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Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels

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Re: Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels

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post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's only a problem if you want people to use your software

it's really cool when i can fall a sleep in peace knowing this keeps my folks from getting rooted

Gatekeeper doesn't fully prevent you from downloading malware. It just replaces one attack vector with another: https://blog.lastpass.com/posts/warning-fraudulent-app-imper...

Re: Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels

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I don't get the part about Homebrew. If you're using Homebrew, it doesn't make a ton of sense to use Itch.io. Just use Homebrew. Seems like a more appropriate place to distribute a dev tool anyway. You could set up a patreon and print a link to it when appropriate. That's basically what Vim does.

I agree that Apple is dumb of course.

Re: Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels

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> I can use SmartID to verify my ID (and age) in about 20 seconds when buying an energy drink at the local grocery store Where do you have to show ID for that??

Under 16s can’t buy energy drinks in the UK

Edit: currently a voluntary but widespread scheme by retailers, proposed to be law. TIL

Re: Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels

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Any user who does not like Gatekeeper can turn it off on their machine in ten seconds by running this in a Terminal: sudo spctl —-master-disable People will say, no, that’s too big a hammer, it’s not safe… but then, like, what do you actually want? Either you keep Gatekeeper because you like the friction it introduces, or you don’t like that friction and you should go turn it off. Pick one, you obviously can’t have b…

Rather than just having the options "Done" and "Move to Bin", give me an option to actually run it without having to manually go into System Settings each and every time without disabling security features?

The added friction feels more like a way to force developers to pay Apple an annual fee for distributing rather than for my safety. Not saying it doesn't help with safety, just that it's more weighed to the former.

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