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New comment by shye in "Meta enables ADB on deprecated Portal devices [video]"

shye — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:15:47 +0000

That's on the company owners[1], as represented by its board.

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[1] Companies like Meta actually has two types of ownership: ownership of the company's current assets (economic equity), which is not the same as ownership of control in the company's decision making (voting power). The owners I reference here are the second category of ownership.

In the example of Meta, a quick search suggests Zuckerberg holds about 61% of the voting power.

New comment by shye in "Fine-tuning an LLM to write docs like it's 1995"

shye — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:44:42 +0000

What I've learned from reading this is how much of my own writing style was influenced by late 1990s MSDN.

New comment by shye in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

shye — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 06:40:23 +0000

It receives, as its name implies, pre-release builds: it is currently on 15.7.8, while the latest macOS 15.7 release is 15.7.7.

New comment by shye in "Made a Tool to Streams Changes from Microsoft SQL Server to Apache Kafka"

shye — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:17:24 +0000

If you have enough data to actually need to use Kafka, “simplicity” probably leaves too much out.

New comment by shye in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

shye — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:46:54 +0000

Not a real solution if you’re averse to using pre-release software like macOS 26.

Recent betas also seem to break some small things, not sure if due to change in code itself or a faulty migration.

New comment by shye in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

shye — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:41:56 +0000

It wasn’t Twain who wrote that letter: that quip was posthumously attributed to him, and have been used by multiple others.

The earliest source we have for it is a letter by Blaise Pascal, some 250 before Twain ever thought about writing letters, or anything else for that matter.

New comment by shye in "Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud (Resolved)"

shye — Wed, 20 May 2026 04:03:21 +0000

That's exactly why I'm less pleased with GCP: to trust a CSP (or any service), I need to be assured that when (not if) things go wrong, I could escalate to a team that would have my back.

New comment by shye in "Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]"

shye — Wed, 20 May 2026 03:59:34 +0000

Apple also uses AWS, and I won't be surprised if they also use Azure. Big companies are multicloud, and not because it's a good idea (it rarely is), but because they inherited multiple environments on different CSPs, and maintaining those where they are is often cheaper than migrating them to a different CSP.

New comment by shye in "Railway Blocked by Google Cloud"

shye — Wed, 20 May 2026 03:57:51 +0000

From personal experience, as a customer who once did something stupid: Google Cloud does soft deletes. But you need to reach out to support fast enough. And really, if you deleted something important and discovered it only the next day, and not within minutes, you're having a bigger issue that a soft delete won't solve.

New comment by shye in "Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels"

shye — Mon, 18 May 2026 04:10:15 +0000

Of course, the solution to that is to nullify all HOAs, power tripping or not. They were a mechanism to enact segregation, and as such should've had no place when created, and certainly has no place now.

New comment by shye in "How can Apple deal with the memory shortage?"

shye — Thu, 14 May 2026 02:39:04 +0000

Apple never bought a manufacturer, or built such capabilities.

They buy and build manufacturing capacity, and there’s also a huge shortage in that today.

New comment by shye in "How can Apple deal with the memory shortage?"

shye — Thu, 14 May 2026 02:36:24 +0000

They can’t.

Operating a FAB requires employing PhDs that are willing to work 8 hours shifts with no breaks (each removal of a bunnysuit is an expensive exercise), and there’s no reason to believe SpaceX is capable of hiring such people.

New comment by shye in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

shye — Tue, 12 May 2026 02:18:14 +0000

It’s a game of chicken, and we know the president folds like a soggy tortilla (aka TACO). It’s just that some executives are even soggier.

New comment by shye in "Let’s Encrypt: Stopping Issuance for Potential Incident – Resolved"

shye — Sat, 09 May 2026 17:45:23 +0000

For domains where they handle the certificates, Cloudflare utilizes multiple CAs, to avoid such a single point of failure: I’ve seen Cloudflare managed certificates issued by Let’s Encrypt, Google Cloud, Sectigo, and SSL.com.

Cloudflare does provide the option for customers to manage their own certificates, which would make it the customer’s responsibility to have alternatives issuers when needed.

New comment by shye in "Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA"

shye — Thu, 07 May 2026 04:59:33 +0000

No, we don't, or shouldn't ask people to check the URL itself, because of homonym attacks are a thing. Goal is to make sure that your credentials can't be compromised by surfing the wrong website (e.g. by using Passkeys instead of passwords).

New comment by shye in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

shye — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 03:39:28 +0000

> Millions chose Android for exactly that reason

Citation needed.

But even if millions did bought an Android phone for ill-defined defined, about 15 billion Android phones were sold over the years, which could very well make those millions a minority, with most having other reasons for their purchase.

New comment by shye in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

shye — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:07:31 +0000

Most shareholders may not care beyond the next quarter, but CEO action that led to those results were made couple of years ago at least, and current action will do as much to determine not the next quarter, but one slightly further in the future. Hence Jamie Dimon, for example, making a different decision in a similar matter. As Dimon explained: “[…] we have to be very careful about how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it. So, we’re quite conscious of risks we bear by doing anything that looks like buying favors or anything like that”[1].

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[1] https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/05/business/video/jp-morgan-chas...

New comment by shye in "Tesla tells HW3 owner to 'be patient' after 7 years of waiting for FSD"

shye — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:49:33 +0000

Yes. I know a person that used to work in casting for such events.

New comment by shye in "I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program"

shye — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 02:01:39 +0000

What Flock names the relationship in their contract does not make it one, as the courts do very much duck type.

Flock knowingly collects PII of people they have no direct relationship with, and transfers it to third parties. If that transfer, which Flock seem to gain from, is legally a sale is something to be argued at a great expense in front of the court.

But regardless of that definition, I so think that any reasonable person (= not a corporate lawyer) would consider there is a sale of data here.

New comment by shye in "I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program"

shye — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:33:39 +0000

Flock's facilitation of data-sharing is a huge part of their value proposition over other cameras, and why their customers buy from them over their competitors.

As such, even if they can contract it such that they are not legally responsible for such use, they are very much knowingly facilitating it. If this was physical goods, rather than data, they would probably been as responsible as their customers.