Apple's New Proprietary Software Locks Kill Independent Repair on New MacBook Pros
The new system will render the computer ?inoperative? unless a proprietary Apple ?system configuration? software is run after parts of the system are replaced.
Today we'll start our adventure with Apple.QuoteApple's New Proprietary Software Locks Kill Independent Repair on New MacBook Pros
The new system will render the computer ?inoperative? unless a proprietary Apple ?system configuration? software is run after parts of the system are replaced.
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https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/yw9qk7/macbook-pro-software-locks-prevent-independent-repair
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Earth appears to be undergoing a process of "biological annihilation."Humanity Has Killed 83% of All Wild Mammals and Half of All Plants, Of all the birds left in the world, 70% are poultry chickens and other farmed birdsSource. A 2017 study looked at animal populations across the planet by examining 27,600 vertebrate species — about half of the overall total that we know exist. They found that more than 30% of them are in decline. Some species are facing total collapse, while local populations of others are going extinct in specific areas. Moreover humans wiped out 60% of animal populations since 1970 Source
Insects are dying off at record rates. Roughly 40% of the world's insect species are in decline, according to one study. Insects aren't the only creatures taking a hit. In the past 50 years, more than 500 amphibian species have declined worldwide — and 90 have gone extinct — due to a deadly fungal disease that corrodes frog flesh. Source
And Plants are going extinct up to 350 times faster than the historical norm
As the rest of the Earth warms, animals will be forced to migrate en masse. This means animals carrying tropical diseases (such as malaria. To give you an idea of why this should really scare you is because diseases like camel flu have a mortality rate of 36%. And the world’s hospitals are not ready for the health challenges of climate change
Fashion is also to blame. In 2015, fashion create more emissions than all international flights and maritime shipping combined. Around 10% of global greenhouse gas emission are churned out by the fashion industry, due to its long supply chains and energy intensive production. Textile factories in China, where “over 50%” of the worlds clothing is now made” spew out around three billion tons of soot every year burning coal, contaminating the air leading to respiratory and heart disease. Textile mills are estimated to generate 20% of the world’s industrial water pollution and use 20,000 chemicals, many of them carcinogenic. While people bought 60% more garments in 2014 than in 2000, they only kept the clothes for half as long (throwing 80lbs of cloths a year per American).
The rich know that it is too late, and they will be the only one to survive the global warming article. They are building bunkers and buying NZ passports to fly there when SHTF happens and that’s why they are getting richer and richer exponentially. For example Canada, Norway and Brasil will flood the world with oil just to profit at the maximum Article from NYT from today "Flood of Oil Is Coming, Complicating Efforts to Fight Global Warming". And if anything happens they will just buy Visas and passports for 1M+ and bug out while migrants are put into concentration camps. Moreover The wealthy are plotting to leave us behind
aren't liquidized fish supposed to be high end fertilizer for hydroponics? i would love a few gallons of blood to compost for the garden!
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusive/exclusive-apple-dropped-plan-for-encrypting-backups-after-fbi-complained-sources-idUSKBN1ZK1CT (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusive/exclusive-apple-dropped-plan-for-encrypting-backups-after-fbi-complained-sources-idUSKBN1ZK1CT)
Panel on MSNBC defending billionaires, saying Bernie is “alienating” them, people like Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos made “our lives better”, it’s being “against aspiration” & have to be careful about “creating unnecessary class war.”
