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If you need to make exemptions for critical code because you must admit that AI is undeniably of significant utility, it's pretty foolish to still apply a blanket "hard stand" agai…

What is the connection to “anti-trans bills”?

What specifically makes these issues, much less glaring issues?

Historically, I’d say that the chances of this being successful are exceptionally low given how large the ABI surface is — and it will wildly change out from underneath you on a ne…

Well, sure — and the issue with tests is we might end up with well-tested code that does the wrong thing.

That's literally the opposite of reality; the research and adoption have consistently produced code of extremely high quality, at great cost. The problem has always been: - It's ex…

Who or what is preventing you from exposing your children to whatever you’d prefer? The books aren’t banned.

Removing a book from the library is not a ban any more than a publisher rejecting a manuscript is a ban. Declining to provide a book is not the same as prohibiting the possession, …

Declining to buy and stock a book in a school library is not a ban at all. The book can still be printed, bought, and read. It can be brought into that same school, and read there.…

No, Apple employees originally authored the project on Apple’s time . And it was first hosted at OpenDarwin — which was Apple-run and not available for arbitrary public hosting. It…

MacPorts supports everything all the way back to 10.5/powerpc.

Apple developed — and for many years afterwards, hosted —- MacPorts.

What is “monster-in-the-middle” and why is it being used in place of (presumably) “man-in-the-middle”?

I ran a company in NYC for six years before the taxes and onerous regulatory environment convinced me to bail. The final straw was when we had to hire a fixer to clear up a state r…

You’re about to tie your names and reputations to this. I would strongly reconsider pivoting unless you actually want to work for no-name companies and on the shady side of technol…

I genuinely can’t tell if this is naivety or willful ignorance, but at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter. This is in direct violation of the terms of service, and Apple invests…

> iMessage is intended for communicating with family and friends, and is not for conducting commercial activities or disseminating unwanted messages. iMessage misuse may result in …

They developed AppleScript for people to do this individually, at limited scale. Push notifications, attached to an application or website, and controllable by a user on that basis…

My existence couldn’t possibly be any more digital, and I can’t remember a single time I’ve had a SMS/RCS conversation with customer service or a scheduling agent. I don’t want to …

This is definitely going to get banned, and as a customer of Apple’s, I will be glad for it. I don’t need more iMessage spam.

What’s sad about that is we could have had a clean, native, desktop Figma application.

Step 1: Vibe-code a buggy, poorly-performing, 500k+ LoC desktop-installed monstrosity in TypeScript to implement a trivial TUI. Proudly note that you’re meeting a 16ms frame budget…

Your point is aptly demonstrated by the article — the car may still use tethering via Bluetooth to exfiltrate your data[1]. The workaround of always using a wired connection is bot…

State ID (usually a driver’s license) is the defacto universal ID system. It’s not hard to get, and you need it to do everything from filling a scheduled prescription, buying alcoh…