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Re: Can't you just right click?

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Post by LocutusOfBorges »

Wohlf wrote: post #222
gpanders wrote: post #202

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While I also find these changes to macOS alarming and disappointing, I still vastly prefer macOS to Windows. My 2013 Macbook Pro is also still the best laptop I have ever used (I also have a 2017 Macbook Pro for work and I have to admit that the newer models rightfully earn their bad reputation). If Apple continues to head in this direction, I think the right move is to migrate to Linux. Windows is a huge step back,…

You may be surprised how much equivalent laptops from other OEMs have caught up. The Dell XPS is very similar to the Macbook Pro, and Dell supports Ubuntu on it.

The XPS line had some of the worst speakers I’ve ever heard on a laptop up until the 2020 revision- and some of the worst build quality issues I’ve ever experienced with a laptop.

My 2019 XPS 15 went through eight at-home repair visits after hardware failures within four months. Can honestly say I’ve never used a less reliable machine- and every unit I’ve ever touched has had some of the worst coil wine issues I’ve ever encountered in any computer.

“Very similar” doesn’t really count for much.

Re: Can't you just right click?

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Post by Spivak »

nikisweeting wrote: post #247
saagarjha wrote: post #139

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It's not tied to a key at all, it's basically just a hash (read: the checksum kind) with no authenticity guarantees as to who signed the binary.

To the average user, yes, but Apple can see the chain of trust and can do the data science required to figure out who signed what. You better believe that in the even of a large scale malware distribution via signed binaries, they're going to be revoking those certs and tracking down the accounts responsible (like after the VLC website hack).

The data science to find out who ran md5sum on their binary?

Re: Can't you just right click?

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Post by lizardmancan »

brundolf wrote: post #113
kjksf wrote: post #80

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Apple has been making things more and more restrictive over a decade now. New versions of mac os introducing new restrictions. Doesn't take a genius to see that their end goal is to make mac os as restrictive as ios. When that happens, will it still be the right spot for you?

As long as there's software there will be devs who need machines with which they can build it. Those machines will always need mechanisms for circumventing safety constraints, almost by definition. I guess it's possible Apple could decide, one day, "macOS isn't for developers anymore, it's just like iOS, devs will just have to go elsewhere". But that seems like it would be a profoundly stupid thing to do. I do wish t…

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Re: Can't you just right click?

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Post by pier25 »

kelnos wrote: post #64
FreakyT wrote: post #7

I still believe that Gatekeeper is a blatant cash grab and not a legitimate security feature. $100/year to avoid a scary warning about how your app is definitely a virus? It's like a protection racket.

It's hard to believe that this would be a cash grab. Even if there are 1M developers in the world, that's only $100M, which should not be worth the friction and cost to implement and maintain this scheme. Consider that Apple's most recent quarterly revenue was just under $60B. Apple made $260B in all of 2019; $100M is not even four hundredths of a percent. Developer time to build out the signing and notarization feat…

> Even if there are 1M developers in the world

There are +20M registered Apple developers.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/04/app-store-hits-20m-registe...

Re: Can't you just right click?

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Post by cel1ne »

m463 wrote: post #218
lucb1e wrote: post #2

This makes me wonder how open source is supposed to work on macOS. People seem to become more and more aware of it and even enterprises that insisted on support contracts can see that they can't get around open source completely anymore. Meanwhile Apple is removing the ability for me to have a pet project without paying an Apple tax. If the message were completely transparent, something like "The developer didn't pay…

I remember RMS saying that the GPL was updated because one "obvious" freedom was not so obvious -- you could meet all the requirements of the GPL, without giving the right to RUN the software. GPL3 allows that. And looking backwards, apple shipped software that was GPL2, but would not ship software that was GPL3. As one example, bash and make all quietly stopped getting updates from apple when the GPL3 versions came…

AFAIK, you don't have to ship the source to be GPL-compliant, you just have to provide it upon request.

Re: Can't you just right click?

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Post by mistersys »

Wohlf wrote: post #222
gpanders wrote: post #202

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While I also find these changes to macOS alarming and disappointing, I still vastly prefer macOS to Windows. My 2013 Macbook Pro is also still the best laptop I have ever used (I also have a 2017 Macbook Pro for work and I have to admit that the newer models rightfully earn their bad reputation). If Apple continues to head in this direction, I think the right move is to migrate to Linux. Windows is a huge step back,…

You may be surprised how much equivalent laptops from other OEMs have caught up. The Dell XPS is very similar to the Macbook Pro, and Dell supports Ubuntu on it.

I switched to a Dell XPS last year, then sold it on ebay 6 months later and bought a new Mac. WSL is a cool idea, but is still a bolt on solution, I was constantly fighting with it on windows with my unix-oriented workflow, trying to get apps and packages to work correctly.

The trackpad feels like it's from 2012. The speakers are very bad. The fans are constantly whirring. It misses on all the details, while also making it harder to do my job.

Re: Can't you just right click?

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Post by Kaze404 »

jordigh wrote: post #256
saagarjha wrote: post #200

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You don't need a Mac to develop software for macOS.

Don't you? A few years ago I wanted to figure out how to cross-compile into macOS without ever actually using macOS. Is that possible now?

I know Rust specifically supports compiling for Mac from Linux.

Re: Can't you just right click?

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Post by easton »

danShumway wrote: post #260
hombre_fatal wrote: post #196

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> Safari removed support for extensions last year, dropping all adblockers Safari has ad-blockers. It also has extensions. Just google it.

Safari's ad-blockers are not really comparable[0] to what's currently possible on Firefox, Chrome, or other Chromium-based browsers. They rely on declarative blocking and/or system-wide interception (ie, you run them as an entirely separate app outside of Safari). The majority of them are not going to be able to handle things like CNAME unmasking or page source rewrites[1]. The declarative blocking API in Safari isn'…

As I understand this is somewhat alleviated in Big Sur as Safari now has support for WebExtension.

Re: Can't you just right click?

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Post by pier25 »

toast0 wrote: post #39
aaomidi wrote: post #27

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Any open source developer? Do you know how much $100 is in Iran?

> Do you know how much $100 is in Iran? It doesn't really matter, because for developers in Iran, the question becomes do you know how hard it is to pay US companies from Iran?

Forget Iran. $100 is a lot of money in most parts of the world except Europe and a couple of other countries.
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