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  • Delta to give every flight attendant an iPhone 12 with AT&T 5G

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    What does this mean:

    ”access in-cabin inventory”.     ??

    is this referring to the passengers?  (Eg are there any passengers that did not board and hence we have an empty seat?)
    mknelsonanantksundaram

  • Apple will switch to randomized serial numbers in early 2021

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    jdw said:
    I've seen a lot of screencasts on YouTube where people blur out their S/N for reasons I never could understand. As if someone would see that S/N and then appear at your front door the next morning!  Sorry but that isn't happening.  Well, perhaps this change will eliminate blurred out info on screencasts once and for all.  

    As to being able to look up details of a machine by S/N, if that aspect goes away, what replaces it?  Meaning, how would one quickly determine details of their machine in a similarly easy manner via a third party like EveryMac?

    https://everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup/


    The reason people blur out their SN is so that dishonest people don’t generate fake paperwork to claim ownership and then file a stolen item report and claim you stole it.  That sort of thing. 
    viclauyycbyronlFileMakerFellerStrangeDaysdysamoriapscooter63

  • Security researcher raises questions about trackers in LastPass Android app

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    Not to defend tracking but

    Google Crashlytics is not really a tracker.  It helps developers get understandable crash dumps. That is all it does. 

    I think Google Analytics and Google Firebase Analytics are the same. IIRC everything got moved to the firebase label.  I could be wrong.  The app my company makes does not track any identifiable data and just tracks randomized usage info (what menus or tabs or whatever the user hits so we know what the app coverage is) as well as some performance metrics. We use the Google firebase analytics / Google Analytics stuff and Google Crashlytics. 
    muthuk_vanalingamgatorguy

  • DirecTV to become standalone company after AT&T, TPG Capital ink deal

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    Big company buys smaller company in a different but somewhat related field.  Claims the cost of the merger or acquisition is worth it due to synergies, growth in customer base, etc.  a few years later, big company sells or spins off smaller company after absorbing losses and all sorts of expenses and costs.  

    How often have we seen that happen?   Next time big company comes out with a takeover, it is a clue to get out of big company.   

    (Note I am not talking about companies like Apple that buy up really small companies for their technology or their people ).  
    n2itivguy

  • VW chief 'not afraid' of 'Apple Car' entering the market

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    elijahg said:

    You realise neither Apple nor Google created iOS or Android from scratch? NeXT didn't even create NextStep from scratch, it was forked from BSD. I imagine most car companies will use a variant on Android, as many do now.
    No.  While NeXT did not make NextStep and then OpenStep from scratch, it is not a fork of BSD.   The Next stuff is based on a Mach kernel.  Not a BSD Kernel.  They created a kernel interface that used the BSD APIs so that they could easily port higher level stuff over and for example, used a BSD user land (shells and libs etc).  I don’t know which Mach originally was used but my understanding is that OS X was a Mach 2 and Mach 3 hybrid.  And probably still is.   It is now called xnu (since Apple took over) and the details are here

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU





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