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by zapzupnz 8y ago
It's a genuine issue, and one that is made time and again by people who think "open == security" whenever there's a discussion about something like Google or iMessage, when the armchair security experts come out of the w
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
Because macOS doesn't know when files and directories are moved on other devices, network drives , etc. Nor can it preserve that metadata across other devices, network drives, etc. without copying it across somehow; the easiest soluti
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
> mobile
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
They've managed selling $1000 devices that many found of questionable value for a lot longer than Ahrendts' reign, so this argument doesn't quite hold. Meanwhile, the competition manages the exact same feat, so your comment f
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
People with enough technical knowledge to know that they need a VPN to evade something like the Great Firewall, but not with enough technical knowledge to set it up manually. They may have heard of so-and-so app, install it, and boom, it wo
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
> This is the type of low hanging fruit that Apple evidently doesn't care about anymore This is an unfair comment, showing you don't know _why_ those files exist. They're an ugly tradeoff, but they serve a purpose. Dot fil
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
You cannot and should never assume that dotfiles are just preference files. They might be directories, and those directories might be chock full of big files — or worse, temp files that should really be in /tmp.
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
They've explained why it's a problem. Having an alternative viewpoint on "why programs are randomly polluting my home folder, a sensitive location with my personal data, with unwanted files without leaving any trace of their
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
And to Linux developers who've made the jump to macOS development or are making a cross-platform port, please use NSFileManager to find the paths for this or that, don't hardcode everything into Library/Application Suppor
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
Unless Apple found it sufficient to make an example of Facebook and Google. The statement would be pretty clear: if you think we won't do it to you because you're a big company and a valued partner, just look at the size of the co
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
I don't know, I think China is more on their mind at the moment. It was Steve's crusade to destroy Google; I don't think that really exists in the same capacity anymore. Right now, Apple still make the most money, they'r
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
That would be the EU going beyond their reach, invading into private business practices, something more akin to the Soviet Union than the EU. Apart from that, "size" means nothing and is completely arbitrary; the EU has only ever
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
> The difference is that Apple are controlling what software individuals can run on their own phones that they paid good money for. Maybe, except that the enterprise app distribution system is a service provided by Apple. It has associat
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
But Apple isn't a monopoly, and it never will be. You're talking like the EU has one set of rules for companies from its members and another for others, but that isn't the case. The EU treats all monopolies equally; Apple isn
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
Yeah, this is pretty clear cut. Apple has rule. Facebook and Google agree to rule. Facebook and Google violate rule. Apple enforces rule. This isn't some grey area where the details are difficult to ascertain. Everything is pretty clea
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
Why should they not have the right to enforce the terms of their own service ? They own it, the operate it. It's theirs to do with as they wish. Your comment might make sense of Apple were some sort of government entity, but it isn&#x
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
> Android has 85% of the worldwide smartphone market I think a mistake to make here is thinking that Apple gives a toss.
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
Actually, a lot of comments show that people realised very quickly that they were being astroturfed, and only discuss the article up to the point where the product was slyly introduced.
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
> Do you want to sell your private data to corporations? Feel free to do so That isn't the point. The point is that Facebook preyed on technical illiteracy and a general and widespread lack of understanding of the implications of pa
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
Yes, but if you’re not running either the most recent version of a Debian-based OS, you either have to hope there’s a version in the backports repo or potentially break your installation through a diet-upgrade. Getting the version from the
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
It would be fantastic if this were more like .app bundles on macOS. It’s a special, self-contained folder that GUIs treat as the application binary (double click to launch, etc) but that power users can open as a folder or navigate inside o
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
The architecture for Handoff isn’t available on Windows (and it would be much more complex than a simple library since so much of the networking and Bluetooth stacks are entirely different between platforms), so no. I think Windows has its
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
Safari user, always play videos in a background window, never seen this. I suspect it’s not the browser’s video playback but perhaps more to do with how it handles spikes and drops in connection quality?
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
Certainly nobody was forced to do it, but it is more than likely that nobody understood what they were being asked to do. Not only that, children were being targeted by this scheme. Lastly, the implementation on iOS circumvented rules relat
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
Because the dream is still to get a job at one of them, for better or worse.
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
Hi Zuck. But on a more serious note, children don't necessarily understand the consequence of their actions, especially at a technical level. Mind you, plenty of adults don't either, but their acceptance of the terms of conditions
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
You can, and that should be sufficient.
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
Obligatory reference to Homer's car from The Simpsons. This is why people think big companies like Apple, Microsoft, Samsung, etc. are arrogant when they say they're making products we didn't know we needed until we got them.
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
Then I guess my dream system marries the two concepts, somehow. I don't think we should accept CSS just because it's what we have; far too many people find it confusing and dislikable. At this point, I'm starting to look into
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by zapzupnz 8y ago
I've got a 27" 5K iMac. At work, we've these 21.5" 1080p displays. I just can't use them, the text just looks so ridiculously blurry. Once you've seen HiDPI rendering, you can't go back. I'm doubting

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