MBCook

Like other really good satire it keeps predicting things it wasn’t trying to.

We’re living down to it.

They’re the most popular short content ones?

Write this headline about Mastodon and no one would read it.

Blipverts you say.

And that parenthetical is exactly why people care.

TVs.

It doesn’t matter if Microsoft cares about offending people. If some executive is not going to buy 2 million licenses of Windows because they are personally offended by the font used somewhere, then Microsoft is gonna change it.

In this case, it’s pure business.

I think they mean it was someone in the government who complained and that complaint went to their IT department, and it was the poor IT department who had to complain to Microsoft.

Or something like that. Basically, the person from the government who contacted them was the sad messenger and not the original complainer.

It sadly is.

Why? If I was writing this I would write it for my OS.

Why would I write it for anything else?

I assume that’s what the author did.

Sure. I never understood it as a kid. The fact it slowed your computer always confused me since I didn’t realize it was on by default.

I didn’t learn the real purpose until long after they were gone.

There were lots of us. Computers were expensive as hell compared to a cd upgrade.

It was more than half (depending on age). I thought it always took you to 4.77 MHz to match the original 5150.

Rebel Assault was the first to blow my mind. I had to have that game. That and the fully voiced version of Day of the Tentacle.

Good art lasts.

Some early PS games are truly awful. Realism of people especially didn’t work.

Others still look great. Ridge Racer, PaRappa, Jumping Flash, Ape Escape.

Same reason Mario 64 still looks good and Goldeneye doesn’t.

I hated Malcom McDowell for years because of the game. Probably one of the first celebrities I had a strong opinion about.

The fact that information is available somewhere is very different from making it available easily to the consumer right when they need it.

What possible argument is there against that?

Do you really think most consumers didn’t care? Or do you think most consumers don’t even know? Cause I’m willing to bet it’s number two.

Aren’t they also removed when you get new tires, so you don’t have to replace them?

Right. If they wanted to ban things this would basically ban all knobby tires too wouldn’t it?

This is a primarily a labeling law it seems so people don’t get accidentally screwed. Seems like a good idea to me.

Seems right to me.

So what is the right way then?

They’re starting to cave.

Turnis taking the reins perhaps?

This has clearly been tilting at windmills this entire time. They were never going to win. How much time and money could they have saved by giving a reasonable amount instead of sticking their fingers in their ears and yelling “la la la I can’t hear you why do you love criminals”?

FWIW it didn’t do well under HPFS+ either. It’s not a new problem, though it may manifest differently.

Macs are also real bad at handling low disk space. I don’t how other OSes do but the best advice on a Mac is to always have a decent amount free.

What’s a decent amount? No idea. Don’t test it :)

Doing it correctly requires setting a single Boolean. That’s it. The OS will do everything else for you if you don’t override it.

There’s no need to implement a custom blur.

I believe Apple added an entire section to the photos app to show screenshots that were taken.

I don’t accidentally take screenshots very often, though it does happen.

I know multiple people who seem to take them constantly. It’s crazy. You and I may not do it, but I promise you there are people who do. LOTS of them.

iOS and MacOS have a large number of built-in accessibility features. Taking a screenshot of the screen is not necessary.

No, that feature long predates Snapchat. In fact, I think it predates iOS, but I don’t remember for sure.

Actually I was referring to the Eufy app. How nice there are others.

Yeah. I wonder if Apple does something to change this.

This is a failure of imagination for Apple, but it’s hard to blame them.

Who would think someone would put a button inside a “secure” text field and change the masked appearance to a logo?

If I was proposing this feature, I would never imagine someone would come up with something like that.

People like to say that. How many hundreds of additional options would a modern phone OS need to provide that though? How could applications possibly be tested? You could have a million installs and 300,000 of them could easily have fully unique combinations of options past what’s available today.

How could you ever provide support to a user? “First take 200 screenshots and send those to me…”

The OS notifies the app after the screenshot is taken. The app doesn’t get to do anything in response to it being taken or allow it to be blocked.

They’re abusing an iOS text rendering control function handled by the OS. Before the screenshot is taken iOS swapped out the rendered text for “sensitive” fields and images that.

The replacement is supposed to be something like a masked account number, password asterisks, or just general blur.

Not a marketing logo.

I’ve seen another app do that but for a different reason. It’s for security cameras and they use it to show a “hey idiot just press the save a picture button, don’t take screenshots” popup, which is also hostile.

I’m not sure why the app needs to be notified. There must be some use but I can’t think of it off the top of my head.