#indieweb 2021-09-14

2021-09-14 UTC
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[tantek] tl;dr: update your iOS/MacOS/WatchOS devices. Not particularly indieweb specific, except in the, keep software you don't want off your personal device way: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/13/technology/apple-software-update-spyware-nso-group.html
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aaronpk the macos update is downloading way slower than my internet can handle right now, wonder why
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[tantek] maybe because Apple's servers are having a massive self-inflicted DDOS thanks to that article and the fact that it's a Twitter trending topic: https://twitter.com/i/events/1437517226760970249
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[tantek] wouldn't surprise me if they have 10s of millions of devices trying to simultaneously update
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aaronpk sorry, i forgot the sarcasm marker
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[tw2113_Slack_] from #indieweb-chat, i do typically keep the device in airplane for battery purposes, etc. but i did notice it wasn't so i got that re-changed
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[tantek] 🙃
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[tantek] now if only they were using Torrent for the update protocol so you'd only have to download the update *once* per OS not once per device in your house
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[tantek] that'd take some load off of Apple's servers
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[fluffy] or if they'd at least use the friggin' 'content cache' thing that macOS has supported for years
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[tw2113_Slack_] yeah torrents have a history of sharing bad things, but the underlying technology works just as well with legit things, I've downloaded many a install disks for linux via torrent
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[tantek] this is literally the use-case for Torrenting, massive update to lots of devices simultaneously
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[tw2113_Slack_] not sure if correct room, but we're already slight off topic. Intuit, the people behind Turbo Tax, are acquiring Mailchimp from the looks of it. https://www.investors.intuit.com/news/news-details/2021/Intuit-to-Acquire-Mailchimp/default.aspx
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[tantek] ooh Apple's iCloud servers in general are having issues. Just had a few FaceTime failures and even iMessage delivery failures (transient, retrying fixed)
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[KevinMarks] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/09/leaked-documents-reveal-the-special-rules-facebook-uses-for-5-8m-vips/
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[snarfed] almost a week since I sent in our Bluesky satellite entry, no word yet, no updates to their leaderboard at the bottom of https://blueskyweb.org/satellite
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[snarfed] maybe they lost interest
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[fluffy] maybe they moved too fast and broke something
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npd[m] I genuinely thought it must not have been understood if it's not included in their top three so far, I kinda wanted to ping and see if I could try to explain
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