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  • Apple's new diversity exec hails from Bank of America

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    I'll add that calling people racists when they are attempting to provide some minimal redress for centuries of wrongdoing are following a time-honored playbook. By labeling others with descriptions that apply to themselves, they (often successfully) seek to confuse the issue and avoid the blame they deserve.

    "When everyone's a nazi, nobody's a nazi!"

    It can be hard to distinguish the truth in such cases. And it's getting harder by the hour.
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  • Apple's new diversity exec hails from Bank of America

    JustSomeGuy1JustSomeGuy1
    40domi said:
    AppleZulu said:
    Came here to see the knee-jerk semi-racist and pretty-much-racist responses to anything ever posted here related to this subject. I was unsurprised to find it stacking up as expected.

    It's funny when people object to intentional efforts for diversity and inclusion as a pearl-clutching affront to "merit-based" hiring, as if merit based hiring has ever been a thing. When non-male, non-white people are excluded and steered away from a field like coding or engineering at every turn starting with early childhood, the resultant competition among the folks who make it to the point where they can even apply for the job cannot then be called winners in a merit-based system. If your competition has been repeatedly kneecapped before they ever make it to the starting line, getting to the finish line first does not make you a merit-based winner. If half your competition has never had a chance to get to the race, even as you "win," you should know that you've never actually been tested in a merit-based system.
    Typical racist response, full of unsubstantiated dribble!

    Systemic racism is overwhelmingly well documented. Unfortunately, evidence ("substantiation") is not actually of interest to people who foam at the mouth the moment the topic comes up.

    However, for the benefit of those who are not in that group, here are a couple of examples pulled at random from a quick google search. I'm sure someone who works in this field can easily provide better examples.

    It's easy to mess with data, or the analysis of it, to produce confusing or deceptive results. For example, this article contains lots of data, much of which supports the concepts of systemic and institutional racism, but it's consistently presented badly, with correct but deceptive charts that overstate the problem by, for example, using a nonzero baseline. This is a peculiar choice by the authors, since you don't need to be deceptive to support their position. Of course, many people who have a political stance against those concepts (like the posters here, but less obviously frothing) engage in the same behavior, when they bother to look at the data at all - which they mostly don't, since it's blindingly clear they're wrong.

    If you are curious about why and how things got so bad, one of the best examples, and best documented, is probably the history of redlining in this country. This practice alone shifted vast amounts of wealth out of the hands of minorities, blacks especially. Googling "redlining in the US" will probably give you a decent start.
    dewmemuthuk_vanalingamAlex_V9secondkox2argonautwilliamlondon

  • How to use Startup security in macOS to protect your Mac

    JustSomeGuy1JustSomeGuy1
    AppleInsider said:
    Also keep in mind that in the US at least, jailbreaking a computing device is a violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. That makes it a Federal crime.
    You know a lot of stuff. Why do you insist on writing about things about which you are ignorant? (For example, you never retracted or amended your SSH article, which was hopelessly garbled and self-contradictory in its description of the SSH protocol.)

    In this instance: Jailbreaking is NOT illegal. The definitive statement from the federal government about this particular exemption to the DMCA is here: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2010/07/27/2010-18339/exemption-to-prohibition-on-circumvention-of-copyright-protection-systems-for-access-control and you can see example coverage of this in the press here: https://www.macworld.com/article/206764/jailbreak_exemption.html.
    HrebHreb

  • Apple Pencil Pro and new iPads are a warning shot at Wacom

    JustSomeGuy1JustSomeGuy1
    I've bitched about terrible articles here before (just yesterday in fact) so it's only fair to praise one that's exceptionally good.

    I can't critique the tech content - I'm not a graphic artist - but it is well written. But what made me comment was this:
    "To users like Mike, who might as well use a hot dog as a stylus for all of his artistic intent and ability[...]"

    That made me LOL. Thanks for that.

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  • At a crossroads to the future of computing: choosing between Apple Vision Pro and iPad Pro...

    JustSomeGuy1JustSomeGuy1
    [...] Apple Vision Pro will never let me use it as a drawing tablet[...]
    Maybe, but I wouldn't be too sure about that. I think all the tech is in place for the Apple Pencil + AVP to turn any flat surface into a drawing surface. Certainly there have been recent rumors about this. Whether or not Apple does this? Maybe we'll see at WWDC.
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