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by viro 6y ago
You understand that statement was nowhere near whataboutism, right? All of the examples were about how Apple on avg. treats their employees very well. Whataboutism would be me bringing up the amazon story as a way to counter the criticism.
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by viro 6y ago
Fair enough, I know I self host everything. I would just suggest that a pi is probably a bad example. Since its ARM and you would want your ci/cd to run as close to production(x86) as possible.
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by viro 6y ago
I honestly don't understand what he is complaining about.
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by viro 6y ago
I managed inventory at an Apple store and most of our policies was related to this risk. Since as a employee I'm able to mark a product as unsellable its gives the employee a lot of power to try to steal. Thats why if you look at a sto
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by viro 6y ago
I worked in retail for 12 years 4 of those at Apple retail. The treatment at Apple was light years ahead of the other companies. Hell its hard to even find a company that will give part time workers health insurance.
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by viro 6y ago
> such as not letting someone leave the premises while not paying them Honestly I suspect this is mostly a logistics problem. The clock is in the break room the security check is at the door. A security check in the break room feels a li
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by viro 6y ago
You clearly have never worked retail if you think Apple treats their retail workers bad.
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by viro 6y ago
Honestly this feels overly complex when you can just create a CA and add the CA to ur devices. Still cool tho.
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by viro 6y ago
> A per install fee for regular users It was hard enough to get my friends to use signal and that was free. While I really do like Threema, The fact that it cost money on iOS makes it hard for me to push on my friend group.
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by viro 6y ago
.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering
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by viro 6y ago
Over the years I haven't found very many unix tools I couldn't install with homebrew. I'm also a big fan of the move from Bash to ZSH. Why start up a VM or SSH into another machine if I can just use Terminal or Iterm.
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by viro 6y ago
This is clearly anecdotal, but nearly every dev/engineer from every company I have ever worked for has had an MBP as their work laptop.
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by viro 6y ago
I think you underestimate how many power users use macOS. Most of their privacy and security marketing isn't really targeted at normal people. The avg. person doesn't really care that much.
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by viro 6y ago
You realize both things can pay those salaries right? Paying customers subsidizing non-paying customers is rather common. Also you know free apps have in-app purchases right?
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by viro 6y ago
Yea... Thats what that 30% pays for.
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by viro 6y ago
He legit lost me at "I pop into Emacs". I noped right out of that tab. Not saying its right... but it is what it is. Edit: Be gentle on the downvotes ... I was clearly trying to be funny.
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by viro 6y ago
>but I’m pretty sure it can outrun an off the shelf quadcopter. depends which shelf... $544 buys you a drone that goes 145 mph. $322 for 99 mph.
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by viro 6y ago
When your content is too cancerous for Reddit ...maybe the issue isn't Reddit.
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by viro 6y ago
laziness. well thats at least why I use it.
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by viro 6y ago
umm as a pen tester the move from bash to zsh was the most exciting thing about this update. w ^ to find the wfuzz command I did 2 days ago and didn't take notes on the output is useful as hell.
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by viro 6y ago
legit why did this get downvoted?...
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by viro 6y ago
remote control has a rather extreme weakness against advanced enemies.... jamming.
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by viro 6y ago
yup they helped a spy not get killed ....
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by viro 6y ago
the Dutch East India Company was worth $7.9 trillion in modern dollars
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by viro 6y ago
what makes something a general purpose computing device?
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by viro 6y ago
are you really comparing video to executable code?
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by viro 6y ago
where on PC?
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by viro 6y ago
You say that but google has literally proven that to not be true.
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by viro 6y ago
So the operating system?
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by viro 6y ago
centralized authority collecting taxes? I think you meant centralized authority of Trust. very similar to secure boot on PCs. you also seem to underestimate the sheer amount of trolly "malware"/ scripts out there for linux.

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