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crawrey commented on macOS Monterey apple.com/macos/monterey/... · Posted by u/fossislife

dual_dingo · 4 years ago

> I just upgraded to Monterey > I started to panic and figure out how I was going to back everything up.

Upgrading to a new OS on release day without a prior backup. You like to live dangerously, do you?

crawrey · 4 years ago

I do!

Actually I never upgraded to Catalina and waited until Big Sur seemed stable enough to upgrade to and it upgraded from Mojave without a hitch. I had been following the beta releases of Monterey and it seemed pretty solid, so I figured what the heck, let’s live dangerously baby!

As for not having a recent backup it’s just something that always gets put the back burner. That’s my failing. But to be honest, I wouldn’t have really lost anything of worth, everything important is in version control. Maybe I would have lost a few dot files, some configs, some PoCs, the grooves in my couch. Those grooves that I’ve cultivated wouldn’t cost me much time and honestly sometimes it’s good to get a fresh couch and re-evaluate the grooves of the past.

With all of that said, despite the inconvenience of the upgrade, I would love to give a shout out to Apple support. It’s these moments that you get to appreciate the fact that you can pick up the phone and talk to someone who has some outstanding fault finding and problem solving abilities, leagues ahead of any other provider I have ever had experience with.

crawrey commented on macOS Monterey apple.com/macos/monterey/... · Posted by u/fossislife

crawrey · 4 years ago

I just upgraded to Monterey on my Macbook Pro 2018 15-inch and after rebooting, all of the USB-C ports stopped working, including the power adapter. I spent some time on the phone with Apple Support trying to figure out how to fix it. After about an hour and a half there was about 18% battery left before I started to panic and figure out how I was going to back everything up.

After panicking, the 3rd Apple Support Representative and I endeavoured to try and reset the System Management Controller (SMC) [1] once again. At this point I had realised that the first few times that I tried this with a previous support representative would not have worked, as I was holding shift on the left-hand side of the keyboard (the previous support representative did not specify) and not the right-hand side as outlined in the support article for Macs with the T2 chip.

Good luck!

1. https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT201295

crawrey commented on Microsoft says encryption laws make companies wary of storing data in Australia abc.net.au/news/2019-03-2... · Posted by u/technion

ggm · 6 years ago

Australian citizens, regardless of their location are obliged to comply with these requests.

Extra-territorial law application is very complex. KP is one of the few places where you can routinely expect to be prosecuted in Australia for breaches overseas. or FGM. Or, more recently the war in Syria but bear with me: do you not also recognize that there is a huge reluctance to try and enforce the law in that last regard? because it turns out simply being somewhere is not neccessarily a good basis to declare you broke the law, noting that few if any of the people seeking to come home took up arms, and specifically took up arms against Australia or her allies.

They also have to serve the request on you. Simply issuing it doesn't make it binding surely? You have to be formally notified.

Lastly, since you can reveal it to your lawyer, I would argue that it implies they believe it could be mis-applied, or you can have a case in law to contest its applicability.

And, included in the notice begs the question: do we have any indication aside from hypothetically speaking, that a TAR/TAN/TCN has or can be drafted which doesn't include the employer and IPR holder in the notice?

crawrey · 6 years ago

> Extra-territorial law application is very complex. KP is one of the few places where you can routinely expect to be prosecuted in Australia for breaches overseas. or FGM. Or, more recently the war in Syria but bear with me: do you not also recognize that there is a huge reluctance to try and enforce the law in that last regard? because it turns out simply being somewhere is not neccessarily a good basis to declare you broke the law, noting that few if any of the people seeking to come home took up arms, and specifically took up arms against Australia or her allies.

To be honest, what you have written doesn't seem to be related and/or your point is lost. However, I will try to underline my comment with the following:

If you are issued with a TAR, TAN or TCN and you reside overseas you must comply or face extradition under an extradition treaty - unless you are fortunate enough to reside in a country that does not have an extradition treaty with Australia and that country is unlikely to make deals in secret with the Australian Government. Or, you are fortunate enough to have a secondary citizenship and subsequently renounce your Australian citizenship.

> They also have to serve the request on you. Simply issuing it doesn't make it binding surely? You have to be formally notified.

If you are issued this notice, you are able to refuse under 317ZB and incur 238 penalty units or $49,980 as an individual, or 47,619 penalty units or $9,999,990 as a corporate body. There is no limit to the number of subsequent notices that are able to be issued of the same nature. In reality this means, if it is important enough, the government will continue to issue notices until you comply.

> do we have any indication aside from hypothetically speaking, that a TAR/TAN/TCN has or can be drafted which doesn't include the employer and IPR holder in the notice?

The law stipulates that a person is considered to be a "designated communications provider" under 317C.

See also, all relevant sections detailing: "an employee of a designated communications provider" and "an employee of a contracted service provider of a designated communications provider".

317ZF dictates that disclosure outside of seeking legal council incurs a penalty of 5 years imprisonment.

I'm not sure where you received your information from, but most of what you have said is contradictory to the law that was passed. Have you read the Assistance and Access Bill?

crawrey commented on Microsoft says encryption laws make companies wary of storing data in Australia abc.net.au/news/2019-03-2... · Posted by u/technion

ggm · 6 years ago

The problem seems to be the provision that a tech worker can be coerced by the Australian Government into creating a backdoor, and they are not authorised to disclose it to their employer.

As I read it, the law requires warrants and court enforcement. I don't think you can be required to backdoor code in secret or held to account by the security agencies not to inform your employer. I would be very surprised if tat was legal and uncontestable.

