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Going back a few years, they open source’d their media streaming server, DSS: https://github.com/macosforge/dss

As I recall, there were plenty of legitimate user gripes when the very first iteration of Snow Leopard (10.6.0) was released. But by the time of the very last point-release (10.6.11?), the OS was rock-solid. It was only after all the initial bugs were ironed out, that Snow Leopard achieved the legendary status that it has enjoyed ever since. The blogger doesn’t take this factor into account.

False dichotomy. The books could have been digitized WITHOUT being destroyed.

There’s no reason to assume that digital ebooks/documents will be accessible or readable to anyone in say 75 years. A physical book will be just as accessible today, as it will be practically forever. Okay there’s the acid paper thing but still… there’s no reason for Anthropic to destroy the books.

It aired on TV in some European countries, because at the time the actual series had not been picked up there. So for who-knows-how-many people, the alternate pilot was the only version of Twin Peaks they were ever aware of.

Reminds me of the alternate, feature-length version of the Twin Peaks pilot, created in case the series was not picked up, in which they continue the storyline set up in the first hour, and resolve the murder mystery by the end. Widely available on home video formats. (Do NOT watch this version if you intend to watch the entire series!)

Extrajudicial executions are never justified. They are normally referred to as “murders”.

>overzealous lynching did I believe sometimes cross the line

Very magnanimous of you to acknowledge that.

None of your three examples are actions that are willingly (either actively or passively) carried out collectively by people in society.

Supposed “exceptions” for the life of the mother are largely ineffective in practice. By design. https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/jun/23/all-abortion-...

I remember on my old DOS/Win3.11 machine, I imposed some order on things by only installing “minor” applications to C:\BIN, and larger programs to C:\APPS. Wanted as few top-level folders as possible. Took a bit of effort sometimes, but otherwise there’s total chaos.

I would always cringe whenever I noticed how other folks would have everything installed in the top-level folder, or sometimes in C:\WINDOWS or other random places.

If I were to do it over again today, I would do it differently: I’d install programs that are strictly for doing stuff TO the computer itself in C:\UTILS, and everything else in C:\APPS.

Awkwardly worded and delivered, but it seems his observation was that Black residents were disproportionately negatively affected by Katrina. A perfectly valid point.

I am by no means a defender of Blitzer--his interviews and his framing of issues show him to be a banal thinker--but I feel he received a lot of undeserved criticism for this utterance. Which seemed at the time to mostly come from bad-faith actors like Rush Limbaugh, taking a cheap shot.

Okay so until such time as this higher-orbit asteroid detection network is in place, let's have a moratorium on these Starlink things.

Surely you mean the Samsung/HTC/Motorola/Nokia/etc./etc. of the car world...

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Possibly this is the "Automatically rearrange Spaces..." setting in the Mission Control prefPane?

> I was blown by that feature

Is the feature Premium? Or only available in free mode? Just wondering...

The channel has now been reinstated.

Source:

https://twitter.com/GerritD/status/1409608525601443840

Some kind of Braille markings, or similar, really should be a standard part of the spec.

Tile just announced they’re partnering with Amazon so that Tile devices will participate in their ‘Sidewalk’ network. This will help them compete with the network of Apple’s billion+ ‘Find My’ devices.

https://macdailynews.com/2021/05/07/tile-teams-with-amazon-i...

Just a few days ago, Apple issued a security update (iOS 12.5.3) for the iPhone 5s, a phone that first came out in Sept. 2013. Not bad huh?

Zuck has nothing but contempt for Facebook users.

The classic Zuck quote, "They trust me — dumb fucks" still applies.

https://gawker.com/5636765/facebook-ceo-admits-to-calling-us...

> (Ever notice that when Facebook wants to reach the most people, and the most important people, it uses newspapers, rather than its own platform?)

They do this when they want to get the attention of legislators, or the gatekeepers/editors of legacy corporate media outlets.

(It’s Cmd-O, or Cmd-down-arrow.)

Hitting “enter” to open a file makes it too easy to do it accidentally. What if I didn’t mean to start up a huge app like a pro video editor or something, which takes five-ten seconds to start up?

Cmd-down-arrow is pretty darn easy to invoke from the keyboard, but not so easy that you risk opening a file you didn’t mean to.

Yes I feel your pain in that one. There’s a way to turn this off in the settings... one of the first things I do with any new Windows setup.

Another major peeve of mine: Windows lets you drag a window so that its top edge goes outside the bounds of your display. It should stop when the top edge “bumps into” the upper bound of the display: I prefer to have most windows full-height, and I have to be extremely finicky and careful when dragging documents around in Windows. On Mac this is not an issue: I can “slide” full-height windows from side to side by dragging them slightly upwards as I drag them horizontally.

This should be entertaining.

Cry more, Zuck.

Don’t you think that the main reason Canada et al recognized Guaidó, was precisely because he was the Americans’ favoured choice?

You’re really not making the point you think you are making.

Products/services are typically priced according to what the market can bear. If advertising costs become cheaper for a given company, for whatever reason, who's to say this decreased expense is going to be passed down to consumers in the form of lower prices?

Living in an advertising-saturated and/or privacy-deprived world is also a "cost" borne by members of society.

I think a lot of folks have been traumatized by their experiences with iTunes, and its default settings.

I don't know if this is still the case, but at one time installing iTunes on Windows meant that some or all of the user's default app associations for media files were hijacked. Then, because of the default iTunes settings, launching a media file for playback would always initiate a process of importing that file into the iTunes library. Whether or not the user cared about creating or maintaining such a library.

Whenever installing iTunes, for myself or others, I am careful to fine-tune the system's file associations, and even more importantly, I make sure the iTunes prefs are in line with what the user would expect/prefer. Especially the settings for 'copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library,' and 'Keep iTunes Media folder organized.'

With those two settings unchecked, the contents of the iTunes library are not duplicated or socked away in an obscure location; they're exactly where the user wants them to be. And the files don't get renamed. That's the way the media library feature behaves in the current version of VLC—and there's no reason to assume that VLC will change this behaviour, to be more like the iTunes default, just because it may change its GUI front-end.

If it's anything like the transition from PowerPC architecture to Intel, you'll be able to see this information by selecting the app package in the Finder, and invoking the "Get Info" window (cmd-I) or palette (option-cmd-I).

No, "Universal" apps in this context means these apps can run in Mac OS, either on an Intel Mac or on an Apple Silicon (ARM) Mac. Nothing at all to do with iOS, iPadOS, Windows or Linux.

And the chief of police responsible for these abuses is now the federal Minister for Public Safety. Good times.