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It's this company or a phone that runs highly privileged software by the world's greatest collector of information that should be private. Both choices are so awful my phone would not help me autocomplete any of the words I'd use to describe them.

No, that's just them patching out a feature it used to have so you buy their newest model instead.

It would certainly help other browsers keep up in performance and battery life if Apple didn’t make all the APIs that allow Safari to stay so far ahead private and undocumented.

I think it makes more sense to use the kernel‘s’s sandboxing utilities (like seccomp, SELinux, namespaces, prctl and eBPF) than to rely on the process to try to isolate itself purely in userspace which will always have holes.

Or a server version. I have an M1 Mac mini as my home server and it really feels like I'm fighting the fact that it's a desktop OS with a GUI and full of components that really, really, really can't deal with being run on a headless system. Not much fun when your super efficient ARM processor suddenly uses 100% CPU for 6 days straight because WindowServer and CoreAudio are having a panic attack due to being unable to find any outputs.

And so much useless crap you can't turn off without disabling SIP, which it doesn't feel like you're meant to, because who knows what daemon will bring down the entire system when another it expects to be there isn't…

Isn’t kqueue pretty much as fast as epoll?

There’s no io_uring, but in practice, almost all servers run epoll anyway, don’t they?

The project says it’s in pre alpha so that’s to be expected

Sending files to another would be easy if only the services that allow doing this - over WebRTC - didn’t sell out to sketchy advertisers constantly. I have to look up which service is still good to use every time.

I don’t even need the features but I’ll probably buy a license anyway. This software is great and I can’t imagine going back to macOS’ built in alt tab or Mission Control.

The only downside is the "this app is recording your screen" notification light that pops up briefly when you enter full screen mode that a native implementation wouldn’t have to deal with. But clearly, Apple has no interest in building one.

I wonder if this has any measurable impact on compile times.

Tell me: why are these algorithms suddenly okay when the victim turns 18?

They are bad for everyone and if you’re willing to regulate them, make them illegal to be used on anyone.

I love how to do anything in this language, you have to fight it with all you have. You have to use features in ways that feel like they were probably never intended to be used in. Everything is just an accident, some random pattern randomly discovered by someone when some typo happened to compile.

I feel like they could do a better job, though. In the postmortems of incidents you often hear it's because some maintainer got hit by the perfect phishing attack at the right time and they got tricked into entering password and TOTP into a phishing site. If that is so, why are we still allowing phishable credentials for logging into package repositories?

Thanfully, you don't need to write p/invoke stuff yourself anymore. https://github.com/microsoft/cswin32 creates methods and all related structs for you. It's also AOT compatible (if you specify it). It works for calling C and COM functions.

I mean, not like this brings Windows development anywhere close to "modern", if anything, it feels like you're moving into the opposite direction, but at least this solves the "The modern APIs don't provide the specific functionality I need" problem that plagues all of Microsoft's "nice", "modern" abstractions…

Maybe we could add an extension to webauthn that adds a reason to a passkey. Then, the credential manager can warn the user better why deleting the passkey would be a bad idea.

Many such cases

I think most of us will wait for these chips to get into more useful computers.

This! Does it render Windows‘ windows individually on the Linux desktop, with integration into alt-tab, the Ubuntu dock etc. or does it just render one big VM window? How is that not shown on the site.

Then the government will just force ISP DNS not to answer queries for the domain. That's how easy you can block 99% of users, which is good enough.

And eventually, when all our hardware is runs-software-and-settings-signed-by-approved-entity-only, that last 1% can't do anything about it either.

Looks like I finally found some common ground with the US government. May the UK fail again.

Did the OTP message they sent you state that this code was specifically to authenticate on the phone?

If it did and even included details like the person‘s name, that would make me feel safe. If it’s a generic OTP that could be used to log into my account or reset its password, though…

Maybe once it’s round enough, we’ll get a round Apple Watch screen.

If the police has a warrant, they can present it to your phone provider who are then required to send the data they have about you and your phone calls. This data may include the actual recorded conversations if allowed by the warrant.

This is regulated in the Telekommunikations-Überwachungsverordnung (TKÜV).

Edit: nvm, I didn't see this was about the GDR.

I wish jq would be in the posix standard. JSON is EVERYWHERE nowadays. A system that can’t parse it is incomplete. Not having a standard way to write a script that does it and works across *nixes is a mistake.

Who knows if that interview even happened. Bild makes up stuff all the time, or bends the truth to make it more interesting or fit their narrative better.

My ass would be offended if so wiped it with a BILD "news"paper.

Why don’t they just write a system prompt? If you want GPT 5 to be a sycophantic empath who validates every keystroke in every message you send, it’ll generate texts like that.

…if that was the reason, why would the operating systems give other applications the right to steal focus and record keystrokes? They control the kernel, they don’t need that.

On today's episode of "Addicted to the AdTech browser": Our protagonist face yet another case of being fucked over by their favorite advertisement and surveillance vehicle disguised as a web browser. How will they gaslight themselves into keeping their toxic relationship with Chrome alive rather than switching to a browser that respects their privacy and sanity this time?!

> Just one more extension, just one more chrome://flags tweak... He loves me, he respects me, he just has a ... unique way of showing it... I'll just tell my friends I fell and that's why my eye is black... Chrome, I'm sorry I'm not good enough, I probably deserve this...

I once had a use case where I wrapped a callback based library (Amazon's S3 library I think) call to instead return an iterator. Couldn't do that with only a generator since you can't yield in the callback itself. And it wasnt possible to write a custom iterator class since the library didn't give you back control until it was done.

That was the first and only time they were kinda useful to me.

>This grain, formed from tiny particles during the film’s development, is more than just a visual effect. It plays a key role in storytelling by enhancing the film’s depth and contributing to its realism

That's one hell of an exaggeration. But even if that was true, I don't see how removing it, then adding fake on in would help. That entire sentence really has a "written by ChatGPT" smell. >It's not just X. It's Y".