That's a ton of money, (and I've heard that they paid Apple even more last year) but it's kind of understandable. Apple customers don't usually have android phones snitching on them, are less likely to use chrome, and tend to have their devices and data in the Apple ecosystem. Google has fewer ways to spy on Apple user's lives and push ads at them. Search, gmail, and youtube probably give them the best opportunities. I wouldn't doubt that Apple users are getting as frustrated with Google's search engine as everyone else is though.
No, cars are still very space inefficient which is a big problem in the densest cities in the world. A train carrying a thousand passengers past every three minutes is much better than the capacity of a road, especially during congestion
Driverless cars could easily boost mass transit use by efficiently handling last mile problems. Although driverless short jaunt tuktuks might be better.
Bicycles (or e-bikes if you prefer) are far more efficient than cars for this purpose. Bike-share is also really helpful here, so you don't need to have your own personal bike.
Not if you have packages and such, you really need a cargo bike or something. Weather would also play a role. I don’t see bike share as very successful, but I guess with better security and places for the bikes to hangout it could work out better.
Bike-share works extremely well here in Tokyo. I see people on the red Docomo bikes every time I go almost anywhere.
For cargo, people generally pay for a delivery service if it's something too cumbersome to carry. In large cities like this, people don't buy a month's worth of groceries all at once; they only buy as much as they can carry.
Well, last point isn’t quite true. Alaska Airlines is primarily iOS. So, iPads scan your boarding pass and are used for printing luggage tags outside security, Flight attendants use iPhones on the planes, etc.
And they were of course mostly unaffected by the Cloudstrike outage.
Either way, I think it’s a strong point for Apple that antivirus is not required because the iOS security model protects against viruses pretty thoroughly. That’s just not the case for Windows most of the time. Also, do tech companies run antivirus on their linux-based containerized cloud workflows? Not really, the security model doesn’t require it. Points against windows server here
CrowdStrike is deployed on Linux servers as well, so clearly companies like these do run EDR software on their Linux hosts.
Apple pretends they don't need antivirus the same way some Linux advocates will, but viruses exist on both platforms. Very few companies run their digital signage or internal application databases on macOS hosts, mostly because Apple stepped out of that market years ago.
Whenever Apple or Linux are deployed at the scale these CrowdStrike desktops are, you can assume similar software is deployed on any platform. This time it was a kernel crash, next time it could be MDM software locking all iPads out of all network access, or null routing all I/O requests in eBPF.
> Apple pretends they don't need antivirus the same way some Linux advocates will, but viruses exist on both platforms.
Sure. But when was the last time a company was in the news when they were hit with macOS-, iOS-, or Linux-based ransomware?
I'm in IT, but Windows was never my thing/niche. Generally I've viewed two problems with it:
1. when it becomes a monoculture where basically everything in the company runs on it
2. something about its architecture/designs appears (to me, at least) for very easy spreading of malware (does it have some weaker SSH-equivalent that allows easy remote control?)
This is incorrect: Alaska Airlines wasn't a Crowdstrike customer. They use SentinalOne, a competitor. They absolutely use Windows desktop environments across their infrastructure.
Not sure this is true — then every device by definition gets a high score, singe the display or batter is simply “not able to be serviced” on devices with poor repairability.
250lb bike? Wtf are you talking about. The heaviest e-bikes are like 50lb. Bikes are so safe that they require none of these extra steps that cars require, because cars are much more dangerous. It’s simple physics. There have been dozens of pedestrians and cyclists killed by cars in my city this year, and none by bicycles ever, to my knowledge. More evidence that cars require more strict licensing and safety measures.
Not safely interfacing on existing roads — that’s 100% true. And cyclists would love parallel infrastructure. Problem is, in the US, it’s seen as anti-car (and therefore anti-american), and so is much less common than it should be. But in the Netherlands, this is how they make biking one of the primary transport modes.
That’s one part, but the other massive part is noise from freeways and the baseline white noise from faster roads, where most of the noise comes from tires. EVs are not better (and typically worse since they’re heavier) — the only way to fix it is 1. No freeways in city centers. 2. Fewer cars. 3. Noise barriers. 4. Asphalt that reduces tire noise (uncommon in North American cities, where concrete is used to improve the lifespan).
I can’t use my balcony in a downtown city center because the baseline tire noise from the highway is so loud, and that’s without the obnoxious exhaust
Definitely noticeable on Netflix, but I also have some specific issues with Amazon Prime, where certain scenes have these weird, thin horizontal artifacts.
Yep that was a bummer for me, I was trying to start a little project where I wanted a bundler lib and started using Deno's... but quickly ran into some limitations and found out they've deprecated it and it's not even maintained anymore :( . I started using esbuild instead via its Typescript lib, but then noticed I was spending a lot of time working around the problems with the JS ecosystem (terrible file system watcher in node.js, lots of underpar libraries and as someone not intimate with every domain, it's nearly impossible to know which library may be well written and maintained without spending lots of time investigating, weird APIs, silent errors, I just can't believe some people can cope with all of this instead of just moving to a saner language).... and as esbuild is written in Go, I rewrote my code in Go and now it's much, much nicer to work on, much faster, can be shipped as a single binary etc.
If there was a bundler written in Rust I might have chosen that, as despite not having anything against Go, the momentum seems to be strongly shifting to Rust (and even in the little Go I did, I already feel the pain of its error handling), and Rust definitely gives you better tools to write reliably applications.
(https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/10/27/google-paid-26-billion-i...)