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by _qulr 6y ago
The last paragraph was a bizarre pivot to China, which no apparent justification for the analogy. As a totalitarian state, China would be the first to suppress and oppress philosophers. No freedom of thought. They'd put Plato to death
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> And more Plato isn't going to solve anything. You'd need to be an idiot to sign up as an honest politician. Plato knew that. The role of guardian wasn't exactly voluntary. The philosopher-kings were compelled to rule. Th
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chrome://flags/#native-file-system-api I already had it disabled before LOL
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> Does anyone have a tip to keep macOS from phoning home when you run unsigned binaries? Block the syspolicyd process with Little Snitch.
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> They made it all they could control it. Didn't seem to work. > The advertiser I'd had always been opt in so it was progress for privacy. It's opt out: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202074
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Here's the technical detail that everyone seems to be missing: IDFA is an Apple API. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/adsupport/asidenti... "The advertisingIdentifier is an alphanumeric string u
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I think partisanship is the main reason why Congress can't write laws to be more clear. Gridlock is easier than action, which leaves the courts to decide important issues. Imagine the debate over rewriting the 2nd Amendment to be clear
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"The case that the Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday turned on the meaning of a 1947 law, the Portal-to-Portal Act" This is the problem. The Supreme Court has no choice but to follow the law. It's up to Congress to change the la
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> Apple doesn’t want you as a customer. Funny, that's not what Apple has been saying to me. Also, the Mac has allowed "sideloading" by default since 1984, as did the Apple II before that. Maybe Apple should screen your pho
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Yes, those are the basic steps. The fundamental problem was with your technical understanding and interpretation of each of the steps. Also, you didn't answer my question as to whether you're a Mac developer. I've already exp
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1. Spend a month and 25 hours of labor dev team manager labor to find/interview the candidate(s) and winnow the applicants down to someone to make an offer. Don't do that. Pick out the top few résumés, maybe 3 at most, interview o
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There are so many things I could say, but let's just start with the user experience on Catalina. If you try to open an unsigned app, you get a Gatekeeper alert that says "macOS cannot verify that this app is free from malware&quot
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> What are you talking about? That's basically the process. How do you know? > But you'd only have some inconsequential pedantic details to change. No, the writer completely misunderstands the entire purpose of the process,
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> You don't need to refute anything if you can describe the process yourself. So you're admitting that you don't know what it is? Are you or are you not a Mac developer who notarizes and distributes Mac software?
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You're just making up stuff. You have no idea what you're talking about. You're clearly not a Mac developer. Nobody should be listening to this long-winded fable spun out of yarn. I mean, I could go through that whole thing a
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> what gets me every time is that the "right-click" trick only works the second time you try to launch the app. The first time, right-click or not, MacOS won't let you launch the app. https://news.ycombinator.co
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Not true. They can make the certificate invalid after a certain date, while still allowing software signed before that date. This happened when Panic lost their signing certificate.
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> Stop trying to claim that there is no guideline - as I have repeatedly pointed out As I have repeatedly pointed out, I was never trying to claim that. You are arguing against a straw man. You're right. You win. The straw man is de
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> At first, Xcode itself wasn't exactly free, because it was bundled with the OS updates, which cost a decent amount back then. Xcode and Mac OS X were included on disc with Mac hardware. This is how I became a developer. When Mac O
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Notarized apps are allowed to run by macOS Gatekeeper. Non-notarized apps are rejected by macOS Gatekeeper. You can quibble about the word "approved", but notarization is very important nonetheless.
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You're taking the current Apple developer program as an eternal truth, when in fact it has changed significantly over time. Before the App Store, you could develop for the Mac completely free. There was a developer program, which was m
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You don't pay the developer fee with "value", you pay it with legal currency. Which requires a bank account or credit card.
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> Also, the $99 is the blanket cost to be an Apple Developer, including access to the App Store, technical support, etc. This is actually the problem. If an open source developer doesn't want access to the App Store, technical suppo
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It's automated approval...
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Notarization is an automated process. There's no human involved.
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We don't. For example, Mac software before the Mac app store had a much better distribution.
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I'm no longer engaging with you, because you completely rewrote your comment after I replied to it. That's highly misleading to readers. The reply below should be flagged and moderated for completely unacceptable behavior.
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> Your own app company doesn’t have to be a winner, when the winners need a massive number of developers and have such a fountain of cash to pay them with. I agree that the walled garden tends to create a few huge winners among App Store
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> If you are using touch bar libraries you MUST have touch bar features and the reviewer can ask you where they are. Ok but there are no touch bar libraries in this case. > They will include third party code (ad networks etc) without
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> You were speaking authoritatively about the underlying code of an app I know the developer, who was talking about the rejection. > that had a review issue related to Touch Bar, Several other developers chimed in and said they rando

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