welshdog

Trump is the unsurprising result of concepts and rhetoric that were started by Reagan. He used his phony, homespun speaking style to convince people that it was okay to dislike your government. It was okay to disassemble your government because "big" was bad. It was okay to think that helping people in need was an intolerable expense. While Reagan is not so popular with young extremist conservatives now, he and his goals were worshipped by Republicans for a couple decades. During that time you can see how each wave of conservative victories at the national level led to incrementally more extreme positions. Newt Gingrich, Lee Atwater, Karl Rove, GW Bush, neo cons, the Tea Party and now the most extreme - MAGA. Reagan started the ball rolling and Trump is the result anyone paying even slight attention should have expected was coming.

For me today's event was a huge information and feature overload. I am not a developer and a pretty low level user of OS features as it is, so all this new stuff was exciting, but also a bit off putting from a "it's all too much" standpoint. However, it really is very impressive how much effort Apple puts into their privacy efforts along with expanding features. As someone said above, this puts Apple in a unique position in the AI space compared to literally everyone else. Pretty sure the financial analysts won't understand the implications of today's event and the stock price will drop initially.

I don't want passwords and other data in the cloud - even with Apple's better security implementations. I'm using Enpass now in strictly local mode with WiFi sync to devices only when I turn it on. I also don't put critical passwords on the phones or other mobile devices. They remain in a separate "vault" that is only on my laptop, which never leaves the house. Everyone does online banking now and most of us have logins for things like credit cards, social security, medical etc. and just doesn't make sense to me that those logins should ever be on someone elses servers.

For me there is always this bit of discomfort using Siri - it just feels weird talking out loud, but not to a person. I don't even like talking on a cell phone around other people unless there is no convenient place for privacy, not to mention it's rude to people nearby. Regardless of my hangups, Siri of course often fails at simple requests and it would be nice to see it improve. Her inability to find and play specific songs or even bands is pretty maddening. As far as using Siri for complex requests, I would think most of the time it would be easier to just do it yourself on a Mac or phone rather than wasting time to figure out how to get Siri to understand what it is you want. Is AI really going to improve Siri's request comprehension or just make it worse? We'll see I guess.

I don't understand how the assholes are generating these notices on devices. By what means are they causing the password reset notification to appear? If they can do that remotely aren't they already in your system at that point?