To this day osx still doesn't ship with a true plaintext gui editor.
Man who thought opening a TXT file is fine thought wrong
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Re: Man who thought opening a TXT file is fine thought wrong
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
I disagree. Many of Apple's user-base believes that the platform is immune from viruses and malware. It's important to get the message out that it's no better (and may be worse) than other popular platforms. Especially since Apple claims their platform is "secure by design."
I don't think it can be worse than Windows. Not immune, but definitely not worse.
Windows has a good handful of security vulnerabilities, but you'd be surprised by how few people actually "target" Windows devices. Windows still has accountability to their enterprise users, which means they spend most of their time mitigating the more serious stuff rather than some infected exe you'll find floating around the internet. MacOS and it's Unix heritage make it a pretty interesting case study for hackers, and while it may not have the perceived "hackability" of a Windows box, the severity of a MacOS exploit can vary greatly. Not to mention, Apple's reluctance to work with security researchers and opaque development cycle only make it harder for the end user to ascertain what impact MacOS has on their personal security.
I use neither of these operating systems on a daily basis, but I think you'd be surprised by how secure Windows is these days. It's by no means perfect, but it does a pretty good job of staying secure, even as the #1 desktop operating system in the world. Now if only Microsoft could make a secure desktop that was any good... wishful thinking.
Re: Man who thought opening a TXT file is fine thought wrong
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think it can be worse than Windows. Not immune, but definitely not worse.
Depends on how you want to set the goalposts. By version, MacOSX is faring worse. By total history despite a good chunk of old Windows malware not being net capable or able to run in current modes... perhaps. https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/2/12/21134681/mac-pc-virus-m... Safety by virtue of running MacOSX isn't enough anymore. Not that I'd argue it ever was totally safe/enough in the first place. Bad habits are what…
>Bad habits are what subject one to attacks more than anything else... and that's basically what Apple cultivated in their users through ignorance of threat mechanisms.
This. 100 times this. The end user is the weakest link in your security chain, and the way Apple implements abstraction in MacOS makes it really difficult for the end user to understand what exactly they're doing, and what effect it has on their overall security.
Re: Man who thought opening a TXT file is fine thought wrong
#14To the author: This website seems to use something called SmoothScroll (edit: a javascript library) which makes my scrolling really really jumpy/janky. I'm using chrome on a MacBook with the touchpad. Made it basically impossible to scroll around the page which in turn made it very difficult for me to read the article.
Looks fine to me... maybe because I block javascript
Re: Man who thought opening a TXT file is fine thought wrong
#15How does something like this wind up on the front page? As of this comment, it was posted 48 minutes ago with 12 points , one other comment, and sits at number 5. It's a self-professed clickbait title, though the content is interesting.
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Re: Man who thought opening a TXT file is fine thought wrong
#16To the author: This website seems to use something called SmoothScroll (edit: a javascript library) which makes my scrolling really really jumpy/janky. I'm using chrome on a MacBook with the touchpad. Made it basically impossible to scroll around the page which in turn made it very difficult for me to read the article.
Huh, I didn’t experience this problem. The problem appears to be unique to Chrome. It doesn't show up in Firefox or Safari.
Re: Man who thought opening a TXT file is fine thought wrong
#17File extensions are a kludge anyway. (And Windows 10 still hides them by default, because hey, backwards compatibility, and you wouldn't want to confuse Grandma who's seen the file be called "grandkids" since Windows 95..).
Why should the filetype be dependent on the name? People even think renaming a .BMP to .JPG means now it's a compressed file!
Old school Macs stored the filetype outside of a file, so you can rename the file "grandkids.mp4" and double-clicking it would still open it in the image viewer.
Re: Man who thought opening a TXT file is fine thought wrong
#18The bug is fixed now, as the articles notes at the end. I cannot reproduce this at all now. When I put HTML in an actual .txt file, TextEdit opened it showing the markup, not the rendered content. This is regardless of whether in Preferences, I check or uncheck "Display HTML files as HTML code instead of formatted text" checkbox.
Re: Man who thought opening a TXT file is fine thought wrong
#19To the author: This website seems to use something called SmoothScroll (edit: a javascript library) which makes my scrolling really really jumpy/janky. I'm using chrome on a MacBook with the touchpad. Made it basically impossible to scroll around the page which in turn made it very difficult for me to read the article.
Looks fine to me... maybe because I block javascript
Well, yes, of course.
Re: Man who thought opening a TXT file is fine thought wrong
#20To the author: This website seems to use something called SmoothScroll (edit: a javascript library) which makes my scrolling really really jumpy/janky. I'm using chrome on a MacBook with the touchpad. Made it basically impossible to scroll around the page which in turn made it very difficult for me to read the article.
I'm using Chrome and Windows10 but also got unpleasant behavior. I can't quite tell whats going on for multiple pushes of the scroll wheel but one 'tick' would push the page a set amount, and then a moment later the movement was repeated (but without the prompting input). Adds up to kind of a 'gross' overall feeling when scrolling.
EDIT: when scrolling with the arrow keys it looks like theres an attempt at 'smoothing' but it really feels more like inertia and damping and is pretty unpleasant.