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Yeah, I can see why someone might assume that the activation lock would be disabled in that scenario. But on the other hand, I can also see why someone would absolutely expect that…

I think they've got a fair point, though, that a number of those issues with the eSIM reflect reliance on factors outside their control (for example, whether or not one's carrier h…

Engineering the virus doesn’t mean making gain-of-function mutations. “Function” has a specific meaning and it’s not a synonym for “does anything.” Instead, in broad strokes, think…

Apple has confirmed to the media that as of December 2022 that they are not pursuing on-device CSAM scanning: https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/9/23500838/apple-csam-plans... macOS …

I don’t use dictation often, but I’ve not had any issues on iOS 16 (US English, iPhone 12). One caveat is that I’d been using the betas, so I didn’t upgrade straight from iOS 15 to…

Contra (preposition): 1: AGAINST — used chiefly in the phrase pro and contra 2: in opposition or contrast to (Source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/contra ) Wirecutter…

The Cochrane Reviews are regarded as one of the preeminent collections of systematic reviews in medicine. They conclude that “overall, the reliable evidence available does not supp…

You can use the 'man' command in Terminal to pull up the man page (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page ) for 'powerd' (that is, by typing 'man powerd'). By doing so, you'll…

This report worried me, but it was timely because I was literally in the process of upgrading to macOS 11.2.3. So, while the update was downloading, I changed my firewall settings …

There’s much that can be said about Twitter’s moderation policies, but entirely orthogonal to that, this quotation should be mighty upsetting to anyone who hews to the basic tenets…

It may just be jargon specific to the Swift community: https://www.google.com/search?q=swift+evolution+%22currency+...

The term "currency type" is used here to mean a type that is commonly used. For example, although there are a variety of range types in the Swift standard library ('Range', 'Closed…

I'm curious what your results would be with the stock Terminal. Do you have the settings that others have talked about under "Security > Privacy > Developer Tools" with Terminal.ap…

Last I heard, my employer (large hospital in New York) is looking to buy. If you could reach out by email, I will pass it along to the relevant people. Thanks!

It's OK to be scared. You're not alone in that. It can be helpful to have someone to talk to. Even as we're trying to keep our physical distance, know that it's OK to reach out for…

The problem, of course, is that elsewhere in the chain there was in fact too much checking and too little trust. In this case, it started with not trusting the physician to enter a…

This is an interesting demonstration of a hard edge of the language. It's not because Swift holds some sort of grudge against dynamic dispatch, but rather because it's trying to re…

Fun anecdote: Born in China, given a Chinese name, then naturalized in Canada. My name was spelled out phonetically on Canadian documents, unsurprisingly. When I return to China no…