>It wasn’t that long ago when Facebook had to get special permission from the government to stay private until they got to $100 billion.
is this true? There was the "Jumpstart Our Business Startups" (JOBS) Act, signed by Obama around that time that changed the maximum number of private investors or whatever, but was special permission given to Facebook?
> replay of Y2K, where, compared to the warnings, not lot happened
My dad was on one of the many Y2K teams that major tech companies had to make sure nothing went wrong. I feel like history may have undersold what could've been if not for considerable effort leading up to Jan 1, 2000.
SIP is similar to an enhanced secure boot. It's not (at least not primarily) for DRM.
He might be talking about a Gatekeeper override which is available by digging into the system settings? This allows you to run insecure resigned software (like pirated software is a common use case, honestly). But you only have to do this once, it isn't some constant headache.
I'm not sure what exactly he's referencing, actually. But it can almost all be disabled on macOS (the same is not true of iOS).
> discourage their adversaries from looking for the beacon signal
I thought the exact same thing the moment I saw it. LPI (low probability of intercept) beacon just makes so much more sense (in the kit the pilot ejects with... has existed for decades). Why would they bother detecting heartbeats? They might not even detect the right one or trigger on an animal or whatever.
Yeah but the base Mac Mini comes with 16GB. So getting that for $600 instead of a very clapped out M1 for $300 seems worth it. That's what I thought when I was browsing on ebay, anyway.
> Hope you can still resume working on your projects without AI.
How often does technology really move backwards? I can already run a decent local model on a spec’d out MacBook and for better or worse electronics/computers moves one direction (with minor supply chain hiccups along the way notwithstanding)
Looks cool. I've used BlaBlaCar (paid carpooling) in Europe a few times to get to difficult to reach ski resorts and such. I wish we had that here in the US.
is this true? There was the "Jumpstart Our Business Startups" (JOBS) Act, signed by Obama around that time that changed the maximum number of private investors or whatever, but was special permission given to Facebook?