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Post by treesknees »

llm_nerd wrote: post #167
cflewis wrote: post #128

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At least in Photos, the model is not what one would consider working. A quick example: "Halloween with [x]" works, because Halloween is recognized as a specific date. It works well. Christmas throws it for a loop. Christmas isn't thought of as a time but a state. So it'll show photos that look appropriately Christmassy, but the picks appear semi-random: it'll show one of about five taken in quick succession, but the…

That isn't "Apple Intelligence" (which is the generative stuff held over to the .1 releases). What you're describing is inference metadata + basic search logic and has been in iOS and macOS for several major versions now, constantly improving. And given that Christmas resolves to a date (it actually offers up the autocomplete of "Christmas Day" to make it easier, then simply making the search criteria a calendar date…

Well, except Apple specifically calls out this exact photo and video search function on their page titled "Apple Intelligence." Sure they've had some basic search already, but in their demos and advertising, they promise that Apple Intelligence is used to find photos by descriptions.

>Search for photos and videos in the Photos app simply by describing what you’re looking for. Apple Intelligence can even find a particular moment in a video clip that fits your search description and take you right to it.

https://www.apple.com/apple-intelligence/

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by windowsrookie »

matrix87 wrote: post #66

Honestly most of the time I download these, it's just to get new wallpapers The recent live wallpapers feature is really cool, hopefully they've added more

The live wallpapers are neat but I noticed they consume ~200MB of RAM, so I don't use them on my 8GB M1 Air.

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by veeti »

frankjr wrote: post #259
n42 wrote: post #248

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> No more control+ click to bypass gatekeeper Can someone expand on this? How do you run software that isn't code signed?

> The right-click/control-click option for easily opening unsigned apps is no longer available. Users who want to open unsigned software will now need to go the long way around to do it: first, try to launch the app and dismiss the dialog box telling you that it can't be opened. Then, open Settings, go to the Privacy & Security screen, scroll all the way to the bottom to get to the Security section, and click the Ope…

Oh, but I was assured by Cupertino sycophants that you "just" need to CTRL-click open an unnotarized app and there is no protection racket for distributing apps, no big deal. The frog continues boiling.

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Post by lokar »

whywhywhywhy wrote: post #332
weaksauce wrote: post #265

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at least it's still possible (and maybe more accessible) if not a bit more inconvenient. the ctrl-click thing was kinda a hidden feature.

lets stop pretending this is anything other than trying to make apps that don't pay $100 a year feel scary.

They don’t care about the money

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by jezek2 »

simonask wrote: post #345
Pesthuf wrote: post #301

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One huge step closer to iOS. Damn it. I actually liked macOS but these changes are terrible for everyone but the most basic users.

Really? This is _huge_ to you? How many unsigned apps are you downloading and running? This is one of those features where the benefits seem to very obviously outweigh the drawbacks. 99.9% of users just aren't running unsigned software, so the moment that happens, it is most certainly malware. If you're developing software yourself, this isn't an issue either, since all the relevant toolchains, debuggers, etc., work…

As a creator of a programming language that can compile binaries of any supported platform from any platform it is an unsolveable problem.

I can't do the signing as it requires Apple stuff. Not to mention it is unethical to require it as it's used for gatekeeping not just security (requiring Apple to decide if you can run an executable is unacceptable).

Compare it to Android where you can use self-signed certificates and it has an actual function, it allows updates signed with the same certificate to access the existing stored data on the device. It improves security without gatekeeping. At least that was on the older Androids, haven't done work on any newer ones.

I can't do some kind of universal launcher that is signed by me because it would allow to run arbitrary code and therefore it would be banned.

Therefore the only solution is to search for various workarounds (eg. by teaching the users how to run the software) or if not possible anymore stop supporting newer versions of MacOS and rely on web applications to support the platform (like it's the only way on iOS).

Which would be even worse on the desktop as the usability can be quite bad, but at least users would have some chance to use the applications even on their closed system.

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Post by nozzlegear »

whywhywhywhy wrote: post #332
weaksauce wrote: post #265

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at least it's still possible (and maybe more accessible) if not a bit more inconvenient. the ctrl-click thing was kinda a hidden feature.

lets stop pretending this is anything other than trying to make apps that don't pay $100 a year feel scary.

Wouldn't they just make it impossible to bypass gatekeeper in that case?

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by ibll »

ac29 wrote: post #421
schrodinger wrote: post #360

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dev machines are their bread and butter though! if they were going to have done this and merge iOS and macOS, I think they'd (stupidly) have done so.

Mac isnt even 10% of their revenue, and my guess is developers on Mac are maybe a percent or two at most.

to be fair, developers on mac create like 100% of their highly profitable iOS app store revenue because you can't hardly make iOS apps without a mac.

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by lathiat »

rpastuszak wrote: post #47
modeless wrote: post #3

Window tiling! If you drag a single window to the top does it maximize, and unmaximize when you drag it away? That's been my most wanted feature in macOS since forever (yes I have tried the third party ones). I don't really care about tiling multiple windows, but I've always hated the macOS full screen behavior, and before that the old green button behavior, so an alternative that finally works well (the way Windows…

Hm, I've been really happy with Rectangle ( https://rectangleapp.com ) and its shortcuts have become second nature to me, but if the native version is equally keyboard friendly I might give it a go. (btw, have you tried Rectangle and if so - what didn't you like?) (Not affiliated with it, just a happy user)

I use the "Multitouch" app from the same developer which integrates Rectangle with some other things.

Trying out the new macOS version.. it's a little fiddly to activate sometimes didn't want to go. Then the margin/spacing between the edge of the screens was annoying. Though I discovered that there is an option under "Desktop & Dock" in settings you can turn off called "Tiled windows have margins".

What I haven't figured out is if you can create a keyboard shortcut to tile left or right without using the mouse... so far have not figured out how to do that. Couldn't see an option for it.

Those settings revealed another option though to "Hold key while dragging windows to file". If you hold that key you don't actually have to drag to the edge, just move it to the correct side of the monitor (or not really move it at all if it's already on that side). Interesting alternative.

But I really often specifically use a keyboard shortcut for tile left, tile right or tile left third/middle third/right third (on a 35" Ultrawide).

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by nozzlegear »

gcr wrote: post #384
iknowstuff wrote: post #365

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the permission for screen access is only for apps that failed to start using the new API where the OS lets the user select a window/screen they want to share.

again, i keep asking: which apps have actually switched to the new screen sharing API and which apps have not? does zoom, chrome, google meet, etc still require this?

Of all the apps I use that record my screen, literally all of them have updated to this new API ages ago. That includes Discord, Slack, Teams, Zoom, FaceTime, OBS, and Safari. I want to say that Firefox has as well but can't remember for certain.

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by mdaniel »

jxy wrote: post #277
krelas wrote: post #57

Here’s one for HN readers, you can now find jq in /usr/bin/ in Sequoia.

interesting % /usr/bin/jq --version jq-1.6-159-apple-gcff5336-dirty

I can't know what "-dirty" implies, but https://github.com/jqlang/jq/commit/cff5336 is a pretty random commit from 2022 :-(

https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/distribution-macO... hasn't been updated with a "jq" directory yet

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