Toward the top or at the top they look at dollars and cents, keeping investors happy. They are too detached from the people actually doing the work to understand when then harshly and coldly grind out a bit more profit for their bonus that actual people, just like them, bear the burden.
Toss in all the algorithmic cloud management of the people and they get completely disconnected from their workforce.
There are probably entities saving encrypted data right now for when that day arrives. Brings up many interesting lines of thought beyond "is it breakable right now?"
Does it really though? Every secure system design pretty much assumes that the cryptographic standard will be broken in a few decades. Is there really any secret today that would be problematic if made public 30 years in the future? And that would not have been made public by some other method anyway?
> Is there really any secret today that would be problematic if made public 30 years in the future?
Sure. For one, that all the major earthquakes in the last 30 years, resulting tsunamis, destruction and loss of life, were manmade and intentionally caused by, say, Nabisco. Also, it would be a little shocking to the public if it were revealed there are no humans left, only alien-hybrids.
Both of these facts would be quite irrelevant when ultimately discovered. It is hard to make people care about anything that happened 30 years ago that did not affect them personally, and in the latter case the alien-hybrids would have to just... accept the fact.
Sounds exactly like Stripe and PayPal. Arbitrarily turn you off anytime they feel like it for any reason they please.
Never build your whole business on using either or you are just a daily dice throw from being turned off.
The difference between you and TrueBill or Ramp is they have legal teams and founders/backers that have inside access and special approvals that ordinary start ups do not. Certain start ups get special treatment by the banks and payment processors because of behind the scenes actions you cannot take.
Banks and payment processors currently have the power to decide which companies can exist and which cannot. Sometimes for perceived moral or risk reasons and sometimes for random reasons. We really could use some sort of uniform legal appeals process rather than the standard of going to social media to beg for reinstatement.
"the activity of designing and building the plane became more important than the outcome / functionality of the plane itself."
Yes. After a while was it about building the plane or keeping the aerospace industry employed and engaged? The design tried to do everything for everyone and fulfill every Colonel's dream feature and mission. Its the ultimate story of feature creep.
Youhave to maintian the industrial base, so. To maintain the stuff for the next decades and replace any losses. Hard during peace time. In preparation of a war of attritition against an equal oponent close to impossible. How do you maintain the necessary base to produce hundreds of jets, F-35s or whatever Gen 5, once all have been delivered? That aspect alone is critical for the success of such a weapon system. It doesn't help to have a couple of hundred Gen 6 fighters if you cannot replace them in a war against someone who can replace his gen 4/4+ jets.
I downloaded and looked at the raw data. The biggest reason seems to be the new Edge browser gaining popularity. It went from 5.8% to 7.4% market share since October. I'm not sure why this chart displays both IE and the old Edge, when together they're a third of the market share of new Edge.
Safari and Firefox also are up since October, but I'm not sure why that is. For Safari I suspect new Apple devices being purchased around the holidays, but that's just a guess.
Sounds like Google Play is treating Tor Browser like any other app. Randomly rejecting every 4th or 5th release of a long standing app for some random minor reason.
I get they need to keep trojans, spyware, adware, etc out of the store, but as a long time app developer it just seems like the algo says, "We have not rejected this app in a while, so let's do it this time."
>I get they need to keep trojans, spyware, adware, etc out of the store
They don't keep out adware. Users have that benefit only when using the iOS app store. There are tons of apps on Android that just wrappers around ad SDKs
You might test out something like Guardian VPN and see just how much stuff your phone is trying to send over the wire without your consent. (Guardian is iOS-only, afaik, but surely there must be Android equivalents.)
Sure, but those are still very far behind software/support wise and you need to be really patient. People who believe in this, like me, have sent them my money, but my daily driver is a modern Android phone which was not only (much) cheaper, but miles ahead in stability and hardware. I send my money and bugreports in the hopes I will have a stable and open phone in my pocket before my death, but there are many years to go as it is.
If we manage to get something like the samsung a31, at a similar pricepoint, with all hardware working before 2025, I would be happy. But I am skeptical when installing yet a newer OS version on my pinephone and start writing bugreports for applications we consider trivial for a daily driver phone.
Edit; being able to performantly and robustly run Android applications in Linux could (sadly but it is a reality) help adoption a lot a well because of proprietary apps (it sucks but I need whatsapp for instance). That is not that close by either I think; anbox is slow and unreliable last I tried.
Nowadays, what's exactly "Adware"? Apps/Games with ads is now usual (remember Opera is called Adware). Possibly an app that forcely displays ads still can be called as Adware, but it's not possible on iOS and need manual additional permission on Android.
Exactly. Seems to be a trend at major corporations like Google. Create a fire, create enough noise to get your department noticed, extinguish it. Earn your paycheck.
Toss in all the algorithmic cloud management of the people and they get completely disconnected from their workforce.