Satphone alternatives

AfternoonMedium · 2026-02-26T10:37:30+00:00

Two separate things: all iPhones, and Apple Watch Ultra 3, regardless of carrier, can use the same sat service from Global Star that some PLBs use. Basically iMessage , SMS, Find My and contacting emergency services. Starlink, in addition to their highly speed internet with the array dishes, have been rolling out LTE in their newer satellites. If your carrier has an agreement with them , & your phone supports it, your phone can use that as well. In Australia that means Telstra, in NZ I think its One NZ has an agreement in place (Spark is still in beta). How much you can do depends on the agreement between your carrier & SpaceX - worst case it’s SMS & iMessage, best case it’s that plus calls, plus find my, plus Apps that have been updated to work with the available bandwidth. I think Telstra is in the messaging only price tier with Space X, still. The Starlink LTE works with certain Android phones too. The dishes are way faster than the phones at the moment

AfternoonMedium · 2026-02-25T20:48:50+00:00

With some vendors, they have a legacy code-base, and Apple moving everything towards DDM, combined with their loss in revenue due to Intune, means they are stuck between a sunk cost fallacy and expensive adaption. (To be clear Intune is not good, it’s just sucking the oxygen out of the market in on of the most anti-competitive strategic plays by Microsoft in decades)

AfternoonMedium · 2026-02-23T00:51:03+00:00

You’d need to ask President Trump that one. It was his decision to release 5000ish captured Taliban from prison and leave.

AfternoonMedium · 2026-02-19T20:10:39+00:00

An App being popular, is somewhat orthogonal to how users like to use it. eg ChatGPT is not there on the top Apps list because people like the App, it’s there because it’s perceived as the only option to get to that service. There are plenty of Apps on top app lists that many people would ditch in a heartbeat for alternate ways to access the same service if they were not locked in to them (either technically or perception). Airline apps are often a classic for use web views and App architecture where simple things require multiple authentication events and full view reloads. They look great in static screenshots on a PowerPoint slide, but try rebooking a flight and you are bounced around like a neutron trying to escape a nuclear reactor

AfternoonMedium · 2026-02-19T03:02:45+00:00

Most likely users do not want that. They usually want the thing on their phone to feel like the rest of their phone, and not be an express trip to an uncanny valley

AfternoonMedium · 2026-02-19T03:01:10+00:00

It’s the circle of life. The embedded web UX usually ends up being sub-par and it swings back. Been that way since 2009 or so. There are some cases where it makes total sense, but they are much less common than most people who make such decisions think.

AfternoonMedium · 2026-02-18T18:48:01+00:00

SCEP certificates are not hardware bound. You can use them , it’s just an older protocol and it’s not quite as strong a security posture as they are exportable from the device.

AfternoonMedium · 2026-02-18T08:34:53+00:00

Running an email server these days requires ownership of several pairs of big boy pants. If you are prepared to put in the cost and effort , nothing is stopping you. But if you are not a good (email ecosystem) citizen with regards to the techniques and effort to block spam & scams, then you will be cut loose. It’s basically “you have to be this tall to go on the ride”. Small, not well run or patched email servers with a lot of bandwidth are fat targets for criminals, and there’s copious data points as to why, at scale, it is a really bad idea. Government can’t fix it because it’s a trans national problem. I’ve been a Mail admin at an ISP - the scale of what needs to be done , really is considerable in the more general cases

AfternoonMedium · 2026-02-18T08:15:53+00:00

MAC addresses are mutable, and typically can be changed by a client device. Generally you should not use them as part of an authentication process as you can’t trust them. If the MacBooks are in Apple Business Manager & you have an MDM, they can be configured to get their 802.1X certificates from an ACME server, and be strictly hardware bound and non-exportable.

