What I took from the video is that Dr Pepper is their competition and they want to crush them. Good for them.

The name of this project always irked me because it implies that it “fails to ban” unauthorized logins, which is the exact opposite of its purpose.

(ip addresses with failed login attempts)(go to)(the ban list)

(fail)(2)(ban)

This was announced last year, way before any of Beeper’s shenanigans.

https://www.macrumors.com/2022/12/07/new-imessage-apple-id-s...

Beeper was released at least two years prior to that.

And that’s not what I’m referring to by their shenanigans.

Specifically I’m talking about their beeper mini spoofing of Apple devices, not the other beeper setup that forwarded content to/from an actual Mac.

I don't think this is related. This is just public key verification, the kind that other E2E messaging apps already had. I don't know about the specifics but as I understand, Beeper Mini could implement this too if they want to.

Theoretically the two are orthogonal. There's no reason why Beeper wouldn't be able to implement contact key verification; there's no hardware attestation component to it, as far as I can tell.

Practically, the added complexity of having to integrate with iCloud Keychain certainly won't help.

“Google Workspace Enterprise Standard”—do they have “Enterprise Pro” and “Enterprise Enterprise” tiers?

Is this the “15-minute city” thing that the anti-vaxxers are losing their minds over?

You’re my girl Lorraine

Make like a tree and get out of here

I hate manure.

I still can’t get Backstage set up correctly.

One Weird Trick, AI Edition

Icy-Hot

I use Linuxbrew extensively across multiple WSL distros every day. As the “weird Windows person” on a team full of Mac users the experience is pretty uniform—the same brew commands for standing up a macOS dev environment mostly “just work” on WSL/Linux.