie with a 180 minute runtime.

Bring back capes. I want a big fur cloak in the winter.