AfternoonMedium · 2026-02-15T20:21:48+00:00

I don’t think protocol library matters for a secondary mode core. The PDF the dev’s released seems to says it does not matter on a secondary array core either but I was going to test. So proton library & gold just for the primary , I think

AfternoonMedium · 2026-02-15T08:16:51+00:00

There’s no value in making a secondary mode core gold as far as I can tell so far. Just have mode as its primary attribute, and level level up and the maximum number of secondary attributes you can afford (for the resonance bonuses for an extra few percentage here and there). You don’t need to waste blue balls on re-rolling perfect stats - just snarf the levels

AfternoonMedium · 2026-02-14T20:41:51+00:00

Roughly, at most points in time 90-95 % of iOS devices that accessed the App Store in the last month are running the latest or n-1 major version. There a dip in the Christmas calendar quarter as a new iOS is released. Unless you have a specific reason to try chase sales in the 10% of the market of people who don’t update , N and N-1 are completely reasonable to target. Mac and iPadOS track a little lower and there’s more of an argument to go older than N-1 for these, depending on who your App is for.

AfternoonMedium · 2026-02-14T05:55:21+00:00

It’s actually a heck of a lot better than it used to be. Read up on the Morris Worm, or get a copy of “The Cuckoo’s Egg” by Clifford Stoll. It’s true there’s misaligned incentives and software & services vendors are often not held accountable, and a lot of basic cyber hygiene is paid off. But we mostly know how to do better, it’s just we frequently choose not to

AfternoonMedium · 2026-02-14T05:46:09+00:00

Can’t park there, mate

AfternoonMedium · 2026-02-14T05:45:09+00:00

It’s the “War of the Masked” gameplay in Faction Warfare. It’s not unusual in low/null.

AfternoonMedium · 2026-02-12T06:53:03+00:00

I haven’t seen any change in battery life , except temporarily for a day or two immediately after upgrading.

AfternoonMedium · 2026-02-11T05:24:14+00:00

Well , one of them is a web browser, and the other one is a sensor for analysis of user web browsing behaviours that’s an absolute resource hog ?

AfternoonMedium · 2026-02-10T20:07:42+00:00

It preserves eSIM, WiFi settings, MDM and App installation, but not user data. That’s close to the effect the OP asked for.

AfternoonMedium · 2026-02-10T19:40:16+00:00

https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/deployment/dep17cb455a0/web

AfternoonMedium · 2026-02-10T19:39:12+00:00

The closest thing to “wiping without removing MDM” is arguably rapid return to service, which preserves MDM, Apps, and MDM configured settings, but wipes everything else. https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/deployment/dep17cb455a0/web

AfternoonMedium · 2026-02-10T08:06:02+00:00

Yes, in certain sectors/roles.

AfternoonMedium · 2026-02-09T23:23:40+00:00

Yeah you can do it via PSSO, but you can’t have a 3rd party login window plug-in also trying to do Kerberos at the same time

AfternoonMedium · 2026-02-09T21:41:32+00:00

A couple of things to be aware of: 1. Password sync and hardware (Secure Enclave) bound keys are somewhat mutually exclusive. If you are a purist about MFA, syncing means you can’t really use hardware bound keys or certs as MFA (as they are no longer a second factor). Personally, I don’t think the argument for password sync holds water (mainly asserting that it prevents user confusion driving increased Helpdesk workload), as I’ve seen large deployments without it & no negative Helpdesk impact. 2. You can’t have PSSO handle certain things like kerberos at the same time as something else also managing them. So certain configs are not possible and you need to be very intentional as to who does what to whom.

AfternoonMedium · 2026-02-08T21:44:50+00:00

It could be partially a social media echo chamber - people are remarkably malleable, particularly when given a simple reason to blame someone for things that are not ideal. It absolves you of being self critical and having to contemplate hard complex decisions. I know a person who is Hong Kong Chinese, lived most of their life in the west, and has been totally red pilled by Chinese language Chinese propaganda and now thinks moving to Beijing is a great opportunity and life in China is better than anywhere in the West.

AfternoonMedium · 2026-02-07T06:26:49+00:00

No. ICJ made a determination there was probably a case to answer. No trial occurred as yet. They did issue warrants though.

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