Yep, the recommendations at the end of the article are definitely worth following regardless.

Aren’t these things tied to an Apple ID with personalised setup? Can you even factory reset these things and walk into the Apple store to get it set up again?

Eh, nothing wrong with accepting payments in crypto. Sometimes the gas fees are a lot less than what a payment provider / credit card provider would charge.

Pretty much every startup operates like that, they hope to figure out the AI stuff later on and basically never do.

It looks like a state actor, but hard to tell who. The way they did it was by bullying the original overworked maintainer into making someone else a co-maintainer, and that new co-maintainer introduced the backdoor. The accounts that pressured him into adding another maintainer all appear to have been sock puppets.

It just shows how little support there is for the lone maintainers of basic utilities that we all use, and it’s really something we need to do something about.

Yeah, let’s reuse steel that has been weakened by unknown amounts and rebuild the bridge with the exact same flaws that caused it to be vulnerable to this type of collision.

I think Spotify integrates with your Facebook friends, so Facebook is essentially the one dealing with spam. iCloud isn’t a social network, so Apple would need to implement some sort of friending system where you don’t get spammed by fake accounts with invites.

It’s probably easiest to look at one of the many plugins for WordPress that allow you to use AWS S3 for image storage (and make sure you’re resizing images when serving them to users even if you want the high-res ones still available for download).

A bit more advanced would be adding cloudfront before your S3 bucket to save on bandwidth costs.

Be careful with AWS though, you’ll need to keep an eye on costs, and you should really think about whether you want to keep uploading your images at full resolution instead of resizing them first so they’re optimised for display on a website.

I’m only just starting to use home assistant, but what are the kind of things people do when integrating their car with HA? Is this for stuff like controlling charging speed with your solar panels?

Same for me, I even use it on Mac OS X too (which somehow still doesn’t ship with a basic text editor).

Yep, someone that insists on writing everything from scratch is sort of a red flag to me. Web development is mostly about knowing how to use third party packages and building on top of that.

I had it on PC, it was definitely fun, but with some events like surfing it was sometimes hard to tell what was going on on a monochrome display.

Especially surfing didn’t make sense to me at all, having no concept of what a pipeline was.

TzData is basically maintained by 2 guys. Pretty much every computer, phone and language relies on this database for timezone information.