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Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by jakobegger »

delinka wrote: post #263
benashford wrote: post #160

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It showed the "unknown developer" warning box when running the app, would that have been shown if the app was already authorised to access the keychain?

Yes. It's not "access to the keychain" but "access to this item" and it's a simple "the binary $NAME with $DIGEST has permission to access this item." Technically, if you can create another executable binary with the same name and digest, you can access the same keychain item.

nope. Keychain checks the code signature of the app.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by jug »

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…

Yes, one thing that has probably helped Apple is that their business model aligns with what their users want. Not having to be a weasel about it, not forcing users to just have to live with something. Last thing I saw was Microsoft pushing Edge ads from within Windows 10 itself. Ads – in an operating system?!

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by jclardy »

manmal wrote: post #369
lloeki wrote: post #208

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I personally own an entry-level Early 2013 Retina MacBook Pro with a i5/HD4000, and the iterative improvements they made with each major release really shine through. A machine that was previously described in every single review as underpowered on that department especially WRT Mission Control can now handle any number of windows I throw at it at a steady 60fps, including those blurs and transparencies which I previ…

Look at the iPhone for planned obsolescence.

The iPhone 5s is still supported on the latest OS released last week. I guess 4-5 years of software support isn't enough?

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by mikeytown2 »

aneidon wrote: post #39

The biggest change I’m hoping for (but not expecting) is the ability to sort shared iCloud albums by time taken, not time added to the album. Currently they’re all but useless for something like a shared album from a vacation, because it groups photos by when family members upload them. I tend to upload photos at the end of each day, but other family members who were shooting on a normal camera waited until the end o…

Switch to Google Photos[1]; it's amazing. I'm always a little worried about what they are doing with all the data though...

[1] https://photos.google.com/

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by jug »

pwdisswordfish wrote: post #231
roblabla wrote: post #134

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And yet, microsoft started incorporating ads inside of windows 10. The business models helps, but if you can both sell a product and get ad revenue, why wouldn't you ? In apple's case, they have a fairly small but dedicated marketshare that cares deeply about those issue. That's why I trust them to not sabotage their product. Microsoft has a monopoly, they don't need to care.

> And yet, microsoft started incorporating ads inside of windows 10. Using daily, only thing I've seen - notification about Edge (which came with the OS). what?

Here are examples of the new, damned Edge ads: https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/17/14956540/microsoft-window...

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by zeusk »

Terretta wrote: post #413
zeusk wrote: post #398

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> 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 ambiguou…

> 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.

Most of my friends and family take their photos with Android, iOS devices and Google Photos seems to have fixed this issue and all of my photos have a timezone field. Here is an example of a recent one: https://i.imgur.com/8AFgKs3.jpg

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by jug »

bocklund wrote: post #367
jrcii wrote: post #177

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Why should you have to?

Because Microsoft paid a lot of people to develop and maintain a software they gave away for free to users?

That they have given an ad ridden OS away for free is their problem, not something they were forced to.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by 4ad »

Terretta wrote: post #413
zeusk wrote: post #398

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 ambiguou…

> 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.

Apple Photos sorts photos by UTC, today, I assume by using the GPS information inside EXIF. There is no confusion between photos taken in different time zones.

I do a lot of photography from jets, and the photos are sorted just fine, while the time zone changes all the time.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by nxc18 »

jug wrote: post #422
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…

Yes, one thing that has probably helped Apple is that their business model aligns with what their users want. Not having to be a weasel about it, not forcing users to just have to live with something. Last thing I saw was Microsoft pushing Edge ads from within Windows 10 itself. Ads – in an operating system?!

Apple also advertises their own services in their OS. My iPhone and MacBook spam me with iCloud ads constantly.

This isn't really an excuse for MS. Really I'd just like both operating systems to not bug me.

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