Note that they said “audio” jack, not “headphone” jack.

Headphones are but one of many, many different devices you may want to plug your phone into, and a lot of them don’t have Bluetooth. Basically every audio device ever made (except smartphones) uses either a 3.5mm, or 1/4”, or XLR. These are all analog signals that can be easily adapted without needing a DAC, which USB needs.

Maybe this isn’t that obscure, but Klaus (2019) is an excellent Christmas movie. It’s become a yearly staple since the first time we watched it.

I cannot decipher this title.

Funny, but the vibration mechanism is actually very different. Whistling uses a very specific shape with your lips creates a vortex of air that creates sound waves (similar to a flute or blowing across a bottle).

Your vocal “cords” (vocal folds is more accurate), make sound by flapping back and forth due to the tension and airflow to which they are subjected. This flapping creates the sound waves (similar to blowing a raspberry or a fart).

So, saying your voice is just a prolonged throat fart is more accurate.

lol Silverlight.

In fairness, a lot of those did take over the web for a time and lead to some cool stuff (and also some wild security exploits).

You’ll be playing Unreal Tournament in no time!

I was thinking of the 30 Pin Dock Connector, which was proprietary, but it looks like it used both FireWire and USB protocols.

Apple was known for helping propagate FireWire too.

This is the best answer. Obviously, relax when you need it, but if you’re bored, start learning. It’s interesting (if by choice), it’s good for your brain, and you can use this lull in your career to build skills that you can use to progress later when opportunities come up.

Plus, if you are learning related skills, your “slacking off” might even still look like working to passers by.

Ah, the Apple strategy of forcing a standard.

EDIT: By that I mean when Apple started putting USB (1.0) on their Macs back in the day to encourage more USB accessories. Not their proprietary (what was the old iPod connector called?) or lightning BS.

Don’t podcasts and RSS still rely heavily on XML?

Yes, but having both in place can help mitigate lateral movement risk.

I’m not sure what you’re asking.

I think you’re looking in the wrong places. Culture is everywhere. The mediums and groups of people that propagate culture shift over time, but humans are inherently creative and will always develop it.

Try looking in places where there is a focus on community, connection, and the art itself—not places that focus on producing “content” for profit.

I literally wait every year for this video.

The bill I mentioned actually relies on parents configuring their kid’s devices. The system it describes just gives online (and even offline) platforms a standardized way of asking the OS what age category a user is as defined at account setup–hardly “dystopian nightmare fuel”…

This isn’t going to stop unsupervised children, which is it’s own problem that technology doesn’t (and probably can’t) solve.

Agreed, but you’d think they would prefer that. The way it is now, they have no way of knowing which platforms have your government IDs.

Though, let’s be real, all they need to do is pay a data broker for the tracking data that’s already being collected everywhere.

What you say??!!

IDK, the amount of abuse people have withstood only to keep using MS platforms is astounding. Some people would rather use trash than learn a new platform.

Clearly, no-one involved in making these laws has ever heard of OAuth. Not every single site needs to manage your identity / credentials. The government already has this info, they can be the identity provider and use OAuth to grant access to age-gated resources without giving any personal data to the platform. Someone mentioned id.me, and I’m pretty sure that’s how that platform works, though they’re a private entity if I understand their site correctly.

I know most politicians are comically tech-illiterate, but it’s so frustrating to see them constantly implement terrible solutions to already solved problems without asking a single expert who knows how this shit works.

That being said, California passed a bill with a not perfect, but better approach. User age is configured on the OS level when a user account is set up, and then it will tell platforms what age category the user belongs to, and nothing more:

(a) An operating system provider shall do all of the following:

(1) Provide an accessible interface at account setup that requires an account holder to indicate the birth date, age, or both, of the user of that device for the purpose of providing a signal regarding the user’s age bracket to applications available in a covered application store.

(2) Provide a developer who has requested a signal with respect to a particular user with a digital signal via a reasonably consistent real-time application programming interface that identifies, at a minimum, which of the following categories pertains to the user:

(A) Under 13 years of age.

(B) At least 13 years of age and under 16 years of age.

© At least 16 years of age and under 18 years of age.

(D) At least 18 years of age.

(3) Send only the minimum amount of information necessary to comply with this title and shall not share the digital signal information with a third party for a purpose not required by this title.

I think iOS already does this, actually.

How does it keep being news to people that everything on your work devices is visible to your employer?

If it is something that…

• You don’t want your employer seeing
• Could be used against you in some way
• You want to keep even if you left your current job … then don’t have it on your work device(s). Period.