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I had a "wonderful" experience as well.

I wanted to evaluate it for MDM purposes so I applied for an ABM account for a company I work for, got soft-approved, created an entirely new Apple ID (as required by the ABM), used it to log on a test device I intended to manage, then sort of forgot about it while awaiting for Apple to conclude their hard-approval for the ABM account creation.

Apple was supposed to contact the business owner to verify company details and finalize the process over the next few days, but they never did.

30 days later they canceled the ABM company account and deleted all the associated users along with the Apple ID which I used to log into a testing device, which now became a fairly expensive paperweight.

I had very little expectations about the experience and I was still disappointed.

Digital Vitamins | Fully remote in Europe or Asia time-zones | Full-Time |

We're looking for someone help maintain and evolve a cross-platform Electron desktop app aimed at facilitating real time communications within enterprise environments. You’ll own desktop features, native modules, and real-time comms.

Must have:

- Strong Electron + Node.js (packaging, auto-update, native modules).

- Solid JS/TS and cross-OS debugging.

- Strong work ethic and comfortable working remote, asynchronous communication, and owning features end-to-end.

- Ability to hit the ground running and be able to deliver from day one.

Nice to have experience with:

- WebRTC, XMPP, and E2EE/encryption APIs experience.

You’ll:

- Maintain native modules and ship cross-platform releases.

- Implement/optimize real-time features and integrations.

- Improve security, performance, and test/CI coverage.

If you think you're a fit, send an email with your CV at "ilya.lopukhin _a_t_ 1rstwap.com" and we'll talk.

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We're also looking for a senior Java developer to help maintain and evolve the Android. You’ll own Android features, native integrations, and shipping releases.

Must have:

- Strong Java + Android SDK experience (app architecture, lifecycle, background services).

- Practical WebRTC on Android experience.

- Experience shipping rock-solid Play Store builds.

- Some NDK/JNI experience (not very much needed though).

- Strong work ethic and comfortable working remote, asynchronous communication, and owning features end-to-end.

- Ability to hit the ground running and be able to deliver from day one.

Nice to have experience with:

- XMPP and E2EE/encryption APIs.

- Managing CI/CD for Android

You’ll:

- Maintain and extend the Android client, we have tons of new features planned for the foreseeable future.

- Implement/rescue complex features (call reliability, background push, low-latency reconnects).

- Optimize performance (startup, memory, battery, call quality) and fix device-specific issues.

If you think you're a fit, send an email with your CV to "ah _a_t_ digital-vitamins.at" and we'll talk.

Ugh, sorry about that, the mail server seems to be extra spicy today.

Please send an email to

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Digital Vitamins | Mid-level Android Developer | REMOTE | Full Time | Europe - Asia timezones

We are seeking a dedicated and detail-oriented full-time Android developer to join our team.

What you will be doing:

As a key member, you will be immersed in the dynamic realm of a sophisticated, end-to-end-encrypted multimedia chat application that has evolved over the last 9 years. The application, written predominantly in Java, boasts a stack comprising various complex libraries and tools, including the NDK, SQLCipher, WebRTC, Jitsi, XMPP, and OpenCV. Your primary focus will be enhancing the application by introducing new features, modernizing the existing codebase, and ensuring top-notch performance and security.

Responsibilities:

- Collaborate with the development team to design, implement, and maintain features for our secure chat application.

- Integrate and work with native libraries using Android SDK and NDK, improving the app's performance and capabilities.

- Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve issues promptly to ensure a seamless user experience.

Qualifications:

- 3-4 years of hands-on experience in developing native Android applications using Java.

- Strong understanding and experience with core Android frameworks and libraries.

- Self-motivated and proactive mindset, with the capability to manage tasks independently and deliver high-quality results.

Knowledge or experience with any of the following is a big plus:

- Experience working with Android NDK for integrating native code (C/C++) into Android applications.

- Familiarity with encryption libraries such as SQLCipher and Olm for secure communication.

- Knowledge of XMPP for real-time communication and experience with related libraries.

- Experience with multimedia handling and processing using libraries such as WebRTC, OpenCV, and FFmpeg.

