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snowe2010··on The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind
Yeah this really breaks down when you put the logic up against ANY sort of compliance testing. Ok you don’t meet compliance, your agents have spent weeks on it and they’re just adding more bugs. Now what are you going to do? You have to go into the code yourself. Uh oh.
snowe2010··on Kindle to end store downloads and registering for 1st-5th gen kindles in May
That control is only held by Amazon with their drm scheme. It’s not held by the publishers or authors. It does nothing to prevent piracy and only helps Amazon consolidate more control.
snowe2010··on John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement
Don’t comment if you don’t want to actually contribute. How are people supposed to know these things before buying the equipment. What if they’re the only provider in their region? There’s a billion reasons why your comment doesn’t contribute.
snowe2010··on Artemis II will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps
They literally played clips from actors in recent moon movies so yes, they definitely were taking notes from movies.
snowe2010··on Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it
Then you’re also blocking legitimate users that don’t want to be tracked and use services like iCloud Hide my Emails
snowe2010··on New farm bill would condemn pigs to a lifetime in gestation crates
Your comment makes no sense. If plants weren’t around for humans to eat then how did the animals humans eat survive?

Humans eat animals because they are a denser faster nutrition than plants. More bang for your buck. Trying to act like humans “only eat animals because” is ignoring reality.

snowe2010··on OpenClaw is changing my life
I’ve been using models just fine for months now. Codex is terrible, full stop.
snowe2010··on Kim Dotcom says Palantir allegedly hacked
Somebody said he’s shorting the stock
snowe2010··on OpenClaw is changing my life
You have to be joking. I tried Codex for several hours and it has to be one of the worst models I’ve seen. It was extremely fast at spitting out the worst broken code possible. Claude is fine, but what they said is completely correct. At a certain point, no matter what model you use, llms cannot write good working code. This usually occurs after they’ve written thousands of lines of relatively decent code. Then the project gets large enough that if they touch one thing they break ten others.
snowe2010··on When two years of academic work vanished with a single click
I don’t really think it counts as data loss when you actually choose to delete it and get a prompt confirming as such.
snowe2010··on Stop crawling my HTML – use the API
You’re making up your position here though. They have a stable API. It’s the built in wordpress API. It’s on almost every Wordpress site on the planet. It’s about the most stable API you could use. You just want to use html and not be bothered with an API so don’t pretend like you would do something else if it was “stable”.
snowe2010··on Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
I understood what you meant about GDA. It just doesn’t come out to that unless you put stuff in and never touch it, which is a valid use case! Don’t get me wrong, I planned on doing the same but with restic it would cost so so much more than wasabi and backblaze that it was a massive waste of money and really revealed amazon’s strategy, which is lock your data away and charge you to access it.

I wasn’t talking about B2 though, I was talking about Backblaze personal, which you can run on a NAS with a docker container.

snowe2010··on Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
What are you talking about. It’s literally open source. Here’s the server code https://github.com/immich-app/immich/tree/main/server You run the server. You can make the entire thing e2e encrypted if you want.

You could even set it up so that it could only backup over tailscale or wireguard through a tunneled connection so ALL of your traffic is e2e.

snowe2010··on Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
> AWS S3 Glacier Deep Archive is $1 a month.

Only if you’re backing up nothing and using non-encrypted files and making sure you don’t delete anything (rsync with delete turned off). I tested this not even three months ago. I hit $30 with only 3 tb of data with deep archive while wasabi AND backblaze cost less than that. No need to even trust a single provider. If you’re never changing your files AND you don’t care about encrypting them then yes GDA is fine and pretty cheap. Otherwise wasabi and backblaze get more done for less cost.

snowe2010··on Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
If aws decided to block your access to their ecosystem you would lose so so so much more than Apple blocking your access to theirs. If the US decided what you said, t1 networks would restrict your access across much of the planet.

Your logic makes no sense since you can easily switch to Google or whatever other smartphone providers there are (China has a bunch).

But of course those providers can also cut you off, so what I said still applies.

snowe2010··on Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
It’s not reasonable because you’re assuming that 1) they have the time to set up that network infrastructure 2) their skills align with that 3) they have the knowledge to do so 4) they live in a country without strong regulations that would make such a thing unnecessary.

