benologist

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by benologist 6y ago
I saw a great suggestion the other day - > The npm ecosystem needs something like the distinction between Ubuntu's "main" and "universe" repositories, so that you have a smaller subset of known-good packages with
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by benologist 6y ago
When Apple identifies malware they can update macOS to block or remove it. This doesn't require the Mac app store to fix, and piracy doesn't have to be the cause, for instance Mac Defender was distributed through its own websites
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by benologist 6y ago
Your computer might be struck by a meteor, but Apple has removed malicious apps from the Mac app store, and thousands from the iOS app store, despite registering the developers and reviewing the apps. https://www.hackread.com
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Apple forcing app developers to implement auto-billing after free trial(old.reddit.com)
302 points by benologist 6y ago|217 comments
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by benologist 6y ago
https://fanlesstech.com reviews lots of completely silent computers generally using standard components. I would go with something with standardized components if you can as the case, the power, the heatsink etc may all be reus
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by benologist 6y ago
Being "caught" reading the clipboard is not an indictment that you are doing something wrong. It's very good that it is no longer occurring invisibly in the background, but so far what we have seen appears to be frivolous us
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Intel NUC 9: The PC within a PC(youtube.com)
3 points by benologist 6y ago|0 comments
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by benologist 6y ago
The parent poster is referring to accessibility of the applications produced with Godot, not the accessibility of the IDE. Edit: it's not .NET it's C++.
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by benologist 6y ago
You can, and animal rights and criminalizing abuse is slowly improving across the globe I think. But the cruelty that is illegal doesn't cover a lot of entrenched cruelty, like conflating their lives with our convenience and dropping
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by benologist 6y ago
You don't need to ban poor-performing software to use something else, or to wait for updates that will improve it, or for competing software to emerge. All of this can take place with nothing being banned. Banning has no place in soft
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by benologist 6y ago
I'm not advocating treating any living thing that way, but society is absolutely okay with it. You can do this with children too but as they grow they will demand you stop and they won't sit complacently while you lunch or work o
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by benologist 6y ago
Pets are closer to a slave than a child, they have no ability to ask or demand things of you and they get only what you choose to offer them. You can ignore every single need a pet has and just put them in a bag and carry them around like
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by benologist 6y ago
We're about to see a whole lot of software that "doesn't work" on Macs and especially software that "doesn't work well". Is the solution to ban the software? Should we impose a short time limit on improv
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by benologist 6y ago
I find Docker very complementary to Node, not because I'm putting my code in a container but for all the databases and other software. When I'm running tests I automatically spin up a Redis or a Postgres or whatever database(s) a
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by benologist 6y ago
The way Apple treated Adobe might have been their very first platform abuse on the iPhone. Flash was huge at the time, but more importantly it was software being actively developed which means it was software that would have improved even
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by benologist 6y ago
I have been experimenting with this and the possibilities are very exciting. https://userdashboard.github.io/dashboard-sitemap These screenshots are generated from the test suite for all my UI tests. I have puppeteer naviga
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by benologist 6y ago
If you're looking at pre-2016 hardware sure, we can look back and see this stuff still ticking along very nicely and setting new expectations on longevity. Anything since is stuck with soldered storage and whatever ram unless you upgr
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by benologist 6y ago
That particularly useful thing got taken away from us because it was too hard to hide the changed-appearance from predatory trackers who would link to many websites to determine if you'd been there before. https://developer.
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by benologist 6y ago
Give us an LG Gram 17 with a little more oomph and better speakers. The 17" 2560x1600 screen seems like it would be perfect for development - same resolution as the 13" MBP but a little more space to spread it out. https:/&
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by benologist 6y ago
They don't want you to landfill it, they want to buy it back for half-market-value so they can resell it or reuse parts and metals. With cheap repairs you'd get your MBP fixed for $300 instead of sell it back to Apple for $300.
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by benologist 6y ago
I wonder if they will solve the mystery of how executives either didn't know, or didn't do anything about it, for so many years even as it was widely reported. It might have been more appropriate to use a federal investigative bo
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by benologist 6y ago
Excellent work. I think it is long overdue that many of our childhood cherished games, books, cartoons etc are paralleled in open source. Stuff from 20 - 30 years ago was supposed to be public domain once upon a time, Blizzard already mad
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by benologist 6y ago
My x86 Macbook Pro has been just extraordinarily capable, dual-booting Windows and using an eGPU has been great for gaming. Maybe some of this will survive through virtualization if we can assign eGPUs to virtual machines.
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by benologist 6y ago
Locally hosted version of https://app.keeweb.info configured with a cloud storage provider.
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by benologist 6y ago
Apple's policies permit charging $360/year for that email client, so they do, and that's actually cheaper than many small iOS utilities and games. Since you can cancel any time it is presented as your fault if a small utilit
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by benologist 6y ago
Apple's response is a start but simply being able to challenge the rules doesn't ensure a fair hearing when you do so. In many cases fairness will only be achieved if Apple actually changes their rules. Let's see what they
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by benologist 6y ago
It certainly might be nothing, but it's hard to imagine they would say "all of their developers" are using Xcode to describe the current and diverse IDE landscape. A lot of developers are currently using multi-platform gam
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by benologist 6y ago
At 1:34:04 of the presentation Fedherighi is opening up Xcode on the ARM Mac, and says, "we're using Xcode, like all our developers will" which might be construed as app store only.
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by benologist 6y ago
I found this helpful when I was integrating visual sitemaps with documentation. They have a few different examples for different styles some don't even require JavaScript. https://www.cssscript.com/clean-tree-diagram&#
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by benologist 6y ago
Apple would still be able to optimize around your experience even if they allowed other marketplaces to be installed. Apple and developers would be under more pressure to provide you a good experience if you could install open source utili

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