If your site goes down people can assume it’s cloudflare’s fault. You can blend in with the crowd without actually using CF.

I assume they will produce their own AI once the dust settles, just like they produce their own chips now.

Apple has generally been a company that waits, gets criticized for being behind, and then produces a better version (more usable, better integrated, etc), claims it is new, and everybody buys it. Meanwhile a few people moan about how Apple wasn't actually the first to make it.

Old Apple wasn't run by ex-Microsoft and ex-consultancy MBAs... a serious cultural rot has set in and the much of the "bottom up" component powering much of the innovation is nothing but smoldering coals.

The golden goose is dead.

I recently took the time, despite having committed to never bother again, to write some feedback to Apple. I can’t even remember what it was about, but it was a big deal for me to break my commitment. I spent 15 minutes writing it up, getting screenshots marked up…

And the form refused to submit. I was on my iPhone. I clicked the button. Nothing happened. I clicked it again. Nothing.

I reminded myself of the reason I had my commitment: Apple does not want my feedback.

I was actually in the feedback form a few days (just to leave a quick rant what an absolute mess this 'liquid glass' iOS-update is after I sadly chose to update...)

And look what happens, it turns out if you switch app-focus and go back to the app (now immediately focused on the text input) your on-screen keyboard becomes pretty much unreadable (white on light grey...)

The feedback is probably going straight to the bin but I couldn't help myself to file a second bug with a screenshot from the first feedback submission with a broken keyboard.

Screenshot of this absolute disaster: https://imgur.com/a/CyXiVy2

All criticism of Apple’s UI would count, as Dye was in charge of it and ultimately responsible, whether he is named in the article or not.

And Gruber has been at least this harsh on the UI before.

Unless you are buying cards. Maybe candy, too? I’d be curious about that.

Yep. And it's worse than that.

80% of prescriptions are controlled by 3 companies. You can look up the FTC report on it. All three of them own or are owned by insurance companies.

The insurance companies had their profit percentage capped, and so the only way they could increase profits was by increasing their share of the pie. So they bought medical providers and prescription companies.

Now the insurance company is both the buyer and the seller, but not the one who pays. We pay. So they raise the prices of the drug, raise the cost of insurance, and make a lot more money while staying in their profit percent cap.

All the way around, this is the opposite of a free market and the FTC should be breaking these companies up. And as everybody knows, all the way around, it is immoral, too.

A lot of dead BASE jumpers disagree...

Sounds like a juicy list to sell. Guaranteed 100% human marks.

In my state you still have a choice to pay more for a REAL ID, or just get a plain old drivers license.

Are there some onerous requirements for REAL IDs which require it to be more expensive, or is this a short-sighted money making scheme for the states?

To get a real ID you need to prove your citizenship, which is usually some combination of your birth certificate and/or passport or other IDs. Not really a big deal

But does mean an office visit rather than (sometimes) a renewal by mail.

having reliable government IDs means that people will be inconvenienced

Depends on the state: https://www.usa.gov/real-id

But the entire point of the law is to prevent you from pretending to be somebody you aren't. So this defeats the purpose, unless the whole thing is security theater... which it is.