I do expect you can be informed by your employer you have to backdoor code.

I do not expect you can have an extra-territorial obligation placed on your work conducted outside Australia. If you are working inside australia remotely I think its complex.

I think the EFF should fund your case. Take citizenship and help fight this.

crawrey · 6 years ago

> I don't think you can be required to backdoor code in secret or held to account by the security agencies not to inform your employer.

This law gave the government the power to do just that. Details of implementing a backdoor in secret is close to impossible, as any developer would know. There was a post[1] made by "Alfie John" (alfiedotwtf) that outlines a scenario in which a developer is presented with a Technical Capability Notice (TCN).

> I do not expect you can have an extra-territorial obligation placed on your work conducted outside Australia. If you are working inside australia remotely I think its complex.

Australian citizens, regardless of their location are obliged to comply with these requests.

If you are presented with a TAR, TAN or TCN, you have the option to seek legal council in private or risk fines of up to AUD$7.3 million.

You risk imprisonment if you reveal details about the notice to anyone other than those who are included in the notice or to seek legal council (this is an exception within the law).

[1] https://twitter.com/alfiedotwtf/status/1070047303275175936

crawrey commented on Firefox 66.0 Aims to Reduce Online Annoyances blog.mozilla.org/blog/201... · Posted by u/sahin

fimdomeio · 6 years ago

From the last 3 or so versions Firefox performance on my retina mac is indistinguishable from chrome (from a humam perspective not looking at ram cpu usage), so I'm very happy to be using firefox full time once again. At some point I knew it was time to close firefox when the fans started blowing at max speed. Does not happen any more.

crawrey · 6 years ago

Performance has improved considerably. However, there is still a major outstanding bug, due to the rendering of window transparency[1].

Window transparency can be turned off by setting "gfx.compositor.glcontext.opaque" to true in about:config. This will cause a minor degradation in appearance of the window frame and tabs, but it will improve performance and extend battery life.

I have had it set for over 6 months and am anticipating the resolution of this outstanding bug.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1429522

crawrey commented on Dbeaver – Multi-platform database tool dbeaver.io/... · Posted by u/vbv

h1d · 7 years ago

Have you tried TablePlus? (Not the author but just want to know the experience if you have.)

crawrey · 7 years ago

I haven't! But I was reading about it on this day as well and it looks well received, so I definitely want to give it a shot when I need to regularly use a DB tool again.

crawrey commented on Dbeaver – Multi-platform database tool dbeaver.io/... · Posted by u/vbv

neosavvy · 7 years ago

How is no one talking about https://www.jetbrains.com/datagrip/

These guys actually fix their bugs. It works on every database known to humans, and also does nearly everything DBeaver appears to do.

crawrey · 7 years ago

DataGrip is great.

My previous workplace used to be locked into the Microsoft ecosystem and the core legacy product was backed onto a Microsoft SQL Server DB.

Over the years we pushed the business to move away from the MS/Windows ecosystem. When this happened, like many others, I looked for a UNIX compatible DB client that supported SQL Server.

First, I tried SQuirreL[1] and it was horrible. I just had to uninstall it and keep looking. I settled on DBeaver for a while as it has some nice features and it did most of the things I needed it to, but it was not particularly polished.

Eventually the business decided to pay for Jetbrain's All Products package which includes DataGrip and from my experience you could say: Eclipse is to IntelliJ IDEA what DBeaver is to DataGrip.

The other product I was looking closely at was Navicat for SQL Server[2], which looks pretty damn good and those who use it seem to swear by it. However, I am not a DBA and for that reason I can't justify the USD$699 personal licence price tag of Navicat.

DataGrip is not perfect, but it's pretty damn close and I think its price tag is well justified.

1. http://squirrel-sql.sourceforge.net/

2. https://www.navicat.com/en/store/navicat-for-sqlserver/

crawrey commented on Firefox desktop market share now below 9% netmarketshare.com/browse... · Posted by u/ngokevin

whymauri · 7 years ago

Quantum would make my work laptop (Macbook pro, 13 inch touchbar 2017) overheat constantly. It just always had performance issues and I troubleshooted every way I could. I never figured out what exactly was causing it. I tried to switch to Firefox for 2 solid months, but I just couldn't do it :(

crawrey · 7 years ago

There is an outstanding bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1429522 that I became aware of due to a Firefox related topic a few months ago[1].

You can improve the performance by setting "gfx.compositor.glcontext.opaque" to true in the about:config settings. This will disable the transparency of the window, but it will reduce the overall resource consumption. The reduction is significant, approximately several extra hours of Firefox use, and your lap will thank you.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17934764

crawrey commented on My favorite apps on F-Droid quaap.com/D/use-fdroid... · Posted by u/ericdanielski

voltagex_ · 7 years ago

AntennaPod is fantastic, but buggy in ways that I haven't managed to coalesce into a good bug report yet:

* Playback while streaming stops, but the network connection hasn't dropped

* AntennaPod via Bluetooth crashes (!) the head unit in a Mazda CX5. No, I don't know how that's possible, either.

crawrey · 7 years ago

Ah that's not good to hear.

I was using Podcast Addict prior to AntennaPod and it had the same issues as your first point. I now experience the same behaviour with AntennaPod and had wrote it off as a "podcasting" glitch or at least an issue with the streams I was listening to.

Hopefully they address these issues in the future but they're definitely not deal breaker issuss for me to want to switch to some closed source alternative.