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blokey··on Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one
Command + Uparrow.

In the Finder, look at the 'Go' menu, all those keyboard shortcuts works everywhere the file open/save window is displayed.

Like Command+Shift+D for Desktop, Command+Shift+O for Documents.

blokey··on I'll be stepping back from leading product for X
I guess.

If the town itself is an aids-ridden, nazi infested bunch of child-porn-creating yobs.

They can keep that town and its square. I'd nuke it from orbit, only way to be sure.

blokey··on macOS 28 will not support encrypted HFS+ volumes
Because APFS is slllloooowowwwwwww on HDDs. On a 6xHDD promise thunderbolt array, it’s brutally crippling over time.

One reason is APFS is designed for SSDs and assumes each disk block has an equal latency to read it.

blokey··on Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired
Royal Bank of Scotland did that to me and a few colleagues when they didn’t want to pay redundancy whilst closing the only building for us to work in.

Was a battle of wills and eventually after 5 weeks of coming into a random branch office and sitting in an empty room, we came in one Friday to be told that the manager in charge of the building closure had been removed from the project and they would be paying full redundancy pay and we didn’t have to come back in but they’d pay for the next 3 months as well.

Fun as a 21 year old.

blokey··on Judge orders restoration of Voice of America
I think that might be a "you" thing, there certainly are comments. And here's a link to APNews' comment guideline page, showing they have comment sections on lots of places in their website

https://apnews.com/community-guidelines

Unsure why you jump to "is this a bot" conclusion, seems a little odd.

blokey··on Show HN: Itsyhome – Control HomeKit from your Mac menu bar (open source)
Thank you for the reply and the time to write it.

I'm probably going to stick with Home Control but I will download and pay for yours as well, mainly to show some support and possibly to switch!

I do use Home Control via my Stream Deck, weirdly with Keyboard Maestro in the middle to receive the Stream Deck keypress and call the URI for Home Control, but there's a lot to like from what you've built.

blokey··on Show HN: Itsyhome – Control HomeKit from your Mac menu bar (open source)
Looks interesting.

What's the difference between your app and Home Control: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/homecontrol-menu-for-homekit/i... HomeControl Menu for HomeKit

other than this ones yours!

blokey··on iPhone Pocket
I may be missing what you’re after for ipad mail but isnt it under the “...” then “select” to select multiple messages?
blokey··on iPhone dumbphone
You can create and install a profile to (re)-enable it. Just by default unless a profile (or MDM) solution allows "User Linked" activation lock (via Find My), the default is only to allow "Org Linked" activation.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/deployment/depf4ab94ef...

blokey··on Google Play Store bans wallets that don't have banking license
Please don’t make such personal attacks, it doesn’t add to the conversation.

If you want to have a wallet app that is not backed by a company with a banking license, then could you not side load it?

We have basic minimum standards in our food safety, why not have them in our financial services?

You, as an expert in the field still can download any application you wish, but others that may not be an expert, are given some protection from potentially AI Slop apps that they wouldn’t understand are dangerous.

blokey··on MacBook Pro Insomnia
It's not the macOS 26, its the option is not available on Apple Silicon machines. I think it is always enabled.

https://support.apple.com/en-mn/guide/mac-help/mh40774/15.0/...

Turn Power Nap on or off for a Mac desktop computer On your Mac, choose Apple menu > System Settings, then click Energy in the sidebar. (You may need to scroll down.) Turn on Enable Power Nap. Note: This option is only available on Intel-based Mac computers.

You can see (and change) the settings via Terminal, 'pmset -g' will show the current options.

blokey··on Next month, saved passwords will no longer be in Microsoft’s Authenticator app
Would iCloud for Windows help sync things for you?

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/icloud-windows/icw2bab...

After you set up iCloud for Windows, you can use iCloud Passwords to access your passwords in Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge using a browser extension. You can also manage your passwords in the iCloud Passwords app.

blokey··on Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia
For the same reason we spent £1.8m "licensing" iText PDF for Java..... And removing it with extreme prejudice immediately afterwards.

We had very keen developer upgrade all the libraries in our codebase as a "reducing technical debt" task that they decided to undertake themselves.

They couldn't get something working and posted a stack-trace to ask for help..... Some enterprising sales person in iText saw it and emailed them offering to help and asked a question about what they were running and the developer effectively told them they were running version 5 which they didn't even check (or possibly understand) is relicensed under AGPL or commercial license.

The legal threats from iText and the resulting fallout means we now do not allow developers access to the internet from their machines, even via a proxy, they have a separate RDP machine for that.

And they can only pull in libraries that are scanned via jFrog xRay and ensure the license of said library is "acceptable".

On the plus side, means we're doing something about supply-chain vulnerabilities.

blokey··on Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia
The risk is that Apple code sign's all the executables they ship and that someone could try to use GPLv3 to force Apple to either give them their signing keys to run their own version (the anti-tivo clauses) or that it would restrict Apple from suing someone for patent infringement because they've shipped GPLv3 software.

