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by tgma 1y ago
You’re being sarcastic but it is for sentimental reasons (for the immediate manager and team who doesn’t want to make the hard choices and do the work) as well as the empire building reasons (managers’ universal dick measuring contest is or
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by tgma 1y ago
You believe what you want to believe. That’s the lie of the century. Every single layoff is performance based to some degree. Sure you want to consolidate a couple orgs or shut down a project or an office and you lump that together with yo
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by tgma 1y ago
Have you worked at any of these large companies? It’s really easy actually (practically, not emotionally). It’s usually very obvious and there’s consensus who the bottom 10% are. Politics would affect promotions much more than layoff.
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by tgma 1y ago
Sure we can speculate that 3% is not news. Again, it’s a one way conclusion: I concede if they want to axe a project deliberately, that could show up in the layoff, but projects won’t incidentally get impacted because of a 3%. The causal re
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by tgma 1y ago
Apple has gone out of their way to build first party virtualization APIs in their OS to boot a Linux VM directly by specifying kernel and initrd on disk. That would be a direct point of comparison to WSL, not Asahi. What are you talking abo
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by tgma 1y ago
How would a 3% layoff in a big company affect anything unless they want to specifically axe some project? It’s just lubrication for the machine. 3% is less than nothing compared to the bloat in any bigco and let me tell you Microsoft’s repu
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by tgma 1y ago
IIRC it is only a potential issue if the host machine isn't made by Apple. You can install Linux on a Mac and use this. IANAL yada yada.
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by tgma 1y ago
Let me preface that I do not subscribe to the ideology at all, but the concept of bootstrapping a complex system is intellectually worthwhile and often practical in its use-cases. For example, imagine a tech company with a bunch of datacen
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by tgma 1y ago
Could be just one accidental Ctrl+C away.
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by tgma 1y ago
Stories was a specific criticism; was it not? I understand that our opinions don't agree, so I cite Apple's market research and design decision to bolster my case. But I will stop there. Maybe just peddle your BS to ask folks to s
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by tgma 1y ago
You can disable stories. The UX still is shit. Again, death by a thousand cuts. As for Indonesia or whatever, I am sure people Stories increases engagement that boosts Signal executives morale thinking they are more relevant and can stick i
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by tgma 1y ago
I stand corrected then. I knew about Apple doing HSM-based key escrowing server-side, but did not know Google has applied the same technique to Android backups.
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by tgma 1y ago
I have used Telegram, iMessage, WhatsApp and Signal extensively in multiplatform settings. Only iMessage and Telegram have good overall UX (with the latter far more featureful and smooth than the former). Sure all "work" to some d
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by tgma 1y ago
I addressed it in the footnote: 6-digit encryption key without tying it to device is just security theatre (and people might still forget: many users are old). Longer passwords people will forget.
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by tgma 1y ago
Yea, the problem I am pointing to is not the security side, but backup resilience aspect; in any of those scenarios (device passcode^ as you suggest for Android, or account password by default for Chrome, or a separate encryption password f
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by tgma 1y ago
With Google password-based encryption or Keychain, you lose your data if you lost your devices and forget your Google Account password. I suspect that is a use case that is too risky (frequency x impact of data loss) for the Apple customer
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by tgma 1y ago
> Signal made different tradeoffs To some degree sure, but the real issue with Signal is the app UX royally sucks, not having to do much with security trade-offs per se.
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by tgma 1y ago
You could always sync and backup (make sure it has a password so that keychain data is stored in the backup) your iPhone to your Mac since the dawn of iPhone OS. You can still use iCloud sync for contacts and notes if you choose to for co
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by tgma 1y ago
This is demonstrably false: you can restore an iCloud backup on a new device without the original device password. Only with iCloud credentials which can be reset by Apple. Only enabling ADP, disabled by default and unavailable in UK, makes
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by tgma 1y ago
Feel free to send me a note to the email in the profile. I will make sure to link to you when I get to documenting this.
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by tgma 1y ago
Perhaps I should document it and link to it in detail but basically you use Apple Configurator to create a profile and set its restriction flags accordingly and keep it somewhere you can redeploy with ease and simply DFU restore the iOS dev
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by tgma 1y ago
Good to know, hence my 95% certainty. Fortunately for me, each new device starts with DFU restore and installation of my own Configuration Profile which supervises the device, disable automatic pairing with new devices, disables useless a
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by tgma 1y ago
Actually it is the opposite. If you have Messages in iCloud, they do not store messages in "iCloud Backup" but keep it separate with some client-side device-to-device encryption key (UPDATE: which they also store a copy of inside
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by tgma 1y ago
I don't have any details, but on their public website, they highlight LLNL (ELI5: US nuclear weapons research lab founded by Edward Teller) as a customer. I am not 100% certain they require airgapping, but it is totally conceivable tha
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by tgma 1y ago
To each their own I guess :) Exploited hacker congregation isn’t my cup of tea you’re correct.
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by tgma 1y ago
I guess you've basically proven my point, although it appears I may have been poorly communicating it as if I meant you can afford a yacht or not, which I would certainly think would be deserved, but none of my business to comment on:
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by tgma 1y ago
Huh, this is some Bluesky-level manufactured offended-ness. The only comment I made about an individual in particular was related to virtue signaling. The financial commentary was about the profile of the founders, not an individual's
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by tgma 1y ago
Haha I can tell South Bay isn’t quite communist enough for the People’s Republic of Berkeley compensation model. :)
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by tgma 1y ago
Sun or otherwise it’s not the beginning of his career. I don’t mean they are billionaires but I’m willing to bet they don’t need to collect cash to pay downpayment like an average Google L4 on their first starter townhouse in Sunnyvale whic
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by tgma 1y ago
You hit the nail on the head re sales being the canary in the coalmine. I just read the original post which I found distasteful and on-brand with Cantrill virtue signaling. Everyone is equal but some people are more equal: some get founder

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