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End of an Era 1 year ago

Was his video presentation ever recorded? Would be interested to see what kind of tools he’s been building

Not only UK, Europe in general is stuck in this nonsense. People buy properties, tenants pay their mortgage. In 15 years the property is yours mostly at the expense of someone else plus it gained in value. After owning it for so long and selling the property you probably pay lower capital gains from that too. Unless you put all that money in the right stocks in 2010, renting just doesn’t make all that much sense in this economy.

Call me lazy but I couldn’t get through the wall of text to learn what on earth vectored database is. Way too much effort spent talking about binary and how ascii works and whatnot - such basics that it feels that the article is for someone with zero knowledge about computers.

Needlessly Public 2 years ago

It’s baffling how the fear or reluctance of introducing a change drives a series of insane design decisions to accommodate the existing codebase.

I used to code with sublime and compile from time to time to check with compiler. Sometimes I’d go for an hour without running cargo and somehow it worked fine.

I have been doing rust since about 2016, in and out, and never questioned the approach but the tooling had improved dramatically in recent years.

I have switched to VSCode with rust-analyser and a few other extensions, which not only display errors but also types of variables which seems like a killer feature for me because it makes it so much easier.

I wonder what’s the motivation behind bacon given that it looks a bit outdated to program in rust this way in 2024.

Most of what you see is probably Apple bypassing all VPNs to talk to their own servers.

There are more serious problems though, with any app being able to bypass VPN simply by prohibiting Wi-Fi interface and iOS gladly letting all traffic via LTE, unfiltered. That's been described in https://blog.disconnect.me/ios-vpn-leak-advisory/.

It's well known and pretty sad that these issues go unaddressed for years. VPN developers have little power to change that given that VPN apps run in a walled garden of Apple in a sandboxed environment. Hence the the best effort at this point with a hope that this can addressed in the coming updates.

It would be great if more of these pop up on Apple forums and Apple Feedback with people demanding improvements on transparency and privacy from the company.

So far reading your blog post looks like a recollection of what's been going on.

I really wanna throw an analogy of a bear waking up from hibernation. This is not sensational and just reiterates what's been said before you, yet the title throws a shadow at VPNs just to sound like it.

Look ma, no locks 8 years ago

I think the author eventually came up with what libdispatch already does using queues.