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macOS lock screen: “I just sent my session pass to my whole team”

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Re: macOS lock screen: “I just sent my session pass to my whole team”

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Post by 1_2__4 »

malchow wrote: post #31

Not to pile on, but my MBP (with "TouchBar" which will assuredly not exist in another year) is always in clamshell mode and connected to two external LG 4K displays. Whether, on which screen(s), or in what state the Mac wakes each morning is completely random. Sometimes it doesn't wake at all. Sometimes I have artifacts on one screen and a desktop on another screen. The sleep/wake sequence is a complete mess, and it…

Let's all sit and reflect for a moment that Apple was the first (and for a long time, the only) company that used to get sleep/wake "right".

Re: macOS lock screen: “I just sent my session pass to my whole team”

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Post by bpicolo »

eamann wrote: post #44

Apple has a bug bounty program where they'll legitimately pay you to report bugs directly to them. What's with everyone reporting them to Twitter instead and forgoing the extra cash?

This doesn't seem like it would qualify under their categories. Not to mention, their bug bounty program info is nowhere to be found. I see tech sites reporting that they offer one but nothing on any apple site.

Re: macOS lock screen: “I just sent my session pass to my whole team”

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Post by mholt »

gonational wrote: post #63

With no disrespect to the developers at Apple, et al, each one of these problems that goes viral before reaching “proper” channels is a well-deserved slap in the face of these behemoth organizations. Perhaps, if the entire tech community regards Apple as a joke, they will start paying attention. “Responsible disclosure” is great stuff for creating a culture of free outsourcing of tech companies’ most imporant feature…

Yes, the manner of disclosure reflects the respect one has for the software vendor. https://twitter.com/mholt6/status/935687749381775362

Responsible disclosure is more or less earned as your resources go to infinity.

Re: macOS lock screen: “I just sent my session pass to my whole team”

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Post by lostlogin »

geerlingguy wrote: post #26
pilif wrote: post #6

I did something similar too - I was typing in the password while the Mac was being unlocked by the watch using that unlock-with-the-watch feature. I was used to hammering return a few times to wake the machine up, then typing in the password, then hitting return again. The few times I hammered return woke the machine, the watch unlocked the mac and the password plus the return key went into the app that had focus whi…

Because of the short delay between waking the Mac and the display lighting up, I always either use spacebar or command key, or click the trackpad/mouse a couple times to wake. Return is a dangerous key!

Hell yes. I wonder wha’s the worst thing someone has done with this? When you hit return and just before the keystroke a pop up comes up and you agree to something you didn’t want. I’ve see a couple of bad ones in the radiology world.

Re: macOS lock screen: “I just sent my session pass to my whole team”

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Post by cjsuk »

1_2__4 wrote: post #71
malchow wrote: post #31

Not to pile on, but my MBP (with "TouchBar" which will assuredly not exist in another year) is always in clamshell mode and connected to two external LG 4K displays. Whether, on which screen(s), or in what state the Mac wakes each morning is completely random. Sometimes it doesn't wake at all. Sometimes I have artifacts on one screen and a desktop on another screen. The sleep/wake sequence is a complete mess, and it…

Let's all sit and reflect for a moment that Apple was the first (and for a long time, the only) company that used to get sleep/wake "right".

And now I'm sad.

This was one of the reasons I never adopted Linux on a laptop. Power management simply never worked. I used Windows for many years on a ThinkPad with Linux in a VM but this felt dirty. Bought a Mac and life was good. Well it was until 10.13. 50% of wake up events I have to log in to a trashed desktop now.

It makes me long for a computer nailed to a bit of ethernet that is never turned off.

Edit: also I just went through hell trying to get a USB to serial converter working on OSX. Not exactly a crap one, a Keysight U1173B with Prolific chipset.

Re: macOS lock screen: “I just sent my session pass to my whole team”

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Post by ebbv »

The quality of the software and the sacrifice of key functionality in the hardware (dropping of MagSafe, which was a huge differentiator, going to just USB-C ports which almost nothing supports, not even Apple's own in box phone chargers) demonstrates that Apple is purely a design house lately. It has completely faltered on the engineering side. Tim Cook is not an engineer and Jony Ive is not an engineer. There are engineers at the company but they don't seem to be getting a seat at the big table.

Re: macOS lock screen: “I just sent my session pass to my whole team”

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Post by notheguyouthink »

lostlogin wrote: post #74
geerlingguy wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because of the short delay between waking the Mac and the display lighting up, I always either use spacebar or command key, or click the trackpad/mouse a couple times to wake. Return is a dangerous key!

Hell yes. I wonder wha’s the worst thing someone has done with this? When you hit return and just before the keystroke a pop up comes up and you agree to something you didn’t want. I’ve see a couple of bad ones in the radiology world.

Oh god, popups while you're typing are the worst. I feel like the OS should not even allow it.

No idea how to prevent the issue, but I've been caught mid sentence before and accepted installs, upgrades, random popups, etc. Ones from Skype tend to be the most infuriating / scary..

Re: macOS lock screen: “I just sent my session pass to my whole team”

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Post by lostlogin »

fofolo wrote: post #15
Dotnaught wrote: post #9

Left Slack open with focus, allowed MBP to sleep, woke with space bar, login field had focus, tried with closing lid and opening while Slack was open and focused, again password field functioned as it should, unable to reproduce, macOS 10.13.2

Difficult to reproduce, can be when we lock the session, close the macbook, plug a second screen and re-open. Or in another order. Personally I remember not having the focus on the password input by opening my MacBook onetime, I often plug and unplug screens

I was in a huge lecture hall and the presentation from the head of school was going to talk. He plugged in, turned to look at the display from the projector and it hadn’t come up yet. He types in his username and password and stood there waiting. When the projector came to life he had typed it all into the username field. He fixed it up then displayed his desktop to us with all the pending final exam papers sitting there. No one in the hall showed any obvious sign of realising what had just occurred.

Re: macOS lock screen: “I just sent my session pass to my whole team”

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Post by dawnerd »

malchow wrote: post #31

Not to pile on, but my MBP (with "TouchBar" which will assuredly not exist in another year) is always in clamshell mode and connected to two external LG 4K displays. Whether, on which screen(s), or in what state the Mac wakes each morning is completely random. Sometimes it doesn't wake at all. Sometimes I have artifacts on one screen and a desktop on another screen. The sleep/wake sequence is a complete mess, and it…

Same problems as you, but I disagree on the touchbar. It’s one of the better things Apple has added recently.

But holy hell do they need to work on their external monitor support. Yesterday I had one of my monitors randomly go black for a second. I’ve had audio over usbc just not show up anymore and it refusing to see my gigabit ethernet when waking up unless I unplug the actual ethernet cable. Simply amazing this passed their QA - and Id find it hard to believe no one at Apple uses clamshell mode with two monitors.

Re: macOS lock screen: “I just sent my session pass to my whole team”

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Post by TaylorAlexander »

mholt wrote: post #73
gonational wrote: post #63

With no disrespect to the developers at Apple, et al, each one of these problems that goes viral before reaching “proper” channels is a well-deserved slap in the face of these behemoth organizations. Perhaps, if the entire tech community regards Apple as a joke, they will start paying attention. “Responsible disclosure” is great stuff for creating a culture of free outsourcing of tech companies’ most imporant feature…

Yes, the manner of disclosure reflects the respect one has for the software vendor. https://twitter.com/mholt6/status/935687749381775362 Responsible disclosure is more or less earned as your resources go to infinity.

An interesting comment given that Apple as closer to infinity resources than anyone else.
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