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Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by jiveturkey » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 10:23 PM UTC

masspro wrote: post #337

jiveturkey wrote: post #330

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five year olds shouldn't have a phone, and should be supervised. even if they have a phone, they are unlikely to handle it with the care it requires.

Thread is talking about kids knowing how to request emergency services with a nearby phone in case something happens to their parent(s). Nothing to do with giving kids their own phones.

A nearby phone implies a nearby phone user that would presumably understand how to place an emergency call, especially if they are being asked by a frantic five year old.

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by drnick1 » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 10:27 PM UTC

jonahx wrote: post #361

drnick1 wrote: post #342

You couldn't pay me to go back to using anything made by Apple or Google. I use a GrapheneOS Pixel and my self-hosted "cloud" with Nextcloud, HomeAssitant, and my own email server and the control and performance are unrivaled by any of the Big Tech crapware. I could start self-hosting an AI chatbot I suppose, but these do not seem to have reached the point of enshiffication yet as relatively new services.

How do you deal with deliverability issues on the self hosted email server. I've always heard that's a hard or at least finicky problem.

I think the deliverability issues boil down to i) IP, ii) domain age, iii) DKIM setup. The only one that is difficult to get around is i) I suppose; I am fortunate enough to have access to a clean IPv4 in a non-residential block. If you are facing deliverability issues, consider a relay service such as mailgun.

That being said, I mostly receive email, and the privacy benefits of running my own server would still be significant even without the ability to send email at all.

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by catgirlinspace » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 10:32 PM UTC

jiveturkey wrote: post #371

masspro wrote: post #337

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thread is talking about kids knowing how to request emergency services with a nearby phone in case something happens to their parent(s). Nothing to do with giving kids their own phones.

A nearby phone implies a nearby phone user that would presumably understand how to place an emergency call, especially if they are being asked by a frantic five year old.

if it’s only the kid and the nearby phone user, and the nearby phone user is having an emergency (that’s also preventing them from being able to call themselves) then the kid is able to do it.

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by j1elo » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 10:33 PM UTC

drnick1 wrote: post #359

rob_c wrote: post #357

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And how much time left do you have for your job and loved ones?

Flashing GrapheneOS on a new phone took 10min tops. Setting up Nextcloud using their Docker image does not take much longer than that. Setting up my email server took the most effort, but I did this in hard mode using bare Postfix and Dovecot on Linux. A dockerized email server could be up in a matter of minutes. There is no maintenance beyond sudo apt upgrade.

I think the question between the lines was "how much time did you take to the point where you know how all that stuff works?", or at least that's what I'd include in the spirit of the concern (as someone who knows all this too, and knows that the answer is 100's of hours)

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by stmw » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 10:34 PM UTC

"Mr. Jobs reportedly asked the assembled engineers and other MobileMe team members, “Can anyone tell me what MobileMe is supposed to do?” When one of those employees then volunteered a satisfactory answer, Mr. Jobs followed up with, “So why the fuck doesn’t it do that?”

https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-jobs-mobileme-failure-...

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by vondur » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 10:41 PM UTC

dmd wrote: post #74

deviation wrote: post #59

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Not to hand wave-- but this feels industry standard IMO. I have a dozen PRs sitting unacknowledged and stale across a handful of FAANG (and other) repos, including Apple's. I start my first day @ Apple in a few weeks, so I ACK that my opinion might be a little biased here.

Maybe you can help bump FB13400242, a bug that is _literally_ going to kill people. (The bug is that to make an emergency call, even from lock screen, you're supposed to be able to squeeze buttons on either side of the phone. But it only works with the volume buttons on the left - the Action button didn't get supported, when that button was added. So now the rule for teaching a small child isn't just "squeeze both si…

Here's the official Apple Information on how to do this:

In case of emergency, use your iPhone to quickly and easily call for help and alert your emergency contacts (provided that cellular service is available). After an emergency call ends, your iPhone alerts your emergency contacts with a text message, unless you choose to cancel. Your iPhone sends your current location (if available) and—for a period of time after you enter SOS mode—your emergency contacts receive updates when your location changes.

Note: If you have iPhone 14 or later (any model), you may be able to contact emergency services through satellite if cell service isn’t available. See Use Emergency SOS via satellite on your iPhone.

Simultaneously press and hold the side button and either volume button until the sliders appear and the countdown on Emergency SOS ends, then release the buttons.

Or you can enable iPhone to start Emergency SOS when you quickly press the side button five times. Go to Settings > Emergency SOS, then turn on Call with 5 Presses.

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by astrange » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 10:43 PM UTC

PaulHoule wrote: post #324

devmor wrote: post #204

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More than once I've had a chance to interview (brief) somebody who was about to take a job at a "big tech" company and interview them again (debrief) after they left. Frequently they were excited to start work at a place where they could "make a difference" and within a year they came to the conclusion that there's wasn't any possibility they could make a difference. Organizations of that sort have no interest at all…

You can't in a year, but you can easily in 5-10 years.

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by soperj » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 10:45 PM UTC

mort96 wrote: post #181

soperj wrote: post #170

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That's unfortunate, but your passwords should be such that it would take an attacker millions of years to guess the password through HTTP requests.

That's a little bit Victim Blamey.

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by AceJohnny2 » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 10:48 PM UTC

JKCalhoun wrote: post #120

egorfine wrote: post #115

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> I'd report it to Apple What's the point of it? It is well known in the industry they ignore bugreports. Also, this bug doesn't affect the majority of users, so it won't ever be fixed.

I worked on the Photos team a decade ago — some of what you're saying I can vouch for. If it is a rare occurrence, that lowers the priority of the bug. Data corruption though? That moves it to the top. I'll tell you a secret though that kind of pisses me off. If you have shipped with a bug, that automatically lowers the perceived priority as well. You know, as opposed to introducing a new bug in a new release. "We've…

> If you have shipped with a bug, that automatically lowers the perceived priority as well.

This is unfortunately still true. I've had some radars de-prioritized with this exact reason and there are few things more infuriating.

It's really a sign of an overwhelmed, dysfunctional organization, but I heard from an ex-CoreOS guy that that's an intentional management choice, "people perform better under pressure"... (although I'm guessing Photos is not in the CoreOS org)

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by sombragris » Wed, Sep 17, 2025, 10:58 PM UTC

meterogue wrote: post #119

sombragris wrote: post #109

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"tender love making" and then the specific URL mention photos and corruption... it could look really bad!

You are welcome not to visit it if you do not want to hear from a Rails contributor for over 10 years.

Of course. I have no issues with that but I acknowledge that it could be funny.