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They didn't say they are going to support macOS only.

I feel your pain! I was furious when I learned that Slack disallowed running their iOS app on M1 Macs. They specifically opted out of this, so everyone would continue suffering their "desktop" client.

> It's difficult to hire macOS developers.

Replace 'macOS' with any native platform name, and you'll get the whole reason behind Electron proliferation. It's just cheaper to make something with Electron, if you are a software development business.

It doesn't matter. The fact is Kaspersky (the company) can be coerced by the Russian government to exploit their highly privileged systems access to millions of computers around the globe.

I don't expect Kaspersky (the person) to play hero under these circumstances.

Note, no support for hardware encoding was announced by Qualcomm. Decoding only. This seems to repeat the trajectory of VP9, where it exists and is supported solely thanks to YouTube, while the whole world is utilising H.265 for everything else, including recording video on smartphones.

It very well may be AV1 and H.266 will play the same roles in the future.

Files drag n drop

MobileMe didn't work for anyone in the world (parts of the service) in the first month after the launch.

I've been Synergy user years ago but then I got fed up with amount of issues that simply couldn't be resolved (third mouse button issues, wrong key mappings, special keys pressed during crossing the boundary could mess things up on the new computer). So in the end I just put two keyboard and mice for two computers on the table.

Synergy left the impression as something opposite of "it just works".

Russian air fleet was essentially grounded by the sanctions, so it seems to be a tit-for-tat tactics.

TL;DR Cogent did what Putin was doing for the last decade: destroying free internet in Russia.

Short answer: immediate mode architecture versus tile-based deferred rendering architecture. The latter is designed for power saving.

It's not apples to apples comparison; to get the most out of each of those two you'll have to write two different rendering paths in code.

They are accessible to third party developers, only they have to use CoreML.

I guess it's a clumsy attempt to proactively prevent anti-war protest by detaining potential protestors.

You severely underestimate the cost of the palace. It's in ballpark of a billion USD.

Not necessarily. Jailbroken device is needed to produce decrypted dump which is packaged back into an application file. This file then can be signed with a third party service using either an enterprise account or the personal user account (in which case it must be re-signed periodically).

They were sanctioned, so they had to.

I think I have the answer.

2008, Georgia. Russian Air Force loses at least 9 aircraft. Georgian minuscule airforce remained grounded. The losses are considered catastrophic inside Russian military command, and overall performance of Air Force was appraised as the worst among branches of military forces.

In 2010s there's a string of assassinations happen in Ukraine and Bulgaria. Different people are targeted, from ex-military to weapon mogul Gebrev. What connects them? They all were part of the weapon sales chain that provided Georgia with anti-air defences. Bizarrely, Russian state media is openly accusing some of the victims in doing exactly this: selling anti-air weapons to Georgia.

Clearly, a vendetta is taking place. Killing those people wouldn't do anything positive for whatever future Russia was planning. And since the story starts with military campaign and ends with undercover hits, it must be Putin behind this, as he's the only person in command of both military and special forces committing the murders.

Syria. Russian Air Force enters the fray. But unlike Assad's they are flying their ground attack planes pretty high, way above range of manpads that are responsible for thinning out Syrian Air Force. Clearly, avoidance is put above target precision. Later, a single Russian aircraft is downed by Turkish defence. The relations between countries are soured, but only for a while.

What can we conclude? For whatever reason Putin hates losses in air force. Specifically, in military planes (it seems Russian helicopters aren't enjoying that privilege). I can't presume what this reason might be. But Putin's actions over the last 15 years seem to fit the narrative.

First of all, I don't question you right to do what you are decided to do. And I wish all of your staff members and their families & friends to be safe. But I do have a question:

Did you, as some commenters say, decided to terminate services based on nationality rather than place of residency? If so, then it looks like a poorly planned decision. Overwhelming majority of Russians living abroad are against the war and Putin. In fact, many have left Russia because of its president.

Why don't you use an ad blocker of your choice?

> I hate Apple’s right to repair BS It seems they've concluded it's unavoidable and announced their program for selling parts, tools and providing repair manuals to anyone interested.

I've been through similar experience, but with LG. By similar I mean no repair in service for a phone under warranty. This has happened 15 years ago or more, but since then I'm avoiding all LG products. My stance hasn't changed in years; in fact now I'm more convinced in my position after hearing anecdotes from people I know about their service troubles with LG.

Actually, this shows why using Google Drive as a backup storage may be a bad idea.

.DS_Store is pretty neat solution to store folder-specific metadata. Whenever a user changes settings on how contents of the folder are displayed the file gets created. And since .DS_Store is a local file it is portable. Nothing breaks when folder is moved anywhere. Some programs use that to present a simple drag'n'drop installation picture. You don't need anything else, just a folder with correctly positioned files and custom background image.

I wouldn't call it a bad solution.

My experience begs to differ. Until the original copyright owner files the complain with Apple (as author was suggested to do when he mentioned other Wordle clones), Apple may do nothing. Especially, when copyright violation is not obvious.

I doubt any company who abused data tracking on App Store would be surprised by a rejection email. The only question they will have is "what exact part of our tracking they noticed?"

No. It is supposed to mitigate these things. In a complex real world system there's no such thing as perfect security.

What Apple stands to gain from a backdoor? It's clear what the cost of risk is, but what is the gain?

That's just a mitigation for tens of millions of lines of code written in C / C++.

Just click "learn more" button and you'll see step by step examples of the language features.

A quick take on the front page can't possibly explain much about a language, maybe just a sample of syntax? I don't know why it would've been useful.

It's weird that former Apple engineers don't explain how IDFA which is blocked by answering "ask app not to track" works. It is the only thing that's prevented by Apple, and the rest lies on the developer. Try to circumvent it, and risk ban (of course some apps are still trying, driven by their risk/reward calculations but bans aren't unheard of).

Another thing, the "ask app not to track" doesn't mean that data won't be collected. It means that this particular user must not be identifiable across different apps / web sites, even if personally identifiable data is being sent. Authors completely ignore this point.