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Re: If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint

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Post by jsz0 »

epmaybe wrote: post #92
jsz0 wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish they'd spend some time testing font sizes in macOS. I'm either going blind or the font sizes on macOS, especially things like tab titles, are getting harder to read.

Aren't these font sizes modifiable in Accessibility? I've turned on things like contrast and reduced transparency just to make it easier to read, and I'm very young.

The accessibility options do help some but I don't know of anyway to increase the font size. It become a weird mix of fonts that are either way too big or way too small. I use RDM to switch between different scaled resolutions depending on what I am doing to get readable text these days.

Re: If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint

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Post by freedomben »

egb wrote: post #2

I so wish Apple had not removed the older Sierra installer from the Mac AppStore... I need to update some machines but High Sierra does not seem ready for reliable use yet.

I know it's not helpful at all to your current situation, but this vicious cycle with proprietary OSes was one of the most beneficial thing we got when switching my dev shop to Linux. You can install a release from the late 90s if you really want to (not recommend tho lol). Nobody can ever take it away.

Re: If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint

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Post by FabHK »

baddox wrote: post #13
wallnuss wrote: post #4

how??! In what context does a clear-text password end up anywhere, except as the input for a hash function.

I would guess that the bug was in the front-end code for the password form. At that point the code obviously has access to the plain text password. I’m imagining a copy-paste bug like this: storePassword(form[“password”]) storeHint(form[“password”])

What makes that theory even more plausible is that the bug doesn't appear in the command line diskutil.

Re: If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint

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Post by jsz0 »

Florin_Andrei wrote: post #136
bdamm wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The mouse thing really irks me. The moment the mouse needs charging is the moment is stop working. So why am I expected to then not use the product while it charges? A product that used to have a wire connected to it and is sitting right next to the computer ? How is having a hole in the bottom at better than having a hole on the side?

I wouldn't mind it so much if the low battery alert was actually useful. But it only pops out when there's like 1% battery left in the mouse - basically making sure you will lose power soon. The sheer lack of thinking here boggles the mind. Guys, it's an alert, it's not useful at all if I get it right before the bad thing happens. How would you like it if I switched on my turn signal 1 second before I actually turn m…

The low battery warning appears at 15% charge remaining. Perhaps you disabled the warnings sometime ago and forgot you did it?

https://www.macworld.com/article/3024515/macs/how-to-disable...

Re: If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint

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Post by mi100hael »

planetjones wrote: post #50

The lack of attention to detail by Apple recently e.g. code reviews, in house testing is clearly too low. I have seen too many software failures recently from this company. Like photos freezing on my new iMac (before High Sierra), numerous issues with iOS (I remember the podcasts app wasting all my cellular allowance because it ignored WiFi only) and other nuances, inconsistencies and defects. Only in iOS 11 have the…

I have a Dell Precision laptop running Linux at home and a MacBook Pro from work.

On a weekly basis, the Mac won't wake from sleep and requires a hard reboot. The Time Machine backups get corrupted at least every other month and require a full backup from scratch. Sometimes the audio just quits working when I wake from sleep. The App Store is some horribly wrapped, unresponsive web app. Disk Utility is useless. Etc, etc. It's a horrible mess of an experience.

The Dell running Linux is far more stable. I can get literal months of uptime out of the Dell using it on a daily basis w/ 100% hardware functionality. No stereotypical Linux desktop pains. And this is coming from someone who was an Apple fanboy for 10+ years. Apple's QA just went to shit and I was sick of dealing with their bugs.

Edit: For those telling me it's a hardware problem: it's possible, but I've had similar experiences w/ the wake-from-sleep issues on two different copies of the 2016 15" MBP, and the Time Machine corruption on a MBP and an Air. So if it is a hardware problem, then their hardware QC is as bad as their software.

Re: If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint

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Post by hellofunk »

nkkollaw wrote: post #24

Apple is really going downhill, in every field. I have a MacBook Pro, and the keys no longer work reliably. I also barely get 2 hours of battery life. High Sierra keeps restarting by itself. They removed the jack, and all ports from laptops. They placed the charger for their wireless mouse under the mouse so you can't use it while charging, and the list goes on and on--particularly with software. It's just not premiu…

Well, my MBP is 10 months old, the 2016 model (not the touch bar model) and I get 15 hours battery still, after daily rigorous development use since buying it.

Just as I don't think there is such a thing as a perfect place to live, a perfect person to spend your life with, a perfect food to eat every day of your life, I also don't think the perfect computer company exists, the perfect laptop exists... But when I weigh all the conveniences and quality of my MBP with other non-Apple machines I've owned, it really is a no-brainer for me.

Re: If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint

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Post by FabHK »

gowld wrote: post #44
afandian wrote: post #12

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It appears as an NSSecureTextField pointer which could be confused with another NSTextField. One drag-drop away in Interface Builder.

Hooray for Dynamic Typing!

Good point, if secure/private/whatever you want to call it were encoded in the type system, that would most likely have been caught by the compiler.

Re: If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint

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Post by bdcravens »

glhaynes wrote: post #140
pbarnes_1 wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm fairly certain Apple can do two things at once. This was probably introduced in the GM seed.

Why do you say that it was probably introduced in the GM seed? Is something in this area known to have changed significantly around then?

I think the point was that we shouldn't blame Apple's QA? (I don't agree, just interpreting comment)

Re: If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint

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Post by CamperBob2 »

thought_alarm wrote: post #49

How did Disk Utility.app go from being one of the great built-in OS X utilities to the embarrassing amateurish shit show that it is today? Perhaps the same people responsible for the file system engineering are also responsible for developing this user-facing application. They might excel at low level system engineering, but they are utterly unqualified to develop a high level GUI application. Spend 5 minutes with th…

Sounds like it was built by people who couldn't make the cut for the Windows iTunes team.

Re: If macOS High Sierra shows your password instead of the password hint

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Post by jsz0 »

freedomben wrote: post #129
Steeeve wrote: post #89

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I also decided against another macbook. Apple quite obviously sees the notebook market as secondary. I don't blame them. i-device sales far outpace notebook sales. But not everybody feels that way. I can get a pretty damn impressive linux box for the same cost.

It's become a bit of a joke that every year is "the year of the linux desktop," but seriously I've been amazed at how awesome machine I can get with linux for half the price of a macbook. Linux UX has come a long way. Both Gnome and KDE these days have a pretty complete and nice experience.

Gnome and KDE both still make me want to puke up blood but I would agree there will come a point in the not too distant future where Apple's going to have to look at cutting Mac prices. I mostly buy second hand these days just because I don't want to spend $2k+ when a $1k used machine is good enough for my needs.
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