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I wonder if "Piano Mover" is a reference to the Goon Show episode called "Napoleon’s Piano" [1] If you like absurdly silly comedy; Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan, …

There are a lot of articles written about early machines available from the (British) Computer Conservation Society. The CCS journal is available online at [1]. One article (with a…

It is still possible to adjust the speed in QuickTime Player: from .5 to 2x. Not available via Quicklook, but definitely there in the player, either in the menu bar or by clicking …

This is fantastic info, thank you. I've now set mine to 5.

The post was fixed about 30 seconds after making it - due to the *s being interpreted as italics. It is a shame there isn't a preview button when composing posts.

Does this also mean only using "standard" parts? Or does the manufacturer have to over-produce the parts for, lets say 7 years, and then warehouse and ship those parts, probably mu…

That 2mm uses at least (2*335 + 2*235) * 2mm * 1mm = 2,280 mm^3 more material for the case. (a wall thickness of 1mm)

Please can you explain the evidence that this is generated content. Yes, the site is new, but other posted articles are 100% consistent with the author wanting a guaranteed level o…

I took the "granularity doesn't cut it" comment to mean there aren't enough entitlements to eliminate the need for custom SBPL. Followed by a sentence about apps that have temporar…

I am not sure using sandbox-exec is a good security architecture for AI agents. It sure is convenient and available to everyone right now. I've made another comment elsewhere in th…

Does this mean you tried to ship an App in the Apple App Store but could not because of some restriction?

The Sandboxing and Entitlements mechanisms are very different. Sandboxing can only drop access to resources, it cannot grant access that was not already there [1]. Entitlements are…

The runtime engine is not known to be turning complete. It has no expressions and cannot loop, only forward jumps are permitted.

"sandbox-exec" is deprecated in the sense of "please don't use this method to run sandboxes" rather than the mechanism going away. If you are using "sandbox-exec" then you are like…

I have received feedback from Vox. The article has been updated with a new leading paragraph indicating the fictional nature of the article.

I have received feedback from Vox. The article has been updated with a new leading paragraph indicating the fictional nature of the article.

I've written to about how deceptive it was to put the Editorial Note at the end instead of upfront. I stopped reading because sections felt fabricated - but it was presented as an …

An Editorial Note is at the bottom (as others have now noted), it should have been at the top. Had I not seen other comments I would likely have believed everything was made up. Th…

There is something off about this piece. Particularly the section that starts "You passed away on your eighty-eighth birthday – 4th August 2020. Do you reflect on mortality?" I sto…

Now that I've been recalling more memories of this, I do remember there being encoding or "escaped" character issues - particularly with brackets and parentheses. There was another…

Yes, mostly raw TeX, just plain ascii - not specially coded for Braille. This was quite a long time ago, mid 1980's, so not long after TeX had started to spread in computer science…

I did a maths undergrad degree and the way my blind, mostly deaf friend and I communicated was using a stylized version of TeX markup. I typed on a terminal and he read / wrote on …

After writing this I decided to look at my shortcut. The action seems to have been a simple "get directions to " and sent verbatim to Siri. I was not able to edit / update it! Howe…

I have experienced some similar issues. I think some of it related to the "locked" state of the device. Siri needs context data to answer, particularly the mom or some destination …

Perhaps using AI assistance is good OPSEC. It could help to shield the author from stylometry or author profiling.