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86·6 months agoSecond. John Barnett was the first in early March.
3·7 months agoMisread, but I’m leaving it!
“May you live in interesting times.”
11·8 months agoYup. FCC abandoning the Fairness Doctrine under Reagan is what brought us sensationalism in broadcast news. Instead, it should have been expanded to cover anything using the term like “news” and “current events”, similar to other protected terminology like “professional engineer”. Cable news never being covered by FD was also ridiculous.
More info: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ronald-reagan-fairness-doctrine/
8·8 months agoApple locks old devices out of updates
Dropping support for older platforms happens for a number of reasons, including hardware-level security problems and lack of interest for ongoing maintenance. Linux distributions even drop support for older hardware. Even the Linux kernel itself has dropped support. A decision to not keep supporting a piece of hardware is not the same as preventing updates.
The thing to focus on isn’t that Apple halts maintaining its own OSes on older hardware. Rather, we should press hardware makers and regulators on the boot loader locks and other obstacles that prevent end users from installing alternate OSes, especially once hardware makers end OS support for hardware. E.g., older iPads that can’t run modern iPadOS but could easily run a lightweight Linux distribution. This applies to more than just Apple, like some Android devices. “Internet of Things” devices are similarly affected – Belkin halted support for a generation of Wemo smart plugs when a vulnerability came out – they told consumers to buy new Wemos and provided no alternate path for the older, still functional plugs.
When has being ineffective ever disqualified someone from Congress?
… I started writing this reply to be funny, then I realized it’s basically true, then I got sad.
30·9 months agoLots of discussion here of Zed being macOS-only. Multiplatform support is being tracked in this issue for Linux, Windows, and web:
It’s available in the API and in some apps. I’m using Memmy for iOS right now and I get both.