Justin

In the past two years, I have had horrible issues where it decides that I’m not allowed to join the call because I have a Teams account logged into a different organization, that it won’t let me log out of. An issue where Microsoft servers just time out if you have ipv6 enabled, etc.

Don’t get me started on Skype for Business. It’s still around.

IT folk got so annoyed about being asked about what happens if you got run over by a bus, they decided to go out and show everyone.

Taiwan making their position clear to Trump

https://annas-archive.org/blog/critical-window.html

By this logic, we should still be using copper phone lines, analog TV, and 3G should never get switched off. Obviously there are always budget constraints but technological progress does not wait for shitty vendors.

I work mainly in cloud and Kubernetes environments where this stuff is already automated. New vendors are often just deploying new containers into a cluster.

They should be automated too.

The fact that I can’t use terraform to automatically deploy certs to network appliances is a problem.

This is less of a “iPhones are more secure” thing and more “Google play is banned in China” thing.

Apple willingly extinguishes freedom of speech to protect app store profits:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/3/23901205/apple-app-store-government-license-china

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/19/tech/china-apple-whatspp-threads-removal-hnk-intl/index.html