Joystik Magazine was an epic publication. I remember visiting the local newsagent (Australia) every week to see if a copy had arrived and the feeling of glee seeing a new cover. The screenshots, layouts, fonts - all so unique at the time. Pretty sure I still have them lying around in storage somewhere and they’re probably also available on eBay - somehow a PDF just doesn’t do it justice.
Ubiquiti’s UniFi Protect app uses a similar UI for ‘smart detections’ and it’s really very nicely done / looks like you’ve achieved the same quality of cropping and layout in the snapshots. Bravo. So much potential for this. Good luck with it!
I think you answer this question when you say you “never considered it worthwhile to invest [your time] in a side project” but: how much of that perspective is based on comparing ways of earning income vs the desire to want to build something yourself?
I think for me it’s pretty clearly about maximizing the total income (immediate and cumulative for passive sources) per unit of time invested, as opposed to building something myself. This might also be the reason why I never actually started anything, which is just a different way of stating what you quoted from my previous message.
I enjoyed similar success with a DF sponsorship back in October 2015 (I’m guessing his audience has grown significantly since): I purchased a sponsorship my book ICONIC (shameless plug at http://www.iconicbook.com) for $9,250. Looking back on my stats I approximately tripled that in direct sales, but I’m sure the actual return was higher as I’m certain some folks went to Amazon instead of my site where I was selling direct at the time. I recently sold out and decided to close down my Shopify store so I can’t provide traffic details but IIRC there was a massive spike in visits when the ad went live.
Gruber’s audience was obviously a no-brainer for this product. And dealing with John, which was brief, was a pleasure.
Seems like about 7.5k a week in revenue, or about $400k. Not much different than a senior engineer at Google then, so I guess it depends on perspective. (his brother, formerly an apple employee, probably made more than him).
He is and it’s well deserved - he’s built an incredible following and he has earned enormous respect and trust from Apple leadership (and his Apple insiders who he taps as needed). Don’t forget he’s also one of the creators of Markdown (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown)
Given this is your area of expertise, I'm genuinely interested in how/why you believe that these vulnerabilities wouldn't show up in the real world. Generally speaking, isn't the software developer community littered with developers who aren't adequately skilled/copy-paste-from-Stack-Overflow, etc?
iPhone: if I say 'Hey Siri', I see an onscreen animation indicating it's listening and ready for my next command.
Alexa: if I say 'Alexa', I see the ring lights animate indicating it's listening and ready for my next command.
Putting Amazon/Apple's privacy and security implementations aside, how are these different? Aren't they both 'always listening'?
You can set your phone to require a physical action before it will start listening. On Android, I think it's a long press on the home button, or it was the last time I was looking at the controls. You can also disable both 'Hey Siri' and 'Hey Google' on your phone entirely.
If you are using a voice assistant on your phone, and if you have it set up to always listen, then it's almost the same as a smart speaker (minor quibbles about the positioning and quality of the microphone aside). But those are two pretty big ifs.
Usually this argument gets pulled out to shut down people who have concerns about smart speakers in general, saying that any effort to make smart speakers more private or avoid them is pointless because of course their phone is always listening to them. That's not necessarily true. If someone wants to get rid of their smart speaker, owning a phone doesn't immediately make them a hypocrite. They can keep their phone and still have better privacy.
you are assuming the physical action before listening will always remain a faithful setting. If the NSA wanted Apple to play ball one day, that setting would be merely cosmetic.
I'm not assuming anything, I just understand that the risk of the NSA forcing Apple to install malware on my phone is lower than the risk of my local police office following an already legal process to get data that I know Amazon is inadvertently collecting from people today.
You're correlating risks that aren't related to each other; these are two different devices with different threat models. If the NSA wants to bug you, it will bug your house. That doesn't mean you should bug it for them.
Curious as to why you say the watch is a hassle to charge all the time. I guess if you sleep with it that’s a valid concern. I don’t and so I have to take it off anyway - so it’s not a big deal to just place it on the charger next to my bed and grab it first thing in the morning. The magnetic ‘clickiness’ of the desktop dock is nice and very smooth to drop on and take off.