“we could give you a link to this mp3 OR we could run it in a proprietary player app that must connect to the internet every time you hit the resume button”
how do we explain to children that all our tech briefly worked perfectly and over time we threw it all away for sleek menus and corporate opacity
when i upgraded from a flip phone to an iphone and realized i could no longer record and set a custom ringtone because apple wanted me to buy radio pop ringtones, i realized, oh cool new tech isnt made for us it’s made to exploit us and we are going to let it happen
Quote from: https://taragrimface.tumblr.com/post/186996094466/mobile“we could give you a link to this mp3 OR we could run it in a proprietary player app that must connect to the internet every time you hit the resume button”
how do we explain to children that all our tech briefly worked perfectly and over time we threw it all away for sleek menus and corporate opacity
when i upgraded from a flip phone to an iphone and realized i could no longer record and set a custom ringtone because apple wanted me to buy radio pop ringtones, i realized, oh cool new tech isnt made for us it’s made to exploit us and we are going to let it happen
We engineered a wearable microphone jammer that is capable of disabling microphones in its user’s surroundings, including hidden microphones. Our device is based on a recent exploit that leverages the fact that when exposed to ultrasonic noise, commodity microphones will leak the noise into the audible range.
At least 950,000 coronavirus patients in the US could need ventilators, according to the Society of Critical Care Medicine, but hospitals here have just 160,000. Between five to 10 companies in the world supply most of the planet’s breathing machines and they weren’t ready for this.
President Donald Trump said testily at a recent press conference that he was ordering “a lot” of ventilators although he was vague on the details.
Ventilators cost only about $35,000, peanuts to the elites. But because the US healthcare industry is about making money, no one heeded warnings going back more than a decade that the country should stockpile the machines.
“Hospitals in America are all about trying to be profitable, they’re not about being prepared for a disaster,” says Dr. Tim Kruse, who makes house calls in Aspen for his billionaire patients who are fretting about getting a ventilator if they need one. “Having a bunch of ventilators sitting around in storage affects their bottom line.”
Another former Facebook executive has spoken out about the harm the social network is doing to civil society around the world. Chamath Palihapitiya, who joined Facebook in 2007 and became its vice president for user growth, said he feels “tremendous guilt” about the company he helped create. “I think we have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of countries around the world,” he told an audience at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Palihapitiya’s criticisms were aimed not only at Facebook, but the wider online ecosystem. “The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops we’ve created are destroying how society works,” he said, referring to online interactions driven by “hearts, likes, thumbs-up.” “No civil discourse, no cooperation; misinformation, mistruth. And it’s not an American problem — this is not about Russians ads. This is a global problem.”
This is getting way out of control, I can't access my files even when I am not playing Valorant. I'm starting to think Vanguard is mainly used for datamining purposes since there are already cheaters in the game and Riot can't do anything about it.
Edit: Yes, I uninstalled the game right after I took the screenshot. If you plan to do it too, be sure to also uninstall Riot Vanguard because they uninstall separately, which is very shady as well.
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i hate this shit.
https://SORRY DISCORD IS NOT SUPPORTED DUE TO LINK ROT/attachments/630599999629295626/708075749973819432/1588888664055.webm
i hate this shit.
is this supposed to boost morale or something?
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Alright lets see if you can fuckin see this one coming.magnificent. i was guessing toilet paper, real estate training, simulated dog sex, and then..
Alright lets see if you can fuckin see this one coming.
Alright lets see if you can fuckin see this one coming.
God fuck I hate this so much
outstanding.
man imagine if congress was warned 20 years ago the DMCA was a goddamn shit mess of a law and would certainly devolve into dystopianism.
Now even e-thots are using it as a censor button for when they get caught choking their dog or whatever.
There's a protest outside Jeff Bezos' mansion in DC happening currently. Metro Police Department have closed off the street.
There's a DC-themed decorative guillotine on display. A fun fact about Bezos' home is that it is the largest in the city and cost $23 million. During its renovation, the project racked up more than $16,000 in parking tickets alone.
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10:20 <rachel> god fucking damn it
10:20 <rachel> I hate comcast
10:20 <rachel> I finally figured out why my credit score was getting fucked up
10:20 <rachel> because comcast apparently never charged me for the last month of service after I cancelled????
10:20 <rachel> instead of like, charging the credit card I already had on file with them
10:20 <rachel> they just sent my last month of service to collections?????????/
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Work. Consume. Your life means nothing without it.
