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rcfa said:

Does Apple document somewhere what data they can and cannot decrypt without the user handing over their password by free will?

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303

eriamjh said:

Could someone Explain like I’m five what the SDKs (Software Developer Kits) are doing or used for in the Shazam app?  

Edited: Software was Supplier. Thanks.

Think of an app like a car.  If you break down all of the parts which go into making a car, the engine, the wheels, etc, you'll find that not everything is made by the same manufacturer.  The company which sells you the car has gone out and contracted other manufacturers to make some of the parts for them (which they then assemble into the entire car).

An app is the same way.  SDKs (software development kits) provided by other companies give app developers the "parts" they need to make a full app.  What Apple has done is eliminated some of those parts (especially the advertising related ones) because they aren't needed anymore since Apple doesn't need to use advertising & data harvesting to fund the development of Shazam.

While not ideal, there's always the option of using a Mac Mini as a router if you have an old one kicking around (though obviously you'll be limited to whatever Wi-Fi speed it supports).  Just connect the Ethernet port to your main internet connection, then turn on Internet Sharing to Wi-Fi.

TEAMSWITCHER whined:

we have code that works great on even Intel graphics but fails on machines with AMD graphics.  We are simply done with this.

The stench of vested interest/paid posts is getting intolerable.  Please show this code (if it actually exists).

ericthehalfbee said:

zoetmb said:

krreagan2 said:

Auto drive can't come early enough! Especially for the long haul truckers!

The Teamsters Union has 1.4 million members.   Do you really think they're not going to react when they start losing jobs to self-driving trucks?

If the only thing that happens from the arrival of self-driving trucks is to piss off the Teamsters, then that's already a good enough reason.

And now I'm going to argue the opposite side of the coin.  My father was a manual labourer who worked in road construction and lived through a period where there were literally no rights for people in that line of work.  For example, you'd travel out to the middle of nowhere to work, but if it happened to rain for a week and you weren't able to do the job guess what... you didn't get paid (but yet you were stuck out there with living expenses).  Eventually a labour union was formed and they negotiated that road construction companies must pay living expenses for employees who need to travel for work.

Despite all of the propaganda to the contrary, there are reasons why labour unions exist for certain lines of work (even if the management at the head of some unions has become self-serving).  But It's certainly not to prevent change from happening in the job market.  It's to ensure that, when a job is required, the person who performs that job is compensated fairly and has rights.  For jobs which require a higher level of skill/training (demand is higher than supply), you typically don't need a union because the worker has enough bargaining power to ensure this.  But for jobs which don't (supply is higher than demand), that's where exploitative situations can arise (and have throughout human history).