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New comment by SilverRed in "Always-on Processor magic: How Find My works while iPhone is powered off"

SilverRed — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 04:01:32 +0000

If you don't trust the software to do what it says, then none of this matters anyway since they could have added this in silently ages ago or they could push custom firmwares out to targeted individuals to do it.

Everything is based on the trust of the OS and hardware so it's not a useful point to make.

New comment by SilverRed in "Always-on Processor magic: How Find My works while iPhone is powered off"

SilverRed — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 02:05:48 +0000

They show it clearly above the slider when shutting down. Since this is a feature virtually 100% of users want on. This seems appropriate.

New comment by SilverRed in "Always-on Processor magic: How Find My works while iPhone is powered off"

SilverRed — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 02:04:58 +0000

For the average user they are the same thing. "off" is not even a state the average user uses. It's either open and connected to the network or closed and in sleep mode.

New comment by SilverRed in "Always-on Processor magic: How Find My works while iPhone is powered off"

SilverRed — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 02:03:09 +0000

I would think the normal drain of a battery sitting on the shelf is more than this feature uses.

New comment by SilverRed in "Chip shortage leads carmaker Opel to shut German plant until 2022"

SilverRed — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 01:01:55 +0000

The security of key fobs is not a great concern when the windows can still be smashed.

New comment by SilverRed in "Chip shortage leads carmaker Opel to shut German plant until 2022"

SilverRed — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 01:00:28 +0000

It's absolutely a good thing that these cameras are required with how many children are run over frequently as drivers reverse their cars.

New comment by SilverRed in "Always-on Processor magic: How Find My works while iPhone is powered off"

SilverRed — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 00:14:53 +0000

It literally tells you about this right next to the slider to turn off. If you tap the message it lets you turn it off. I see absolutely no issues with this.

New comment by SilverRed in "Enabling IPv6 support for GitHub Pages"

SilverRed — Fri, 01 Oct 2021 00:07:04 +0000

looks like another 10 years at most going by the current rate. And I expect it will speed up at the end when we reach something like 90% and some sites go v6 only.

New comment by SilverRed in "In software, when an engineer exits the team"

SilverRed — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 07:06:15 +0000

I get away from this by just not caring about work or what happens on a personal or emotional level. If I'm getting paid good money and I'm physically comfortable, I'm not really bothered what is going on because I won't stress or lose a minutes sleep over it.

Eventually I want to save up enough money to be self sustaining off investments and then spend my time doing whatever I want to do.

New comment by SilverRed in "A bit of math around Cloudflare's R2 pricing model"

SilverRed — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 04:18:44 +0000

It's not a currency but a utility. You can't buy and hold bandwidth like you can currency.

New comment by SilverRed in "iPhone remains findable after power off"

SilverRed — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 03:01:36 +0000

>scanning on your phone (not in the cloud)

The scanning only touches photos which are stored on iCloud. Yes it does it on your phone but the reality is the same on iCloud or Google Photos. Both Apple and Google can push out changes live to every phone without warning, so what they may do in the future doesn't really matter. Only what they claim to be doing now. This is actually a more privacy friendly approach because it would be compatible with encrypted cloud storage.

New comment by SilverRed in "In software, when an engineer exits the team"

SilverRed — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 02:55:39 +0000

Yeah I just went from an average Adelaide job to a highish end Melbourne job working remote from Adelaide and the change has been amazing. Almost everyone from my last company just left for remote jobs paying way more.

New comment by SilverRed in "In software, when an engineer exits the team"

SilverRed — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 01:29:11 +0000

Companies seem to hand out only crumbs for pay rises but are willing to drop mountains of extra money when hiring fresh people. In 3 years of working at one company, they gave me an extra $20k in pay rises. After leaving that job for another one, My pay went up $60k AUD in one go.

New comment by SilverRed in "iPhone remains findable after power off"

SilverRed — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 01:27:22 +0000

This makes no sense. If you want to hide, just tap the warning and it gives you the option to turn off the feature.

So it works best for everyone. The average person can track their stolen phones now. And people hiding from the government can still turn it off.

New comment by SilverRed in "iPhone remains findable after power off"

SilverRed — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 01:26:40 +0000

That has nothing to do with this change. It doesn't even seem like they had their phone turned off for this to be in play anyway. The most likely answer is that they hit a bug in the new update or that they placed their phone off centered on a wireless charger. I'm not sure why the general public should care about rare bugs in day one updates which get patched pretty quick anyway.

The turned off pings use an ultra low power mode similar to the airtags which should last months on a "flat" battery.

New comment by SilverRed in "iPhone remains findable after power off"

SilverRed — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 01:23:51 +0000

This is sort of more of the same as what I was saying. Android phones have horrible hardware flaws and they don't gain much attention. At the same time as "You are holding it wrong" Nexus 5x phones where bricking due to bad NAND chips. Nexus 6P phones where crashing due to battery issues similar to the iphone but they did not throttle the phone and left it to crash. Samsung had phones that would explode in to fireballs. Samsung's flip phones crack at the fold and are extremely expensive to fix. Google Photos has been doing the exact same image scanning for the whole lifetime of the product and no one noticed or cared.

All OEMs have had hardware issues or scandals but they are all quickly forgotten while any fault on an iPhone becomes memorialized forever. They were all real faults but they weren't ever any worse than the rest, only more news worthy.

There are an endless

New comment by SilverRed in "In software, when an engineer exits the team"

SilverRed — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 01:18:41 +0000

Depends on what amounts we are talking. You and the people you know are probably already on the top end of pay and can chose anything. The devs I know saw $40k-$60k AUD pay bumps by switching to remote work for companies in higher paying areas. That kind of extra money is pretty life changing especially when they offer almost exactly the same work environment.

New comment by SilverRed in "In software, when an engineer exits the team"

SilverRed — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 00:34:54 +0000

>But this role wasn’t a fit, and the timing was off. The environment was not correct. The work didn’t have the impact they wanted, finding their dream job instead. Perhaps I was ineffective at communications, championing above, or slow at sponsoring elsewhere

This seems to miss the most obvious reason. That they found more money elsewhere. Of every developer I have seen leave, their primary motivation was a higher pay. Having a team you like is nice and all, but owning a house or being able to go on nicer holidays is better.

The company I worked at this year is falling apart because all of the actual talent has found higher paying jobs and all that is left is the juniors who will struggle to keep things running.

New comment by SilverRed in "iPhone remains findable after power off"

SilverRed — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 00:15:08 +0000

It's just another barrier. With enough hassle, people will move to stealing other easier things. When find my was released, phone theft went down massively. Not every criminal wants to make the jump from just grabbing a phone off the table, to having an RF blocking bag, transporting to an RF proof room, and then pulling the phone to bits to sell for pennies since the parts don't work properly when swapped in to another phone.

New comment by SilverRed in "iPhone remains findable after power off"

SilverRed — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 00:10:56 +0000

And for those people, you can turn that setting off. It even warns you about it on the power off screen. If you don't trust the setting to actually turn off, then you shouldn't trust anything about the phone and should smash it up with a hammer.