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Lmafao


We've banned this account.


They can't on the 2015 , 2016 , 2107 macbook's either. Tbh Apple have gone down the shitter in the last few years.


No They haven't done the impossible , they just decided to use 5ghz wifi .


Pete Townsend really needs to stop with this social commentary.


Buy a new cpu that is fixed and problem gone maybe we shouldn’t change the world maybe intel should fix there own problem? If a car has a serious fault that makes it dangerous it’s recalled it’s time for intel to do the same.


Snow leopard wasn’t all that till it got a few updates either


Didn't use OSX back then, but I think there is a good distance between "not all that" and the security fiasco going on with High Sierra.


What about having it wipe all your user data?

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2528936/mac-os-x/snow-...


On one hand you have massive data loss, a big issue for sure but something well understood, well known, that you can and should be prepared against in any case; you're never protected against: your computer being run over, or your house being on fire, or your HD suddenly dying. If I lose files by lack of backup, I can be angry at myself for not having done proper backups, whatever the source of the deletion, this is something I can remedy.

On the other you have giving access to your data to people who shouldn't have access, be it making them root, giving your encryption password in the hint field, ... You're not prepared against that, you have no mitigation and no remedy other than picking the right tool; either the tool you're using is secure or it is not.

Better everything gets deleted than someone not meant to have access getting it. And better something happens that I could insure myself against, than something against which I cannot do anything to protect myself.


Ftp is still the fastest file transfer protocol , when you invent something better then you can moan otherwise plz go to fail.


What makes you think so? Nothing in the FTP protocol makes it faster than, say, HTTP, yet FTP requires more network round-trips to initiate each file transfer.


Faster for what kind of transfer? Surely for retrieval it won't be noticeably faster than HTTP, and may be significantly slower? FTP has the advantage of no metadata (possibly significantly less overhead on a small file) that's traded for way more round trips, no transparent compression, no persistent connections and limited to no pipelining.

And if you want to push files SFTP, SCP or rsync over ssh will do that just fine. If you don't care about security and you can't saturate your network connection by default you can just use RC4.


Everything unencrypted will always be faster than the encrypted counterpart. Do you also deliberately avoid HTTPS? And is that minuscule performance gain really worth the risk with FTP?


Not convinced https is a simple substitute for ftp. Think of the new asp.net MVC framework. The http root directory is not the root directory of the MVC app, but a sub directory (which by the way is a good design decision, separating executable from static content). So with https you will only have access to a subdirectory of the application you need to deploy. Not sure you will be able to use https to deploy.

ftpes sftp and ftps are alternative solutions but I found them to be extremely incompatible between softwares. I never managed to get filezilla ftp client to connect to a secure IIS ftp server. And Visual Studio can't deploy to secure ftp, etc.


I did not mean to say that HTTPS was a substitute for FTP. You said that FTP was the fastest protocol, and the only reasonable explanation for why FTP could be faster than anything else would be due to the lack of encryption.

Therefore, I asked if you also avoided HTTPS (and only used HTTP), since HTTP clearly is faster than HTTPS.

But if you didn't mean to say that FTP is the fastest due to the lack of encryption, then why do you think FTP is the fastest?


Even SCP easily saturates a GBit line with negligible overhead, where is FTP significantly faster?


... for large files.


for patching if i remember right.


That's what the article says; indeed, it is the entire text of the second paragraph.


This was like news 3 weeks ago , now its just known facts..


This reads like a very paranoid post.


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