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by 2cb 5y ago
Agreed entirely with everything you said. I have no degree but my employer saw potential and was happy to train me on the job, including guiding me through getting actual industry standard certs. I get an impression that a degree is much mo
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by 2cb 5y ago
> By the way, Mensa would also send you to a regular psychologist, or would rather ask one to come and administer the test at their location, and would definitely not accept an online test. You are correct they do not take online IQ test
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by 2cb 5y ago
Thirding this. I was diagnosed with ADHD as a kid but for some reason was never offered meds. Got reassessed as an adult while I was seeing a psych for other stuff and got a script for Dexedrine. Never looked back since. I don’t think I cou
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by 2cb 5y ago
Man I been working in a tech job I got without even a degree for two years. I was literally told by the HR dept that the boss was set on hiring me as soon as we met because I was apparently so far above every other candidate. Still I feel i
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by 2cb 5y ago
> Perfect grades are easy when there is little to learn. Kids with high IQ are wasting their time at school, because they could be conveniently learning at much greater speed and depth. In the words of Rick Sanchez: “school’s not a place
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by 2cb 6y ago
Man I really wish BB10 had come to the market earlier. I honestly don't doubt it'd still be around today if it wasn't for the fact it entered the market so late. BB were too busy dragging their feet for years after iOS and An
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by 2cb 6y ago
As others have said, investments in startups are based a lot more on the potential of the team behind them than their existing products.
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by 2cb 6y ago
There's also the "ghost hotels." https://www.wired.co.uk/article/airbnb-scam-london
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by 2cb 6y ago
> Monthly payments forever for standalone apps is a big no no in my book. I get annoyed even just writing about it. Same. I often see good software then see they run on a subscription model and nope right out of there. If it was a one-of
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by 2cb 6y ago
And this is for a paid product as well. Bit of a pisstake when they charge you for the product and spy on you through it. It's like when you pay for a streaming service and it still shows you ads (looking at you, Amazon).
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by 2cb 6y ago
Exactly. Also, if you want to make money selling software to consumers, Apple's platform is the one to target. Mac and iOS users are the most likely by far to actually pay for software. It's far more difficult to sell an app for
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by 2cb 6y ago
Indeed. Don't invest in ideas invest in people.
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by 2cb 6y ago
> the refresh button disappeared in the latest Firefox (v84.0.2)? Well that's just... terrible UX. Surely there's a setting to enable it again? > still 404s 80% of the time... looks like a similar problem that Twitter has be
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by 2cb 6y ago
This is a very interesting post. And you're of course correct, Apple wouldn't take a pro-privacy stance if it was bad for business. They're able to do so because their business model relies primarily on hardware sales. Your p
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by 2cb 6y ago
Personally, after dumping Facebook and Twitter, I made a Mastodon instance to chill out on. While it is arguably just as much of a time waster as any other social media, it doesn't track me, throw ads in my face, show me an algorithmic
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by 2cb 6y ago
The burden of proof would be on you to prove Apple is using third parties to track its users in that case. Without proof it's just a goofy conspiracy theory. My first question would be... why? What's their motivation? Facebook has
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by 2cb 6y ago
Exactly. Apple's choice here is either follow Chinese law or get their devices and services banned from China. The CCP is awful in many ways but I can understand Apple preferring to follow the law rather than lose their second biggest
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by 2cb 6y ago
The distinction Apple makes is that iAds don't "track" you because they don't use cross-site or cross-app tracking in third party services the same way Facebook or Google do. Apple is of course still performing data coll
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by 2cb 6y ago
What is your specific beef with Homebrew? You insult it but don't provide any reason it's so much more inferior compared to apt. There are some ways Homebrew is actually more secure than apt. For example in order to do anything
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by 2cb 6y ago
This attitude from users is a very real problem, but I'd argue it's platform agnostic. For instance there were headlines around the internet not too long ago stating Android is more secure than iOS based on claims made by Zerodium
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by 2cb 6y ago
I don't like password managers in general mostly because the ones that do all the syncing up magic you want are closed source. Recently I found out about Bitwarden and have been using it for a couple weeks. No regrets, it's great.
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by 2cb 6y ago
To add to blub's response, macOS operates on a permissions system similar to iOS. A new application has to ask permission the first time it tries to access anything in your home folder. Moreover, it is also quite granular. You can allo
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by 2cb 6y ago
TIL. Honestly wouldn't have guessed that. Makes the theory this is a nation state attack far more plausible then.
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by 2cb 6y ago
Ah fair enough, didn't know they were so strict with software distributed outside the App Store. I say the best thing to do is distribute your software using Homebrew then. As well as it being super convenient since it's effective
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by 2cb 6y ago
We don't actually know what attack vector it's using so it's pretty much impossible to say at this point. It could be a simple trojan or it could be an advanced 0day chain. We have no clue. There'd be no point manually c
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by 2cb 6y ago
If this is the work of a nation state attacker, as sophisticated attacks often are these days, this is a very likely possibility. We saw just recently the likely Russian backed attack on a wide net of US companies and even government agenci
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by 2cb 6y ago
While MD5 hashes are insecure for hashing passwords or other sensitive data, they're still fine for verifying the integrity of data if you are simply verifying a file has not been corrupted. If MD5 was being used to verify a piece of s
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by 2cb 6y ago
Aren't the app review requirements only necessary to submit apps to the App Store? Pretty certain you can still distribute software through your own channels without Apple reviewing it, you just need to apply as developer with Apple so
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by 2cb 6y ago
Sounds like this was discovered by MalwareBytes so if you have that installed a scan should let you know too. Also, Little Snitch will show you the connections it makes every hour. Before anyone says it - in macOS 11.2, Apple removed the ex
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by 2cb 6y ago
There's also a very easy attack vector with pkg installs where an installer can "run software to ensure it's compatible with this machine" that's been there since forever. Not sure if it was removed in Big Sur or no

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