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by _qulr 6y ago
> Not to mention that "removing the ContentFilterExclusionList" is a hacky fix suggestion. You've got in backwards. The ContentFilterExclusionList was itself a hack. It never should have existed. Some people are handwaving
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> The ones they consider less important are put in a backlog. True, but this just proves my point. It still doesn't take 6 months to fix this issue... if they wanted to fix it. Deprioritizing it was a deliberate choice by Apple. The
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There's no link because the tweet was deleted soon afterward. The tweet seems to have been very ill-advised. I don't know how anyone can describe this as a "bug", because as the linked article describes, there's an
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> Sure, why not 6 months? Because the first WWDC preview version of Big Sur was released to developers on June 22, 2020, and Big Sur was released to the public on November 12, 2020, so Apple needs to be able to fix issues identified duri
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I've been a professional Mac software engineer for 15 years. I've also lived my entire life in the North (which for some reason is called the Midwest).
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> This happened so quickly This was your claim. What is the justification for the claim? The comment seemed to imply that it was the OCSP problem. Otherwise, no other explanation was offered by the comment.
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> the gigantic majority who never touches the betas I was replying to a comment that literally said, "That's why Apple has the Developer and Public Beta releases for iOS/OSX", so maybe you should argue with that comme
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There was a ContentFilterExclusionList key in the /System/Library/Frameworks/NetworkExtension.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/Info.plist file. macOS 11.2 beta 2 removed the ContentFilterExclusion
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Who else would Apple take feedback from during the betas? Who else would even notice that there was a hole in the firewalls except the firewall developers?
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> That's why Apple has the Developer and Public Beta releases for iOS/OSX so that external users can provide feedback. And on this occasion just like on many other they will take action if necessary. Except that Apple did not
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The imagined timeline of this comment doesn't seem to align with reality. The exclusion list was already present in the first WWDC builds in summer 2020, as the Little Snitch developers noticed: https://blog.obdev.at/a-
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The $100 fee is no barrier at all to professional criminals. Whereas it's a huge barrier for open source developers.
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Developers can switch to a different platform, but the problem is that their customers won't switch. The customers for boutique indie apps simply do not exist on Linux. And they don't exist on Windows to the extent that they exist
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> Apple only notarizes those in the App Store. To be pedantic, this is not notarization. The term notarization only applies to software distributed outside the the App Store. The developers themselves sign the software with a Developer I
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> Is it possible to sign and notarize an app for macOS without paying $99/year? Almost certainly not. Apple does technically have fee waivers for eligible organizations — note the term organizations, not individuals — but the red ta
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> Another reason is that it is another level of QA for my app. Sort of a “peer review.” I’m fairly obsessed with Quality. In my experience, don't expect much from App Store reviewers. Their primary concern seems to be simply protect
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"Objective-C" is the name of a programming language used for Mac development, previously the primary programming language before Swift and still popular among Mac developers. "Objective-See", the name of the maker of LuL
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> But that's just the beginning of the radicalization pipeline. No reasonable person just starts on Rush. This sounds more plausible. However, it's in direct conflict with the claim "I can pinpoint it to exactly when my da
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> I blame the internet. The irony of this ahistorical claim is that it comes very close to "Make America great again". Think about the Vietnam War. The civil rights era. The McCarthy era. The list is almost endless. The Civil W
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> By that argument you could say the cigarette industry isn’t the cause of tobacco addiction. The crucial difference is that cigarettes are targeted at children, and the majority of smokers become addicted before they become adults. Wher
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> that’s not unlike saying a good person would never abuse alcohol It's more like, I wouldn't say that the vodka distillery is the cause of alcoholism.
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> He was curious, smart, kind, and optimistic, then came Rush Limbaugh. This is the story I never believe. My reaction to hearing Rush Limbaugh is the desire to shut it off ASAP. Don't you have to willingly invite him into your life
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There are other factors though that can't be discounted. It's indisputable that he's older now. It's quite natural that many people get "worse" when they get older, a phenomenon that has always existed. Also, p
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> All goes back to Reagan's repeal of the Fairness Doctrine Reagan himself was an FBI informant and was involved with blacklisting so-called Communists way back when he was President of the Screen Actors Guild, during the McCarthy e
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Correlation does not imply causation. Moreover, when hasn't there been polarizing media? There are countless radical publications that did not imminently result in a political revolution. Also, today's afternoon riot doesn't
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> I asked her whether she will accept a paper without sound academic bibliography. She said no. Then why would she believe in extremist videos with shady citations and outright lies? This is very common. I would even say the norm. No per
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> I was bombarded with recommendations of barely concealed white supremacists, and bizarre conspiracy theorists. I know that if I clicked on even one of them, then my recommendations will be full of that crap. You were offered the recomm
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How do you know your dad wasn't always that person? Children tend to be pretty naive about their own parents. Children very rarely have a sophisticated understanding of issues such as politics and race, so they wouldn't even notic
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> 20 years ago these people would have had much less opportunity to speak and reach followers, not more, and things were better then. 20 years ago was the disputed 2000 election, 9/11, Department of Homeland Security, Gitmo, invasio
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> the adults who are "doing it to themselves" are, in fact, doing exactly what I described above to their children To an extent, yes. However, there are a number of mitigating factors. (1) Individual parents vary widely in thei

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