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I keep seeing questions about the location of Karen Bass and I don't understand the outrage. Did she fly to Ghana when the fires erupted? Is she not allowed to take vacations? Was she expected to magically reappear in California when things got out of hand? Has her responsiveness been extremely latent.

The repo contains a script that fingerprints a browser and sends the results to a server. What does that have to do with the death of NCSI?

Hate that people or losing their jobs. However, the frankness of this message was refreshing. Hopefully everyone lands in equal or better situation.

I was spared in the last recession/downturn and all I can do is hope for the same and keep myself prepared in the event that I need to look for something new.

Not that fast food is a hallmark of quality but I've also noticed that fast food quality has gotten worse. I may have you matured away from the flavor but I used to enjoy a good Carl Jr/Hardy's burger, a Chipotle burrito and some Mc Donald's menu item. Now it taste like the oils is never cleaned or cleaned with some chemical that leaves an after taste.

This is a good thing because now I gotten pretty good at cooking some of the dishes at home.

Just an idea that pop into my head. With the scale that Google has a manual review process wouldn't scale well. I think that they could offload the evaluation to a jury of randomly selected, opt-ed in users. Where a quorum or super majority gets content unblocked.

Thank you, GitHub 5 years ago

In the grand scheme of things it does make sense to focus on one or the other. However, they better execute this with precision because they risk interrupting big business in both products

Whether developers acknowledge or not, when they build their apps for the App Store they're forfeiting 30% off their revenues.

Of course they can build PWA's to try to keep more of the money but Apple will eventually find a way to capture that money. Apple controls the only browser engine on IOS and I don't expect them to investing in features that threaten the Apple tax.

If PWAs become popular enough then Apple will add a browser feature redirects/proxies payments through Apple and they'll take their 30% cut.

I assure you that Apple has no incentive to keep Safari up to date with the latest webspecs that enable solid PWA. Further, If developers started leveraging PWA enough that it made a dent in revenues Apple would find a way to discourage PWAs. Tax avoidance is illegal in the Apple ecosystem.

For example, ACME Developer could post ads that lead to a web-based signup flow (optionally collect payment info), then provide an App store link.

Until the user provides payment info (via in App or payment site), use an semi-aggressive email drip campaign to steer users to the payment website.

Some percentage of user will find (and use) the App Stores payment process. The hope is that those that due use the website make the campaign payoff in the long term.

I don't develop apps for the App Store so I don't know what it's like to go up against the beast. But Apples logic makes sense to me. If developers want their 30% back then they should develop a marketing pipeline that funnel users to their preferred payment method. If the 30% is at all worth it then it make sense to devise a way to capture as much of it as possible.

On the flip side, it's not a free lunch. Developers will have to spend money to get users on boarded outside of the App store.

With that said, I agree that 30% is too much and makes Apple look greedy.

[dead] 5 years ago

From 58000 to 55000 seems typical of bitcoin, no?

Looks like a PR [1] was started 4 hours ago but for such a simple task not much progress has been made.

Security breaches happen. If it hasn't happened yet consider it luck. I'm disappointed by the lack of urgency in the response and failure to take nominal steps in improving their posture.

I hope this is a wake up call for them and other Saas companies.

[1]https://github.com/codecov/codecov-action/pull/282

Considering the data at risk, the delay in notifying users was too long. That's 15 days in which the hacker was made aware to hastily make use of their stolen data.

I believe Hauwei is being forced to develop their own OS due to the threat of US sanctions. However, I think it'd be a losing battle to try to steal enough market share of IOS/Android. They'd simply copy (or one up) your competitive advantage leaving you little room to compete.