Yes, I fear this is the future we have ahead of us.
Hopefully (ha!) Apple Silicon machines will have more uniform capabilities across generations so that older hardware can be supported for longer (wishful thinking, I know)

Yes, this will become more and more of an issue as time goes on. At present there are only two Macs with a T2 chip that are not supported by macOS Sequoia – the 2018 MacBook Air and the 2019 MacBook Air.

It's weird however that this issue doesn't seem to affect all Macs with T2 security chips, so hopefully there will be a workaround by the time more Macs drop off Apple's supported list:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fdortania%2FOp...

Bluesky already has verification - you can change your handle from @whatever.bsky.social to anything you want, as long as you own the domain name for it.

So, cnn.com has the handle @cnn.com – and unless an attacker was able to take over the cnn.com domain name to verify their handle, this is a pretty iron-clad guarantee that the @cnn.com account is run by whoever owns the domain name.

This can be further used to verify individuals - e.g. a company could run @example.com and then their staff could have their own subdomain handle – I could be @PhunkySchtuff.example.com if I worked for them and needed to post under my own name.

No mention of one of the most useful projects of them all for keeping older Macs online – OpenCore Legacy Patcher.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdortania.github.io%2FOpe...

OCLP lets you install newer versions of macOS (possibly versions that are still receiving security updates from Apple and can run current versions of apps like browsers) on older Macs that Apple have officially dropped support for.

It won't let you, for example, run arm64 code on an x86_64 machine or anything crazy like that, but it will let you run much newer versions of the operating system than Apple will let you run on older hardware.

Yeah, I always found Freehand to be far more intuitive for creating artwork from scratch. Illustrator really seemed back-to-front – and I'm not sure exactly what it was that made it that way, but it just didn't click with me. I used Illustrator heavily for editing EPS files and tweaking things for prepress, but for actually drawing things, Freehand was a lot better.

I've been using Adobe apps in one way or another since the late 90s. I started out with Photoshop version 4, Macromedia Freehand and Quark XPress and as the competition died out, shifted my workflow over to pretty much all Adobe.

I've recently taken a stance and I'm trying to shift myself away from using anything Adobe related – the one thing of Adobe's I will still continue to use is the free Acrobat Reader app as there are still some PDFs that require an Adobe app to open them in.

While it's not ever going to be a drop-in replacement, the Affinity suite (Photo, Designer and Publisher) all easily cover the 78-80% of the respective Adobe apps that people use 90% of the time.

Yes, there's a learning curve to bring yourself up to speed. Yes, there are things that you can only do in an Adobe app, but there are now fewer and fewer features that are exclusively Adobe.

If you have the time to learn a new suite of apps, with new shortcut keys and limited interoperability with Adobe apps (i.e. you're not expecting to launch Publisher and work on an InDesign document as if it were the native app, but instead you start a new project and work with the Affinity apps from scratch) then you're a long way into ridding yourself of the continually increasing price of an Adobe subscription with a one-off purchase for a perpetual, multi-platform licence.

“It is a well known fact that reality has liberal bias.”
  Stephen Colbert

... but her emails!

Even if an object is too small to see with the naked eye, or even a microscope, depending on how many photons it's pushing out it may very well be visible when it's lit up.

Take stars in the night sky for example. An un-illuminated object that far away is way, way too small to be seen with the naked eye, or even a powerful telescope, however as it's generating an astronomical amount of light, we can still see the photons many billions of kilometres away.

With something like this, you could make an array of them with quite high pixel density, but as the individual pixels are so small, they would be invisible unless they're lit up.

They must have then had some more malware on his computer to gather other information - with 1Password, when you first set up your account, you're given what they call an Emergency Kit, which is a PDF that has a secret key on it. This key is not held anywhere with 1Password, you have the only copy of it.
You can not log in to a 1Password account with just the email and password, nor can you perform a password reset with just these credentials.

In order to log in to 1Password from a new device, you must have the secret key, which is long and unguessable like: A3- FSHJNM- 7T85AC-VC83W-7NTCN-457SS-BA3H1

So, either they had a full RAT on his PC or he had his Emergency Kit saved as a PDF somewhere on his PC and they were able to find the file.

He very likely did not have MFA on his 1Password account.
He could very well have had MFA on every single other account he used, but if they had access to 1Password, and his MFA credentials were stored in 1Password (which is definitely a thing that it does, so it can auto-enter the TOTP code for you) then it was game over.

I always thought that one of the main reasons was that Apple were about to announce a new iMac (maybe the Pixar lamp / flowerpot iMac G4? Or maybe the white polycarbonate iMac?) and a day or two before Apple announced it, NVIDIA leaked it with a press release saying that it had an NVIDIA GPU in it. Steve Jobs was absolutely furious and this was the beginning of the end for NVIDIA in Apple computers.

Bluesky Has an Extortion Problem? No, DNS has an extortion problem.

Bluesky uses domains as a way to verify people who want a handle that doesn't end in *.bsky.social.

If I registered phunkyschtuff.com then I could use that as my handle on Bluesky.

Cybersquatters are buying domain names in the names of famous bloggers and other online personalities. When a domain name costs $20, it beats me why these people have not protected their own brand and registered their own domain names.

Bluesky is behaving exactly as intended - if you buy a domain name, you can use it, or a subdomain thereof, as your handle.

The problem is cybersquatters buying domain names to impersonate other people which, iirc, is already illegal – but good luck getting anything restitution on this, it's a notoriously difficult area to litigate and unless you're a company with lawyers on your payroll looking for something to do, it's simply not going to be worth taking it to court.
Look up the ACPA: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

Wait, what? It costs them $749 per participant to put on the event?
Assuming 75,000 people attending, that puts the cost of Burning Man at over $56 million dollars.

Their use of Microsoft and Intel source code in the app isn't necessarily an IP violation. They may very well have had a licence from Microsoft or Intel to use that source in their own closed-source app. This is an extremely common scenario.

What they didn't have however was a licence to redistribute that source code, nor declare it somehow "open source" and release it on Github.