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gatorguy said:

Three years ago (or thereabouts) the Republican Party sued Google for employing a similar Messages feature, sending uninvited political texts to the spam folder. I would expect a similar "influence" campaign from them with Apple trying to address the same things. It's tough to ignore the pressure political parties can apply to do their bidding when so much of what the companies do involves regulators and courts. 

That lawsuit was actually about Gmail, not Messages / texts, allegedly being biased by flagging Republican candidates' mass emails as spam (but not Democratic candidates' emails). What was funny about that case (which was dismissed by the judge with prejudice - meaning it can't be refiled) was that the systems the RNC used to send the emails did not properly employ DKIM, PSK and DMARC while the DNC's servers did. That is why the messages were going to spam; it had nothing to do with political bias. But rather than just properly configure their email servers' authentication, they chose to sue for the right to use those unsecured servers to solicit donations without getting flagged as spam.

I think the better option is to just never ever connect your TV to your home WiFi (or via ethernet). If you want or need to do a firmware update, both LG and Samsung allow you to do this via a USB drive. If you're using an AppleTV (or less ideally, a competitor streaming device), there is never a need to have the TV networked.

chasm said:

You can reconnect the TV to an internet connection on an annual basis to check for firmware updates, but I'd suggest leaving the TV "dumb" as much as possible for your situation.

You should not do this. Just use the USB option for firmware. As soon as your TV connects to the internet, it will send the recent activity it has captured.

If anyone plans to use this, I have one recommendation, which is to "git init" your project and commit your own changes before letting an AI edit your code. Do this even if you just plan to work on the project locally and are not planning to push it up to github or some other remote location. The reason is because, just like collaborative coding with another human, it is important to know what was changed and when. Doing this will allow you to see (via VS Code's built-in git diff feature) exactly what lines were changed, and easily discard those changes in the event that GPT has introduced a defect or other undesirable outcome in your code.

This is overblown, and not really the end of the world. Practically everyone uses a Case with their iPhone, and so practically everyone who uses MagSafe to charge doesn't rely on the Phone's magnets for aligning the charger anyway. I'm sure there will be Case makers who provide the magnet ring for 16E, just like they have for iPhones for nearly 5 years. Would MagSafe in the phone+case strengthen the hold for car-mounted options? Probably. But a Gig Driver (a very urban job) who would use such a setup probably needs a different phone that supports mmWave.

DAalseth said:

The bride and groom get to say what they and the wedding party wears. Other than “formal” or “semi-formal” they don’t get to say what the attendees wear. 

13485 said:

 Huh. I had no idea something I wear under a shirt sleeve and a jacket sleeve would be considered to be so offensive to delicate fashion sensibilities.

Or maybe we go to the wrong weddings, the kind where people have fun no matter what they wear. Everybody gotta be somewhere I guess.

We really don't have enough info about the situation to judge anyone here. Perhaps the wedding is 10 or 15 people? In a smaller wedding, it's absolutely acceptable to ask guests to dress a certain way. In this case, they're not telling the attendees what to wear; they're asking them not to wear one specific item (and one that is not even an article of clothing). I think that is fine.

I've been to beach weddings where the dress code was sandals, khaki pants and a linen short-sleeve buttondown. A watch on my arm would've been visible in group photos, which is maybe what they're trying to avoid here.

Or maybe the bride or groom work for an Apple competitor and want to avoid judgement from their colleagues who attend or see pictures.

Or maybe the wedding is being filmed for a professional documentary, where name-brand items (logo visible or otherwise easily identifiable) are prohibited.

There are a million possibilities here. And since none of us are invited, it's not really our business or place to judge how random strangers conduct their private wedding.

In the end, the only thing that is important is that the bride and groom have a perfect, drama-free day that leaves them with a lifetime of happy memories. The sole job for the guests is to help ensure that outcome; meaning, put a smile on your face and do what the bride and groom ask on their special day. I'm not sure this guy tweeting about the dress code accomplishes that, given that it's all over the internet now.

ALSO - have you looked at this guy's twitter feed? He believes the 2020 election was stolen; that the UHC murderer went crazy from the covid-19 vaccine; that Canada should not be a country; that Roblox is for pedophiles; that climate change is a hoax. Clearly an unreliable narrator who is thirsty for attention/clicks, which William happily gave him.