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by lilyball 6y ago
I bought a first-gen intel iMac and it lasted me a long time. I was quite happy with it.
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by lilyball 6y ago
It’s just germs in general. Autopsies on infected cadavers were leaving germs on the doctors’ hands that would then spread to other patients, so in this particular case the elevated rate is tied to the cadavers, but it’s not cadaverous part
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by lilyball 6y ago
Technically, TikTok is better at loading video than any other app I’ve used. Seeing a loading state on a video is so rare it makes me think something is wrong when I see it. And its recommendation engine (for you page) blows everyone else o
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by lilyball 6y ago
Intentionally jailbreaking your phone isn't untethered or RCE. But this particular jailbreak could be combined with an RCE in any application running on the device in order to compromise the system.
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by lilyball 6y ago
Out of curiosity, what do you use to store and search bookmarks on mobile? Both the old (third-party) iOS app I used to use and the old macOS app I used to use have stopped working years ago due to neglect. So I use the service pretty spari
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by lilyball 6y ago
The existence of jailbreaking fundamentally breaks the security of the device. It means any malicious app that manages to get on your device can turn into a full system compromise. It means any RCE can as well.
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by lilyball 6y ago
If you only have 2 instances but are spending effort keeping them both in sync for changes then that might be a good time to abstract anyway. The fact that you’re keeping them in sync means they aren’t just coincidentally the same. But this
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by lilyball 6y ago
This looks like a fun exercise, but ultimately it seems to just be reinventing Iterators except each step yields a new copy of the iterator instead of just mutating the existing iterator. The other difference is there's an explicit Ski
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by lilyball 6y ago
You actually can support Sign In With Apple from arbitrary platforms, using the JS API. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/sign_in_with_apple... This is obviously the most useful for websites, but Apple’s develo
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by lilyball 6y ago
https://caniuse.com/#feat=web-share
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by lilyball 6y ago
> So the solution here is for a developer to add a bunch of code to their codebase on at least 4 platforms just to get to the same exact functionality and level of privacy, but with a worse user experience? You need to support letting
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by lilyball 6y ago
FWIW I discovered yesterday the Slack app is doing this too (at least if there’s images on the clipboard), as is the Kaiser Permanente app. TikTok is not remotely unique in this regard.
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by lilyball 6y ago
Maybe not even incompetence. It could just be that some sort of periodic UI refresh triggered the clipboard lookup, because why bother caching clipboard data if you can just read it on the fly when updating your UI?
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by lilyball 6y ago
What I saw was people talking about how lots of apps check what type of content is on the clipboard in order to adjust what they show the user (e.g. if the user has a photo on their clipboard make it easy for them to attach it). At least at
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by lilyball 6y ago
The stable ABI was so Apple could ship Swift in the system. The fact that it enabled binary dependencies was more of a freebie.
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by lilyball 6y ago
Binary dependencies are really about supporting closed-source libraries. Because they’re in binary form it means there’s no ability to customize the build process, no build flags or optimization levels or anything else. Apple also relies he
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by lilyball 6y ago
For the first point, the app can explicitly tell the user what their login is, or otherwise assign some unique identifier the user can use when contacting support. The app can also offer to contact support for them, which can pre-fill the u
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by lilyball 6y ago
My recollection is the first time I used Sign In With Apple it forced me to choose (no default), and after that it defaulted to my last choice. I expect 99% are obfuscating because that’s the sensible choice to make. Giving an app my real e
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by lilyball 6y ago
Thumbnails aren’t stored in .DS_Store.
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by lilyball 6y ago
Losing metadata by accident seems fine?
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by lilyball 6y ago
Better still is to put it in ~/.config/git/ignore and leave your core.excludesFile unset, as that's the default path and will therefore live right next to your config file.
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by lilyball 6y ago
Extended attributes are lost by a lot of mechanisms of moving files and folders around (e.g. zipping them with something other than Finder's "Compress" command). It's also not portable to other filesystems, whereas a .DS
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by lilyball 6y ago
Many people who buy Apple products do so because of Apple’s privacy stance. Just because the government wants to violate its citizens’ privacy doesn’t mean its citizens want that.
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by lilyball 6y ago
I largely agree with this, except that "Send Later" really does want some form of server support so it will happen even if you quit the app (especially on mobile). That said, there are third-party apps that do this, such as Spark
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by lilyball 6y ago
How about FastMail? They have a stellar email service. They also offer contacts and calendars, though I don't personally use those (I use iCloud for that).
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by lilyball 6y ago
For all of the space given to macOS "Font Smoothing", that setting really doesn't do much at all. I'm testing on macOS 10.15.5 and the setting seems to do nothing at all for web pages (viewed in Safari), or Terminal.app,
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by lilyball 6y ago
I guess I shouldn't be surprised at HN's response to this comment. But I am, frankly, disgusted.
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by lilyball 6y ago
It doesn't actually matter what the etymology of "master" is in this context. What matters is how people affected by a legacy of slavery view the term and its usage. In general, the term "master" used to denote some
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by lilyball 6y ago
This is the kind of rabbit hole that gives me nightmares any time I even consider the idea of writing my own shell. Fish nails the UX so well that even doing half as good a job seems like a truly massive amount of work.
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by lilyball 6y ago
All of that would be true if the compiler had it built-in too though, right?

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