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Q: What are the ingredients of Silly Putty
A: Crayola acquired the exclusive manufacturing rights to Silly Putty in 1977. The formulas are considered proprietary.
Product has been certified as nontoxic by the Art & Creative Materials Institute, Inc. and conforms to ASM D 4236 standard practice for labeling art materials for acute and chronic adverse health hazards.
Elmer’s School Glue is certified by the Art & Creative Materials Institute, Inc. (ACMI) as non-toxic and child-friendly. Under this evaluation Elmer’s School Glue has been evaluated by a board certified toxicologist and has been determined to not cause acute or chronic health problems when used as intended
ACMI was initially known as the Crayon, Water Color & Craft Institute, Inc. It was renamed the Art & Craft Materials Institute in 1982. It adopted its current name in the late 2000s. ACMI was founded in 1936 and is currently headquartered in Hingham, Massachusetts.
Google suspended Element from the Play Store without warning or notification. We submitted an appeal asking for clarification at 23:18, and at 05:31 received a generic update from the Google Play Policy team citing that the app has been removed due to content which contravenes their terms of use, and asking us to “make the necessary changes to [our] app” and “upload a new app using a new package name and a new app name”.
whats the OSS alternative to youtube? gun nerds have been making alternate sites for a while.. Full30, Gunstreamer seem to be the new ones, but a lot of stuff gets uploaded to Pornhub
CEO of TX gas company is giddy on call with shareholders over profits this week from storm. “This week is like hitting the jackpot with some of these incredible prices. We were able to sell at super premium prices for a material amount of production.”
"Paying workers $15 per hr doesn't make you a 'progressive workplace' when you union-bust & make workers urinate in water bottles."
"We're pressured to get these routes done before night time and having to find a restroom would mean driving an extra 10 minutes off path to find one," an Amazon delivery driver told Motherboard. "Ten to fifteen minutes to find a bathroom can add up, meaning 20 to 30 minutes there and back all together."
"Obviously we drink a lot of water throughout the day so this is happening a lot through the drive," they continued. "I can tell you that if I drove to find a restroom that I would be bringing back packages every night and that would eventually mean I would get infractions, which would lead to termination.
Ultimately, what defines advertising is payment and control.
peeing in water bottles is pretty common for delivery drivers. ask around. yes, it sucks.Ultimately, what defines advertising is payment and control.
hot take: facebook, google, and youtube are all ADVERTISERS. That's how they make their money.
it should be illegal to advertise to children.
Amazon will fire anyone who doesn't deliver enough packages in a day, so delivery drivers have to resort to peeing in bottles to not get fired.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7amyn/amazon-denies-workers-pee-in-bottles-here-are-the-pee-bottles
(https://video-images.vice.com/_uncategorized/1616687224368-signal-2021-03-25-111437002.jpeg)Quote"Paying workers $15 per hr doesn't make you a 'progressive workplace' when you union-bust & make workers urinate in water bottles."Quote"We're pressured to get these routes done before night time and having to find a restroom would mean driving an extra 10 minutes off path to find one," an Amazon delivery driver told Motherboard. "Ten to fifteen minutes to find a bathroom can add up, meaning 20 to 30 minutes there and back all together."
"Obviously we drink a lot of water throughout the day so this is happening a lot through the drive," they continued. "I can tell you that if I drove to find a restroom that I would be bringing back packages every night and that would eventually mean I would get infractions, which would lead to termination.
Amazon will fire anyone who doesn't deliver enough packages in a day, so delivery drivers have to resort to peeing in bottles to not get fired.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7amyn/amazon-denies-workers-pee-in-bottles-here-are-the-pee-bottles
(https://video-images.vice.com/_uncategorized/1616687224368-signal-2021-03-25-111437002.jpeg)Quote"Paying workers $15 per hr doesn't make you a 'progressive workplace' when you union-bust & make workers urinate in water bottles."Quote"We're pressured to get these routes done before night time and having to find a restroom would mean driving an extra 10 minutes off path to find one," an Amazon delivery driver told Motherboard. "Ten to fifteen minutes to find a bathroom can add up, meaning 20 to 30 minutes there and back all together."
