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Post by blinkingled »

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…

> Safari now uses machine learning to identify advertisers and others who track your online behavior, and removes the cross‑site trackingdata they leave behind.

Do my Safari Google searches still go via Apple by default though? I guess that's totally ok if you're in Team Apple? It's just sadly naive to believe a corporation has your privacy interests in mind in the absolute.

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Post by s73ver_ »

dnautics wrote: post #389
makecheck wrote: post #387

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It’s kind of crazy just how many resources of humankind must be expended to make up for obnoxious behaviors, whether it is burning cycles on ad-blockers or cleaning up other peoples’ garbage. For all the power we have expended, humankind could be so much further along than we are. I wish the people who spent energy making terrible ad experiences would just quit their jobs and apply their talents to something of actua…

What is 'actual' value and who gets to decide?

Something that actually benefits society. Something that pushes it forward.

You're gonna have to do a pretty amazing job to convince people that ad tech qualifies as that.

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Post by Terretta »

zeusk wrote: post #398
Terretta wrote: post #166

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Serious question: What family sharing use case needs more than 100 albums for sharing family photos, and what family sharing use case needs more than 1000 photos "per hour" (you can add thousands, just rate limits the uploading)? Agree with you on the time ordering. If people want a particular order, they could upload in that order. If they want time ordered, they could tap a button to refresh sort by time taken. How…

> as a group of n people are likely to have >n different time stamps and at least 2 time zones on their various devices. Which is why we have UTC. > The resultant sort will be interleaved by sets out of order by hours in case of time zones See UTC. > or out of order by minutes for individual devices. which is alright, compared to the sort by time added to album.

Yep. I've seen UTC.

And I'm invariably the only geek whose photos are timestamped in UTC because I set devices that way (except for phones which I can't), or who knows that the metadata doesn't even record the TZ until a recent EXIF standard update, 2.31 released last fall, added support.

Wikipedia still says "There is no way to record time-zone information along with the time, thus rendering the stored time ambiguous." It'll be a while for cameras to catch up.

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Post by to3m »

siidooloo wrote: post #395
mcv wrote: post #311

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Notifications at the top-right, covering the top-right of whichever window is active. Fortunately most of them can be dismissed, but those concerning updates cannot, which is extremely annoying. I've once already accidentally triggered a 15 minute update, which can be extremely inconvenient when it happens at the wrong time. I've found a way to get rid of the update notifications, though: click "details", which opens…

Notifications are on the top right of the screen. They don't cover the active window? It sounds like something strange is wrong with your system. I also never get notifications about updates. No workarounds needed.

They cover the active window if the active window covers the top right of the screen...

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Post by RandVal30142 »

Aaargh20318 wrote: post #375
baldfat wrote: post #141

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> Microsoft has a monopoly How so anymore? There are clear paths to NOT use anything Microsoft if you want to. Microsoft even now has Linux offerings its a new era.

> There are clear paths to NOT use anything Microsoft if you want to. For a lot of people there isn't. Take my dad for example. He sells weight scales for retail (think butchers, greengrocers, cheese shops, etc). Those scales are pretty much embedded PC's nowadays, they connect to the internet and can be remotely accessed to update product prices, promotions, get the daily sales numbers but also things like changing…

But all of that is not a monopoly by any stretch of the imagination.

It speaks less of Microsoft and more of the vendors who find no need to change their ways. Yes it really is all held together with spit and tape, but nothing has forced them to change from it.

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Post by kemayo »

siidooloo wrote: post #395
mcv wrote: post #311

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Notifications at the top-right, covering the top-right of whichever window is active. Fortunately most of them can be dismissed, but those concerning updates cannot, which is extremely annoying. I've once already accidentally triggered a 15 minute update, which can be extremely inconvenient when it happens at the wrong time. I've found a way to get rid of the update notifications, though: click "details", which opens…

Notifications are on the top right of the screen. They don't cover the active window? It sounds like something strange is wrong with your system. I also never get notifications about updates. No workarounds needed.

To be fair, if you're on a laptop or are just regularly using full-screen apps, top-right notifications are going to cover a chunk of your screen which you might be using. Of course, so would notifications absolutely-anywhere in that situation.

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Post by [deleted] »

feelin_googley wrote: post #397

"Conclusion In this blog post, we briefly discussed High Sierra's "Secure Kernel Extension Loading" (SKEL) and demonstrated a new 0day vulnerability that can be exploited to fully bypass this new `security' feature. Unfortunately when such `security' features are introduced - even if done so with the noblest of intentions - they often just complicate the lives of 3rd-party developers and users without affecting the b…

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Post by jakobegger »

eugeniub wrote: post #343
thefreeman wrote: post #282

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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?

You either gave Safari permission before, or Safari was the app that added the password to the keychain in the first place.

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Post by rspeer »

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?

I have a similar key binding set up. One option is to press a key that doesn't do anything in between.

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Post by Infernal »

SolarUpNote wrote: post #286
cjsuk wrote: post #2

Does anyone know of any issues with this before I press the button?

You won't be able to connect to a shared drive using AFP anymore, if you get the new file system APFS when you upgrade. Apparently you only get APFS if you have a pure SSD drive (not Fusion). https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT208018 APFS and file sharing - Volumes formatted as APFS can't offer share points over the network using AFP. - APFS supports SMB and NFS, with the option to enforce only SMB-encrypted share poi…

So I read the note you quoted as "an APFS filesystem can't be exported over the network via AFP", but what you wrote seems to say "a machine running the APFS filesystem cannot mount an AFP exported filesystem".

I don't think your conclusion is supported by the snippet you quoted.

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