Providing you with a routine notice that applications are repeatedly tracking your location is improving your privacy. If the legal requirement is 1st party applications don’t get special treatment, then yes asking you…
You can delete the News app, give it a try.
Following renumbers has to be one of the worst parts of this. As an example, the text of the US code that was modified by the BCRA in 2002 has been renumbered / moved since Citizens United v FEC was decided. But the…
It depends on the question you're trying to answer. The text of the US law which Citizen's United struck down remains on the books today (though has changed since it was moved to a different part of the code, so…
Something akin to this is a big part of the products that companies like LexisNexis or Thompson Reuters charge your lawyers a whole lot of money for. Because for a lot of legal questions, you don't just need to know…
Are they really “doing everything they can to prevent it”? The Asahi folks have already talked about how some of the things in the boot loader only make sense to allow non-Apple OSes. On top of the fact that the boot…
Arguably the thing you’re missing is the 5090 is $1999 MSRP and more like $5000+ retail currently, and then you still need to buy the rest of the computer. This on the other hand is a whole system for $2400 (for the…
Because people love to add slogans, catch phrases and witty sentence fragments, and AI was trained to mimic people. AI has shone a spotlight on it, and because AI isn’t perfect, it tends to overuse and use it where it…
AI is going to be both a boon and a bane for doctors. Its "good enough" behavior will lead to complacency like it does any place where the automated system is "good enough" but the system still wants human validation.…
I think it was that it was a concrete example of Apple not sweating the little things that couldn’t be dismissed as just “people don’t like change”. And it was also a big and intentional enough change to not be an…
It sounds like an LLM because LLMs were designed to sound like people. I get it, there’s a lot of tells and “quirks” that clearly mark out LLMs. But what makes an LLM obnoxious is not that it uses the same cliches we…
This sort of panic about people who have been on a controlled dose for long periods of time or just straight up panic discontinuations of doses is the same crap that exacerbates opioid problems too. Too many stories…
The flip side of this argument is that often times as a developer, you might be asked to implement a "security" change that is actually worse, but the people asking you think it's better. How many people still work with…
So it gets a little weirder too because here[1] is an article on their site where they are very clearly using a diacritical character in the main body of the text for "Hernándas" which means whatever backend they're…
Calling attention to it kind of makes it worse. If they didn’t have that note anyone who saw and was bothered could chalk it up to them not caring or not knowing like so many other publications would be. But by dropping…
macOS seems to have a “lock direction” for trackpad scrolling on zoomed in windows. Whether you like this or not is in my experience largely a function of how much you do normally do a diagonal scroll. On the one hand…
macOS should in general always extend for the first press, and then move relative to that decision. So if you select some text with the mouse and then shift-left/right it will extend the selection in whichever direction…
And also option-left/right moves the cursor by word, and option-up/down moves (I think I almost never use it) by paragraph.
This definitely must just be a “what you’re used to” because I find using ctrl for a modifier to be far more “contorting” than moving my thumb a bit to the left or right of where it’s already naturally sitting for the…
It also has the benefit of (mostly) separating OS wide keyboard shortcuts from terminal commands. Copying text is always “CMD-c”, and not “usually CTRL-c, except in a terminal where it’s actually CTRL-Shift-c, because…
It’s an OS level thing (well, OS + standard widget library). As long as the app is using a native macOS text field, the OS has (and has since I think the first versions of osx) support for basic emacs movement keys, no…
> I think this post's arguments are mostly flawed, but without getting into that, my problem with "AI" is that it's just fundamentally antisocial - it's built on using the work of billions of people in a way that they…
Modern dishwasher machines are ridiculously efficient. On a normal automatic cycle, my machine will use between 3.4-6.4 gallons of water total. An average kitchen faucet is between 1.5-1.8 gallons / minute based on some…
> Washing machine suppliers don't charge per wash, per month Even ignoring the ongoing electricity and maintenance costs of using a washing machine, plenty of people around the country choose every week to use a pay per…
For the folders that prompt the access control requests, that should all be in System Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Files & Folders. Each app that's been granted permissions should appear there, and if you click the…
Providing you with a routine notice that applications are repeatedly tracking your location is improving your privacy. If the legal requirement is 1st party applications don’t get special treatment, then yes asking you…
You can delete the News app, give it a try.
