Android also has limited photos access nowadays.
maybe they changed it, but last time I checked I could not upload on instagram on Android with limited access. It required full access, plus camera/microphone in order to post.
Readit Newsjcomis commented on Some users have noticed settings that let Meta analyze and retain phone photos zdnet.com/article/meta-mi... · Posted by u/mdhb
jcomis commented on Hacking Subaru: Tracking and controlling cars via the admin panel samcurry.net/hacking-suba... · Posted by u/ramimac
FYI for Subaru owners, you can opt out and have your data deleted anywhere in the US (not just California): https://www.subaru.com/support/consumer-privacy.html
It'll take ~6 months or so, but they will send you a confirmation email.
fwiw I have done this and received no confirmation or anything after more than 6 months. I keep submitting, maybe its working, but it doesnt seem to actually result in a confirmable change.
for sure my retailer, which are 3rd parties according to that page, still has 100% access to the data, as they were able to tell my car was in another state when I called recently. seems pretty troubling
ADP has a product called compensation benchmarking which is very similar to how this is described.
They’ve had that product (with various names) for years.
Experian also sells a similar product
jcomis commented on Vets fret as private equity snaps up clinics, pet care companies stateline.org/2024/03/29/... · Posted by u/mooreds
It’s not just vets it’s plumbing, hvac, medical practices. Small PE funds consolidate a few small ones then sell to a bigger PE fund which consolidates a bunch of those and so on
Yeah, it's wild. The guy who fixed my garage door recently told me he sold his small time, but well rated garage door repair company to a PE firm. They also bought all his rivals. I had gotten a few quotes and everyone wanted to do a full replacement for several thousand, insisting it was all junk. He fixed it in 20 minutes for $80 and was firm that everything was absolutely in great shape except for the small problem he fixed.
The back end of all these companies is the same, some call center/scheduler that manages everything very cheap. They run the purchased companies as fronts and jack the prices and push for big replacement/upgrades until reviews dip. Then they dissolve the company into a generic regional company and sell that to a national like servicepro.
jcomis commented on Vets fret as private equity snaps up clinics, pet care companies stateline.org/2024/03/29/... · Posted by u/mooreds
My vet got bought by private equity and it's turned to absolute shit. Now they basically won't approve any outside prescriptions. Have to buy heart worm, tick pills, etc through them. They are around 2.5x the cost of online pet pharmacies like chewy and allivet. They say they approve all outside vendors, but always twist it into buying from them or setting up an appointment to verify a bunch of stuff to get the approval.
jcomis commented on The business of takehome assessments careerfair.io/takehome-as... · Posted by u/shsachdev
These are/were rampant in product design hiring. Especially "startups" or smaller companies. The direction is always the same "spend max a couple hours!" but the understanding is clearly you must spend significantly more. Some are cute with clearly non work related problem, like a previous company I worked for that did "design an app for a time machine" or similar. But many are very very obviously current problems the company is facing.
In my last job search (~3 years ago) I was presented with many requests to complete a design challenge. I rejected them outright and the responses I got (typically from a 3rd party "design recruiter") were quite astounding. Some acknowledged and moved on, but there were several who clearly expressed frustration, disdain, sometimes almost anger. One dropped me from another role I was working with them on for refusing.
Now it's a total red flag for me. But judging from Blind posts it's still a common practice.
jcomis commented on U.S. moves closer to filing antitrust case against Apple nytimes.com/2024/01/05/te... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
> I know it seems absurd, but as an android user I really do get cut out of group message convos due to not being on imessage.
I'm a U.S. iPhone user on many "green bubble" (standards-based) group chats, as are my wife and kids. I don't think we're outliers in this respect. If you're getting pushback on this, consider that this may say more about your social circle.
Lol, this response always happens in the discussion of Android and imessage. It's great that it works for you, but I don't think this is the case for most given the level of discussion on this topic across the web here, reddit, etc. I totally agree standard messages work fine. But nothing is really standard anymore. Videos for example are the typical culprit in degrading the experience: If I'm in a group chat and someone sends a video it gets reduced to such low quality you often can't even tell what it is. Same with facetime, large amounts of photos, the list goes on. Recently stuff like message reactions were fixed, but still cause hiccups.
jcomis commented on U.S. moves closer to filing antitrust case against Apple nytimes.com/2024/01/05/te... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
I know it seems absurd, but as an android user I really do get cut out of group message convos due to not being on imessage. I realize many other countries use whatsapp or whatever, but my social circle in the US explicitly does not and won't. Even my parents have issues and frequently try to send me large videos. I've had to to completely decouple my phone number from my imessage email to be able to chat with people. Frequently things get messed up because iOS will always default to imessage over sms, so if your primary way to talk is via sms, but you do have an imessage and the person has both in your contact card you don't actually get anything on your phone. I can't really see how it isn't anticompetitive.
jcomis commented on InVision design collaboration services shutdown invisionapp.com/inside-de... · Posted by u/devgoth
As a designer, it was amazing to how badly invision was unable to move beyond their original simple prototyping platform. They were way ahead of the curve when they began and simply never did anything useful beyond that.
What was even more wild was watching them clearly dump money into gimmicks and sales over their product. I worked at a large agency during invisions heyday and they were constantly pitching all levels of employees on whatever their new thing was, typically with sales people flying out for in person visits, buying whole office lunches, etc. I prob sat through a dozen pitches in a year where literally nothing about their product fundamentally improved or changed. People who had no idea what a design system was would pitch a half baked "design system manager" or similar, but were unable to really talk to any depth about design systems or answer questions about gaps in their product. It was very clear they would not succeed.
jcomis commented on Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer data theregister.com/2023/11/2... · Posted by u/ubutler
Anecdotal, but with Google Photos, I've observed data loss to the point where I no longer trust the service with anything valuable.
Photos I know I've taken are missing. There are periods of time when I walked around a city 10+ years ago taking a large volume of photos, like when I first moved to Seattle. Going back to that window of time in Google Photos, I only have a handful of photos from that walk.
There are also partially corrupted photos from many years back. Photos that only partially render, or render as noise.
Luckily, all of these are random low-value photos from my youth. They aren't core memories of my kiddos growing up or anything. I'm glad I discovered the data loss in that window of time, and not by losing photos of my kiddos' birthdays.
This has been happening to me across all google products. Emails - random emails are just gone. Sometimes I can see evidence of them from body of replies. Maps - I am a HUGE user of maps, starring thousands of places as I planned travel over the years. Randomly 1-50% of my stars just won't be there. Sometimes they come back. Photos - same issue as OP in this thread, random clusters of photos (mostly 10+ year old ones) just gone. There are a lot of support threads out there of people reporting the exact problem with no real fixes too.