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Post by saagarjha »

devmor wrote: post #325
ryandrake wrote: post #216

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It’s not a matter of ambition or lack-of. Nobody is going into a 100k+ company and just changing the entire corporate culture around something as broad as bug fixing. These companies have hundreds of teams, and decades of entrenched culture. Sure, go in and improve what you can in your own lane, but be realistic about your scope and reach.

Nobody ever changes anything and new hires should have no aspirations or goals but to be code monkeys. Your outlook on career growth is nihilistic, not realistic.

Your outlook is not realistic.

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by saagarjha »

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.

Why is this relevant for this particular article?

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Post by account42 »

jrajav wrote: post #197
anal_reactor wrote: post #138

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I guess the reason why modern times feel so bland is because we all agree on the lowest common denominator, and then celebrate that as "iNcLuSiViTy". If anything you do has any personality, aka deviates from the standard workflow, it immediately gets a disadvantaged position on the free market. It's like, we collectively prioritize efficiency over fun and then we wonder why life is not fun even though it is efficient…

Dumb frat-boy innuendos count as personality now, huh? Let's just leave aside the fact that the name genuinely made many people uncomfortable and unwelcome there (it did), it was also just teenage and immature. There's ways to inject personality and fun into a social experience without giggling about sex. Talk about lowest common denominator...

> Dumb frat-boy innuendos count as personality now, huh?

Yes, they do.

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Post by account42 »

kotaKat wrote: post #40
copperx wrote: post #19

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Why? It's brilliant.

ZScaler gets pissed off going to frame.work just because of a “malicious TLD”. I don’t even want to know what ZScaler thinks of “tender love making”.

Sounds like a problem between you and ZScaler (and possibly whoever forces you to use that crap) but not something that anyone else should care about.

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by account42 »

bobbylarrybobby wrote: post #287
tomalbrc wrote: post #134

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You work in IT right? always backup

How long do you keep your backups? A backup taken last night is great if your computer gets hit by a bus, but isn't so great if you just discovered that photos you took ten years ago were corrupted sometime between then and now.

The solution to that is rolling backups with different tiers.

1 backup updated daily

every week you update the weekly backup

every month you update the monthly backup

every year you update the yearly backup

and so on or with whatever precise timings make sense for you

Keep at least the last two snapshots for each.

Also, do use error correction codes so you can recover partially damaged backups.

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by account42 »

xd wrote: post #279
giancarlostoro wrote: post #77

> Turns out “delete after import” was a huge mistake. https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/photoRec

Bit of context. Deleting after import is unlikely to have zero'd out the data on the SD - so using photorec would have allowed them to quickly and easily recover their pictures from the SD card.

Not "easily" as the filenames and metadata that associates them with the file contents would have likely been overwritten. Also, not sure how well photorec works with Olympus' RAW files.

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Post by sylvainkalache »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #46
tenderlove wrote: post #24

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This is also my guess. It's really a bummer, and I'd report it to Apple but since it's nondeterministic I have no idea how to provide repro steps.

I have had extremely bad luck, reporting bugs to Apple. They constantly ask for an example project, even if it's something that is easily demonstrated, simply by running existing Apple software, and creating a project, would be a huge pain. They also ignore reports. Very rarely, I may get a ping on one of my reports, asking me to verify that it was fixed in some release. Otherwise, there's no sign that they ever even…

Same here. They have a known bugs where entries will vanish from your contacts. Data loss is a big deal (or so I thought).

Support asked me to let them know when a contact vanishing did so they could gather logs from me phone.

Once I was finally able to see it happen, I reached out. Reported that it had just happened overnight. The customer support said it was too long of a time frame for engineers to investigate because "it generates a lot of logs and that's too much to go through". I could not believe their answer.

I just moved my contacts to Gmail and that was the end of it.

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Post by loloquwowndueo »

PaulHoule wrote: post #332
KerrAvon wrote: post #282

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Maybe you want to rethink that? You're literally responding to a testimonial that it likely saved someone's life. Seconds do matter in some medical emergencies. Also, you may not be aware of Car Crash Detection https://support.apple.com/en-us/104959

To be fair this kind of thing is emotionally manipulative. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has done a lot as a private organization to raise standards for automotive safety but the statistics they publish that show that larger vehicles are safer than larger vehicles are frequently wrongly interpreted -- in many of the cases where the large vehicle does better it's not that you die in the smaller vehicle bu…

> larger vehicles are safer than larger vehicles

Just pointing this out. It’s easy to see what you actually meant :)

Re: Apple Photos app corrupts images

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Post by JKCalhoun »

runjake wrote: post #147
tenderlove wrote: post #24

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This is also my guess. It's really a bummer, and I'd report it to Apple but since it's nondeterministic I have no idea how to provide repro steps.

I think your best bet is to do what you did: write an extensive blog post about it and hope it goes "viral" and grabs the right people at Apple's attention. I would think the diffs would be telling to the right people. It's on the front page of HN, so that's a good start!

Front page of HN is all it takes. Pretty sure it's viral.
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