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Other operating systems… including what was running on the Mac in 1984?

In the UK, Mac keyboards generally seem to have "command" written on the key in addition to "⌘".

Yes, in fact Casio uses MIP displays in some of its recent watches, e.g. this Bluetooth connected watch has a 2 year battery life: https://www.casio.com/intl/watches/gshock/product…

I also recently found this site, which for example can show you an API diff between Java 8 and 17: https://javaalmanac.io/jdk/17/apidiff/8/

Well, to be fair none of the things mentioned are specific to operating systems programming. I think that not understanding the things mentioned is one of the reasons software runs…

SIMD support is also currently in development for Java: https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/338

"My god, it's full of cars!"

But on Unix and Linux pressing Ctrl-C in a terminal will send SIGINT (unless special measures are taken by your terminal emulator). I think this another benefit of the Mac using Co…

Further to other comments, looking here it seems that C, X, V for Copy, Cut, Paste were first used by Apple in the Lisa in 1983 and then later adopted by Microsoft for Windows: "Th…

Hard to see Apple changing this, since the Mac has been using the Command key for shortcuts since 1984. You could even argue that the "standard" you mention of using the Control ke…

I also have floaters, which are visible against a white background regardless of screen brightness, and so I also prefer dark modes for that reason.

A step in the right direction: Apple recently announced that next year security researchers will have access to special iPhones: https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/8/20756629/apple-ip…

Am not sure that doing too much of either of those two things is possible...!

Fair enough!

Not sure what you meant by "1337 hacker skills" (sounds sarcastic to me) but the guy in question helped create the Domain Name System!

I've found the "h264ify" extension to be helpful with YouTube: https://github.com/erkserkserks/h264ify-firefox

Although this comment in RisqIQ's report ( https://www.riskiq.com/blog/labs/magecart-british-airways-br... ) is even worse - it suggests that LetsEncrypt certs are less "legitimate…

Am pleased to discover the "network.IDN_show_punycode" option and wonder why it doesn't default to true, given the way other browsers seem to handle this.

I think it's amusing to remember that ARM started off in fancy 32-bit high-performance desktop machines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes

Agreed! Although would an Amiga owner really have a picture of an Atari ST on the wall?!

Same here, if I'm watching YouTube on my 2015 rMBP I have to use Safari rather than Firefox if I don't want the fans to spin up.

Wondering if you could clarify what you mean here? All current Macs that have discrete graphics use AMD GPUs, so they are definitely supported by macOS - or are you talking about H…