I HATE APPLE

Clippy never went away, did he?

Except now, I guess we can all talk to Clippy.

Fuck Clippy too

Clippy and Siri should get into some s&m shit together and just end up having fatal accidents for all I care

lol http://tidbits.com/article/17412

does this dude understand how business decisions are made

as in, dropping the consumer plan in favor of small business plans isn't necessarily the end result of a nefarious multi-year plan. if you have a meeting to determine how to make things profitable and decide to stick with X items in your range of products, it doesn't mean that next year's strategy decision won't be different

I'm a CrashPlan user :(((.

yeah i think he's angry that he's literally built a career shilling for them and they don't seem to have respected his work by giving him a heads-up

hoo boy

sometimes when a product is the best and seems to be a great value it really is because it's too cheap, shocker

:(

happy w backblaze so far

Bummed to say it, but I'm really disappointed in the new MacBook Pro. It's much lighter than my 7-year-old one, but that's really the only thing it has going for it. It's not nearly as much faster as I hoped it would be, and the keyboard is a bummer. And though they're both 13-inches, the screen is smaller on this one. First time I've ever bought a computer that didn't feel like a huge upgrade over the last one.

That's very sad. I guess you'll have to take the redesign and less weight as a "feature"

hah i just finihsed backing up all my infos to crashplan... took like a month

I'm a CrashPlan user :(((.

― Jeff, Tuesday, August 22, 2017 11:53 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

me too :(

what should i move to?

backblaze is the new wirecutter/joe kissell pick http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-online-backup-service/

i'm a collosal nerd so i use arq which is a program that you need to separately by cloud storage for.

as if the apple tv 4 wasn't already the single worst piece of fucking garbage i have ever bought in my entire life, failing in literally every single respect (since a shitty software update several months ago it won't even play videos properly), the crappy slippery fucking metal & glass remote just slid out of my hand and chipped my phone screen.

something is seriously wrong with yours, I haven’t had any of those probs!

it all went downhill after the 10.1 (?) software update. i did a factory reset a couple of weeks ago, nothing changed.

also it doesn't help that apps like youtube can't be bothered issuing tvos app updates ever.

Has anyone ever had an issue with the audio disappearing from videos shot with iPhone (the 6 in this instance). The audio was there when we were at the location yesterday afternoon, but last night after getting home, all but one of the videos we'd shot play back silently. Have tried power cycling, updating iOS, hard reset, and Reset All Settings, to no avail. A bit desperate as these will be hard videos to recreate.

(Note: when we first got home, no videos, including ones taken weeks ago, had sound. After updating iOS, old videos had their sound back and the first video we'd taken yesterday had its sound back, but not the rest of yesterday's work).

Silly question but are you playing these back on the phone or on a computer? Try computer if you're not already. And double check the mute slider isn't on on your phone.

I tried dropboxing one to the computer, but it remained silent there.

caek, which cloud destination do you use (or would you suggest to use) with arq? ~3 TB

when i committed a couple of years back, google nearline was the right answer.

looking at the table at https://www.arqbackup.com/features/ i think it probably still is, but i'm a bit out of the loop.

one caveat: nearline, coldline and the AWS options (S3 and glacier) and a bit fiddly to set up if you've never used AWS or Google Cloud before. i'm sure someone's written it down somewhere though. and i think if you're over 1TB your options among the consumer-oriented versions (Amazon Drive, Dropbox etc.) are limited and pricey

hmm, backblaze b2 looks good, although i'd be slightly nervous about them being a smaller company and not sticking around.

Or you know, a lapse in security

i'm not a security person, but arq encrypts the data end to end. given enough time and nation state level resources it's probably breakable. but if nation state level resources are required somewhere in the chain of events that leads to your data being stolen then the difficulty of exfiltrating the encrypted data in the first place seems like a pretty minor challenge.

thanks!

My iCloud got hacked last night! At least I think that's what happened. I woke up and my phone had been locked from a foreign country. I was able to unlock it and reset my iCloud password. My MacBook Pro had been working for a little bit but then it defaulted to a grey screen asking for a pin with a sketchy email that it says to contact. I tried to reboot into recovery mode but it now has a firmware password set. Waiting until 8 so I can call Apple but maybe someone here has some idea of how to get rid of this?

Holy crap dude

that's crazy

is your phone still working?

It's a thing right now, sadly https://www.macrumors.com/2017/09/20/hackers-find-my-iphone-remote-mac-lock/

I've got a genius appt for tmmrw to get it all sorted out (hopefully). What they should do is let you unlock it from iCloud.

mordy i absolutely don't mean to rub anything in, just want to check: do you use two factor authentication?

I wonder how many people are bitching about their secret porn stash app's camouflage being ruined by the new look of the Calculator app

xpost it sounds like 2 factor does nothing to prevent this though?

Yup, you're not asked to 2fa to remote lock a device on your apple account.

I do use it but it didn't help :(

Solution: don't use iCloud?

oh shit, that's really bad, sorry for useless post

Solution: don't use iCloud?

― calstars, Saturday, 23 September 2017 07:53 (thirty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tricky, since a load of stock apps rely on icloud if you have 2+ apple devices and want to sync notes &c.

i mean you can most likely do it if you rely on third party apps for everything that matters to you.

This sounds scary. So the macrumors article is saying it only affects people who've used their iCloud password elsewhere, right?

Also this from lifehacker:

We continued testing “Find My Device.” We found that “Find My iPhone” couldn’t lock an iPhone that already had passcode protection. But it could enable a new passcode on a phone that previously had none.

I'm curious if this was Mordy's situation.

My phone already had a passcode which is likely why they were unable to lock it

1. Never not have a passcode
2. Never don't use 2FA
3. Never re-use your Apple ID password

Also sorry Mordy that sucks

not smug about this at all, and i can't imagine how i'd be freaking right now if this happened to me, but i never turned on "find my iphone" precisely because it seemed like an attack vector, to use the phrasey-ology, that would some day some way be exploited

I dunno, I've lost iPhones and iPads & iPod touches to thefts & burglaries (ugh) and I was happy to be able to lock them remotely. You can put a message on the lost device so we put our phone number & a few months later with the iPads I got a text from Tunisia from someone who wanted me to send them the passcode for the device because they couldn't unlock it. L O L was our reply obv but I'm glad that no one else could use the devices.

I’m curious about how most people with a single email address handle apple’s policy of not letting the recovery email be the same as their appleid email

I woke up from a nap the other evening and had a half dozen recovery codes.... for my mom. When we set up her account I used my address because it was convenient, and that was how I discovered she has a new iPad!

I think it’s fine, I could probably have it sent to my dad’s email, but it was funny

I've turned Find My Mac off for the moment.