That’s definitely not good. Supposedly they’ll unlock them if you provide proof of purchase but I never dealt with that so I take it it’s not as simple as it sounds.

Of course, if you’re a legitimate owner (as in, there’s no chance they were stolen and resold) you should be able to unlock them.

A macbook can be stripped and the aluminum and battery recycled regardless of the activation lock.

If you read the article it states a major reason is they are given for secure disposal.

The resellers want to unlock them for resale, but can’t, which is exactly the reason the lock exists.

I’ve bought plenty of used Apple devices over the years. That’s how I could afford my first iPhone and iPad as a student.

The only reason they’re accumulating is because the previous owners didn’t do their due diligence before getting rid of the devices. Removing activation lock when wiping a device is not hard.

The worst part of this is misled corporate owners who believe the myth that they have the destroy the computers/drives “for security reasons” when erasing the encryption keys does the job of safeguarding their deleted data on disk.

Emails and Phone Numbers get sold. Do I really have to explain that to people? Our personal information has a monetary value. You pay to play.

> was the SR-71, not t

Damn, you're right!

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Have you seen any improvement with Jamf over the last couple years? I stopped using any MDM two or three years ago. I just found that I had about a 50% success rate pushing an unlock command to a supervised iPad. Supervision itself wouldn't take sometimes, but that might've been me not keeping my Apple accounts straight. Also things like apps not installing, or the device wigging out when installing apps right after installing the profile. I'd love it if I could go back to using something like Jamf, but with the cost and managing certificates and such it seemed like far more trouble than it was worth.

Sorry you don't understand corporate security, but no amount of talking yourself in circle will make your view popular

Apple devices are more recyclable than most on the market

Apple created the software mechanism in question, where it didn’t exist before and changed the status quo from one where it was trivial to salvage anything physically intact entering the waste stream for reuse to one where it was in many or most cases impossible.

That’s not even getting into Apples lobbying efforts at the individual state level to implement “sustainable “ ewaste disposal programs where the primary focus was physically destroying any usable hardware as quickly as reasonably possible after being discarded.

Companies / Users can lock an Apple device to ensure it can't be used if stolen (even if reset / formatted)

The recycling company was asked to destroy these devices by a company but they are complaining that they could sell them instead

If I were asking a company to destroy the hardware and read this, they would lose my buisness immediately

> In 2019 he promised

No he didn't.

Its not Apples choice, stop pretending it is

Also watching the crowbcat super cut videos. And anything Konami does. It will be missed

You want the "text completion" endpoint. Send it your prompt and away you go.

From the article:

The strategic benefit of open sourcing software like TensorFlow or Kubernetes is that it allows Google to influence industry direction. The same is true for projects Google didn’t start but actively contributes to. Take a stroll through the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s Devstats pages and you’ll find Google is a significant (if not the biggest) contributor to projects such as Envoy, etcd, Knative, Istio, and more.

Maybe the thinking behind the layoffs is that, now that open source contribution has become standard operating procedure at Google, there’s little ongoing need for the influence of Googlers like DiBona. But this ignores the fact that he and the others who were let go have done the behind-the-scenes architecting, strategizing, lobbying, and executing to make open source essential to how Google functions today. You don’t lay off that much experience without repercussions.

The best part about e3 is having such a huge load of announcements and updates dropped at the same time.

But the last 3 years have highlighted how dumb it is to show off next gen graphics during a live show. Just make a pre-recorded showcase so we can actually appreciate all that work.

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I think I speak for all of us on the internet when I say I hope Full Throttle's entire staff spends the rest of their lives with burning diarrhea.

I don't see the issue. Even if Apple refuses to do anything...... businesses can just refuse to buy Activation Locked Macs. If it's the owner selling their computer, they retailer can just show them how to unlock it. And if it's a thief, now they have no way to sell their stolen goods and no reason to keep stealing them.

This seems like what is happening here. The owner of these computers specifically wants them destroyed. I think that’s heinous and stupid. But it’s their property

this goes well with the other thread about Consumer Reports giving Tesla a 7th place rating in automation.

Like all things the muskrat does, once the smoke clears and the mirrors are put away there is no there, there.

I get why this isn’t allowed but nuclear power plants may be an area where we want to cooperate with anyone and everyone to ensure safest practises.

That’s true IF the phone is purchased through the carrier. There isn’t anything that prevents Nothing phones from being used on us networks.

What applications do you find chat gpt is legitimately useful for?