neilm

GG1 said:

I would've thought that a superset (or new consortium) of OneWorld, Star, and SkyTeam would be a convenient way to handle this worldwide, as they have the mechanisms in place for this purpose. Not sure about IATA (not doubting them, just not familiar with them). Either way would allow this info to not be tied to any country (to increase adoption).

But I can see that international vaccine verification could be used for much more than travel purposes (and this may be a bad thing).

The potential advantage of IATA is that it's a 75-year-old airline industry organization to which every international airline you've every heard of — and an amazing number you won't have! — already belongs. A UN agency such as the WHO might in theory be better placed for the job, except that we'd probably all be dead of old age before it happened.

Yes, that is indeed the question: how does authoritative and verifiable info get into the app?

Like the poster above, I have a vaccine card from my county health department. They also texted me a persistent link to a state database certifying that I'm fully COVID vaccinated (hey, age has its privileges, even if they're not numerous). A reasonable person would accept those as authoritative — but how does that conclusion make its way into the app? Obviously not just on my say-so, because otherwise every twenty-something looking to party on the Mayan Riviera would be claiming to have had their shots.

Most people won't be aware of this, but the World Health Organization has long sponsored an "International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis," colloquially known as the "Yellow Card," that's used by international travelers to demonstrate their vaccination status. These Yellow Cards are issued by the national health authority in each country, which in the case of the USA is the CDC. Blank cards are available (in bulk only) from the US Government Printing Office as document CDC 731. Small quantities at big markups are sold on Amazon. Yellow Card vaccination history is entered by the medical authority administering the inoculation, signed and officially stamped, and is accepted by border control authorities worldwide.

The IATA app needs an authentication process of some sort prior to travel use.

macgui said:

fastasleep said:

 Anyone try one of these yet?

https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/envoy-express/thunderbolt-3

I have and am not particularly impress. It seems no matter what NVMe (m.2) you put in that enclosure, the max speed you'll see is 1553MB/s. It also runs very warm. The cable is captive and if it dies you may have to get one from OWC or cobble one to fit. That's supposed to change down the road. I'd recommend a pass.

I would like to see AI test some m.2 NVMe enclosures to see some better T-3/USB-4 speeds. Apple's onboard flash storage seem to be much faster than non-RAID external stuff, probably because is internal.

My time and money won't be wasted on any enclosure/NVMe combo providing less that 2000Mb/s R/W. I'd prefer an all metal case so I can stack a huge heat sink on top, because unless the enclosure contains a fan (they're all noisy) it'll get hot. 

This GigaDrive Pro is tempting but the actual drive is nothing special. The WD Black SN750 is in a class of a number of other NVMes offering similar performance. The enclosure is from a no-name source, an Indegogo project as well, and my $153 just isn't that trusting. The GDP is certainly a step in the right direction.

I have 2 of the Envoy Express enclosures, both with 1TB Samsung 970 Evo NVMe drives inside. They test out at 1300 read/1200 write MB/s on my 2016 13" MBP. I'm well satisfied with this performance, which substantially exceeds the USB 3 Samsung T5 used previously.

I use them mostly for migrating users to new Macs, which typically involves cloning 150-200GB of content to the drive using Carbon Copy Cloner, then migrating that to the new Mac. The cloning process now takes only 20-25 minutes, which is terrific.

The drive does get quite warm during the sustained write process. I'll often place another aluminum-cased drive on top to act as a heat sink.

The TB cable of the Envoy is not captive. It has a regular TB connector on both ends, but the drive-end connector is inside the enclosure, as can be readily seen when installing the SSD card. It's trivial to substitute another cable if necessary.

Yeah, but do the B&O headphones come with their very own bra?

entropys said:

He was forced out as he was a threat to certain other executives

Evidence?