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Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by coldtea »

4ad wrote: post #229
coldtea wrote: post #71

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Photos will never be a viable replacement for the full Aperture professional use cases -- they have different goals. Aperture might or might not run on HS (not sure), but holding to it until Photos catches up is not very good strategy, at some point it will just stop working (and it's not getting any new fixes, updates, etc). Better move to Lightroom or something similar.

> Better move to Lightroom or something similar. I don't want to rent software, and I don't want to install the dreaded Adobe installer. What other good alternatives are there? Darktable doesn't pass the test.

Capture One Pro, and various subpar packages like ACDSee (I think they're still on Mac with a port).

So, basically Lightroom.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by Diederich »

raesene6 wrote: post #126
tomp wrote: post #103

> Safari now uses machine learning to identify advertisers and others who track your online behavior, and removes the cross‑site tracking data they leave behind. > Safari now uses machine learning to identify advertisers and others who track your online behavior, and removes the cross‑site tracking data they leave behind I'm starting to like the business model of buying the product more and more. There was a recent t…

I agree, the good thing about Apple and Microsoft is I know what they want to sell me. Apple want me to buy relatively expensive devices on a regular basis and ideally a cloud subscription. Microsoft want me to buy subscriptions to their cloud services and ideally devices running their OS. In both cases the value for them is fairly clear and they have limited incentives to do anything that might jepordise those reven…

> Companies like Google who (IIRC) get over 90% of their revenue from advertising

According to, which references an official looking SEC form: https://www.quora.com/What-percent-of-Googles-revenue-comes-...

"86.5% of Alphabet’s revenue still comes from their advertising business, which is driven by searches in web browsers"

That's a hell of a lot.

I wonder how quickly their other revenue sources are growing? A ton of companies are using Google products in a paid capacity. They're really very good.

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Post by eugeniub »

thefreeman wrote: post #282
altitudinous wrote: post #227

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It doesn't seem like a real vulnerabilty to me - it is not remotely executable, it has to be run by a signed in user on the actual device. When you go to facebook.com, your device must surely decrypt the keychain to plaintext to prefill the password field so it can send your password to facebook.com - Thats how it works. So this seems like normal functionality to me, someone has just put it in a command line. Someone…

Yes, you are completely missing how the keychain works. When you go to facebook.com, safari requests access to the facebook.com password via the keychain api. At which point you are supposed to be prompted by the OS, and if you allow it, the keychain api returns the decrypted password only for facebook.com . The vulnerability being demonstrated is able to decrypt every password in your keychain, without prompting the…

When I go to Facebook.com, my login credentials are instantly filled in by Safari. What prompt are you talking about?

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by robin_reala »

godzillabrennus wrote: post #335
AsyncAwait wrote: post #287

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Like the other commenters here, I can confirm that the FileVault -> APFS transition went smoothly.

Anyone know how the APFS conversion goes if you have hardware RAID setup? I’m sporting a Mac Pro mid-2010 and have a RAID-5 array that’ll need to upgrade.

I’m guessing that’s a spinning rust array? If so it won’t be converted: APFS only gets applied to pure flash setups.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by glitchedmob »

So, while going through this page, I decided to check out the Safari product page, and saw this http://i.imgur.com/GXQAQVK.png. Does anyone here have any clue what they mean by having a second safari benchmark next to the Windows 10 browser benchmarks? Are they just trying to say "If our browser did work on Windows 10, this is how it would perform"?

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by njarboe »

fred256 wrote: post #290
messe wrote: post #113

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I have `jk` mapped to ESC in spacemacs, zsh and anything else I can set up to use vi keybindings. `jk` is essentially a no-op in vi, so rebinding it doesn't cause any issues while carrying the advantage that my fingers never have to leave the home row.

Out of curiosity, how do you type "Dijkstra" in that case?

Copy and paste from another window? If your use of the word "Dijkstra" is frequent enough for this method to bother you, there must be other mappings that would work.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by Tenobrus »

Gaelan wrote: post #246
baldfat wrote: post #199

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You mean the monopoly is due to Office and DirectX? There are plenty of alternatives still. I only use Outlook due to work but I could also get around that through several ways. Maybe we just have a different definition of monopoly? Definition: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/monopoly 1 :exclusive ownership through legal privilege, command of supply, or concerted action 2 :exclusive possession or control n…

I haven’t used OpenOffice much? But it feels much less polished than Office or iWork. I guess there’s Google Docs, but even that’s limited compared to even iWork. Is there anything actually decent that can be used for “Office” stuff on Linux?

LaTeX and Org mode are much better and more usable than either Office or OpenOffice for me. I haven't needed to do more than copy-paste into Office documents for the last 4 years. Of course, that's not at all relevant for general market share, but there are viable alternatives depending on how technical you are and your exact needs/restrictions/use-cases.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by cpncrunch »

symlinkk wrote: post #154
seanalltogether wrote: post #142

I'm assuming apple file system is only enabled if you do a fresh install right? Or is there an option to switch to it during the upgrade process?

your filesystem will be automatically changed to APFS, no need to reinstall (Apple did this already with the iPhone as well)

Is this something that I want? My gut feeling is that I don't want a brand-new file system...

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by orangea »

glitchedmob wrote: post #345

So, while going through this page, I decided to check out the Safari product page, and saw this http://i.imgur.com/GXQAQVK.png . Does anyone here have any clue what they mean by having a second safari benchmark next to the Windows 10 browser benchmarks? Are they just trying to say "If our browser did work on Windows 10, this is how it would perform"?

It is saying that safari on mac is 4.3x faster than firefox on mac, and also that safari on mac is 4.2x faster than firefox on windows (at executing javascript).

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by kemayo »

deong wrote: post #305
tomsmeding wrote: post #255

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Which notifications are you talking about? I have no such experience using Sierra.

"Hey, have you tried Safari? It's pretty great. Why don't you give it a try?" "Umm, hey there...me again. You still haven't tried Safari? What's wrong? Want me to launch it for you?" "Ok, this is getting a little awkward. We worked pretty hard making Safari, and you won't even try it? I'm trying to not be insulted here, but you're not making it easy." "Listen motherfucker. You know that Keychain thing that you don't…

Interesting. I don't use Safari, and have never seen "try Safari" notifications. I wonder what the criteria for it are.
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