Valid or not in anyone else's opinion, it doesn't really matter, the risk that someone will attempt to use a court to enforce one of these tends to mean companies don't want to even go near it.

Working in a Bank we won't touch anything GPL3, even to build our software/services or mobile app, because we don't want to even open that Pandora's box.

We don't have to find out if a court would try to force us to release our signing keys if we don't use or ship any code that contains language that could in some ways be phrased to do that.

blokey··on OS/2 TCPBEUI Name Resolution
VMware ESXi does.
blokey··on The Irrevocable SSL Certificates of Cloudflare
I’ve just checked my domains hosted with Porkbun and it looks similar that Cloudflare has been issuing themselves certificates for my domains.

I do trust Cloudflare and Porkbun, but it does feel a little icky to happen without /any/ feedback or being informed.

I’d at least like to see the DNS entries in the Porkbun UI!

blokey··on Amazon ditches 'just walk out' checkouts at its grocery stores
Also paying the extra premium (whether Deliveroo, Just Eat or Uber Eats) for first delivery is kinda pointless (at least here in the South West) as the drivers seem to be delivering for all the apps at the same time, so your delivery takes 35 mins for the 10 min premium delivery and sometimes they even turn off GPS after they've picked it up if they're delivering for another app first.

So expensive for a frustrating cold food delivery.

blokey··on Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union
Only if they choose the “new” terms, they can stay on the existing terms if they want to distribute through the App Store, as it’s free so the commission change doesn’t matter.

Basically seems to kill off Facebook forcing people to a Meta App Store for the free FaceBook app (and thus not being subject to App Store review, which has stopped some of the more brutal privacy invasions they’ve tried)

blokey··on Apple's new iPhone security setting keeps thieves out of your digital accounts
No, it's way more than that.

It forces an hour delay for people using the device passcode to reset the Apple ID password EXCEPT if its in a known location like home (also blocks changing the device passcode and turning off FindMy), and forces FaceID for these, even if the phone has been forced to forget the FaceID keys and require the device passcode.

And it requires FaceID without a passcode ID fallback for certain categories of authentication.

blokey··on Apple's new iPhone security setting keeps thieves out of your digital accounts
Doesn't work.

If you get the screen time password wrong a few times it will let you put the device passcode in.

blokey··on Booking.com makes a fortune – so why is it leaving its bills to hotels unpaid?
That is incorrect in the UK.

If one party wins, they do not have to pay the legal fees of the looser.

Settlement offers have no bearing on this.

If one party wins, their (reasonable) legal fees usually are paid by the loosing party. Except if the judge orders both sides to pay their own.

If you offer £10k settlement, and I refuse, and I win £5k, you’d have to give me £5k, plus pay my and your legal fees. What I don’t get to say is you offered £10k so I want that instead.

blokey··on *@gmail.com
They are not different in gmail terms.

If you have John.Doe registered, no one can register johndoe or any with or without dots version.

Gmail (rightly or wrongly, whatever) ignore the dots when creating your account and deliver any with or without dots combination to you.

You’re not receiving anyone else’s mail and no one could have registered another account with/without dots to conflict with it.

blokey··on Giving up the iPad-only travel dream
That sounds odd. Even without installing any apps from the AppStore it can do that.

Open the PDF (or print the webpage to PDF if needed), tap to insert other PDFs into that one (so assembling / merging the documents).

Drag any pages into the order you want, save the file.

What’s missing?

blokey··on How do you manage your Apple accounts at work and at home?
I think you may have missed Managed Apple IDs, they are exactly for corporate accounts. The administrator can select which services are available and also which devices they can be signed into.
blokey··on Kagi raises $670k
K=thousands....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilo-

blokey··on Google Store gave me a locked device as warranty replacement
Grindr’s not a dating app ;-)

Seriously though, that sounds like your phone is no longer serving you. Google really has moved away from its roots.

blokey··on ‘Mind-boggling’ methane emissions from Turkmenistan revealed
What the heck does same-sex marriage have to do with "crimes against nature"? Note, that same-sex relationships exist /throughout/ nature and marriage itself is not "natural".

Me thinks your biases and agenda is showing...

blokey··on EU sends Apple stark warning over USB-C charging on new iPhones
You do realize that Apple designed the connector for USB-C and donated it to the consortium.
blokey··on EU sends Apple stark warning over USB-C charging on new iPhones
That makes no sense.

If USB-C is mandated, there will never be a newer standard to replace it, because no company will invest any time or money into developing it as it would not be legal to ship it until it’s blessed by the government and it won’t be blessed until it’s got a critical mass which it can never have!

If the rest of the world mandated the Micro-USB standard at the same time as the EU previously, we would never even have USB-C! No one would have bothered to invent it.

blokey··on iOS 17 will reportedly set the stage for sideloading apps on iPhone
Who does the checking and verification that the apps are compliant with the “threshold for safety, privacy, etc”?

Apple do this now, using the Apps that pay the 30% on digital purchases to fund everyone. If they no longer make a fee from those to cover every app (including all the free ones), who pays to validate the apps?

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