They run GrapheneOS Wonderfully…
They run GrapheneOS Wonderfully…
As a product manager, I simply choose to overlook things like “implementation details” or “the laws of physics!!” /s 🤣
On a more serious note, I’m just reaching a point where I just want a small, reliable, and minimalist mp3 playing app for the Mac, as I’m starting to get sick of every single service wanting $20/m for stuff.
I pine for the whipping the Lamas ass winamp used to give…
There’s a recreation in re:Amp for osx, but I’d much prefer OSS apps…
Generally, I’d rather go back to just buying the music I want, ripping it and putting it on the devices I want to listen to it from…
Mac Port! Mac Port! Mac Port!
At least in Australia, Consumer Law means you have grounds to walk the TV back for a full refund.
FWIW, Little known fact: Matrix 2 used real vuln (SSH CRC32) for trinity power grid hacking scene.
Even better to know: the scene was completed before the CRC32 vuln was public. So the scene used real 0day vuln…
I’ve used the 3x multiplier for staff planning at services companies since the early 2000s.
Perhaps there are regional differences, but they’ve rung true for planning billable rates of return at every services company I’ve worked at in the last 20 years here in AU.
I realise that the services aspect isn’t relevant, but having the sum of indirect staff costs equivalent to staff salary cost when office space is involved isn’t a massive stretch in my experience. (Indirect costs would include office rent, utilities, infrastructure and a share of shared functions such as IT, HR, facilities etc…)
When running a business, you need to budget 3x salary for actual TCO of a staff member:
1x covers their direct salary 2x covers retirement fund, electricity, office space, and infrastructure items unlike server and laptops for corporate use etc.
The 3x multiplier is for when you’re a services company, and that represents a possibly profit margin.
So for signal, your $380k becomes $190k which in my experience is average for a US tech sw dev at a mid to early senior level.
I donate to signal monthly and I have no problems with the costs they’re posting. I work in SV tech and I’ve seen 20x worse numbers.
Australia’s Basic Online Safety Expectations made it required by law:
“If the service uses encryption, the provider of the service will take reasonable steps to develop and implement processes to detect and address material or activity on the service that is or may be unlawful or harmful”
Source: https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/F2022L00062/Html/Text#_Toc93478766 section 8
For those interested in privacy respecting android, check out GrapheneOS on Pixel: De-googled android that is strong on security and rips google out of your device… Ive been using it for two years and won’t go back. ::: spoiler Title
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That’s a Gentoo logo…
I aplaud the write up and recognise that the OP has developed a solution that suits their use case.
Personally I started running my own mail around the same time, but host for several family members at the same time.
I went a slightly different route and pay for a mail filtering service for inbound filtering and outbound relay. All up costs me $90USD per year for inbound and $4 a month for outbound
This has solved most blacklist and outbound mail server reputation issues.
I used to run zarafa till they went commercial. I’ve since migrated to Mailinabox as a platform. Its pretty resilient. (I’ve just disabled greylisying and spam detection as I’ve got upstream MX filtering already) I’ve also recently been through a MiaB major upgrade - it was pretty simple once I actually read the instructions properly!
Well, for one, Bob Sagat’s performance would be described these days as “Bloated, wooden and just down right creepy…”
I get concerned when companies like Apple uses the “We won’t break our application for demands of one country” argument as Australia, France, the USA and possibly other countries are either planning or already have similar legislation.
The right argument to have is the one that says “this is just plain wrong!”. That is a much tougher needle to thread though.
First macbook air was ethereal, nas was bitbucket, first macbook pros deathstar then dreadnaught, second bigger nas was abyss…
More recently I’ve been using Neal Stevenson characters and themes.
Mobile wass “primer”, high spec laptop was “reason”, workhorse laptop was “chevaline”…
Work servers I’ve always liked two themes:
Chaos or medications:
Anarchy, bedlam, disturbed, chaos, mayhem, futility, entropy, maelstrom,
Sudafed, NyQuil, Tylenol, advil, codeine, morphine, panadol, Valium,
English language story from Reuters (no paywall) for anyone that doesn’t speak French…
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/telegram-messaging-app-ceo-pavel-durov-arrested-france-tf1-tv-says-2024-08-24/