I would have assumed that double-clicking is functionally equivalent to selecting “Open” from the context menu.
At least in Vista it was a separate command “Run as administrator”...
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#362Well. This is how you make 2 trillion dollars right? Make tightly controlled marketplace where you are the king and tax the shit out of it.
Like it or not, America’s founders didn’t bow to the European kings, but now we have new tech emperors that we must bow to.
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#363I thought that a developer status will autosave me either from malware or from being babysitted, but then [1] happened. No matter how hard I tried to start that binary, OSX didn't allow me to do that. Damn OS which knows better, who do yo think you are? Did you see checksums, site certs, my competence, my willpower? I thought that it must be something with a build process that transmission uses, some signature didn't…
So the moral is that we should give up freedom for security? Because that's a bad moral.
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#364The fact that the standard model of computing is that applications are opaque machine code blobs that can access everything in your user permission space is the core problem in privacy and malware. Applications should see nothing but their executable jail, and whatever was intentionally allowed to them by the user (eg, Open file dialog giving the application an opaque file handle, etc, not carte blanche access to the…
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#365All of these people saying: switch to Windows, its better than mac! Have you really done that? REALLY? Because I work on Mac, Win10 and Linux every day. And Win10 doesn't even come close to the other two in terms of reliability, stability, and lack of unnecessary bullshit. I just don't understand who can make this claim that Win is better than Macos with a straight face. Maybe for gaming. Maybe. The cost/fps is clear…
>Have you really done that? REALLY?
I did that after 13 years as an Apple/Mac customer. I was enough of an Apple fanboy that I queued on Day 1 for iPhone 4, and did various other things that only diehard Mac users who obsessively read Daring Fireball and MacRumors do.
I use a ThinkPad X1 running Windows 10 as my daily driver now.
The last Mac I bought was so unreliable that it had to be repaired six times by the Apple Store. Every six months the internal SATA cable failed. (Mid-2012 MBP, it's a known design flaw.) On one of those occasions, I had to help the Apple "Genius" understand what a SATA flex cable was, how it plugs into a drive, and provide him with part numbers because he couldn't find the parts on his Genius iPad. Apple refused to give me a replacement machine when I saw the manager after the second incident. It wasn't until the 5th time (!) that they finally offered a replacement Mac laptop... however, it would have been a 1st Gen butterfly keyboard model. Y'know, the model known to break so often that Apple introduced a separate "warranty" just for the keyboards.
It honestly took me until the 6th repair to understand that being an Apple customer (nevermind an Apple developer) is being in an abusive relationship. I had to get out, because frankly I needed to get work done instead of all this Apple Store repair downtime.
And that's not counting the $100s of App Store software I've lost when Apple forgot to renew their App Store Developer certificates & now the OS thinks those apps are corrupt, and I can't redownload them because the App Store doesn't keep old versions. Or how Apple mistakenly revoked the developer certificate for Charlie Munroe Software, so now the Eon business timer app I use has been remotely disabled by Apple, even though there's nothing wrong with it and Apple admits it was a false positive. Much like the false positive that won't let me launch my old REALbasic compiler anymore because Apple has flagged it as malware too. At least I stayed on High Sierra, so the 32-bit software that interfaces with my digital hardware guitar amp still works.
I've had my ThinkPad a couple of years now. I don't "love" it, but it hasn't broken on me in all that time, making it more reliable than all 4 Mac laptops I've owned. The keyboard is better than any Mac keyboard I've used, except maybe the 2000-era Pismo G3. Sometimes reliability and stability is more important - just get work done with the least downtime. I can run more audio software on Windows than was ever available for my Mac. I've never had a virus on Windows and I only run the built-in firewall & anti-virus, and I don't need to deal with that Xcode worm that's going around right now. And while there's a ton of apps that don't use it yet, the Windows approach to HiDPI works better for me than the Mac 2x / 4x system... being able to run a crisp 1.5x on my external monitor instead of jumbo 2x icons is bliss.
Honestly, I do understand where you're coming from, there's a lot Mac OS X got right and a ton of areas for Windows still to improve, but this is not the Snow Leopard era Apple anymore. Apple just doesn't care, unless it's an iPhone. And I switched to Android years ago....
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#366I really don't mean this in an inflammatory way. Please take the question at face value.
Why does anyone who's a creator of anything stand for this?
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#367Earlier quoted context omitted.
This cascade of comments is missing the point. It's like someone is pointing out the darker shade of clouds at the horizon and saying, "I think a storm is coming," and everyone here is just going, "Well, it could also be nightfall. I mean, the night has to roll on in at some point too." Yes, it's just an initial check. But is it necessary? What exactly is the use case basis for Apple transmitting and logging data on…
The use case is checking for malware. macOS is, in fact, susceptible to malware. (A notable example hit HN just the other day [1].) I don't think Apple has ever literally claimed that it isn't susceptible, though they may have sort of hinted at it (especially at the height of the "Get a Mac" campaign). To be fair, there has not been very much macOS malware then or now, though it's questionable how much that has to do…
One of those campaigns did more than 'hint' at it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF7habaTvAY
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#368Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you use Wayland (which... has its issues, but maybe they're better now?) on an XPS 13 Developer Edition... or even my junk Chromebook with MrChromebox's firmware installed so I can install Linux, you can get all sorts of gestures that are more than just "two gestures." Heck, even Windows supports gestures just fine. So...
I have yet to encounter any non-Mac trackpad gestures that don't feel cheap, laggy, and/or too unreliable to bother committing to muscle memory. Apple's trackpad haptics and OS-level gesture support are second to none.
then use keyboard combinations. they are faster and much more reliable. I am using a wayland window manager called sway, and while im pretty sure you can do everything with a mouse, you can configure it to do a lot of things with the keyboard. for example, I found the three-finger-tap which is used for copying and pasting was too difficult and slow, so i just bound it to mod+c and mod+v
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#369Fellow devs, I have to take the minority view here. How is $99/yr a number that any business should even care about? Even for OSS.
The reality is that the HN audience are complete outliers. Just look at the junk your friends and family install on their machines.
On a related note, the equivalent in Windows is SmartScreen. It prompts similarly to Mac for unsigned downloads as well as signed ones where there isn't yet sufficient reputation on the signing key. That last part is frustrating - we have a downloadable software component for our SaaS. It's not that frequently used and every time we renew the cert (third party BTW, not with MS), it takes a few weeks for SmartScreen to start trusting it.
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>Doesn't take a genius to see that their end goal is to make mac os as restrictive as ios. I've been hearing that for the past decade. With the exception of some reasonably deprecated technologies (32-bit support, etc...), to this day I'm able to run essentially all of the software on my Mac that I did back in 2010. If and when Apple does prohibit the running of third party apps, I'll switch to another platform. Unti…
They've already effectively prohibited it because, as you can see from the article, installing software that doesn't go through Apple is made incredibly painful and essentially nobody will succeed in doing it. Apple doesn't really care that you can run it by using a bunch of workarounds if they have 99.9% control over all software distribution.
> installing software that doesn't go through Apple is made incredibly painful and essentially nobody will succeed in doing it.
Come on. It’s literally five mouse clicks.