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Because you would need to write and/or audit your entire technology toolchain — software, build tools, operating systems, hardware, etc — which isn't feasible for anyone.

That Windows screenshot really is chaos. I would love to hear a defense of that design because I am missing any merit to it.

Hi!

Thanks for your work on Haiku.

I remember LOVING BeOS when it came out. I was a kid, had dabbled in breaking my parents computers with Linux distributions in the 90s, and was enamored with BeOS and was blown away by how great it worked. The fact that the user space has continued over the years is really nice to know (and have tried over various times through emulation).

Has there ever been interest or attempts at funding it so that more than a man-month could get accomplished?

The valley being an echo chamber doesn’t necessarily mean those implementing this have their heads in the sand.

It can’t be all perfectly achieved, but to do nothing, as they were before, could be now determined to be a worse case than providing these annotations to flagrant misuse by the highest impact profile that they can’t do away with entirely.

Source?

You might care that you are paying $10 for $1 quality burger?

But more I think people want their money to support the businesses that are making the food. Restaurants are very difficult businesses, and people that like them want to support them vs the VC backed startups.

These two projects:

https://github.com/zydeco/minivmac4ios

https://github.com/zydeco/macemu/tree/ios/BasiliskII/src/iOS

The first is more stable, and recently got the pointer support added, but doesn’t go up to MacOS 8 AFAIK. I copied a bit of the stuff from that to the MacEmu one to get the pointer working ok.

Thank you Zydeco!

I recently have been getting into making a lot of small swift apps for personal use AND now have MacOS 7 and 8 running on my iPad since they’ve added mouse pointer support. Excited to dig into this article!

Having taken schedules of medicine myself, what resonates with me is the balance between strength and consistency of whatever the medicine is supposed to do. Think about alleviating pain. You want to take as much pain reliever as you can to take effect but not too much at once to overdo it, but you should continue over period of hours to sustain its fever / pain reducing effect.

GarageBand has a crazy/arbitrary limit on length of like 640 bars or 30 mins? I would have loved to use it to make a long mix of multiple tracks but that simple tasks butted up against that limit and I wasted so much time until I had to google this weird thing where it didn’t lengthen any further... wish audacity existed on the iPad.

Also your website is amazing. Is that the blog you were referring to? Is there a write up or overview of how it’s all put together. Love it

Thanks much for the replies. I’m very interested in this and am wrapping my head around how it works and these differences so it’s great to hear perspectives from people using it.

For blogging use case, I have a few questions:

1. A (current?) limitation I've noticed with Beaker is that you can only edit a site implementation (for a specific address) on a single machine. What would you do if you had multiple computers / locations that would want to make updates (JS or User Content)

2. What about errors. Don't they persist in the address's history? What if there's something undesirable that got added by accident

3. What about mobile? How could someone visit/browse on mobile without a non-distributed proxy http address

How does a mobile phone sync dats? The main drawback I see currently with beaker is their is no mobile version (for iPhone)

As an owner of a free slack that has thousands of historical and unaccessible messages by the users, how can I delete these stored but not unaccessible messages to protect them?

It seems unconscionable that Slack retains messages but provides no way to remove them without paying.

Sadly, Google is also sitting on a HUGE amount of archival newspaper in a completely unsearchable state.

They've OCR'd thousands of historical papers but the search is completely broken.

https://news.google.com/newspapers

It's a pretty incredible resource if you know the date/place of an event but if you wanted to research a little more broad it's a tool with incredibly untapped potential.

I wish they would spend more time providing tools for people to consume information in powerful ways rather than trying to 'tailor' experiences.

My source, while I wholly acknowledge this is anecdotal and not evidence, is someone in law enforcement tasked with retrieving message logs for investigations. I was pretty skeptical but I've yet found any proof or documentation from Apple's support docs disproving this.

I also recall from the San Bernadino case that the FBI/Apple had the ability to get historic message history from the iCloud backup but the FBI pushed for decrypting the device because of the most recent and not backed up messages.

As for your scenario -- doesn't that explicitly confirm that the messages are not encrypted safely at rest? You can restore to an entirely new device, using the same backup, and retrieve the messages.

^ I am implying that they are storing iMessages unencrypted. The iMessages on iPhones/iPads are part of the 'backup' for each device and they are not encrypted at rest on the iCloud server.

Interesting omission of iMessage here... since it's not encrypted at rest on their servers.

I would move to Spotify because of this same reason but I've never fully been able to understand what they do with your own music that you bring to the library.

I have some live recordings for example, how do I get them in my library so that they are available on Computer #1, Mobile Device, and Computer #2 always and forever (a la iTunes Match and now Apple Music).

Those are helpful, but I think in addition to isolated screenshots I'd want to see full screen snaps of what the app looks like. This is to help me visualize it in context of my existing work environment/flow on the desktop.

It seems like there is a lot of interplay between participants too and I'd like to see how that works.

Just some cents on my initial reaction to seeing the product. Kudos though!

I think it would be huge if you would add a small video or gif to the homepage. I'm having a hard time understanding how the UI works by looking at the screenshot and I find that is critical to me making a decision for a note taking app.

Ditto. I loved using Vine to create little personal vignettes that I could share via Messages.

I imagine this will come with a Messages App though the UX around those integrations is terrible the standalone app will be enough.

I know this may be a tired question, but why is this falling on the front-page when the points are continuing to increase?

There is a public API to get them out on the Mac — the Notes app is scriptable via AppleScript. You could loop through folders, notes, and attachments to get things pretty close to where they are in the app.

Are reverse engineering techniques currently greater than known ability to obfuscate compiled iOS code?

This main flagrant or off-topic, but something that nags at me when thinking about truly secure messaging apps from the App Store:

Even with perfect e2e encryption protocol added, what's preventing WhatsApp developers (FB) from adding in a feature of the app:

if local.user is "TargetUser007" { takeDeviceSnap(); sendDeviceSnapshotToFBOverSameEncryption(); }

Wouldn't this not be ever verifiable unless you ARE that specific user and it's too late?

My backup of Gmail is to use Mail.app via IMAP + download all attachments.

I then have a backup of my computer -> 1. Time Machine + 2. Arq->S3/Glacier

Given that this keeps mail locally in a constantly readible format (offline, copied in mbox)... is there something missing in my basic solution that this cli utility adds?

I'd love to see rational or even an explanation of how/why he imports graphics inline with his source code for the game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geYBLxYEITo

Watching it fly by is throughout the code... I can't even imagine how it'd be useful

Next up, BeOS, please!

I think it's the plain blue background of Window 95 that made me jump to that idea. Windows95 base look holds up really nicely vs versions that came between 95-10.