why the feck is there not a shortcut to open terminal on macbook?

so i created a launch application for terminal and now i am trying to give it a keyboard shortcut but i cant find a command that does not conflict.

if i press command + option + key it keeps giving me the command+key command instead.

Spotlight is a shortcut for anything on a macbook. CMD + space, then typing in just "t" usually gets me there.

Why close it?

Yeah I use this for everything

This too

This too, but then how are we going to let Apple install a system update that allows anyone to login with username 'root' and no password if we don't close the terminal?

Link? Apple doesn’t auto install updates as far as I remember.

Yikes, somebody ****ed up. At least the work around is straight forward, put a password on the root user account.

Well ya I was being facetious, not an auto install. I just saw it spring up from this tweet: https://twitter.com/lemiorhan/status/935578694541770752

I’m not sure if I’m running that version on any of my machines, will have to try when I get home.

Have to give it to the crowd for reminding this person about responsible disclosure.

I have sympathies both ways. But as an employee of a security company, we always contact the vendor first, and **** I am grateful when someone contacts us about a problem with our stuff before disclosing. I am fine with them disclosing after the window is closed, no one needs to pretend to be perfect but I'd really prefer not to get owned if possible.

I once worked for a company that had a very bad dns poisoning exploit in it's dns resolver. We found this out at a conference where a security researcher specifically called us out in his talk (along with a small list of other companies). He told us right before the talk, although he may have informed the company before then. We had no one who really worked on security at all. That became my job for nearly a year, and I learned a lot, mostly, that we are really and truly ****ed. Security on the web and home PCs is mostly like deadbolts on your door. It's just a barrier to the least determined criminals. The best defense is not having anything interesting or useful to be stolen.

Oh speaking of which, my first task was working on that dns poisoning problem, which was really fun. I got to write a dns server that exploited it, first, and then demonstrate that the problem was solved. The real lesson there was "don't write your own dns resolver" (it's on a long list of **** not to write yourself)

After working on a team for the first time, I think I get it.

Day 1: clone the repo, create a branch and start nuking bugs.

Day 2: git pull and notice you are the only one using branches.

Day 3: git pull; fix merge errors, run the program, see the whole thing explode, fix bugs, pull request.

Day 4: git pull and notice that your pull request isn't acknowledged. Fix merge errors, fix bugs, pull request, inform the lead that you need a merge.

Go to lunch, git pull, fix merge errors, see the entire system explode, fix bugs, pull request, write a progress report on the status of the new feature your working on, go to bed.

Nothing useful seems likely you don't have an interesting product.

Definitely not a security person, but one of the first programming books I read was a CISSP book. It seemed like security is a magic box and I still treat it like that in many ways.

Sure, I can "set up" a DO or AMI, but I would be kidding self if I thought it was secure.

You can have an interesting product without keeping around data that could be used against you or your customers. The worst breaches are the ones where people's private data gets leaked. Companies tend to think of data as an asset, I think of it as a liability.

Oh, I agree with that. I use Stripe and Paypal on my store, and Shopify does the shipping. I know that's all valuable data, and I'm not remotely interested in seeing whatever Stripe does with it.

I use google and Facebook ads, but I could care less about the pixel data, etc.

I mean more in the realm of what is interesting in start up land, and if I really had to make an assumption, I would posit that a lot of data saved is worthless and / or downright illegal to hold, though this goes generally unenforced.

Irt security in general, I'd much rather use Heroku or some other host to keep my database and server secure. It isn't until you legitimately try it yourself that you see how downright irresponsible it is to host your own data on your own server if you don't have a dedicated person for that job.

Ok Kerowo, tell my why it's a good thing that my photos.library on my mac is 6GB even though I deleted every single photo in it.

Because it is a mac and they are better than Windows PCs.

Did you empty the trash?

Lol @ comparing desktop OS's.

There was nothing in it. Easy solution is just to throw away the whole library and build a new one. But man that's weird. Unless photos has its own internal trash or something?

Prevents your HD from rusting where there is no data.

Who knows, maybe it only does real cleanup when it needs the disk space? You’re behind the times, I’m no longer a rabid fanboi, I’m just mostly pro Apple but am not blind to their faults. So it’s probably that big to lock you into their walled garden and make it super fast if you want undelete them...

Flame war between Windows 7 and 10 please!

Suzzer, does Apple have a /dev/null folder?

I think it has its own trash w/ deleted photos or something.

As a Mac Fanboy (I guess) I'm going to say that I appreciate making it hard to delete photos.

Why would you want your computer to make it hard to delete things?

Could this be a cloud sync? Android has this photos app that's a total pain in the ass. I don't know if something is on my phone or not.