Yeah, but it is on the internet.

“refused”. Okay, headline.

It’s bad business to not be honest and trustworthy. If a hacker group is known to always give back the data and not strike twice, they are obviously much more likely to get paid. No one’s paying someone known for ripping off. We see this in company ransomwware all the time. They are friendly, helpful in explaining the breech, and professional. If they were the opposite, they’d be broke.

Yeah, my thoughts exactly. Gotta suppress those aspirations before they get out of hand. Wealth is just the theme in this case, but could be anything else.

I’m enjoying solar on my Australian roof.

Don’t understand why the fuck we’re investing so poorly in solar farms and everyone just complains about price of electricity. We’re the sun cancer capital of the world; when life gives you sun, clear skies, and a thinned ozone layer, make electricity!

It’s not uncommon where I live, but certainly starts conversations of people comparing their worst storms. My own favourite was the damage done to a massive carlot near the docks and airport that stored new cars coming into the country to freight out around the state. Thousands of cars, no cover. They all went on sale massively discounted as hail damaged but the downside being people couldn’t get additional non-compulsary insurance until repaired. So new car, but probably barely making a saving after fixing it all. Or, just leave it and o ly have compulsory insurance, which only covers damage you do to public property with your car and not your car or other people’s.

It’s like getting into a car you haven’t driven before and you hit the wipers instead of the indicator ×1000. Or playing an FPS and E is now F, C is now Ctrl, X is Shift, and you tap+hold instead of tap. WHY?!?! You can remap, but suddenly there’s conflicting keys for shit the tutorial hasn’t even introduced to you yet, so you don’t know what you can or can’t get away with.

Some designer or dev has a personal opinion they think is better than everything else and now we all gotta live with it on the hopes that’ll be the new standard. And there’s so many of those arseholes and their DVORAK layouts and putting “Cancel” on the left and “Confirm” on the right of a dialogue popup. “I think it’s better this way and the world will thank my big brain!”

YES I’m ranting, lol.

I really don’t care about my OS UI since I’m barely actually using it, especially after a few minutes setting up one-click actions. Less than 1% of my time and effort on the computer.

Applications, on the other hand, is where I live and FUCKING HELL!!!

Ooooh.

American banks charge you for this?

My 200W panel just got slammed camping over xmas and not a spot of damage on it—its made to have some sort of protection from hail strikes. Meanwhile the 4×4 got smashed windows and dents all over.

That’s entirely untrue. IBM does mega projects and research for things the average consumer wouldn’t know or care about. Their customer base is industries, not people.

I wish I had content and data to sell :(

Oh, wait, I do. But companies are already selling it :(

I’ll be there for youuu

When the plane starts to stall

I’ll be there for youuu

When the wing is no more

I’ll be there for youuu

To state the claims are untruuu-uuue

So no one ever known a flight could’ve ended up this waaay

The starboard wing has broke

Cabin door’s flying awaaay

You’re out of hope, you lost your landing geeear

But our stocks are the lowest they’ve been so far this fiscal yeeeear, so

I’ve a job to doooo

Get prepared for that bull

Remind all the neeews

It’s never happened before

I’ve a job to doooo

And I guess I’m pretty gooo-oood

Well you gotta cut X a break. They’re inexplicably understaffed.

So basically they’re going after Elon and Zuck

Anyone else see a happy little house living in the mouth of an iDomokun?

I’m not a former Meta employee, so I can’t say. But from what I know, I wouldn’t be so confident in your conclusion.

Edit: Unless “terrible” is just referencing inconvenience. In that cas, yeah, Apple accounts are certainly more convenient, secure, and seemingly less intrusive.

No, but I did get an email from Tim praising my good work.

We thought it was bs, so immediately spent the rest of the day investigating it. I worked in JAPAC region, so we checked in with our networks around Singapore, Japan, HK, and Australia. Sure enough, he did it regularly. At the time I had gotten a few internal awards and it was assumed they’d get passed onto him along with pre-written text, and then just sent it or it was sent from his internal email. It was meant to be inspiring but was really transparent, especially since you realise how it all works inside.

Most of the data I tracked was customer volumes and contact reasons for online sales, iTunes store activities, and tech support (AppleCare, Apple Online Store, Apple Authorised Service Providers/Resellers, iTunes Store, and every now and then iCloud services specifically if it was clashing with Enterprise, especially Microsoft Exchange profiles placed on iOS devices by the employer organisation). Most of the customer and account data I dealt with was…pretty much everything associated with making and maximising a buck—since it’s probably clear by now I was in the service delivery part of the beast—plus all the strategies to do it, specifically tracking their success. While that obviously meant I dealt with a lot of iOS too, I’d only communicate with dev to indicate what reported issues were tending so they could prioritise fixes. Generally critical issues would be parked for non-critical issues if they were generating high points of contact or hitting the media. Rarely I’d speak with Cupertino since this part of the world’s HQ did SD in Singapore and non-reguinal issues that impact globally (ignoring carriers, licensing, etc.). When I did, it was raising issues in the region that may encroach US embargoes, they’d want to know immediately instead of delay through regional HQs.

My NDA is expired, but still scares the poopy out of me, so I keep it vague. But I know people find it interesting online. I was told Apple will always be there by my side in the courtroom, but will be on my other side the moment I left—no joke, this was said to me with seriousness in my first month. So, it’s a part of my life I appreciate being a part of, but have forcably kept distant. Every now and then I have a few wines, though… There’s a reason why you rarely hear tales from current and ex-employees.

That’s wrong. Also, from the perspective of a former Apple employee, you’re deluded. The stuff we’d see and use your data for; most of it was to use it against you in ways you wouldn’t realise. No idea what other areas did with it, but my area wasn’t even that evil.