"Obviously we drink a lot of water throughout the day so this is happening a lot through the drive," they continued. "I can tell you that if I drove to find a restroom that I would be bringing back packages every night and that would eventually mean I would get infractions, which would lead to termination.
This is not uncommon in all kinds of trade/labor industries. I'm honestly sick of people seeing Amazon doing shit and acting like it's some new horrific thing.
I think the difference between Amazon and most other warehousing companies is the fact that Amazon is one of the largest corporations in the world. They can afford to treat their employees better. Also, consumers are buying directly from these Amazon warehouses instead of buying from companies that use unknown 3rd parties for managing their warehouses.
I think the difference between Amazon and most other warehousing companies is the fact that Amazon is one of the largest corporations in the world. They can afford to treat their employees better. Also, consumers are buying directly from these Amazon warehouses instead of buying from companies that use unknown 3rd parties for managing their warehouses.
As opposed to the warehouses of other gigantic companies like Walmart, Home Depot, Target, etc?
If you release open source hardware, software, or designs make sure to file patents :)
and in all the press releases "real" is capitalized
edit: aw those fuckos removed it. It was a whole video about how you should be the company's interests before your own, and its very important to be loyal to the company.
In a run that lasted some two decades, American industry reached levels of industry concentration arguably unseen since the original Trust era. A full 75 percent of industries witnessed increased concentration from the years 1997 to 2012, according to an extensive study by economist Gustavo Grullon and his co-authors, which was echoed by studies by the Council of Economic Advisors in the White House, and an independent study by the Economist magazine.
But to get a sense beyond the statistics it is worth considering some concrete examples:
The AT&T monopoly, which had been forced to divide into 8 pieces, was allowed, over the 2000s, to reconstitute itself in two giant firms: Verizon and AT&T. Later, AT&T bought DirecTV and then TimeWarner to return close to its size in the 1980s. The idea of allowing AT&T to come back in such a fashion might have seemed shocking to those who thought the breakup was important to competition.
The airline industry, which had been deregulated in the 1970s with the goal of increasing competition, was allowed to merge into an increasingly smaller number of “major” airlines. Delta bought Northwestern airlines; United bought Continental, and American bought U.S. Airlines, reducing the total number of traditional major airlines to just three. Since then, the airlines have found it easy to cooperate on matters like the shrinking of seats or the introduction of new fees, yielding unprecedented profit for years on end.
The cable industry, which at one point in the 1960s had been an upstart challenger to the broadcasters, was allowed to combine into just three major regional monopolies, facing limited competition in each area. Cable was also freed to charge monopoly prices, and happily raised monthly prices at some eight times the rate of inflation. During a period of historically low inflation, it managed to raise its prices by an impressive 8 percent per year. Bills that were once in the $30–40 range rose over $100, and as much as $200 per month.
The pharmaceutical industry, which had been fairly fragmented, underwent a major consolidation from 2005 through 2017, with thousands of combinations that reduced the international market from some sixty-odd firms to about ten. This consolidation was international in scope. Meanwhile, within the United States, enforcement agencies allowed passage of a new and disturbing kind of drug acquisition: the sale of a drug to a firm whose immediate design was to take full advantage of the monopoly pricing potential, by raising prices by at least 1,000 percent and sometimes as much as 6,000 percent. The most famous example was that of an opportunistic young man named Martin Shkreli who managed to acquire the facilities for the production of a rare drug named Daraprim, and immediately increased the price from $13.50 a pill to $750. But that was just one of many similar transactions—none of which were challenged—and indeed the price of Daraprim remains at $750.
