The remote access story for macOS is absolute sadness, without Jump Desktop there would be zero performant ways to access that “system under my control”.
And all of that because Tim Apple fears any feature that could mean people could have less than one iDevice per person.
We could probably redirect budget for next gen particle accelerator to building an experimental platform orbiting the black hole, and get better results, right?
It is highly likely the 50k undocumented immigrants aren't "a drag on the economy" but "people increasing margins of business by being exploited in almost slave-like fashion, and doing the work you don't want your kids to do".
I paused to read whenever a new Om’s essay popped up in the RSS feed; for me, Om was an uniquely observant voice of tech, who never compromised and always looked at the world from a human perspective.
… and over time you find you have become an ISP for child p*rn distributors, and that your only choice is whether you want to know it or not (Auschwitz guards recommend the second option, however that’s not available for unbroken human beings).
Yes, Mr. Market will pay you handsomely for helping someone anonymously stream a torture of kidnapped child.
No, as a society, we decided we don't want that to happen even though it is technically possible.
There are horrible people, and they are drawn as moths to any oblivious operator willing to close his eyes (sorry, wanted to say "use e2e encryption" of course).
Reminder that coach is not your friend, the incentives are wrong. If they burn through 100 kids damaging them for life, and one survives to win an Olympic medal, that’s what counts as success.
I remember doing benchmark on LAN about 5 years ago, and Nextcloud was order of magnitude slower than Seafile even for basic file sync (on the order of tens of GB).
Congratulations to building a cool company that inspired thousands, then converting it to LLM reply bot, and then selling it to enterprise graveyard to be dehumanized and monetized even further.
It seems highly suspicious that all the target cost estimates are for $150-$400, regardless if it’s a bench for pelican on bicycle, or a clone of AAA game.
It reminds me of scam eshops where everything cost $random dollars in a hope that someone will enter a credit card number.
And all of that because Tim Apple fears any feature that could mean people could have less than one iDevice per person.