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by lapcat 8mo ago
It can't cost that much if some random blogger can do it.
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by lapcat 8mo ago
I didn't claim that it's implausible. I asked a question. On the other hand, it's not that implausible either that someone might be running Google Chrome, Windows, Mac, etc. We know that many HN commenters do. Thus, while the
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by lapcat 8mo ago
> This is why I only run open source extensions that I can actually audit. How far does your principle extend? To your web browser too? Google Chrome itself is partly but not entirely open source. Your operating system? Only Linux? Mac a
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by lapcat 8mo ago
> We built an automated scanning pipeline that runs Chrome inside a Docker container, routes all traffic through a man‑in‑the‑middle (MITM) proxy, and watches for outbound requests that correlate with the length of the URLs we feed it. T
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by lapcat 8mo ago
> it’s a bit incendiary > I also think it overstates the case I think it's a mistake to defend and/or "reinterpret" the hype, which is not helping to promote the technology to people who aren't bandwagoners. I
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by lapcat 8mo ago
What you just said seems reasonable. However, what the earlier commenter said, which led to this subthread, seems unreasonable: those people unwilling to try the tools "are absolutely going to get left in the dust." Returning to t
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by lapcat 8mo ago
I’m not sure your analogy is applicable here. The introduction of the App Store did not increase developer productivity per se. If anything, it decreased developer productivity, because unless you were already already a Mac developer, you h
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by lapcat 9mo ago
I wrote an erroneous comment in haste, which I regret. However, this kind of thing happens countless times every day on HN. It's not unusual. Except perhaps the regret part: unlike me, many of those other commenters admit no error and
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by lapcat 9mo ago
> The fact that you have now replied—which automatically disables comment deletion—is the only thing that prevented my removing it just now. So great job. How was I supposed to know that you intended to delete it? In any case, you may st
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by lapcat 9mo ago
I made the mistake of trying to skim the code hastily before I had to leave to run an errand, and yes it turns out I was wrong, but please refrain from the personal comments, and no, I don't have any such "habit."
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by lapcat 9mo ago
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by lapcat 9mo ago
> Rachel has blogged quite a bit about blocking badly behaved RSS Clients in recent years. Unfortunately that blocking is buggy and overzealous. I just gave up eventually and unsubscribed from the RSS feed.
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by lapcat 9mo ago
> Feels like a few things are getting conflated. By whom? > DFU the protocol isn’t the issue I never said it was. > the ambiguity is around which physical port actually exposes DFU at boot Yes. > This reads less like “DFU is bro
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by lapcat 9mo ago
> Theory makes predictions (logical implications), and if you empirically find contradictory evidence, the theory is proven incorrect. Of course. But again, that is not the form of argumentation known as reductio ad absurdum. Reductio
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by lapcat 9mo ago
> To the article of this piece: are you enlightened yet? > Have you decided yet to stop buying Apple hardware? I'm a professional developer of Mac and iOS software, so I'm enlightened enough to just complain on my blog and t
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by lapcat 9mo ago
> MacBook Pros {M1 Pro, M1 Max, M3 Max, M4, M4 Max} I have an M4 Pro, so you have not tested with my specific model. > I am sure many other people would have noticed if the DFU port was marked incorrectly. Why? Again, I'm not gen
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by lapcat 9mo ago
You can turn every empirical theory into a so-called "reductio ad absurdum" by phrasing the results of empirical tests as a premise in the argument, but that is itself totally absurd and a mockery of the logical idea.
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by lapcat 9mo ago
> I simply use the port that is closest to the MagSafe. According to Apple, that's actually the DFU port. In any case, Apple's docs don't say that you always have to use the same port with an external drive.
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by lapcat 9mo ago
> One can logically disprove a theory You haven't done so. > reductio ad absurdum You misunderstand what this is. You suggested in another comment that I test the theory by trying the DFU process, but that is not reductio ad ab
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by lapcat 9mo ago
> it is easy to refute your theory. Just do a DFU with the port indicated by Apple No, it's not easy. I just said, in the comment you replied to, "I'm not even sure that I have all the prerequisites on hand." > I
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by lapcat 9mo ago
> it could be for any number of reasons only one of which has to do with using the DFU port Any number? How about naming them. Name one. People in the comments here claim I'm wrong but totally hand-wave away my issue.
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by lapcat 9mo ago
> I would simply say: "Always use the same port for booting and installation." Which usually simplifies the process. That would be even worse than not being able to update macOS on the DFU port. I'm supposed to remember wh
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by lapcat 9mo ago
> They are talking about "storage devices" in that context, which is a total misread What misread are you talking about? I'm talking about storage devices because the documentation says you can't update macOS on an ex
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by lapcat 9mo ago
> it does not appear the root cause is which port is DFU, but a misunderstanding of the DFU process by the blogpost. The blog post does not even discuss the DFU process.
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by lapcat 9mo ago
> It appears that the author is directly contradicting your read. Correct.
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by lapcat 9mo ago
> The author did not test the DFU flow I'd rather not. I'm not even sure that I have all the prerequisites on hand. > I'm not sure why they're blaming the DFU port documentation. 1) The documentation says that macO
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by lapcat 9mo ago
> What applications to you make and where might I find them? https://underpassapp.com
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by lapcat 9mo ago
Did you and the other replier stop reading my comment after the first sentence? Because the second and following sentences make very clear—e.g., "distribute"—that I was talking about apps developed and sold by me.
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by lapcat 9mo ago
It can cause problems to flip off the internet when you already have open connections, though there are also API to detect changes in network availability. But I don't see that as a significant problem for "I turn off my WiFi now
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by lapcat 9mo ago
I wrote them. I'm baffled by your question.

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