Damned if they do, damned if they don’t.

Initially they didn’t have it, people complained, now they do, and people still complain.

Considering theft is a property crime and stalking is often a prelude to much worse, I think they made the right choice.

I'm not taking any position on this, but some data to chew on concerning the US. There are roughly fourteen million cases of larceny in the US every year, and between three and four million cases of stalking in the US every year. Rate of violence with larceny is roughly 1% whereas rate of violence with stalking averages 30%. Threats of violence with stalking occurs in about three out of every four cases, if I recall.

Of course, there is an implicit bias with measuring stalking as "peaceful" stalkers who never get caught leave no evidence. Unlike theft which always leaves evidence by its nature (the thing is gone).

Most property theft isn't reported, and won't be in your statistics.

Hard disagree. I am not and would not use an AirTag for stalking, and yet I am being punished for others doing it. It’s not fair to me.

It's wild to see someone this forthcoming with their selfishness. You literally said "It’s not fair to me", as if a just world would prioritize your inconvenience over the safety of others.

I personally wouldn't use a rocket launcher for anything nefarious. It's super unfair.

I'm sorry, but that's silly. The argument is the other way around: would you like to be stalked by an airtag?

You can be stalked by 100 different devices on the market though. Not like this is the only possible way to track someone.

This is like nerfing knifes because they can kill people.

Have you even considered the possibility that you or someone you love could one day be the victim of stalking?

I don't think you understand what the word "fair" means.

> Initially they didn’t have it

They did have anti-stalking from the start btw. People still complained that it wasn’t good enough so they reduced some of the timings.

Maybe it's different people.

fortunately stalkers can now use Flock, so they don't need to buy airtags.

Wrong bothsidesism. The right choice was making a functional product. This is not that.

That's not the complaint at all - the complaint is that, because of the anti-stalking measures added at the original launch, the AirTags can't be used to track stolen items because the thieves will be notified that they are being "stalked".

MacBooks have been using remotes since at least 2005. There was a cinema app on there you could use to watch movies and use the remote to control it. I think you could use it with Keynote when it first came out too.

iMac G5s too! They even had a spot on their right side which was magnetic where the remote from that era could be stuck when not in use. My 20” iMac G5 doubled nicely as a TV in my high school years (and the 27” model with its dramatically nicer IPS panel even better in my college years).

My first Intel iMac had that spot too.

Yeah it was called Front Row, which brought up an Apple TV like interface in OSX. Pretty dumb they removed it IMO it was pretty good with iMacs.

It was great with the Mac mini. The actual Apple TV had its limitations, but with a Mac mini I had Front Row, plus a host of other media apps. I also had an app that would let me control everything with the IR remote they came with it. That was back when they still came with an optical drive as well, so I could also play (and rip) DVDs.

Ah good old days when I was in college and used to use my 2006 White Polycarbonate MacBook with the said remote as a glorified DVD player to play movies I'd rent from Blockbuster. Can't believe that was 20 years ago

This is a really cool idea. I’m a little put off with the idea that my camera is always watching me but the thought behind it is really cool.

I kind of feel the same way, but I want to try it. I’m pretty sure I have a spare webcam lying around, it could be interesting to have a “trusted” sensor for this app so that I can still keep my main webcam locked down.

I've been using Fastmail for several years now, I remember when I first said something about it on here I got a negative response about how Fastmail doesn't do something correctly or something, and now most of the comment replies are praising Fastmail. I still like it, it's just interesting how fickle things are here.

> My email is now being hosted by Microsoft, so hopefully will be free of the outages

Ironically Microsoft just had an outage a couple of days ago.

This is basically how every custom app works on Mac. You have to go to Settings -> Security & Privacy and click "Allow whosthere"

Would it help to get it on the "official" homebrew, instead of a custom tap/cask? Might try to do an application for that somewhere in the upcoming weeks.

this can be fixed by

xattr -c `which whosthere`

It just means the app isn't signed.

Seems like the U.S. uses metric for most of the important areas and just lets everyone continue to use imperial, whatever they want everywhere else.

Meh. I was a Mootools connoisseur back in the day and saddened how jQuery became more popular.

I’m glad JavaScript has evolved to the point we don’t need jQuery anymore.

I had the UltraSharp 40” similar to this, I loved it until I went to readjust it, apparently tilted it wrong, and the screen blanked. :(

rate-limit-remaining would be nicer than ratelimit-remaining

-- hive partitioning