This is beautiful, but the real takeaway should be that even proprietary software you only have binaries for is still mutable. The computer runs the code you want it to run. We always need to maintain that and prevent scenarios where general purpose computers stop being the default.
Cat's out of the bag there already. We all have general purpose computing devices in our pockets, locked down on purpose. Android used to allow you to gain admin rights but it's been getting more and more impossible to do so while still keeping most of your programs working. It's not only a cat-and-mouse game against "rooting detection" SDKs companies licence and plug into their apps out of a misguided duty of care, but it's especially bad with anything that uses Google's remote attestation lately.
Android is also about to lock down "sideloading", another "great" dysphemism for "installing software".
Moving the Overton window on this has been so successful, that even people in our industry happily accepted the much maligned dysphemisms of "jailbreaking" and "rooting" for what used to be called "local admin rights" and look upon such access as if it's only something pirates, criminals or malware spreaders would want to do.
I say this as someone who is running an Android phone with a kernel with some backported patches applied and compiled by myself. The fact that I can do it is great. The fact that the entire industry is trying to make it as frustrating as possible for me to do this under the guise of false premises such as "security" is disheartening.
I thought option-resize was supposed to resize the default (new document) window?
My recent pet peeve is that macOS doesn't seem to remember window sizes and locations properly. Things are certainly complicated by multi-monitor setups, but it seems like some sensible default behavior could be implemented.
I don't dislike the column browser, but I wish macOS would preserve/revive its spatial UI in both the Finder and document window positions.
For people not used to reading MC8k assembly [1], it's helpful to point out the basic fact that the syntax is in general
opcode source, destination
which is the other way around from most contemporary ISA:s. So a line like
move.l d0, -(a7)
will first decrement the value of register a7, then write the contents of register d0 to the resulting address (it's a "push" for a downwards-growing stack).
68K style always made more sense to me: we read left-to-right, after all. Why should we suddenly switch directions for the operand order? It's confusing.
I believe the reasoning for the "Intel style" ("op dst, src") is that it reads more like "dst = src" which is how it's written in higher-level languages.
I fondly remember patching 68K code in memory on an industrial control system my company was developing. I was able to decode the instructions just by looking at the hex display. Daresay, I could not do that with any modern system.
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[ 4.2 ms ] story [ 65.0 ms ] threadAndroid is also about to lock down "sideloading", another "great" dysphemism for "installing software".
Moving the Overton window on this has been so successful, that even people in our industry happily accepted the much maligned dysphemisms of "jailbreaking" and "rooting" for what used to be called "local admin rights" and look upon such access as if it's only something pirates, criminals or malware spreaders would want to do.
I say this as someone who is running an Android phone with a kernel with some backported patches applied and compiled by myself. The fact that I can do it is great. The fact that the entire industry is trying to make it as frustrating as possible for me to do this under the guise of false premises such as "security" is disheartening.
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thus it ever was.
My recent pet peeve is that macOS doesn't seem to remember window sizes and locations properly. Things are certainly complicated by multi-monitor setups, but it seems like some sensible default behavior could be implemented.
I don't dislike the column browser, but I wish macOS would preserve/revive its spatial UI in both the Finder and document window positions.
Edit: added Wiki-linkage.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_68000#Instruction_set...