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Gotta feel great, seeing the team responsible for 98% of Apple’s bad press get retention bonuses, while the folks quietly keeping the ship afloat get bonuses based on how much they report liking AI.

John Ripley 13h ago

The nRF52 based radio BT/Thread sub-board is so tiny and simple, it feels silly (and expensive) to fab it on its own. Should really melt it into the main board. But hey, it's the first time I've messed with RF traces/antennas, and the layout is a little tricky. Guess I'll just make a bunch of them as it'll be a handy board for a bunch of other things, too.

John Ripley 14h ago

On the theme of "Republicans can't help doing crime and making permanent records of doing crime" I'm guessing the Kash Patel trove is... lovely.

John Ripley 14h ago

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Kevin Beaumont 14h ago

Handala have phished Kash Patel, the director of the FBI, and released his emails.

See the prior rest of thread on this, they've been doing it for years with Israeli politicians - they just phish Gmail and iCloud logins, then sync devices.

The FBI have confirmed the emails are authentic. It looks like they are releasing them in batches.

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John Ripley 1d ago

I used to joke that at some point Apple would stop caring about developers so much that it would no longer build a computer capable of developing their own OS. I guess that sets the lower limit of the "power user" products.

John Ripley 1d ago

Apple has been tightening the screws on "you don't actually own this computer" for years, and in that context, the Mac Pro no longer makes sense to them as a product. https://9to5mac.com/2026/03/26/apple-discontinues-the-mac-pro/

The Mac Pro existed in a niche where an Apple customer wanted some feature _not quite met_ by any other product. The Mac Pro enabled that: expansion, extra compute power, graphics, etc. Honestly, it's too small a market to matter, but pushing your customers into competing platforms never worked out well.

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John Ripley 1d ago

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/116297167530484991

It’s not surprising, given Apple necessarily has a mapping generated vs real addresses, and therefore it’s just a warrant away from being revealed. But at least that requires a judge’s order. (I assume they didn’t just hand it over without)

I feel there could be better messaging about the nuance between privacy and levels of anonymization. It’s not like Tor.

John Ripley 1d ago

Liquid Glass is an event like the exit door falling off a plane while in flight. It's something which, to a person familiar with the respective corporate engineering processes, simply cannot occur unless there is pervasive, systemic rot. It should never have reached the public.

John Ripley 1d ago

KiCad gets a lot of snarky comments on here, but that's mostly a sign that it's getting _used_ by a lot of people. I still love that it _exists_ and it gets the job done. Often really feels like you're working on the project together, not against each other.

Upgraded to KiCad 10, and immediately found several features which would have made things so much easier if I'd done that earlier. Also, it found an issue with the design I just sent to fab which KiCad 9 didn't :( (My bad, but not fatal)

John Ripley 1d ago

The radio (nRF52 Bluetooth/etc) sub-board would be less than an inch square, if it weren't for the mass of test points and board-to-board connectors I felt I needed. Perhaps I... don't need all those?

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