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The solution of only showing menu opens if you repeatedly open and close the menu seems very bizarre to me though? Is there precedent for that?
Android's developer settings unlock if you tap the build number X amount of times (I forgot how many)
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Maybe Urs etc shouldn't have criticized Brad when he posted his well-intentioned "Do not buy Nest Protect smoke alarm". https://twitter.com/bradfitz/status/566072337020112896?lang=... The product was a terrible piece of crap that never should have been released.
I don't have an opinion on that product, but no smoke alarm is "hushable" due to state laws, as far as I know.
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Maybe Urs etc shouldn't have criticized Brad when he posted his well-intentioned "Do not buy Nest Protect smoke alarm". https://twitter.com/bradfitz/status/566072337020112896?lang=... The product was a terrible piece of crap that never should have been released.
I don't have an opinion on that product, but no smoke alarm is "hushable" due to state laws, as far as I know.
Short-term (NFPA 72 recommends a desensitization method for ionization smoke alarms and requires one for smoke alarms installed near a cooking appliance, and several states have followed in codifying this into law. Hush is not required for photoelectric smoke alarms, under the theory that they are less prone to cooking and shower-related false-positives, but this feature is still allowed and they are a common user convenience.
UL 217 allows smoke alarms to be provided with a Also... the Nest v2 got an in-app hush feature. My understanding is that V1 had some kind of false-positive issue that triggered a ">4% non-hushable" alarm, though, so this wouldn't have mattered.
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I think it might be being a public company more than it is about earning large sums of money. The people who own public companies ultimately have control of the company, and typically care only about how much money is generated.
Yup, this what what I eventually grew to dislike the most about working for a public company. At the end of the day the stock price was the only thing that mattered. It would have been easier to stomach if the shareholders had a long-term vision of a healthy successful company whose value accumulates over time by making good long-term business decisions. But, quarterly returns were the name of the game. The executive…
This can be true in VC-backed private companies too, but with public companies it seems to be even more amplified since the investors unlike angels/VCs often don't even know let alone care what the company really does.
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The problem with public companies is they effectively have no shareholders; none that can actually do anything to affect the company. Which leaves the company to be run by the managers for the managers. Bogle (the father of the index fund) talks about how the index fund and friends has warped the benefits of ownership to leave companies effectively "unowned".
How is that any different from a typical private company?
TIL about headscale: https://github.com/juanfont/headscale Good on tailscale for fostering the community and not playing this like most startups would!
This sort of thing would make me buy-in to tailscale, honestly. I have this pattern where i avoid software i can't self host, because while i love paying for my products - i don't want to be cloud trapped. So some software/hardware, say Ubiquiti's suite - i buy and run locally. But sometimes cloud features are nice, so i enable them. I don't _want_ Cloud, but knowing i'm not trapped makes me far more likely to be a c…
Of the four (1) is the least shady.
I love Tailscale but I am wary of allowing them access into my personal network. This way, I can use them for my stuff without my paranoia getting in the way, and I can recommend the hosted option for work, as it works perfectly.
I love Tailscale but I am wary of allowing them access into my personal network. This way, I can use them for my stuff without my paranoia getting in the way, and I can recommend the hosted option for work, as it works perfectly.
You can mitigate potential risks by configuring your OS firewall to only allow independently encrypted and authenticated traffic through Tailscale. SSH and TLS covers most needs anyways, so it doesn't require additional work.
If you're looking for a tailscale alternative (ish), I built a plugin for HashiCorp Vault to manage Wireguard keys: https://github.com/candiddev/vault-plugin-secrets-wireguard It's a bit more involved than Tailscale with the benefit that it uses Vault's robust authentication options.
But honestly, headacale is better and more advanced than it.