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kruuuder··on Unredact
The author has also published a video showing how the tool works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKK9VPito-E
kruuuder··on Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe?
I understand the desire to disable Siri system-wide, but Spotlight? How else are you going to find your files?

I'm often annoyed how slow/unreliable Spotlight is, especially in Mail, but what's the alternative here?

kruuuder··on Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism
I found it in this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_grassland_whiptail_liza...
kruuuder··on Don't fall into the anti-AI hype
What happens if the bubble bursts - can we still use all the powerful models to create all this code? Aren't all the agents effectively using venture capital today? Is this sustainable?

If I can run an agent on my machine, with no remote backend required, the problem is solved. But right now, aren't all developers throwing themselves into agentic software development betting that these services will always be available to them at a relatively low cost?

kruuuder··on Greenland sharks maintain vision for centuries through DNA repair mechanism
Wow what an interesting animal, haven't heard about it before.

> the chips are stacked against them.

Wikipedia says: "This reproductive method enables the asexual desert grassland whiptail lizard to have a genetic diversity previously thought to have been unique to sexually reproductive species."

Doesn't look to bad?

kruuuder··on Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief
Funny to see the last screenshot of OS X from 2014 in the article. I would love to use a system with such a high contrast and information density. But I also remember very well how many users were upset with the most recent design changes at that time: The all caps section titles in the sidebar, and the gray icons that were previously colored.
kruuuder··on Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles
> I've enjoyed all of Blow's other titles.

"All other titles" would be just Braid, no?

kruuuder··on iOS 26.2 fixes 20 security vulnerabilities, 2 actively exploited
Wow. I'm still on 18.7.1, saw the update to 18.7.2 yesterday (100% sure on this), but didn't want to install it at that moment as I needed the phone, and deferred the update to today.

Now I don't see any iOS 18 updates at all, only the iOS 26 prompts. What a dick move, Apple. Especially if this is a) a security update, and b) iOS 26 is known to run poorly on older phones like mine.

Thanks for the workaround!

kruuuder··on Stackoverflow Outage
Blog posts and GitHub discussions come to my mind. That's where I often find answers to my questions and where I contribute.
kruuuder··on Disconnect from FAANG, Connect to Free
Huh? There's a language menu at the top right.
kruuuder··on Tech's Trump Whisperer, Tim Cook, Goes Quiet as His Influence Fades
https://archive.is/SQFK0
kruuuder··on Watching AI drive Microsoft employees insane
A comment on the first pull request provides some context:

> The stream of PRs is coming from requests from the maintainers of the repo. We're experimenting to understand the limits of what the tools can do today and preparing for what they'll be able to do tomorrow. Anything that gets merged is the responsibility of the maintainers, as is the case for any PR submitted by anyone to this open source and welcoming repo. Nothing gets merged without it meeting all the same quality bars and with us signing up for all the same maintenance requirements.

kruuuder··on Critical Warning for External Purchases in Apple App Store
But it's all fixed costs. I don't see how the 30% change anything.

Say you need 100k profit after Apple's cut.

Scenario A: Apple takes a third of the App Store revenue. You need to sell in-app purchases for 150k. Scenario B: Apple takes no cut. You need to sell in-app purchases for 100k.

So the claim is, scenario B would be the dream, but scenario A is "nearly impossible"? What is fundamentally different between 100k and 150k revenue, if your expenses are fixed? This doesn't make any sense.

The comparison to Uber doesn't make any sense either, their costs aren't fixed. If they want to double their income, they must double their work.

kruuuder··on Critical Warning for External Purchases in Apple App Store
> That 30% means making a living out of selling apps is nearly impossible. For an indie developer it’s just dead.

Not at all trying to defend Apple's behavior here, but that statement is not true. There are many indie devs making a living from apps. Margins in indie apps are usually very high, as in most cases the expenses are fixed - just your own salary.

kruuuder··on Things Zig comptime won't do
If you have read the story and, like me, are still wondering which part of the story is the quote at the top of the post:

"It's Odin's Disc. It has only one side. Nothing else on Earth has only one side."

kruuuder··on Multi-threading is always the wrong design (2023)
(2023)
kruuuder··on Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by
https://github.com/dustinkirkland/hollywood
kruuuder··on A look at Firefox forks
Unrelated to Firefox though.
kruuuder··on Apple's Software Quality Crisis
This happened so often for me. But lo and behold, they fixed it. I recently installed iOS 18, and the phone app now prevents accidental touch input after the other person has ended the call. This took almost 18 years!
kruuuder··on Bank CEO: Retract your debanking piece? Me: No
Afaik, he lives in Japan, so that could be the correct date.
kruuuder··on A notification for you, Apple: There is no husband
> The calendar thing is working correctly.

Only from a stubborn, technical perspective. It's obviously not working as intended for GP. It should be easy to create "local timezone" events on Apple devices, and it isn't.

In fact, I'm thinking of pretty much all my events in local timezones. A concert at 8pm. Meeting someone for a coffee at 2pm. Flight departure times. Taking pills at 7am in the morning. Having people in other timezones involved is the exception for me, not the default.

There are many ways how you could implement a nice UI for that, and Apple offers none.

kruuuder··on Godot founders had desperately hoped Unity wouldn't 'blow up'
> and I keep getting casual reports that there is something wrong with the way Godot embeds .NET that leads to its consistently worse performance vs when being used standalone.

This is the first time I hear that. Do you have any sources for that? Reposting unfounded "casual reports" isn't helpful.

kruuuder··on Apple's Lead Marketer for New Vision Pro Headset Retires
https://archive.is/nNWCY
kruuuder··on Germany just legalized recreational marijuana
> This doesn't make a lot of sense.

I think it makes a lot of sense. It's a first step towards a broader legalization. Consumers of cannabis will be less stigmatized, which will lead to a more open, honest discussion. I believe the social clubs will work, and bureaucracy will improve over time.

kruuuder··on The Digital Markets Act is in force What happens now?
It's not a rumor, Apple has officially confirmed it, see https://developer.apple.com/support/dma-and-apps-in-the-eu#d...
kruuuder··on Stable Cascade
> they didn't change any code with it. That is definitely invalid, because they cannot license the exact same codebase with two different contradictory licenses.

Why couldn't they? Of course they can. If you are the copyright owner, you can publish/sell your stuff under as many licenses as you like.

kruuuder··on The people hosting their own 'living funerals'
What an awesome way to explore how we can cope with our mortality or imminent death.
kruuuder··on I'm sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy
Here's a link to the archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240112170316/https://www.amazo...

kruuuder··on 30cm worm fossil more than half a billion years old discovered in Greenland
Truly impressive images, but the foley sounds and music in that video are so idiotic.
kruuuder··on How to ripen and store avocados
Good to know. Now, could someone please write up a similar guide for mangoes? Too many are hard when I buy them, and they start getting mushy after a week, eventually rotting. However, at no point do they become truly ripe and sweet.
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