Probably because windows and Linux users aren't searching for free Mac apps. While I agree that it would probably be difficult to implement an attack like this for Linux (partly because it's Linux and partly because it's userbase is generally more technically apt), Windows has been susceptible to viruses since the dawn of time because users just install random shit on autopilot and click through installers without checking what extra bloat is included (which is often malware disguised as an extra third party program). I don't think I agree that this specifically is Apples fault. No one blames Windows or Linux distros for user error and poor security practices.
Google's fault for not vetting the ads they let through? For sure. The users fault for not paying attention while installing the app and just clicking through the request to bypass Gatekeeper and then entering their system password when a pop up randomly asks for it for no discernible reason? Absolutely.
What should Apple do to fix this? Lock the machine down to the point where users aren't allowed to have admin privileges on their own machine?
Genuinely curious why you think Apple Music is better. When I got my first iPad in years last year, I decided to try to go "all-in" on Apple services partly to consolidate and partly to save some money. After about 14-21 days, the only service left standing was Apple News+ (and only because the only other option was NewsReader which is 3x the price and I just generally didn't love the UI and the way it worked overall).
Apple Music seemed to have slightly less of the music I searched for (I don't have specifics, it was a year ago) and also seemed to be slower/shittier overall than Spotify. It was just generally unpleasant to use - this, coming from a guy who has plenty of gripes with Spotify's user experience.
I'm all for ditching Spotify (I have all kinds of issues with their general business practices and how they stiff artists, among other things), but like @dinckelman@lemmy.world mentioned elsewhere in these comments: "every bit of competition is even more incompetent and greedy than they are." I'm not going to say Apple is more greedy in this case, but they felt less competent.
This doesn't mean that the trial can be shitcanned, does it?
If Fani Willis can't escape this and it means she burned her career to do the right thing, somebody oughtta crowdfund a bunch of money for her so she has some cushioning.
Alcoholism will do crazy things to people and their brains.
I keep going back to how the guy who wielded RICO so cleverly to wreck the mob, ran an effective "PR campaign" post 9/11 that dubbed him the "Mayor of America," and was a serious potential presidential candidate ended up leaking oil out of his scalp in front of a landscaping place, being the mouthpiece for a sort-of wannabe mafia-esque organization and eventually getting bitchslapped with RICO charges himself as a result.
I think it's one part alcoholism, one part grasping wildly for the glory days, and possibly one part dude just getting wackier with age. You can see the glory days stuff in action during his time trying to get the GOP nomination in 2008 and how everything with him was about 9/11. There's probably a feeling of invincibility he has from the highest highs he reached in his life and maybe even a bit of smug "I know what's best for this country, I was it's goddamn Mayor for the love of fuck!"
Whatever it is, fuck that guy. Time to piss off, Rudy. You're embarrassing yourself and the rest of us by extension.
I'm not sure about the "racist" bit at this point, either. Not making any excuses for the guy, but it's slightly possible that his boring/tired commentary in the song about poor people (the welfare shit) was even just some misguided/misinformed bullshit that's been pounded into his head all his life. Who knows, but I've been surprised by the guy twice so far.
These dickheads always think they can translate the power they hold in civilized society to the wild post aoocalyptic free for all. Makes you wonder what will be going through their heads when some brutish psycho decides it's his turn and is about to stomp their heads into the tightly packed wasteland dirt.
My background is not on STEM and I was always passed the notion that without roots in hard math I can't go far in programming.
I swear this is some BS repeated by people who have no idea what they're talking about. I got told pretty much the same when I was younger - don't believe it. It may have been true to some degree at some point in the distant past, but it's outdated advice at best.
Your main general skills when it comes to writing code are the ability to think logically and to think about abstract concepts. Creativity and imagination can definitely help. The ability to keep organized in your thoughts can also go a long way. Just about everything else comes in the form of knowing the language you're working in, exposure to common coding and software design principles, and knowing your coding environment.
Math can figure into a lot of different types of programming careers... Shit like writing video game engines and other complicated things that model physics and stuff come to mind. But it's not so much that math is intrinsic to programming, but rather that those types of software just require a lot of advanced math.
For example, I'm an automation engineer. It's just a sysadmin who writes a decent amount of code. Most of my programming work revolves around sending requests over our company's local network to servers or internal websites to do shit like remotely power up or shutdown machines or trigger a task or open up work orders. There is very little actual math, if any, in the entirety of my work.
At it's core, programming is just the storing, moving around, manipulating, and keeping track of bits of information. Especially in a language like Python (which is my primary language).
EDIT: I should probably add my background isn't STEM either. I'm a two time college dropout who got a break 14 years ago and left the restaurant industry to go into the tech sector instead.
This is a very interesting point and I can see it throughout zoomer culture when it comes to the down and dirty technical stuff, but I think there's a distinction to be made between being technically apt and being able to grok whatever the hot shit consumer-grade tech paradigm is right now.
In the former context, a lot of zoomers have already "failed" but that context is the territory of people who reach out to learn it - in other words, the nitty gritty tech stuff will always be for the technical types. In the latter context, I imagine millennials will probably mostly be fine and zoomers will, too. I say "mostly" because we're already seeing millennials start to kind of skip the latest trends (TikTok comes to mind immediately). Zoomers are already coming to grips with not being able to understand Alphas sense of humor via memes. Whatever the next social media platform is, I imagine it'll be primarily a home for Alphas, leaving zoomers and millennials where they are.
Will there be spillover across the board, with members of different generations populating the other platforms? Sure, there are always exceptions.
As far as physical tech goes, like how millennials got the smartphone and zoomers grew up with it? It's highly dependent on how ingrained it becomes in society. Hard to exist without a smartphone these days, so everybody has to know how to use one. Boomers have more trouble because they got it later, but there are plenty of them who are just fine with current phone tech precisely because they need to be for professional AND personal use.
fair enough and fwiw, that's what i was kind of echoing. "we're" in mud slinging territory as a culture, but journalists/opinion-piece-writers/whatever are massive drivers of it.
Instant red flag. Double red flag if it seems like they're getting something out of it