luckman212

2044: "What's a programmer?" the child asks his father innocently. "Well you see son, humans used to be needed to instruct the machines on what to do..."

> "Even the name ’RadioShack’—can you imagine two less appealing words placed next to one another?”

This made me chuckle.

Love hearing stories like this about unfiltered, unfettered (and slightly insane) childhood play. Parents today don't even let their kids walk 2 blocks to school unsupervised, lest something terrible happen.

Previous discussions:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37526477 (2023-09-15, 326 points)

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35104406 (2023-03-11, 73 points)

I strongly disagree for these reasons:

- note data stored in a proprietary format

- no way to access note data from other apps/api

- no way to export in bulk, or in any other format than PDF (a terrible format for notes)

- iCloud sync is a mildly terrifying thing to entrust important data to

I use Apple Notes for the occasional quick grocery list but that's about it.

Up to v1.3.0 now, which has added a LaunchAgent to keep the settings updated and ensure the nags don't recur.

Update: v1.1.0 supports macOS 15.1, and adds an optional MDM profile (self-contained) to suppress the alerts globally.

Update 2: I made a little thing: https://github.com/luckman212/screencapture-nag-remover

I wrote this as a simple way to block and manage the annoying monthly nags that pop up when apps request screen capture permissions on macOS 15. I'm talking about messages like

"Foo" is requesting to bypass the system private window picker and directly access your screen and audio. This will allow Foo to record your screen and system audio, including personal or sensitive information that may be visible or audible.

Update: there's a simple unencrypted plist that controls this. Apparently "fixing" it is as simple as writing the app path along with a date far in the future using `defaults write`... eg

    defaults write ~/Library/Group\ Containers/group.com.apple.replayd/ScreenCaptureApprovals.plist "/Applications/CleanShot X.app/Contents/MacOS/CleanShot X" -date "3024-09-23 12:00:00 +0000"

So a timestamp per app bundle (name) is being saved somewhere on disk apparently. Anyone know where? Rather than muck around with my system clock (which can cause other problems I'd rather not deal with) I'd love to just poke the right values into whatever sqlite db they are probably storing this in.

What a miserable change this is. Apple is having its "Vista" moment.

This is a Python program to back up messages from a Fastmail mailbox via JMAP API to a local or network-attached directory.

Standing on the shoulders of the great work of Nathan Grigg[0], I've updated and extended it with a few new features. The README contains instructions for running it locally, or via Docker if you prefer.

Hope it's useful to someone, let me know if you encounter issues.

[0]: https://nathangrigg.com/2021/08/fastmail-backup/

San Junipero is a great Black Mirror episode that I was reminded of when I read this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Junipero

Can you please cite some recent examples of this clownlike behavior?

I get the feeling arjvik's comment was meant to be sarcasm.

My dumb brain had to read it 3 times before realizing that by saying "the findings were not inconsistent with what I'd expect" you meant "the findings _were_ consistent with what I'd expect"

Anyone know of a good guide for configuring windows_exporter and setting up alerts based on that data? I was tasked with monitoring some Windows endpoints for a memory leak and I failed in my attempts so far.

Strange. Mine shows up as a Universal binary:

    $ file -b '/Applications/Beyond Compare.app/Contents/MacOS/BCompare'
    Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures: [x86_64:Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64] [arm64]
    /Applications/Beyond Compare.app/Contents/MacOS/BCompare (for architecture x86_64): Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
    /Applications/Beyond Compare.app/Contents/MacOS/BCompare (for architecture arm64): Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64

I would suggest re-downloading...

Since about 10 minutes ago, getting partially-loading pages, API failures, image loading failures, and general slowness. Nothing officially announced yet. I am in US/East.

Been waiting for 1.0.0 for a bit. This is super nice!

That's good news! I don't think I could stomach another global disaster after the climate fails. /s

Neat! I must try this.

Ironically the "Report an issue" link on https://fastmailstatus.com is down too...

update: that seems to be back up now.

What's your favorite primer on tcpdump syntax? I don't know why, but I always have to go back to my notes for anything even mildly complex.

I put together a small commandline tool to help catch these developer cert-swap situations. I wrapped it up in a LaunchAgent to periodically check and alert to this condition.

https://github.com/luckman212/cscheck

lock: ctrl + cmd + Q

logout: cmd + shift + Q

Also came here for a lively discussion of luncheon meat. Was disappointed.

It's nowhere near as fast as Everything on Windows, but Find Any File[0] aka FAF is a lifesaver for me and I consider it "indispensable" on macOS.

[1] https://findanyfile.app

It's turtles all the way down

I remember around 10 years ago when iCloud Photo Stream (the predecessor to today's iCloud Photos) first appeared. At that time, Apple still had a fairly decent reputation for software quality. Things have markedly deteriorated since.

Even then, something didn't sit right about uploading every photo I snap into some giant black box in the sky—encrypted or not. I never once switched this feature on. Not that I'm taking lots of NSFW pictures or anything, but, maybe there were a few.

I sleep well at night not worrying whether this bug turns out to be real. I'll back up my own photos, thanks. And I'll delete them on my own schedule.