8gb on a apple is not enough and its not surprising at all.

Source: dealing with dozens of Mac devices with 8gb memory that clients had which all can't handle their workloads. I've switched whole companies from Mac back to pcs. And I've watched companies try switch to Apple and go from reasonably problem free operations to a nightmare of broken systems. Want to use apples data transfer to migrate from windows to Mac? Good luck it just plain doesn't work.

Device management on macs is an absolute nightmare along with the hell hole that is apple ID and the app store. Not to mention their absolutely abysmal performance with rmm. You can literally configure a machines permissions to allow remote access apps to work then a week later they just break the software and your access to manage the device is broken too.

Apple products are absolutely terrible for business from phones to laptops to their entire office suite.

Adhering to robots.txt is merely a courtesy.

Much like a trolley drop off at your local shopping center car park. Some users will adhere to it and drop their trolleys in after their done. Others will not and will leave it wherever.

Your machine might access a page via a browser that is human readable. My machine might read it via software and present the content to me in some other form of my choosing. Neither is wrong. Just different.

Don't like it? Then don't post your website on the internet...

Also signals spam folder isn't open source on server side. They literally have code that reads your messages and checks if spam or not and you cant see what it does or how it's written.

Couple this with signal being the preferred messaging app for 5 eyes countries as advised by their 3 letter agencies and well if you think those agencies are going to be advising a comms form they can't track, trace or read you obviously don't understand what they do.

While it seems to be true that it’s not open-source, they claim (in strong terms) that they use techniques other than reading the message to make that assessment:

https://signal.org/blog/keeping-spam-off-signal/

They point out that the protocol’s end-to-end cryptographic guarantees are still open and in place, and verifiable as ever. As far as I can tell, they claim that they combine voluntary user spam reports and metadata signals of some sort:

> When a user clicks “Report Spam and Block”, their device sends only the phone number that initiated the conversation and a one-time anonymous message ID to the server. When accounts are repeatedly reported as spam or network traffic appears to be automated, we can issue “proof of humanity” checks to suspicious senders so they can’t send more messages until they’ve completed a challenge. For example, if you exceed a configured server-side threshold for making requests to Signal, you may need to complete a CAPTCHA within the Signal application before making more requests. This approach slows down spammers while allowing regular messages to continue to flow.

Does that seem unreasonable? Am I missing places where people have identified flaws in the protocol?

Lol your no different as a coder to any other employee in any role on any jobsite. If a business owner can replace you with tech for less, they will. Unionizing won't save you from being made redundant.

Can't unionize against being outskilled by a machine. Much like in construction, why hire a hundred men to shovel when I can hire one bloke and a excavator? Why use a hammer when I've got a nailgun?

That's because most of the engineers or coders in this thread are in fear their job won't exist in a few years and they will have to go learn a completely different skill to make a wage. It's hard to admit you may not have a job in x years time because a computer took it.

But let's be real here, 90% of software and coding is taking x performing an action on it so the user can consume y. It's basic stuff. Much like how we don't write machine code these days and we use a compiler, your bonkers if you think your going to be writing python or c in the future and not just saying give me x and y from z.

You will still get folks writing code in some obscure areas, but most of us will switch to describing system and app flows and have the code written by ai and in areas utilize ai's to get tasks done. The theory of software construction from a high level will become more important than actual language mastery on the low level.

The folks saying it won't are much like the horse riders of yesteryear who said cars would never replace horses.

Use Firefox on pc and on Android phone. Install ublock, live life ad free.

> ... It had been setup 5 years ago and the company that did the setup didn't hand over any admin passwords. ...

> Any system so heavily reliant on a single point of failure with such difficulty to replace is a no go for me.

Not to shill for Ubiquiti here, but none of that sounds like a problem with UniFi or the idea of centrally-managed APs.

UniFi APs don't stop working if the UniFi server fails. You can't make configuration changes, but you can SSH into the AP, reset it, and associate it with another UniFi server.

