You're also looking at this the wrong way. Parking apps make the overhead of managing parking lots less expensive. IF you have higher adoption of the app you have less problems with your onsite machines/attendants/cash. Those cost way more money than adopting this across your fleet of lots. Also a lot of lot owners, have a mangement company or work with an app vendor who will add this as a simple way to improve their cash flow.

App vendors are only paid by the people who use the app, so they have every incentive to make it that much easier for some one to use the app than the ticketing machine.

The parking lots may be competing with other lots, but really they are most likely getting money either way, they want to decrease their overhead, hence apps.

But the parking lot can just require the app. That’s the point. They do not need to worry about adoption of the app because you need the app to use the parking lot.

They can up until someone says they don't have a smartphone or their battery is dead.

The reality is that most parking lots do need to have fallbacks for these cases rather than telling people to drive off, and those fallbacks are often more expensive in terms of staffing/maintenance (which is why they added the app in the first place). Something where I point at a code on a sign, it pops up a payment button without me knowingly downloading anything will increase the cost savings beyond an app.

Agreed, this is a topic on my mind, we have a need for better cloud based dev environments so this article's titled appealed to me, but it wasn't answering any questions or aligning with common issues.

We would love to talk more about the issues you have. If you want to schedule a call just drop us an email.

Well first off, we don't touch Kubernetes, so probably not a product we're looking at either way.

This is very strange, but also is your Super admin an everyday user account, or a specific isolated admin account?

Google normally suspends accounts (notification after suspension with no real info) for heavily reported spam, they will suspend a ton of accounts if your domain is sending a ton of spam, even if its not via g-suite directly. This may be the case are you sure your domain is secured?

Super admin is isolated, not my everyday account.

I don't know how any of my accounts could have been sending spam. I don't send unsolicited email, and I forward messages from those other four accounts to my primary email account, so I hope I would have noticed a spam problem. But because I cannot log in to anything, and didn't get any information or notification from Google, I can't be sure, of course.

I am subscribed to a lot of mailing lists and I wonder if, given my low human outbound volume, whether gmail-generated "bad attachment" bounces could have resulted in this. But that seems unlikely. More likely is someone ran a query and decided I had too many emails or was using too much G Suite storage. I look forward to hearing any information at all from Google!

Can the super admin contact G Suite support?

This might be strange, but it's not unusual. Google is notorious for banning users, and providing no recourse - except getting your story to the front page of course. HN / Reddit / etc front page is the one true customer service channel they have.

I normally run a https://crxcavator.io/ check on any extension, but cannot because it's free. I'm assuming this is all done locally?

You can can see content of any extension via chrome dev tools. Not sure what are the limitations of the tool you are referencing.

I live near twin peaks and seem them A LOT, the first pic in the article is on TP on the road to the top. They are frequently out during the day, one almost got hit by the 37 I was on a few months back.

Zoom Admin here:

An admin, from a dashboard, can see all meetings currently running. If you "click" into one of those meetings for more details, you can also join the meeting as essentially a cohost, you cannot join invisibly.

You CAN see any meeting title, guests, duration, call quality, IP addresses of attendees, Geolocation of that IP, network ti Mic, Speaker and camera in use, and some other stuff.

YOU CAN see all recordings after the fact that are cloud-hosted, Zoom offers 2 recording types based on where you're recording from, laptops like Mac and PC with min spec can record locally, or in the cloud, everything else is in the cloud. I also do not know and do not believe, there is an audit log for this. This is actually the most troubling thing.

You can see more here https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/204654719-Getting-...

Also, unlike say Google Hangouts Meet, you cannot add a room to a meeting without consent. Meet allows you to force ANY room into any meeting you want (defaulting with camera and sound on). I've seen people who have these set up in their homes and think of how bad it can be.

EDIT-

Also while no one at my org uses it, I believe you can easily see all zoom chat history.

