Shout out to Michael Larabel for performing this much testing for every chip and distro, this close to their release, and with this thorough presentation every single time.
I honestly don't know how he does it. It seems like more testing than can fit in real time, even when running tests of different machines in parallel. His tooling and workflow must be dialed in to levels I can't imagine and YouTubers appear to have yet to reach.
Michael, you are a gift to the industry, thank you for doing all of this so well that we can take it for granted, and thank you for continuing to do it even though many do take it for granted.
The suckless.org initiative is a great example of this. Boasting about how certain software inherently sucks less because it has minimalist C code, rather than having defense-in-depth against security holes.
Newsflash, a few decades ago the majority of software was the minimalist C that they claim sucks less. There are many reasons we moved on from that world, security firmly among them.
The show Vikings does feature a character with the similar name Athelstan [1], but he's a monk captured by the vikings, not a king who conquered the vikings.
Sounds like you still have TouchID instead of FaceID. The pandemic was quite a wakeup call for this, with far more people wearing masks than gloves, people using FaceID were set back much more than people using TouchID.
Then Apple just made FaceID work even with masks. Now TouchID is further behind by still not working with gloves, while FaceID works in more situations than ever before. When you don't need to authorize a sensitive operation, just unlock, a paired Apple Watch can also be configured to unlock the iPhone.
I'm finding it hard to believe that BlackRock doesn't understand Goodhart's Law. Surely they wouldn't be where they are without being able to rationally optimize for the objective of profit.
Presuming competence, it seems that one of the following must be true: either (1) external coercion plausibly threatened profits enough that a more controlled sacrifice of profit (call it a tribute or blood money) was objectively preferable, or (2) profit is no longer the objective.
One doesn't have to presume competence, but I don't know enough about BlackRock's leadership structure to meaningfully comment on that.
Apple CarPlay may have given automakers just barely enough of an "out" that the pressure is reduced. The only time I use the system's own interface is to update its firmware once a year, and the only time those updates have noticeably mattered was to make my car compatible with CarPlay over USB Type-C.
Given this, it's surprising to me to see reluctance to adopting second-generation CarPlay, but someone who knows more about the tradeoffs can certainly account for that better than I can.
I just got an older (2020) truck with an older generation Ford infotainment (SYNC 3) with CarPlay/Android Auto. I use AA, and its huge latency and the difficulty of use (capacitive touch, the physical buttons on the media console are useless) make it hard to use. I notice my eyes are locked on the console for much longer than necessary because it's so hard to press things and then wait for a response, or go back if the wrong thing got touched. I don't have my eyes on the road and it feels dangerous.
If they had just made the radio tuning knob into a scroll wheel for the UI, it would be so much easier, quicker, safer to navigate the screen. But I know they'll be going in the opposite direction due to tech trends. We need hackers to save us.
Wait until you see where Apple News, Weather, and Stocks get their external data. Believe it or not, Safari even supports opening web pages not made by Apple and not even served from Apple servers!
This reminds me of a depressingly common mistake in web design that seems to affect almost every internet banking system and most government web sites. You know the one: having an "inbox" of automated messages with a number in the corner, which you slowly see tick up as you check the website a couple of times per year for a decade or two.
It's the most user-hostile web design imaginable, far beyond just being ugly or unclear, because it creates busywork or stress or both. It's effectively saying that you might have an actually important update to read, but you won't know that unless you sit down to read dozens of automated messages to sift through them; and if you don't have time or motivation to do that right now, you're left wondering if you're making a mistake that might cost you down the line, especially when it comes to many of the kinds of websites that choose to do this.
If you actually want a user to take action, you need to tell them that front-and-center in the first page after the user is authenticated, and design cues like size and color can help with that. A truly serious matter can put a modal in the flow. They have no problem doing this for the triviality of requiring you to change your password "for your security"[1], but a message about possible financial consequences is unread message #73.
[1] They had a breach they hope you don't know or care about.
I honestly don't know how he does it. It seems like more testing than can fit in real time, even when running tests of different machines in parallel. His tooling and workflow must be dialed in to levels I can't imagine and YouTubers appear to have yet to reach.
Michael, you are a gift to the industry, thank you for doing all of this so well that we can take it for granted, and thank you for continuing to do it even though many do take it for granted.