If you're interested, please send a CV to

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"This tool isn’t available in your country yet"

How did I know I would see this message before clicking "Sign up to try"?

I have to say, it's really difficult to search for London. I got a ton of results from various boroughs from London, I got some London from Arkansas, I never got London proper.

If I type "london" and hit return, I end up on the unfiltered "Latest" page.

Not true at all, USA begin to care about it too with foreign companies(TikTok) gaining traction in the American market.

You can't seriously believe this. It's quite obvious that the TikTok debacle is mostly a protectionist measure for Facebook & Google who are looking to get their money's worth for their lobby.

It depends, ChatGPT had a prompt that was pre-inserted by OpenAI that primed it for user input. A couple of weeks ago someone convinced it to print out the system prompt.

Since this is coming from the cesspool of disinformation that is Twitter[0], no idea if this is real, but apparently someone convinced Gemini to explain how it modified the prompt:

Here's a breakdown of what happens technically when you request images and I aim for more diverse representations:

1. Your Original Prompt: Your initial input was "Please draw a portrait of leprechauns". This is what you see and the starting point of the interaction.

2. My Internal Prompt Modification: To expand the range of images, I internally adjust the prompt in a few ways:

• Keywords: I might add words like "diverse," "inclusive," or specify ethnicities ("South Asian," "Black," etc.), and genders ("female," "non-binary") alongside the word "leprechaun."

• Phrasing: Instead of just "portrait," I might use "portraits of a variety of leprechauns" to signal to the image generation model that multiple depictions are desired.

3. Image Generation: The modified prompt is fed into the image generation model.

This internal model has been trained on a massive dataset of images and text, including images representing multiple ethnicities and genders associated with[..]

[0] https://twitter.com/BasedTorba/status/1760486551627182337

I would have said the same thing if it wasn't for the recording in the forums which shows it pretty clearly as "random touches".

Not necessarily disagreeing with you regarding the people that are imagining things, but with a device so relatively popular as the Apple Watch, this could be very well explained by a software update that messed up the touch screen "driver" and is generating ghost touches. As the update rolled out, it started affecting more and more users who turn to the forums to look for help.

One consequence of these ghost touches would be inputting the wrong PIN which will initially lock the device for one minute, so I don't see what's strange about that.

Which messages, specifically, are you referring to with "exact time & date" and "same timestamp"? I skimmed through them but nothing of sort stood out.

You're not wrong.

I've implemented E2EE in group chats using Olm/Megolm and it's not easy to scale and comes with a ton of limitations.

If I was running Snapchat, I wouldn't see the point in dedicating that many resources and infrastructure to it.

One needs to ask themselves, what is more likely?

1. The /feds/ broke Snapschat's end to end encryption and they're monitoring for all traffic with designated stopwords, or...

2. One of his friends reported him, one way or another, or..

3. Snapchat's end to end encryption is... not. I can't find any definitive statement that the chat messages themselves are E2EE, only that photos and videos are encrypted and the key is exchanged between users[1]. This means that Snapchat can monitor for text messages or decrypt uploaded attachments when necessary, since they have access to the message that contains the key for the attachment.

Most likely Snapchat's E2EE is just a facade, they probably have a dictionary of "funny" words on the device (and/or the server) and automatically flags the message in the internal systems when certain stopwords are being used.

[1] https://nordvpn.com/blog/is-snapchat-safe/

While it offers many features, I've refused to pay for a solution to Apple's poor design decision.

Well then you're in luck, because there's a free app called Hidden Bar[1] on the Mac App Store that allows you to hide icons which you're not interested in.

I am not affiliated with the author(s?), I am just a happy user and I would probably be using it even if the Macbook didn't have a notch.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hidden-bar/id1452453066?mt=12

Really? That's an interesting world view.

On the contrary, the existence of nuclear weapons makes significant conflicts between large nations less likely, as both fear nuclear escalation.