This is a great point. People understand installers/.pkg files far better than `.app`'s wrapped in a DMG. Those often get launched inside the DMG which has a ton of other issues, rather than being dragged to the Application folder.

Also packages allow for easier deployment rather than dmg's.

This isn't the point, it's the fact that the installer is being abused to install an app without even giving the user the option to proceed or not. Nothing should be installed as part of the preflight.

Par for the course with Zoom, so it seems.

I don't think it installs it I think it just calls the resource from the package.

NVM I decided to inspect the package with `pkgutil`

Here's the offending code

```################################### function install_app_to_path(){ #path=$1 InstallPath="$1/.zoomus_"$(date)"" mkdir -p "$InstallPath" mkdir -p "$InstallPath/Frameworks" if [[ $? != 0 ]] ; then rm -rf "$InstallPath" return 1 fi

    if [[ -d "$1/zoom.us.app" ]] ; then
        rm -f "$1/zoom.us.app/Contents/Info.plist"
        mv "$1/zoom.us.app/Contents" "$InstallPath/trash"
    fi

    if [[ $? != 0 ]] ; then
        rm -rf "$InstallPath"
        return 4
    fi

    rm -rf "$1/zoom.us.app"
    if [[ $? != 0 ]] ; then
        rm -rf "$InstallPath"
        return 4
    fi

    mdfind 'kMDItemCFBundleIdentifier == "us.zoom.xos"'> .zoom.us.applist.txt

    echo "["$(date)"]un7z zm.7z =================================" >>"$LOG_PATH"
    if [[ -f res.7z ]] ; then
        ./7zr x -mmt ./res.7z -o"$InstallPath/Frameworks"&
    fi

    if [[ -f resReitna.7z ]] ; then
        ./7zr x -mmt ./resReitna.7z -o"$InstallPath/Frameworks"&
    fi

    if [[ -f bundles.7z ]] ; then
        ./7zr x -mmt ./bundles.7z -o"$InstallPath/Frameworks"&
    fi

    un7zresult=$(./7zr x -mmt ./zm.7z -o"$InstallPath" 2>>"$LOG_PATH")
    ret=$?
    echo "["$(date)"]check un7z return:$ret, $un7zresult">>"$LOG_PATH"
    wait
    echo "["$(date)"]un7z all finished">>"$LOG_PATH"
    if [[ $ret != 0 ]] ; then
        rm -rf "$InstallPath"
        return 3
    fi

    mv "$InstallPath/Frameworks/"* "$InstallPath/zoom.us.app/Contents/Frameworks">>"$LOG_PATH"
    mv "$InstallPath/zoom.us.app" "$1" >>"$LOG_PATH"
    if [[ $? != 0 ]] ; then
        rm -rf "$InstallPath"
        return 1
    fi

    if [[ "$APP_PATH" == "$GLOBAL_APP_PATH" ]] ; then
        chmod -R 775 "$APP_PATH"
        chown -R :admin "$APP_PATH"
    fi

    echo "["$(date)"]mv $InstallPath/zoom.us.app into $1">>"$LOG_PATH"

    rm -rf "$InstallPath"&
    return 0

}```

This is just horrendous.

ugly? Most definitely, offensive? Not really.

Among other things, it offends me that this runs in a preinstall script.

The other thing that's important is the privacy policy includes their marketing site You can see a clear list of tools that zoom uses on their Content Management System (CMS) aka Zoom.us here: https://builtwith.com/zoom.us

I'm talking about radio energy powering the device. 802.1 beacon radio frames, which your access points send out over the air. Configure it via USB, etc, then just hang it on the wall. No cables. Just a passive device.

Is there a PoE to lightning adapter?

edit: $28 splitter, https://www.poetexas.com/products/af-lightning

And $100 Belkin Ethernet-PoE adapter.

Use a PoE to USB (female USB-A or USB-C) adapter - variety of models e.g. I saw one for $10 on Alibaba.

I'm more than a decade in on my 1Pwd journey. Loved it the whole time!