galad87

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iMessage with PQ3 Cryptographic Protocol(security.apple.com)
557 points by galad87 3y ago|267 comments
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by galad87 3y ago
Right, Blender Cycles for example can run on Metal, but neither on OpenGL or Vulkan. So while it's nice to have a working OpenGL, it depends if your workflow requires OpenGL apps.
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by galad87 3y ago
It's already possible to cross-compile using an Intel Mac runner, but maybe you meant "easily" as not setting any additional compiler option.
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by galad87 3y ago
It's been a gradual process, looks at the Music app, how it has continuously got worse and buggier over the year, even without Swift and SwiftUI. You can't blame SwiftUI for that.
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by galad87 3y ago
The issue has got nothing to do with programming languages or UI toolkits, it's just that before there were more people with more attention to details, or now the management is so broken that there is no QA and no time to fix things.
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by galad87 3y ago
The content of almost every messaging app push notification is already encrypted. So I think it's mainly for knowing when someone receives a notification.
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by galad87 3y ago
Steam on macOS is 64-bit, because macOS supports only 64-bit apps. I think on Windows is still 32-bit.
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by galad87 3y ago
Actually the article says they are smaller. Big Sur has the biggest ones, than they progressively got smaller.
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by galad87 3y ago
The object oriented part of Objective-C was never meant for high performance code. Apple documentation always recommended using C when performances are an issue, which can be easily done because Objective-C is in fact C plus a bunch of obje
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by galad87 3y ago
Sandboxed macOS apps have a much finer access control. Only non-sandboxed apps ask for access to such a large part of the disk.
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by galad87 3y ago
All filters are capable of high depth since 1.6. I would say that AAC encoder quality is not too bad now (on macOS it can use Apple's AAC encoder, so it's not an issue there). Anyway, the main issue is the lack of man power, so ma
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by galad87 3y ago
HandBrake requires a patched version of libavcodec/libavformat libraries. Some Linux distributions like to link it to their system libavcodec/libavformat versions, and this breaks many things, DVD subtitles too. However, if you ar
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by galad87 3y ago
HandBrake uses some parts of FFmpeg libraries: libavformat, libavcodec, and libavfilter. But even so, it's an entire different app, the decoders, some demuxers and some filters are the same, but the way they are connected together is e
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by galad87 3y ago
That was mainly marketing. 10.6 had so many new features and extensive under the hood changes, for example it introduce Grand Central Dispatch, QuickTime X, OpenCL, completely rewritten Finder (Finder was a Carbon app, it was rewritten in C
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by galad87 3y ago
To all those downvoting: the slides in Apple presentation showed exactly this low gain.
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by galad87 3y ago
Not surprising at all. the slides in Apple presentation showed exactly this low gain for the M3 Pro, and it was mainly compared to the M1 Pro.
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by galad87 3y ago
If it's doing the same work on the GPU, yes.
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by galad87 3y ago
I wouldn't use the OpenCL score, OpenCL is a second class citizen that has been deprecated 5 or more years ago. It still works, but as you can see in Geekbench, Metal get a much higher score running the same workload.
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by galad87 3y ago
SVT-AV1 has still a lot of visual quality issues. PSNR, SSIM, VMAF are useful metrics, but optimising for these won't get you the best encoder. x264 didn't get its reputation for going after PSNR and SSIM.
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by galad87 3y ago
Existing codecs are good enough in most cases.
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by galad87 3y ago
We spent the last 15 years avoiding the menu bar in mobile devices, and in the end we reinvented it in the worst way. Hidden under either the hamburger button on Android, the "…" or whatever other button on iOS.
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by galad87 3y ago
Swift string type has got many different views, like UTF-8, UTF-16, Unicode Scalar, etc… so if you want to count the bytes or cut over a specific byte you still can.
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by galad87 3y ago
Or tap with three fingers to bring up the tools menu, or double-tab with three fingers to undo. Still a bit clunky.
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by galad87 3y ago
Didn't they already removed it years ago? At least for Thunderbolt 3: https://www.pcmag.com/news/to-spread-thunderbolt-intel-will-...
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by galad87 3y ago
If the app breaks every minor iOS update I would start wondering on what exactly are DJI coding practices.
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by galad87 3y ago
Safari already supports AVIF.
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by galad87 3y ago
There is a thin line to walk between becoming a reimplementation of Windows API and getting developers to write native games. Linux went for the former, and it became irrelevant for a developer points of view, why develop for Linux and Vulk
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by galad87 3y ago
Actually they recently rewrote Time Machine to work with APFS. A rather big change.
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by galad87 3y ago
Actually most people are stuck on the free 5GB iCloud plan, and the backup will never complete because there isn't enough space.
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by galad87 3y ago
It does use some parts of libavformat, libavfilters, libavcodec. But HandBrake it's not an FFmpeg cli UI and it's quite different.

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