Oh don't get me wrong. UniFi and central management can be great if your on actively managed IT infrastructure. That is to say, you pay someone a monthly fee to keep your stuff configured, monitored and working. But where I live, most of these installs are at rural businesses or properties where IT only gets called when things go wrong. These are exactly the wrong place to put managed infrastructure. It can be years between problems and rarely are the same techs even in the area when the next call comes around. Which is exactly why I was able to crack the DB in the first place, it was an out of date V6 install of the controller using a unsecured mongodb. Took me about 20 minutes of googling to find out how to do it when I used the right key words/after I'd figured out what was wrong (someone plugged in a router with DHCP enabled upstream of all the p2p wifi nodes but downstream from the unifi security gateway, the router got flagged as trying to provide/hijack dhcp and unifi blocked that port it seems, killing all the p2p wifi with it, honestly not a bad response from unifi hardware but a nightmare for your joe blog tech who doesnt really have much experience with network problem solving).

I advocate certain clients towards centrally managed systems, but for most of these clients who aren't interested in a regular checkup or business agreement with an IT provider I generally put them on un-managed setups with at least 2x USB devices with copies of config on-site and a printout of what the setup and network layout is. This is in-case I'm not here the next time they need work done or in case I do come back and don't want to spend a day deciphering their setup again. All cloud services are disable, no external log-in from outside of the site allowed. I leave the main modem/ISP connected router ideally up to the ISP they are getting internet services from and build everything downstream from that. Auto-update set to on. I've got multiple p2p and p2mp wireless networks at properties all around the region that haven't had a tech on-site for 4+ years and they won't until something breaks or the protocol their operating on gets too slow for user requirements which I would expect is another 4+ years at least because mikrotik wifi is rock solid when its setup manually and correctly.

Security is less of a worry. I mean honestly if your willing to drive out to the middle of nowhere to war-drive and crack the passwords and get into their network...hell you probably deserve to get some internet and check ya emails for the effort you've put in. They'll probably see your vehicle while your doing it and invite you in for a cuppa and give you the password anyways.

Sloppy work and bad security can happen with any system, can't it? Especially a system abandoned for years without management.

Mikrotik could easily be setup with weak passwords and management exposed, as can Cisco/Aruba/Ruckus/insert favorite vendor here.

Lol you talk the talk but don't walk the walk. You said it yourself, you might tell people they aren't green but you still mostly use their products. This is what most folks do. They say their all for the green movement, but they don't actually live up to it and try and brush the action side off to someone else. It's like nimbyism but for tech.

What's more important? Your perceived personal privacy benefits or the future of the planet? At the moment your living for you and not for the future.

I get how you might think that from the comment but I think you’re too quick to judge. I’ve salvaged many computers and it’s how “I got into the game” per say. Learning Linux because all I had was a machine others threw in the trash. I do a lot of free repair for friends and friends of friends. I lend my tools and teach others my skills. I still repurpose many machines. And what can’t be saved becomes parts. My old phones still live lives. And while Apple machines are getting harder to repurpose that doesn’t mean they aren’t ewaste, but yes, it takes more time. But they also still tend to last longer, though that’s changing (though I’ve already seen methods to upgrade the M series machines). I assure you, by backyard has taken a hit for my values.

Is it unfortunate that I have to balance more than one thing? Yes. The fuck do you think I’m complaining about. And yes, I want to reduce the amount of tracking a mega corp does on me and then uses to try to manipulate me into buying more junk that I don’t want. To use that data to manipulate me to vote for people I do not want, who push policies against my interests.

But do not think my efforts on that end are fruitless. The trades aren’t for nothing. There is real ground you can make there. But it is a complicated space.

Here’s the cold hard truth. When it comes to stuff like this, you’ll be able to accuse everyone of being a hypocrite. The environment is such that there’s no optimal choice. You’ll always find a reason someone is not a true Scotsman, but maybe that’s because a true Scotland doesn’t exist. But that doesn’t mean we can’t try to make it.

So shut up and lend a hand if you care. Help us become truer. If not, I don’t see how you aren’t just perpetuating the state of things now. If you only see black and white, if you can’t see the difference between being malicious and being tarnished, then I fail to see how you are not malicious yourself. Surely you too are not without fault, have never had to make choices.

A good way to temp check your traditional Woodfire pizza oven is when the black soot on the inside of the dome turns white. Which is at temps around 420c aka 800f. You should be able to cook a pizza in about 40 to 50 seconds tops :)