ChrisMarshallNY

I don’t like playing with others, as the experience of being fragged by a 15-year-old, shouting biologically impossible suggestions to me, is not really on my bucket list.

I’ll play it. It won’t be super exciting, but, if I was serious about gaming, I’d get a dedicated Windows rig.

I remember one WWDC, where Ian Diery was giving a demo with a young man, and asked “Where’s the beef?” The kid looked down at his pants, and the crowd burst into laughter.

Diery did not laugh. He was a fairly serious chap, with no discernible sense of humor, so I expect his assistant was sanctioned for that.

I think the last DuDub I went to, was around 2005 (pre-iPhone). I know it was at Moscone. Jobs led that. He was one of the best presenters I’ve ever seen. He could recover from curveballs almost imperceptibly.

The first, was in 1987, or 1988. One of the first.

The only ones I might consider, are the new base AirPods. I have never really warmed to the Pros (I have two pairs, but like the regular ones better).

I am looking forward to iOS27. I'm interested in seeing how the simulator presents the Duo.

Words to live by.

I seem to remember a guy living in a cabin, writing manifestos, and mailing bombs to tech people and academics.

Ahem

That was health insurance. Different beast.

Not excusing pharma, but that bit of extreme casting doesn’t really belong in the conversation.

Like most things in life, “It Depends” is probably applicable, here. Copyright, patents, and trademark exist for a reason.

Abuse of these structures, is the real issue.

Like people that argue for unfettered capitalism, or total legalization of all vice, we need to think about basic human nature, when discussing these things. That doesn’t happen, usually. It’s either all or nothing. We don’t consider that moderation, and benevolent structure, are possible (which they might not always be, considering human nature).

The hard part is imposing just enough structure to ensure that we get maximum effect.

About a month ago, there was a post about the “Pareto Front,” that point at which maximum desired effect is achieved, with optimal resource usage, and side effects. The zenith.

That can also apply to social infrastructure, but it’s really, really difficult, and lawyers and social scientists don’t think that way.

I honestly feel as if very few people take basic human nature into account, when designing pretty much anything.

Sick burn.

HN users don't like it when billionaires are dissed, as many want to achieve that, for themselves. Very much a reflection on the demographics of this site. Maybe not a bad thing, but kind of amusing.

Lina Khan truly has the interests of consumers at heart.

The hatred was not just right-wing. Many lefties hated her, too.

The common thread seems to be billionaires.

It seems that every time I submit an update or new app, it gets rejected, because Apple just tightened the bolts a bit further.

Every now and then, I'll insert a "why" comment, if I feel it's necessary.

I wrote about my technique (and reasons), here: https://littlegreenviper.com/leaving-a-legacy/

No comments.

No subroutines (what we now call “functions”).

No variable name longer than 4 characters.

Fun. The most effective debug tool, was a Ouija board. It made me an expert WAGger.

It was the main reason that I am so anal about code Quality, these days. I never want to subject anyone else to that.

BTW: with today’s LLMs, there’s really no excuse for badly-documented, or badly-formatted code. You can write a thousand lines of commercial-grade spaghetti, and tell the LLM to format and document it.

Frankly, I am surprised that it isn't already a solved problem, as we've had silicon compilers, for many years, and I always figured that IC design is more difficult than PCB.

And I suspect that most geeks, hereabouts, could set up their own signing system.

They work fairly well. I use a login ID/PW to set up the passkey, then the passkey, for everything else.

Passkeys work well, but I feel as if they are still a bit too “fiddly” for your average mensch.

I’m pretty sure the private key is transferable, but Apple keeps them in the Keychain, so they seem locked into the OS. On my machine, I can also keep passkeys in 1Password.

A while back, I wrote up a series on implementing passkeys in iOS/MacOS: https://littlegreenviper.com/series/passkeys/

But it's still the type of story that should have had a much longer tenure, especially as it was Krebs.

I am now thinking that the access may have been through a backdoor. It certainly seems to have operated like a direct intravenous link.

BTW: Thanks for this link: https://securitywall.co/tools/ipa-analyzer

Looks interesting.

But it’s also the kind of story that won’t stay down, and will definitely be back.

It appears as if there are folks here that don’t want to talk about this.

Ars already has a story about the same breach: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/09/my-drivers-license-...

Is this story being flagged? If so, why?

I just don’t hear about it anywhere near as much.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vastaamo_data_breach

They already do that, in Europe. I assume that it works, as I don’t hear about this level of stuff, over there (though it could be because I am not plugged into European news).

One thing about the US, is that companies that have the means, can afford regulatory capture, or even strait-up bribery. This is often magnified, at the local level. I am constantly hearing anecdotal stories about the absurd levels of naked corruption, in my town. Much of this, comes from my friends, who own businesses.

The more plugged-in we are, the more access these small, corrupt municipalities have; so a bribed bureaucrat in a small town, could have access to a national database. We’re hearing a lot about small-town cops, accessing Flock camera data.

We still have a landline. It's part of the cable package, but it mostly just gets robocalls.

Good show!