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Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by earenndil »

lern_too_spel wrote: post #260
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…

Nothing prevents you from using a competitor's core apps on Android. Those apps could be even better at stopping tracking than Apple's. On iOS, you're stuck with whatever maps or browser Apple decrees.

Uhmmmm...what? You can install google maps, chrome or firefox (although these don't count because they're just safari skins. But if someone wanted to they could implement real chrome or real firefox for ios.) You can install any number of third-party keyboards, alarm clocks, what-have-you.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by pjmlp »

bitmapbrother wrote: post #592
pjmlp wrote: post #374

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I don't know how many times Google Maps calls home, but it does it often enough for Google to know where any Android user that hasn't explicitly disabled location tracking has spent each minute of his/her life. The proof is easy obtainable on Google Maps location history.

You did say 1200 times per day. How did you arrive at this number and what tools did you use to find this out. I would like to verify this.

No I didn't, check the username.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by lern_too_spel »

earenndil wrote: post #601
lern_too_spel wrote: post #260

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Nothing prevents you from using a competitor's core apps on Android. Those apps could be even better at stopping tracking than Apple's. On iOS, you're stuck with whatever maps or browser Apple decrees.

Uhmmmm...what? You can install google maps, chrome or firefox (although these don't count because they're just safari skins. But if someone wanted to they could implement real chrome or real firefox for ios.) You can install any number of third-party keyboards, alarm clocks, what-have-you.

You can't change which app opens web pages or mail or maps or phone calls or.... https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-change-my-default-browser-in-...

iOS doesn't allow you to implement a JIT because Apple doesn't trust its OS to have working process isolation, so you actually can't have a real Firefox or Chrome on iOS.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by normanzb »

> Say goodbye to videos that auto‑play. Full of gimmicks, thats why some very basic bugs such as CJK inappropriate line breaking never gets fixed, because those fixes aint going to be attractive for eyes.

They blocked auto play video sounds just because some abusing the video tag? That is just going to push those scammy people finding the other way to annoy their users, such as, playing the audio separately in a audio tag or decoding and playing audio using javascript. Of course they can block those too to make it a even more backward browser, but indie web game makers are going to be suffered from that.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by merb »

gjjrfcbugxbhf wrote: post #569
merb wrote: post #384

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Office 2003 and Office 2007 upwards don't have bug level compat. it's even worse if you used special things in your .doc files the chances are/were high to render them different between the older and the newer versions. basically nobody cared as soon as a lot of people moved to ooxml. Also Office 2003 and LibreOffice4/5 have way more in common than Office 2003 has with 2010/2013/2016.

Bare in mind I've been often on the other side of this discussion.... None of this really matters - if you tell someone word ate a word document then they are sympathetic whereas if you tell them libreoffice ate a word document the reaction is much less favourable. I do not like this. My solution - I just refuse to use any office software.

well just wanted to say that the conversion between ribbon caused a lot of people problems. especially the older personal really dislikes office 2007+ upwards. basically I barely use any office software and I'm on mac where Microsoft Office is basically bloat software. And for my needs, LibreOffice/The Mac stuff or just a text editor is most of the time's more than enough. Outlook is actually a pretty good product on Windows, however on Mac it is as good/bad as the built-in mail app. (actually it share's a lot with it, i.e. account's go over apple exchange integration and search uses spotlight and so on).

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by mcv »

nicky0 wrote: post #574
Jgrubb wrote: post #258

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More or less hopelessly entrenched in the Apple ecosystem here, but I totally agree with you. The non-stop annoying notifications was one of the main bullet points that I listed when leaving Windows 10 years ago, and now they've finally found me again..

Have you found the Notifications preference pane, which allows you to control notifications including turning them off completely if you like?

Here's the funny thing about that notifications preference pane: I can tweak the way any kind of notification is displayed, except for updates. There the only options are: update now or pretend to update now.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by nextlevelwizard »

arthur_pryor wrote: post #553
Raz2 wrote: post #402

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I worked in ads company. I understood that I was producing waste. But I treated it as a puzzle. Tasks were really challenging and salary was more than average.

how wasteful would your work have to be before the personal satisfaction wasn't enough to outweigh the drain on society as a whole? i'm genuinely asking, because i'm genuinely curious. i'm lucky enough to get paid decently to work at a job that i believe in, and that's been true of the vast majority of my employment history. but i can think of an e-commerce gig i took that i did not particularly believe in (though i…

> how wasteful would your work have to be before the personal satisfaction wasn't enough to outweigh the drain on society as a whole?

That's noble thought, but if the pay is high enough, you'd be plain dumb not to do it. Especially when there is someone else willing to ponce on the opportunity if you turn it down.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by Flenser »

debaserab2 wrote: post #491
deong wrote: post #300

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Within large organizations, I don't think there's any replacement for Excel. Google docs are great as a Word replacement, but Google's spreadsheet offering is a spreadsheet. Excel is an extremely sophisticated development environment.

Again, I have to ask, what sophistication does Excel have that Google spreadsheet does not also offer? COM and VBA scripting? Access database sourcing? Google spreadsheets even has analogies to this functionality (albeit in Google flavors). It's certainly not the formula and pivot table capabilities which Google spreadsheets has pretty good parity with. At one point in time you could argue that excel handled larger f…

Structured References[1]: Tables whose range can be referenced by name where the range expands as you add rows to the table.

[1] https://support.office.com/en-gb/article/Using-structured-re...

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by marrs »

jayd16 wrote: post #358
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…

So how many decades are we going to hear about how bad it is that Google knows what kind of toothpaste I like and how important privacy is before we actually see a real world benefit? Can someone point to any situation in the past where the conclusion was "good thing the ads were less targeting to my interests!"

Google's personalised search results have already contributed strongly to the political polarisation that we are seeing in the US. And that's to say nothing of Google's internal politics that is seeing the ostracisation of liberal leaning points of view. See James Damore as a case in point.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by karmajunkie »

asah wrote: post #268
JamesFM wrote: post #173

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While I think Disk Creator is awesome for certain I’ve never found that a fresh install is needed for macOS upgrades. They have maybe the best upgrade process in the biz right now.

A friend's said the same thing, but like other responders, I haven't bothered in a long time. What's the benefit?

While I’ve not felt any particular pain from updating, other than perhaps some binaries from homebrew that needed to be recompiled, i've got an enormous ~/Library folder along with a few hundred GBs of other cruft accumulated through several upgrades of OS X over the last four or five years. Most of it is applications not related to the OS, so not blaming Apple here, but the opportunity to rebuild from a clean slate is welcome for sure.
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