Ticketmaster, the nation’s dominant seller of tickets to live events, was allowed to merge with LiveNation, the nation’s near-monopoly promoter of events. Among other effects, this deal allowed Ticketmaster to survive any potential challenge in primary ticket sales stemming either from Live-Nation’s own entry, or from any internet startups.
Bayer, the German descendent of the I.G. Farben monopoly, was allowed to buy Monsanto to reduce the global seed and pesticide industry to just three major players. (Other mergers include a Dow-DuPont merger and ChemChina’s acquisition of Syngenta.) Over recent years, the price of a bag of seed corn has risen from $80 to $300, based on reduced competition.
The global beer industry consolidated into a single firm in 2016, as Anheuser-Busch InBev and SABMiller merged. The combination controls over 2,000 beers, including most of the major non-craft brands in the world like Budweiser, Beck’s Bass, Labatt’s, Michelob, Corona, and Stella Artois. In the United States, Anheuser-Busch InBev and Miller-Coors control over 70 percent of beer sales.
And of all of the blind spots during the last decade, the greatest was surely that which allowed the almost entirely uninhibited consolidation of the tech industry into a new class of
Exxon claims to support global effort to tackle climate change, but it hasn’t always. Throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, the company orchestrated a multimillion-dollar disinformation campaign that manufactured doubt regarding the link between global warming and the burning of fossil fuels.
McCoy told an undercover Unearthed reporter that the company had cast doubt on the scientific consensus: “Did we aggressively fight against some of the science? Yes. Did we hide our science, absolutely not. Did we join some of these ‘shadow groups’ to work against some of the early efforts? Yes, that’s true. But there’s nothing illegal about that. You know, we were looking out for our investments, we were looking out for our shareholders.”
that was my first look at how people used to be treated, which is probably why employers feel entitled to a pool of desperate and impoverished workers
Never forget this is how your bosses would treat you if it where legal. Join a union today
The poor jobless are a "reserve army of labour", that can be called upon when current workers won't put up with the bullshit. The very bottom classes keep wages down, and so capitalism will never get rid of poverty.
This is how immigrant workers live in Qatar right now though. With ~2.7 million people living there, 2 million of them are immigrants. 6500 real people died building that cursed stadium.
Never forget ppl with power have to be forced to do the right thing
Lots of people in this world, this is still the reality. Things we buy in the USA depend on the labor of people in bad situations. Here in the US we might not have an elevator stuffed with people but we immigrants working shoulder to shoulder in processing plants where the air quality is horrible, where the people are packed in busses way past capacity and shipped from farm to farm. Last time I was in Florida a bunch of men as dirty as these workers got off a bus that was packed beyond capacity. They had obviously been doing hard labor in the heat all day.
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/moviepass-track-eyes-phone-cameras-b2013273.html (https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/moviepass-track-eyes-phone-cameras-b2013273.html)
Google’s AdWords system was designed to track how many people click on an ad after they search for a keyword. Google would no longer mine behavioral data strictly to improve service for users but rather to read users’ minds for the purposes of matching ads to their interests.
I think a good rule of thumb is that any company that has to write a slavery policy is probably up to something.
From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MUEXGaxFDA (crosspost https://wetfishonline.com/forum/index.php?topic=3831.msg29090)QuoteI think a good rule of thumb is that any company that has to write a slavery policy is probably up to something.
If your insurance is automated, pricing decisions seem objective and the contract can be revised in real time.
Everything is stuffed with sensors now, and data is already being collected and sold. It has been for years. So there's a constantly updating profile of your behavior, and a neural network can use it to more perfectly screw you.
Things had to develop this way because stock prices have to go up. Insurance adjustment must go from slow, messy and human to this frictionless process that always happening. A kind of stock ticker on the value of your life.
As we run out of new sources of wealth, all the slack has to get taken out of the existing ones, because the number has to go up.