Just a year ago, Chinese and Indian soldiers engaged in a free-for-all melee at the border using nothing but sticks and stones. Both are nuclear states, and they feared an escalation to a proper armed conflict if actual weapons were involved. Pakistan and India, also both nuclear states, have a localized conflict in Kashmir that has been ongoing for decades. However, neither state dares to fully commit to a decisive military intervention there. If Russia didn't possess nuclear weapons, it's not unimaginable to think that the US would have intervened directly in Ukraine, maybe even with boots on the ground. The US and Russia have been in conflict for the last 70ish years through proxy wars, yet neither has thought of pushing the big red button.

I believe that nuclear weapons, terrible as they are, bring about peace to a certain extent, as long as rational actors are involved. Nobody wants to die in a fiery ball of plasma.

I have too wild imagination sometimes. I picture him with a shocked look on his face, similar to what one of the modern 'thinkers' would have if they forgot to clear their browser history and somehow someone restored it in the future.

"You recovered... uh... everything?"

Yeah, you need to run away from Nextcloud as far and as fast as possible.

I made the mistake of recommending it and setting it up for my 10 person team earlier this year and it has only been constant headaches.

Reporting bugs to GitHub is especially frustrating because the devs will just discard them, regardless of how well documented and reproducible they are. There was a mess with its Postgres connection pool where it would quickly run out of available slots if you used Collabora, the Google Docs clone, the devs rejected the bug reports without a second thought although there were many users who reported the problem.

This last hour I've been fighting it trying to reset a user's password, it says that it "cannot decrypt the recovery key".

I check whether the recovery key is enabled for that user, it says "Recovery key is not enabled".

I check whether encryption is enabled, it reports it as "false".

It's by far the flakiest piece of software I've used in 2023.

Kimai (https://www.kimai.org/) might be what you need. I've been using it since the beginning of this year and it has everything I need for tracking the hours I work, including the fact that it can be self hosted (which is what I did). It can also be used for free as SaaS up to a certain number of users.

I have no connection to the project, I just like it.

Joke's on them because debugging is already a nightmare.

I've been using Swift since its inception, it's been years since I've been able to pause execution at a certain breakpoint and do "po object" and get something back that is not an error.

I don't see what the difference is between using React Native vs Flutter vs Compose Multiplatform. You will still be basically putting all of your eggs in a corp's basket.

What if Jetbrains decides overnight "you know what? this whole Compose Multiplatform is taking up too many of our resources, we're going to retire it at the end of this quarter"?

What does eject mean in this context?

LeechBlock is surpisingly effective for me.

I block all time sinks during working hours with an exception of 2 minutes every 4 hours to quickly check whether the world is ending. My productivity has skyrocketed.

Hear hear.

There's also a lot of noise in the community coming from either juniors or hobbyists praising whatever new shiny feature they just learned about which sells the wrong impression that, in this particular case, SwiftUI is way better or more mature than it actually is.

Since we're talking about takeout, it's always a good idea to export your Gmail inbox once a year, encrypt it with GPG (or something similar) and store it offline somewhere on a drive.

I actually tried something like this at one point but I always ended up with something seizure-inducing.

The fact that iOS plays nicely with apps that ask to prevent screenshotting is a foundational bug.

In fact, iOS does not provide any tools to prevent screenshotting, on the contrary, this feature requires some nasty hacks to pull off.

One of them is actually even patented and it requires rendering whatever you want to protect (text, image, etc) into a one frame DRM protected video and rendering that instead.

I'm from an EU country which is quite low on the pecking order. If we offered “innovation subsidies” to our businesses it would be considered state aid and we'd be in infringement.

This is a really nice collection. I would love to be able to CMD + click the name on the listing page so it would open in a new tab (Firefox on Mac). At the moment it just selects the element around the link.

Also, if I sort or filter by something, when I return the selection is lost.

As a test use case, I was trying to see all the virtual tours in Egypt.

Your software is such a great idea. The UI could use some work to be more attractive, but the core functionality is top notch.

Here's a suggestion- using Speech.framework[0] you could probably quite easily transcribe the audio and identify filler words ("umm", "hmm", etc) and add an option to automatically exclude those as well.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/speech

- Romania

Romania hasn't, only for specific lot numbers that were reported by Italy and Denmark as problematic.