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Post by Nextgrid »

threeseed wrote: post #340
Nextgrid wrote: post #232

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Publish the protocol docs. That's literally all that's required from them. Actually they don't even need to - they can just promise not to sue anyone who reverse-engineers it and publishes a commercial client. That's how adversarial interoperability worked for decades (and gave free software the ability to interoperate with proprietary formats, see LibreOffice for example) before abusing the DMCA and/or threatening l…

Can you articulate where in the DMA where it says that all Apple has to do "is promise not to sue anyone" to be in compliance. Or where it talks about protocol publication. Hint: it doesn't.

The DMA is about preventing gatekeepers from using arbitrary restrictions to prevent competition. It does not try to predict and anticipate every possible example nor solution.

The existence of competitor would by itself be enough proof to the fact that Apple is not restricting competition. But for such a competitor to exist, they would require enough assurance that the business will be viable and they won't get sued out of existence.

Apple either publishing the protocol or at the very least publishing an official licensing agreement allowing anyone to reverse-engineer and reimplement said protocol would achieve this.

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by LeoPanthera »

benkuykendall wrote: post #454
LeoPanthera wrote: post #309

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Figuring out what garbage to type into jq is the best thing about ChatGPT.

For some reason, I find it kinda funny you don't just ask the LLM to extract the values for you. Practically, your solution makes a lot of sense -- way fewer tokens, less likely to make weird one-off errors, can verify the response makes basic sense or re-use the code off-line or with sensitive data... But if I were watching Star Trek, they would definitely just ask the computer to grab the fields and it would be a d…

I'm rarely just using jq once. It's almost always going into a script, often where I only have placeholder data to test it with.

Plus, you know, I actually learn how jq works and will need to ask the Magic Sky Oracle less often, in the future.

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by Nextgrid »

samatman wrote: post #386
Nextgrid wrote: post #236

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It's only a matter of time before the EU gets wise to this - this move is simply to delay the inevitable and buy themselves some more time to act anticompetitively. When they feel like the EU is closer to disproving their argument (because there is no technical reason this can't be opened to third-parties in a secure way), they will suddenly announce that they have found some magic and miraculous way to do it and rel…

> It's only a matter of time before the EU gets wise to this "gets wise to this" how, exactly? The EU can certainly set conditions which Apple must meet to ship a feature. They have no legal grounds whatsoever to demand that Apple ship that feature to Europe, specially modified to meet their exacting requirements. How would that even work? One way to comply with the EU's demands that a product work a certain way, is…

Gets wise that this is blatant malicious compliance, and use this to inform potential enforcement action and/or revisions to the regulation.

It could very well become that after enough of this, DMA 2.0 would have a provision stipulating that any feature withheld in the EU would need to have a valid technical justification that passes review by a panel of independent experts.

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by typeofhuman »

aeturnum wrote: post #31
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…

We may actually be seeing the moment where Moom[1] is no longer an essential OS X app. It can solve both window tiling and the "maximize problem" on mac and has been my first install for many years. Here's to hoping that Apple can get one basic OS feature right once. [1] https://manytricks.com/moom/

Moom's keyboard shortcuts and grid layout are superb.

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by kccqzy »

dbbk wrote: post #416
kccqzy wrote: post #407

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I don't even like Apple as a company but I have high expectations of their products and I assume their product is meticulously designed for a variety of use cases. Why should I as a consumer expect half-assed implementations? Just because all software are half-assed these days? Apple says "With iPhone Mirroring, users can now fully access and engage with their iPhone right from Mac while iPhone remains locked nearby.…

I guess I just don't follow why you'd discount an entire feature for such a minor, niche reason but you do you

I didn't discount anything. Where did I say that? I merely have high expectations and I'm asking about the feature and whether it satisfies the high expectations, and if so, how. This is called curiosity.

I'm never the kind of person who discounts a feature before I even use it. And I clearly said I haven't used it.

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by adastra22 »

int_19h wrote: post #414
adastra22 wrote: post #351

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Care to explain the nightmare to someone who seriously doesn't get it? I can run any open-source software I want. Other people can't run my precompiled binaries unless I opt into an attestation system that lets the OS respond to and pre-emptively block binaries from developers found to be issuing malware. Open source is unaffected. I seriously fail to see what is wrong here.

That would kill a lot of old software, though. Especially games.

I challenge you to find old software that still runs on modern Macs which was never code signed. Note that support for 32-bit applications has been retired, and x86 applications will eventually be sunsetted as well. This isn't Windows.

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by jezek2 »

shepherdjerred wrote: post #458
jezek2 wrote: post #435

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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…

You can sign macOS executables without macOS hardware

A paid developer account would be required by every developer wishing to publish their cross-platform application also on MacOS. Even if it was free it would be an issue because it would require an extra registration and workflow that requires internet access and having Apple to arbitrarily decide that your application (or you as a developer) is banned.

Therefore instructions how the users can run the application is the only solution.

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by kccqzy »

ezfe wrote: post #398
gcr wrote: post #379

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How do you bypass gatekeeper now? How often do you have to re-authenticate your existing binaries?

The official way, which is by going to the Privacy & Security screen to click the override button

No the official way is the control-click. It was suggested by Apple in the UI of System Preferences back in the Mountain Lion days.

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/gatek...

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by novok »

pornel wrote: post #448
mdaniel wrote: post #441

> And easily access and understand your home electricity use with new Electricity Usage and Rates features[14] > 14: Eligible users include Pacific Gas and Electric Company customers who have residential electrical service, including areas served by Community Choice Aggregators. Users must be the utility account owner or authorized user of the utility account. what an extraordinarily specific feature to put into Home…

New Maps features launch only in Bay Area. CarPlay EV integration works only with Porsche Taycan. Are they implementing things just for Tim?

New features are often launched with partner companies, and then all the PMs have a real life example to go point at to convince their conservative stakeholders to adopt the new thingy. Looking at your power usage is not an apple thing, it's a power company thing to implement.
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