> When Google offered me the job of Director of Android Platform Security in 2017, it was impossible to refuse. Yes, Trump was already president—my family and I had qualms—but he seemed contained, even ineffective.
Why make this about trump and politics. It’s just a job.
Zuck has not accountability and total veto powers at the board level. If this was some other CEO making so many mistakes starting with the brain dead Metaverse, they would have been either fired or investigated for fraud. At Meta only the low level engineers are held accountable.
Any “investment” here directly translates to more human activity that will make climate change worse not better. It is hypocritical to have these climate conferences and fly there burning jet fuel.
The need of the hour is to drastically reduce the GDP - we need to rewind the clock 50years. But this will never happen because folks will lose jobs and scientists will lose their funding.
The same thing happens with iPhone and car bluetooth. It is super annyoing and many times, a podcast will be playing in the background while the car has FM/radio selected. This is incredibly frustrating and bad user experience. The worst part is it is not clear if this is Apple's fault or some buggy old firmware in the car's audio stack that is at fault (this happens consistently on 2017 Tesla Model S).
I think you need to give them visiblity on how long it will take to review, test and understand how it works and the risks so engineering feels comfortable being on the hook for it.
These are all great statistics, but how do you explain ClawdBot explosion. Even in lower income countries like China. So much demand that Apple can’t keep up production of Mac Minis. Why aren’t these folks going towards cloud solutions? Is it cost or is there some consideration for having more control over their data?
All you need to remember is cmd-ctrl-shift-4. Apple chose some terrible defaults here but as you use this your fingers will remember without your brain getting involved. The app fails to mention this obvious built in option.
What happens when you screen share - does those pixels show as active or the kernel cannot read the state of those pixels and the capture has the video memory state?
I went down the sandbox-exec rabbit hole recently trying to get a “safe shell” for poking at random GitHub projects. I eventually realized I was solving the wrong problem.
For development you usually don’t need a kernel policy language - you mostly want:
1. builds not trashing your real $HOME
2. no dotfiles/config pollution
3. some basic separation if a project does something dumb
A much simpler (and more reliable) alternative on macOS is just a dedicated throwaway user account. macOS already isolates home directories, keychains, and app state per-user, so you get a practical sandbox without fighting SBPL quirks or mysterious denials.
My workflow now: I have a user called rsh. I clone and build everything there. My real home directory stays clean. If a project goes crazy, it only damages /Users/rsh
It also avoids the “1000 hidden files in your home folder” problem that a lot of language ecosystems cause.
Demo I built 5 months ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02O2OaNsLIk
This exposes ecommerce specific tool calls as regular javascript functions as it is more lightweight than going the MCP route.
It's great they are working on standardizing this so websites don't have to integrate with LLMs. The real opportunity seems to be able to automatically generate the tool calls / MCP schema by inspecting the website offline - I automated this using PLayright MCP.
A key issue that often gets missed is that job growth and housing supply are tightly linked. When cities add office jobs without adding enough housing, the results are predictable: longer commutes, overcrowded housing, or both.
In that sense, it makes little sense to approve large amounts of office space without considering the housing capacity needed to support it. If the jobs-to-housing ratio grows too high, the costs are pushed onto workers and surrounding areas rather than being addressed directly.
This problem is compounded by limited public transit and inadequate road infrastructure. Framing the issue solely as NIMBY opposition misses the structural imbalance at the core of the problem.
Instead of treating symptoms or assigning blame, governments should focus on correcting the underlying mismatch between employment growth and housing supply.
It’s not just the US based liberals. Al Jazeera doesn’t have a single mention on the number or people in Iran that were killed but they do have an article about all the Palestinians killed since over a year.
This is interesting, so for a non white legal resident, just carrying your firearm around these people is sufficient to signal that you should be left alone.
Spotlight search relevancy is a complete joke. If only they did some embedding based search across the system and paid attention to basic precision recall numbers. This has gone from bad to worse quickly.
Why make this about trump and politics. It’s just a job.