valleyjo (u/valleyjo)

valleyjo commented on More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad daringfireball.net/2025/0... · Posted by u/dotcoma

em500 · 2 months ago

Apple Wallet is in the App store, and the F1 ad debacle directly violates App Store guidelines https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/)

  >  4.5.4  Push Notifications must not be required for the app to function, and should not be used to send sensitive personal or confidential information. Push Notifications should not be used for promotions or direct marketing purposes unless customers have explicitly opted in to receive them via consent language displayed in your app’s UI, and you provide a method in your app for a user to opt out from receiving such messages. Abuse of these services may result in revocation of your privileges.

valleyjo · 2 months ago

Uber does this all the time to me. It’s so frustrating. I allow notifications from uber when I don’t from most apps because they are useful when a ride is incoming. Yet I get random spam notifications. I wish Apple would stand up for their own rules and do something about it but since they don’t even enforce this rule on themselves what hope is there

valleyjo commented on Apple introduces a universal design across platforms apple.com/newsroom/2025/0... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

valleyjo · 3 months ago

There’s a reduce transparency setting in accessibility. Wonderful what this will look like if that’s on. I’ve been using it for years as I don’t like frills.

valleyjo commented on TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday reuters.com/technology/ti... · Posted by u/xnhbx

ergonaught · 7 months ago

US citizens do not want this.

Every news article descending into tangents on any other point than that is part of why we can't have nice things.

The whole country has turned into some sort of lower primate improv troupe where whatever stupid thing comes up gets a "Yes and let's" diversion instead of an adult in the room standing up and cutting the crap.

valleyjo · 7 months ago

I’m a us citizen and I do want this. Speak for yourself. China bans us social media. Us should ban Chinese social media.

valleyjo commented on In a first, EU Court fines EU for breaching own data protection law reuters.com/world/europe/... · Posted by u/thm

valleyjo · 8 months ago

At least they’re consistent? I don’t know seems like folks in the EU would be better off spending time innovating on product and technology. It’s fine to regulate but to make that your only contribution is not fine imo.

valleyjo commented on "We took on Google and they were forced to pay out £2B" bbc.com/news/articles/cjr... · Posted by u/lispisok

valleyjo · 10 months ago

The whole google shopping case is ridiculous. If you are “big enough” and you change (aka make improvements to) your products you get fined. Foundem could have built a direct relationship with customers but that’s not the direction they went.

valleyjo commented on Security research on Private Cloud Compute security.apple.com/blog/p... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

miki123211 · 10 months ago

It's worth keeping in mind that these AI machines run an environment very similar to Mac OS, XNU kernel and all, and are powered by Apple Silicon. Using Swift in that context makes sense.

At least according to what we publicly know, no other backend Apple services follow this model.

valleyjo · 10 months ago

What do we know about apples other backend services? I’ve worked in compute infra in big tech for 8 years and I don’t know anything about apple’s backend.

valleyjo commented on Working from home is powering productivity imf.org/en/Publications/f... · Posted by u/rwmj

throwaway918299 · a year ago

I am literally at least 10x when I work from home.

I have ADHD and through years of discipline, cultivating my workspace to suit my needs, and hard work I can be productive most of the day in the zone without (much) sidetracking.

Literally impossible for me to do in the modern software dev sweatshop.

I also make more money, can spend more time with my family because I don’t commute, and plenty of other positives.

I love the work, I enjoy working with my colleagues and I can set my own boundaries by setting office hours and scheduling meetings. There is very rarely anything that derails my day anymore. Everything is much better documented because everything must live in confluence or Jira or it doesn’t exist. The company saves tons of money on real estate.

If you can change your processes and workflow to take advantage of tools that suit remote work, it’s superior in basically every way.

Pry it from my cold dead hands.

valleyjo · a year ago

I think the top comment reflects this - I have adhd too and I can’t be productive at home. I suffer a commute every day because my job performance tanked when I worked from home 8 mo strait. I’m much more productive at the office - I just wish my wife would agree to move closer to the office.

valleyjo commented on Return-to-Office Mandates Aren't Worth the Talent Risks gartner.com/en/articles/t... · Posted by u/alexzeitler

beardyw · a year ago

Has anyone studied what drives RTO?

valleyjo · a year ago

If you have a geographically centralized team (I.e everyone is in the same city) it makes sense to me to have the team be together at least one day a week. If you’re by yourself in a company office then RTO mandates makes no sense to me.

valleyjo commented on Return-to-Office Mandates Aren't Worth the Talent Risks gartner.com/en/articles/t... · Posted by u/alexzeitler

hibikir · a year ago

It's like anything else that makes the job worse: The people that are first to leave are those with the best alternatives elsewhere, which are often your strongest workers. When some of those leave, your workplace becomes worse for anyone learning from them, which can cause a domino effect.

It doesn't matter what it is that makes the job worse: You either provide counterbalancing incentives to your best workers (see retention bonuses after an acquisition) or you are gambling

valleyjo · a year ago

personally I go to the office every day even though I have a long commute. I hate working from home. Mandates for RTO don’t universally make the job worse. Of course I acknowledge it does for some people but not everyone.

valleyjo commented on Retirement of Office 365 connectors within Microsoft Teams devblogs.microsoft.com/mi... · Posted by u/_lateralus_

valleyjo · a year ago

Is the an EU regulation response thing? The article doesn’t mention that but I’m not very familiar with this offering so I wasn’t sure.