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This is a follow-up to my blog post macOS Sonoma silently enabled iCloud Keychain despite my precautions from five months ago. The TL;DR of that blog post is that when you have iCloud enabled but not iCloud Keychain, updating from Ventura to Sonoma causes iCloud Keychain to be silently enabled. (I don't know yet…
A few thoughts on how the modern economy has stopped rewarding people who know what they are doing, and started rewarding people who know how to look like they do.
In the industry, we often talk about the more negative aspects that cause us strife - frameworks that are out of date, hard problems that no one really has concerete solutions and so on. But every now and then, it can be helpful to introspect and consider things at a larger scale, for example, what good things are…
I accidentally clicked the "do not sell my personal information" link at the bottom of your website.
Genius is fragile. Success, even more so. What does it mean then for an artist to fail?
Proton's CEO called a request for security testing "loser thinking". Using AI to write code is fine, but for a privacy company, the guardrails around that code are the product.
Process of law failed on so many accounts in the trial against the two operators of The Pirate Bay, its media spokesperson, and a...
This is an archive of an old Google Buzz conversation (circa 2010?) on a variety of topics, including whether or not it's inevetible that a closed platform will dominate social.
“Each one of us has, somewhere in his heart, the dream to make a living world, a universe.”
Well at first that looks weird. It pings and all so I jump to incognito mode, and…
Some of the forces blocking really new ideas in science
A young operations engineer learns a lesson about creative debugging
Leaked slides document the lies, sleaze and profiteering.
ABOUT ME My name is Helmut and I was born in 1980 in Graz (Austria). Trains were my hobby since childhood. My 2nd hobby is travelling. Du...
Liquid Lunches And The Serious Case for BNPL Securitization
We hates us some poor people. First, they insist on being poor when it is so easy to not be poor. They do things like buy expensive designer belts and $2500 luxury handbags. To be fair, this isn…
I recently spent a few weeks running a conference for a community of researchers and writers in a historic chateau in the French…
This is the first post in a series where I explore how love hurts and why.
In one of the side plots to The Lord of the Rings , two of the Hobbits attempt to rouse Treebeard—a wise but ponderous sentient tree—to defend his forest from an army that is cutting it down. The problem is that Treebeard operates at a very different speed than the Hobbits. It takes him a full day simply to say hello…
Amazon’s logistics investment makes the company increasingly attractive to 3rd party merchants.
The financial industry has paid tens of billions of dollars in tuition on fraud detection. Here are some observations for investigators with badges, press cards, or GoPros.
I believe there is a non-trivial chance that the United States will experience a rolling series of “Ireland events” over the next 30-45 days, where the Covid effective reproductive number (Re not R0) reaches a value between 2.4 and 3.0 in states and regions where a) the more infectious UK-variant (or similar) Covid…
In a letter recently published in a new book, A Reluctant Icon: Letters to Neil Armstrong, a teacher wrote a letter to the first human to set foot on the Moon a
The basics on how we got to now, why it matters for all Americans, and how we can fix it together.
The final text of the update to the eIDAS regulation (establishing a framework for a European Digital Identity) has been agreed upon. In a last minute effort to improve the text, we wrote an open letter criticising the proposal on weakening the security of the web, and providing too few safeguards protecting users of…
