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My previously working, then broken iOS and iPadOS browsers now work and have done for the last hour. Who knows why.

What joy. Not much of a punishment.

I also posted to security.apple.com, but they say they typically look at reports "within a week".

Report OE11044088569486, but currently it's just under review and invisible.

Cool.

Checking Keychain access shows none of the intermediates, but it does have the emSign ECC Root CA - G3. Manually setting that to "Never Trust" stops the Mac browsers seeing the intermediate test sites as it should.

I didn't go into this much detail this morning, so I don't know if previously the revocation from Apple hit the root as well as the intermediates. But right now, on my Mac, trusting that Root lets my browsers connect to the Intermediate CA ending C=NL. Switch the trust off and I go back to green "Did not connect".

I guess the ball is in Apple's court as far as the iOS family goes.

EDIT: intriguingly (to me at least), the AAA Certificate Service Root is still Trusted, yet the intermediates chained to it are all green "Did not connect"

EDIT: I'm not promoting this nuclear option as a "solution" by the way, merely presenting some diagnostic information to help the group mind.

Mine were all blocked this morning when I informed my family of the mitigation methods.

I've just been rechecking everything and both iOS and MacOS browsers (Safari and Orion tested) now accept one (for MacOS, 27.0.1) or three (for iOS, 27.0.1) of them. I know the revocation is not an OS update, just including the version number for completeness.

EDIT: iPadOS with the same browsers continues to pass the tests.

Further EDIT: iPadOS now accepts one of them. This has to be a load issue on the "got a problem site", surely? Maybe a check for a certificate error message that never hits because a timeout beats it?

Arrant nonsense, surely?

Not just you.

Sold mine after running it a few months covered with stickers saying what I thought of him. Drive another EV now and will not go back. No discount on the car. Stop generalizing.

- Fluent Python

- Middlemarch

Something from every food group there.

Yesterday I learnt that Samsung has a Royal Warrant in the UK.

TIL that they really shouldn’t.

1. No, losses similar to cable charging, ie cents per charge impact. People lose more by leaving their roof rack/bike rack on year round, I suspect.

2. Nobody is going to buy these cars except for millionaires (and delusional credit-hounds), so that's not a problem either.

It might not work for you, and that's cool, but for someone spending that much on a car it's just a small percentage increase in lease payments. And on the Porsche they might have spent as much on a custom colour as on this item.

Arturia’s V collection includes a Buchla emulation. Personally I find it (the Buchla) impenetrable but YMMV. If you’ve got some MIDI controls lying around already you could have some moderately inexpensive fun.

You do you. I backup and install once the RC goes live. Have done for years. Only problem I recall was a few years ago Homebrew got in a tizzy for a day.

One exception maybe is for music producers. For some reason AU/VST/DAW developers don't seem to take part in the beta programs and their software can take a while to get updated. But I've happily been playing with Bitwig (with some Arturia VSTs) over the weekend on Golden Gate without issue.

Their last sentence:

“Unix timestamp counter breaks record after writing this comment”

makes that vacuous connection, hence my original comment.

There is a specific record being claimed.

They're not just saying the absolute downloads are going up, as the OP suggests.

From Libre’s announcement (linked in the article):

“This is the highest number of downloads in the first week of any LibreOffice release!”

(2024). This week’s video is about stopping trains at the end of lines. The channel is always an interesting watch.

It’s funny, laugh. Or cry, your call.

Also have floaters, but I suspect that if you’re the sort of person who notices and is annoyed by tinnitus (like I have been in the past) then you’re possibly also more likely to notice other body sensations, like floaters, audible heartbeats, tics, etc.

I know I go through phases of noticing stuff. When I just get on with living I no longer notice them, unless I go looking for them.

Not exactly a revelation, I know.

It's possible to be opposed to excessive copyright and also be opposed to the mass theft of media for profit and subsequent abuse of copyright that the scrapers are guilty of. The AI pillagers are taking everything in, then gatekeeping access. And as they acknowledge with their "nothing after 2022" preferences, they (or their users at least) are salting the earth for future seekers of knowledge.

Memory error - it was a Seikosha dot matrix I used back then. The FX80 came later.

Grab BBC Basic manual (supplied with the computer) off the shelf, switch my Model B on (later Master). Within milliseconds a fresh working environment is created (ie a cursor starts flashing next to a “>”) and I’m off to the races.

Hope the tape recorder works to save my work every hour or so. Switch on my Epson fx80 to dump hard copy.

Simpler, happier times.

Apples are kept in cold storage to extend “the season” across the year. No guarantee you’ll get fresh apples in a supermarket even if you see workers harvesting them as you drive to the store.

We’re just finishing a two month Norway-focused motorhome jaunt. We planned the ferry from UK to Rotterdam (both directions) and two campsites in the Netherlands and Germany. After that it was two campsites ahead at most. Ended up visiting 21 campsites with no wild camping needed.

We’re both somewhere on some spectrum (and in our fifties) and it has been occasionally stressful for my partner. But we more often want to stretch a visit somewhere than curtail it, so flexibility has been pivotal to getting the most out of the trip.

We’ve identified five or so camps that we’ll definitely revisit next year or 2028, but they’ll be part of another freewheeling trip, I hope.

In general I’m a planner, a contingency-identifier and a worrier, but when we’re on the open road most of that goes out the window.

Relaxed mode please. Also “HEARDS” - in what language is that an acceptable word?

Most likely they’ll do both, with a straight face.

I said no such thing - the comment that you just replied to is the first thing I’ve said in this thread.

A machinist describes how he helped, in a small way, the efforts to keep the largest refracting telescope in the world working.

Didn't see this before. My dad was a happy farmer, but the stereotype holds in general. Weather, markets, governments, voters (bloody Brexit) all attract farmers' ire. And even when it's going well, they're still working harder than 63.5% of the populace.

Seems the stereotype might have skipped a generation :)

The mechanic who repairs the cars knows how the engine works.

The telco that manages loads and allocates networks knows how voice compression works.

The farmers and supermarkets know how the supply chain works.

None of your questions show why mathematics should include blobs of incomprehensible gloop, where no mathematician, no logician, no philosopher, no man on the street can make sense of said gloop, or use it in any way to further human knowledge.

When it's been decomposed down we can discuss this further, but now it's like saying red is red, just because.