Following renumbers has to be one of the worst parts of this. As an example, the text of the US code that was modified by the BCRA in 2002 has been renumbered / moved since Citizens United v FEC was decided. But the…
It depends on the question you're trying to answer. The text of the US law which Citizen's United struck down remains on the books today (though has changed since it was moved to a different part of the code, so…
Something akin to this is a big part of the products that companies like LexisNexis or Thompson Reuters charge your lawyers a whole lot of money for. Because for a lot of legal questions, you don't just need to know…
Are they really “doing everything they can to prevent it”? The Asahi folks have already talked about how some of the things in the boot loader only make sense to allow non-Apple OSes. On top of the fact that the boot…
Arguably the thing you’re missing is the 5090 is $1999 MSRP and more like $5000+ retail currently, and then you still need to buy the rest of the computer. This on the other hand is a whole system for $2400 (for the…
Because people love to add slogans, catch phrases and witty sentence fragments, and AI was trained to mimic people. AI has shone a spotlight on it, and because AI isn’t perfect, it tends to overuse and use it where it…
AI is going to be both a boon and a bane for doctors. Its "good enough" behavior will lead to complacency like it does any place where the automated system is "good enough" but the system still wants human validation.…
I think it was that it was a concrete example of Apple not sweating the little things that couldn’t be dismissed as just “people don’t like change”. And it was also a big and intentional enough change to not be an…
It sounds like an LLM because LLMs were designed to sound like people. I get it, there’s a lot of tells and “quirks” that clearly mark out LLMs. But what makes an LLM obnoxious is not that it uses the same cliches we…
This sort of panic about people who have been on a controlled dose for long periods of time or just straight up panic discontinuations of doses is the same crap that exacerbates opioid problems too. Too many stories…
The flip side of this argument is that often times as a developer, you might be asked to implement a "security" change that is actually worse, but the people asking you think it's better. How many people still work with…
So it gets a little weirder too because here[1] is an article on their site where they are very clearly using a diacritical character in the main body of the text for "Hernándas" which means whatever backend they're…
Calling attention to it kind of makes it worse. If they didn’t have that note anyone who saw and was bothered could chalk it up to them not caring or not knowing like so many other publications would be. But by dropping…
macOS seems to have a “lock direction” for trackpad scrolling on zoomed in windows. Whether you like this or not is in my experience largely a function of how much you do normally do a diagonal scroll. On the one hand…
macOS should in general always extend for the first press, and then move relative to that decision. So if you select some text with the mouse and then shift-left/right it will extend the selection in whichever direction…
And also option-left/right moves the cursor by word, and option-up/down moves (I think I almost never use it) by paragraph.
This definitely must just be a “what you’re used to” because I find using ctrl for a modifier to be far more “contorting” than moving my thumb a bit to the left or right of where it’s already naturally sitting for the…
It also has the benefit of (mostly) separating OS wide keyboard shortcuts from terminal commands. Copying text is always “CMD-c”, and not “usually CTRL-c, except in a terminal where it’s actually CTRL-Shift-c, because…
It’s an OS level thing (well, OS + standard widget library). As long as the app is using a native macOS text field, the OS has (and has since I think the first versions of osx) support for basic emacs movement keys, no…
> I think this post's arguments are mostly flawed, but without getting into that, my problem with "AI" is that it's just fundamentally antisocial - it's built on using the work of billions of people in a way that they…
Modern dishwasher machines are ridiculously efficient. On a normal automatic cycle, my machine will use between 3.4-6.4 gallons of water total. An average kitchen faucet is between 1.5-1.8 gallons / minute based on some…
> Washing machine suppliers don't charge per wash, per month Even ignoring the ongoing electricity and maintenance costs of using a washing machine, plenty of people around the country choose every week to use a pay per…
For the folders that prompt the access control requests, that should all be in System Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Files & Folders. Each app that's been granted permissions should appear there, and if you click the…