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> a third company so that nobody inside the company knows that references were checked

That’s actually really interesting. If you are actively looking that prevents anyone in the company from knowing you are looking, even if they did a reference check. That might be because of some previous lawsuits around terminating someone while getting a reference check before actually getting a new job/leaving.

> However, it's only meant for local systems. Once you need to connect over a network or robustly handle simultaneous requests

That’s not really accurate any longer.

Mostly depends on how you layout your tables & files. If you shard the databases then multiple machines can act as writers for their shard. You can also split read requests from write requests and have read only machines scale up/down as much as you’d like. You can use multiple files in a query (there is a limit there).

So for example you can split the user table based on the first letter of the username and then depending on the rest of the database either a database file per user or per customer (organization). Of course more of everything is manual but it’s not as hard as you’d expect if you build for it.

https://rivet.dev/blog/2025-02-16-sqlite-on-the-server-is-mi...

If you need sqlite over the network you can look at https://turso.tech/ it’s a almost drop in replacement for sqlite (https://github.com/tursodatabase/turso/blob/main/COMPAT.md)

You don't need to hide it so deeply, it can be added to your control panel add the control 'vehicle motion cues' and you can add a button which allows you to change it between on/auto/off.

I highly recommend people look through apple's accessibility features every major release they seem to quietly release some real gems.

They hid a whole app for sleep/chill/productivity/wellbeing sounds in there as well!

> Until siri can reliably handle "Navigate to <business that is a decade old>", offline and using pre-downloaded maps

Yeah, that's unfortunate considering you can have it do nearly all of that (download maps, navigate to business all while offline), except asking siri to do it for you.

> I once had a car that hid the backup cam behind a legal disclaimer every time you turned it on.

My car pops up a dialog telling me (in a paragraph+) to pay attention while in semi-autopilot which I have to click "ok" on to get back to the map. It's very ironic, and extremely dangerous.

Those are the only two options to finding quality candidates?

Try talking more about the meta of coding itself. Get into the developers head by _talking_ to them and understanding how they would approach and attack different problems. You can show them code and ask them what they would do differently / how they would go about implementing X-Y-Z. Just because you can write foobar doesn't mean you understand how to apply algorithms or w/e specific problems [your] team has. It's _far_ better to understand how they would solve a problem over their syntax anyway.

I believe they are referencing the person who wrote the program, not the name itself.

> This is a compliance incident

Uh. I don't know if I like the sound of that...

https://archive.is/bSQhD You can view their link here.

Do they brick less? I bought a pair for my husband and after a year they were bricked, apple support basically told him to buy a new one. I will never waste my money on the max line ever again.

Anyone “smart” enough to connect an ai agent to a payroll systems will get what they deserve.

I use it all of the time! I actually love it but I use it for grayscale mode, nothing actually critical. And yeah it triggers randomly but I am never upset to be without color.

No they are talking about the new camera button on the same side as the power/siri button. Which is semi-ironic considering the volume buttons still work fine as camera buttons they just don’t also handle zoom (you can slide your finger on the button to adjust zoom). I honestly am more annoyed at the button than enjoy it, yet another button I accidentally press when I nearly drop my phone and now have the camera app open.

> despite an insignificant fraction of customers using such a feature?

Isn't that the exact same argument against Lockdown mode? The point isn't that the number of users is small it's that it can significantly help that small set of users, something that Apple clearly does care about.

Wouldn’t that mean they could still exfiltrate it to another jira site they control?

? I use firefox all of the time and I don’t believe I have been marked as a “bot”? I rarely hit website captchas/browser checks. Do you have anything to read that says otherwise?

> It's also a page that's never visited by humans.

Never is a strong word. I have definitely visited robots.txt of various websites for a variety of random reasons.

  - remembering the format
  - seeing what they might have tried to "hide"
  - using it like a site's directory
  - testing if the website is working if their main dashboard/index is offline

The string “null” or actually null? I have recently seen a huge amount of bot traffic which has actually no UA and just outright block it. It’s almost entirely (microsoft cloud) Azure script attacks.

You should give kagi a whirl I rarely need to go past page 1 or even the first result for most queries.

I do not consider auto-upgrading people to pay more for something they probably aren’t already using “transparent”. Most especially if they didn’t mention in the email that there is a way to keep the existing price.

> I imagine passport cards as well

As someone who has a passport card, I can confirm it definitely has an RFID chip in it. Ironically they come in a protective sleeve.

> either because they never bothered, or because their state wanted to charge extra for it

Or because their state barely managed to rolled it out at all and since they already have a passport card it makes no huge difference now. Not arguing just annoyed at my state.

Fair I was thinking of the substance abuse definition, and hadn’t included enough into that word.

> When you focus on rehabilitation and not just punishment

From a book I recently read on the subject they seem not just to focus on rehab and lack of punishment. If there are disputes with others within the facilities the ones in the dispute must sit down and talk through their issues and find a resolution. This helps ingrain proper anger management & helps re-acclimate them to normal society where violence is rarely the best option. And it makes a ton of sense, if they never are taught how to talk out their issues they will go back to how they have handled those issues all along.

> No, that's not how things are implemented normally, exactly because they wouldn't work.

I used to work for a gov't contractor. I wrote a ~10 line golang http server, just because at the time golang was still new (this was years ago) and I wanted to try it. Not even 2 minutes later I got a call from the IT team asking a bunch of questions about why I was running that program (the http server not golang). I agree the practice is dumb but there are definitely companies who have it setup that way.

This is not a “breach” the article hints at a trojan which scrapes or exfiltrates credentials off of user computers not a singular provider’s database.

Security Keys are an independent device. I believe you are thinking of Passkeys which can live on the phone or in a password manager like 1Password.

If you do go with a security key it’s typically recommended to have at least 2 so that if one dies or is lost both have the same level of access. So long as you add them both/all to every account you need to access.

Most banks that will work with. For what ever reason the bank I now use knows most vpn providers and completely blocks all traffic from them so using a vpn is not an option either. The “vpn” I’ll have to use is tunneling back to my home ip. It’s actually quite frustrating.

> you can't solve political issues with technological solutions. Sure you can use VPN, but they always can block more. As the last resort they will have a whitelist of government-approved IPs you can connect to

You are in a thread specifically talking about blocking swaths of the internet because of football games.

> VPNs would not make sense if the actual ISP if blocking you.

Unless they are outright blocking your entire connection. That is precisely why one would use a vpn. A vpn most definitely can help get around blocking key words.

I am a member of Stellafane (STMs). The convention every year is amazing. It’s so fun to be surrounded by people who are so interested in astronomy that they travel to a convention out of their own state!

The keynote speaker last year was talking about the James Webb Telescope build, absolutely fascinating. There are tons of things to do. They also have a competition which judges on various aspects of telescopes. I have really enjoyed growing up around this convention.