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agsnu··on Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free
Would it be OK for Microsoft to prevent Steam from running on Windows because Valve doesn't contribute enough to funding the Experiences and Devices org? I've never really understood why mobile platforms should be different from how we think about desktop ones.
agsnu··on Starlink ground station in Poland hit by fire in suspected arson attack
Rainham is East of Telehouse.
agsnu··on Turn off and restrict access to Apple Intelligence features on Mac
Probably referring to https://www.obdev.at/blog/a-hole-in-the-wall - as of 2020

> As it turned out, this behavior is on purpose. There’s an explicit whitelist that allows certain macOS services to bypass any third party firewalls and to communicate on the Internet without being even noticed by the user. A hole in the wall.

Was remediated later, but shows there is precedent.

agsnu··on Exercise intensity influences body composition in healthy older adults (2025)
The study is about 70 year olds. I’m not sure it’s a good idea for the average 70 year old to be engaging in contact sports…
agsnu··on Chase to become new issuer of Apple Card
Huh? Cashback cards on VISA/Mastercard have all but disappeared, I think Lloyds still do one but it has a promo of 1% for the first year then drops to 0.25% after. American Express will give you 0.75% on first 10k spend then 1.25%. 2% is unheard of (unless it's promo or heavily capped).
agsnu··on Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?
It's not just the WebKit bit, basically the entire app implementation is actually shipped as a "Private Framework" which lives outside the .app bundle. e.g. on macOS % otool -L /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari: /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Safari.framework/Versions/A/Safari (compatibility version 528.0.0, current version 623.1.14) /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1356.0.0)

There's a bunch of other private frameworks (SafariCore.framework, SafariFoundation.framework, SafariPlatformSupport.framework, SafariShared.framework, SafariSharedUI.framework, SafariSwift.framework) as well. I haven't checked but I assume it's similar on iOS.

agsnu··on Strace-macOS: A clone of the strace command for macOS
Barely supported by Apple these days - in addition to needing to disable SIP which is a pain, it was broken causing system freezes for several major macOS releases.
agsnu··on WinObjC – The Windows Bridge for iOS
QuickTime for Windows existed long before then, and Apple ported a bunch of the old Classic Mac Toolbox to Windows as part of that.

IIRC it was actually this Windows port of Toolbox that in some ways laid the foundation for Carbon - i.e. a port of the Toolbox API to what became Mac OS X.

agsnu··on Be Careful with Obsidian
I wouldn’t hold not being on the Mac App Store against it. The MAS is sort of a failed ecosystem with very low usage/engagement, and all the downsides of the iOS store like potentially lengthy review times (can be a lot longer than the iOS store since it seems to play second fiddle) and arbitrary capricious rejections when you’re just trying to ship innocuous bug fixes to users.
agsnu··on John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta
Huawei seem pretty committed to building their own OS and uncoupling from the Western technology stack in total

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarmonyOS_NEXT https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi24/presentation/chen-h...

agsnu··on RFC: PHP license update
737* :)
agsnu··on I Switched to UTC and Never Looked Back
Anyone remember Swatch internet time?
agsnu··on Choosing death penalty by firing squad because it's safer
Many countries find that imprisonment is an effective remedy.
agsnu··on Passing the Buck: The story of the 2022 Wings Over Dallas air show collision
I think since then it was announced that the alluded to paid gig is script work/research for https://www.youtube.com/@MentourPilot
agsnu··on Plane crashes, overturns during landing at Toronto airport
3 were critically injured, so not “no casualties” but pretty darned close all things considered
agsnu··on Smoke in the cabin of two 737 MAX caused by Load Reduction Device system [video]
Doesn't help you if the pilot flying is incapacitated by the toxic air in less than a minute, or crash in to mountains, as in the scenario posited in the video. Climbing out to an appropriate height to join the approach, reconfiguring the plane for landing etc, takes several minutes; an immediate forced 180 teardrop back to land is very challenging to execute successfully (see the tragedy at Jeju just before new year).
agsnu··on Tesla sales dropped 60% in Germany
Tesla parked near me has a bumper sticker to the effect of "I bought this before Elon went crazy, sorry"
agsnu··on Order Declassifying JFK and MLK Assassination Records [pdf]
Sounds like a bunch of work. I thought the priority was reducing waste of taxpayer dollars?
agsnu··on Commercial jet collides with Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan airport
They were almost certainly both cleared to maintain visual separation.
agsnu··on Is the world becoming uninsurable?
A significant portion of human structures are located close to the coast (seaborne trade having been a huge enabler of economic development for a few hundred years) and are exposed to flooding from rising sea levels, or built in valleys that are increasingly at risk from flooding due to far-above-long-term-historic-norms precipitation runoff (higher atmospheric temps lead to more energy in weather systems; see eg massive floods in Europe in the past few years).
agsnu··on Docker Desktop Broken on Mac OS Update for over a Week
That’s what I thought at first, but actually this seems to be not the case for Developer ID certificates? https://developer.apple.com/help/account/reference/revoking-...
agsnu··on Hyperview – Native mobile apps, as easy as creating a website
That is certainly true of Flutter, which has its own rendering pipeline. React native, if you create a Button then on iOS you'll get an actual UIButton instance constructed, etc.
agsnu··on Hyperview – Native mobile apps, as easy as creating a website
React Native actually constructs a view hierarchy in the platform's UI toolkit, so I'm curious what you mean by "still a webpage"?
agsnu··on A pilot crashed a full passenger jet into the bay, didn't lose his job (2021)
IIRC for 1549 there also wasn’t enough time to run the checklist and so they didn’t press the “ditch switch” which closes off a bunch of vents, although given the damage to the aircraft skin it’s not clear whether it would have made a difference
agsnu··on Multiple new macOS sandbox escape vulnerabilities
XPC has been in shipping platforms for more than 13 years... I suppose that is recent compared to NEXTstep :)
agsnu··on Bill Atkinson doxxed Douglas Adams in 1987
Listed as the “new address” in the screenshot…
agsnu··on The ACF plugin on the WordPress directory has been taken over by WordPress.org
Excoriated?
agsnu··on Virtualizing iOS on Apple Silicon
The overwhelming majority use ARM Macs these days
agsnu··on Virtualizing iOS on Apple Silicon
The first iPhone ran iPhone OS 1.0
agsnu··on EU privacy regulator fines Meta 91M euros over password storage
Like the USA?
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