Just because you know objective-c doesn’t mean you know a damn thing about raspberry pis, backup programs, NASes, or anything else. It doesn’t mean you know or want to manage your own network infrastructure. They’re a Mac app programmer, not a Linux professional, not a micro-computer professional, not a network engineer, not a sys admin.

Time Machine wouldn’t work here, because it needs the files locally and he’s already stated he doesn’t have a 6tb drive.

snowe2010··on Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
And that website is hosted somewhere, you’re using several layers of network providers, the registrar has control over your domain, the copper in the ground most likely has an easement controlling access to it so your internet provider literally can just cut off access to you whenever they want, if you publish your apps to a registry the registry controls your apps as well.

There are so many companies that control access to every part of your life. Your argument is meaningless because it applies to _everything_.

A trustless society is not one that anyone should want to be a part of. Regulations exist for a reason.

snowe2010··on Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
That applies for any device you buy, yes even if you plan on putting graphene on it. So you’re getting downvoted because your comments are pointless and disingenuous. Also, you can jailbreak an iphone so no it’s not bricked.
snowe2010··on Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
Yeah literally the exact same thing can happen on android and windows. The solution is regulation, not ridiculous solutions like telling billions of people to back up their own stuff.
snowe2010··on Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
Why would you need it to be end to end encrypted anyway? You’re running it. Set it to only upload photos when you’re on your home network and you’re fine. Or fork it and make a PR and make it e2e encrypted.
snowe2010··on Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
Backblaze doesn’t erase after 30 days… I’ve had a computer be offline from it for several months and it still retained all data. And you can use the backblaze docker container to run on a NAS, much much much cheaper than B2.

Wasabi is much cheaper than AWS as well.

Finally the best solution for backing up your iCloud Photos is definitely Immich. Set it up on your own NAS or a VPS, back up to that, and then back up that server to an S3 storage using rsync or restic. I’ll note that I still backup to Backblaze because its so dang cheap.

I spent months trying to find the best setup a few months ago and this is by far the cheapest.

But still, this shouldn’t be required for normal people. They should get what they pay for.

snowe2010··on Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
The imessage db is literally just a sqlite db. If you have a Mac you can read the entire thing with an applescript. It’s really easy from what I remember from years ago
snowe2010··on Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
That is in no way a reasonable suggestion. You’re suggesting a raspberry pi (first red flag) along with a command line program. This is not reasonable in any sense of the word. Imagine me suggesting that everyone should be set up their own unraid server to make sure they can still stream movies and videos if Netflix goes down. Imagine me telling you you should set up a foundry to build your own engines because you can’t trust big car manufacturers. This is the case with everything in your life

Regulations exist because it’s impossible for any one person to handle everything that needs to be handled.

snowe2010··on Two women had a business meeting. AI called it childcare
And yet it doesn’t when it’s male names. https://imgur.com/a/9yt5rpA
snowe2010··on How I block all 26M of your curl requests
People like you are why independent sites can’t afford to run on the internet anymore.
snowe2010··on The right wing is coming for Wikipedia
The mountain of evidence you supplied is just evidence that republicans more often than not are involved in unsavory things. Hence the change you see with the think tanks, because they generally do not make the news in the same way that a pedophile politician does. Neutrality is telling the truth, not saying nice things about “both sides”.
snowe2010··on Grindr outage reports coincide with Kirk memorial service in Arizona
You’re really reaching to make their argument not make sense. They used a middle number from a range and then you took the low end of that and acted like they said something incorrect.
snowe2010··on Tarsnap is cozy
Does anyone know how it compares to restic or duplicate?
snowe2010··on I want to be left alone (2024)
Uhh. I mean I have to do half of that on my CachyOS computer… like telling the user to restart to install an update isn’t that ridiculous of an ask, especially for security reasons.
snowe2010··on Anthropic judge rejects $1.5B AI copyright settlement
But whether or not it is a machine _is_ relevant in current copyright law. https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/federal-court-rules-arti...
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