More in a previous thread on the screen locking bug in particular:
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/117446172378793546
…and macOS 26/27 regressions in general:
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/117582566289104979
This I Learned Today
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/117571544087031724
Stephen Miller should never again feel untouchable or free.
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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@NosirrahSec/117584416038771811
I think we can say at this point that the disclosure-based approach is insufficient for privacy protection.
Don’t get me wrong: disclosure is great, disclosure is crucial, reporting on companies’ stated terms of service and holding them to what they said is so much better than not. It’s just insufficient. Grossly insufficient.
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RE: https://mas.to/@kims/117581580663647347
One of my all-time favorite stories. I never tire of hearing it.
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/117582291834400512
Here’s a thought worth saying out loud.
…and of course I think immediately if TeX, whose version number does not just increase forever but instead asymptotically approaches pi, on the principle that software should •converge• rather than •grow•.
(The software dates from 1978. The latest release is version 3.141592653, released in 2021.)
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tfw when someone only used the Cliff’s notes for the reading and they cheated on the homework and then the exam starts and they realize they don’t know •any• of this
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Absolutely magnificent timeline serendipity:
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So…I’m reflexively skeptical of articles like this, just because psychology / cognition research is messy and subtle and (much like diet / nutrition research) susceptible to rewarding headline-grabbing results with dubious methods. I’m doubly skeptical of such studies when their results align with my opinions.
So, with that grain of salt: this is an article that’s actually published (i.e. not a preprint, made it through peer review), and that only considered other published articles in its meta-analysis. We should at the very least take its concerns seriously, even if we don’t take them at face value.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2451958826001764
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THE IRONY IT HURTS
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I try to remember to put a CW on posts with vivid and disturbing facts or imagery (visual or verbal) that might traumatize and trigger.
I do not generally use a CW based on a post’s topic alone. That includes US politics, about which I post frequently. No “uspol” CW, sorry. I understand and respect that others prefer such CWs, and I appreciate the people who quote my posts to add the CW for •their• followers. A fine service! Just know that I didn’t “forget” the uspol CW. Follow or don’t follow accordingly.
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Shorter: Trump would sooner kill everyone, including himself, than injure his own ego.
Elected Democrats, civil institutions, other countries, people of the US, people of the world: take this week’s news as a warning and resist accordingly.
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RE: https://universeodon.com/@jaykuo/117582010602540385
Whatever Trump’s psychosis is — supremacy, narcissism, sociopathy, all these and more, who knows, the armchair diagnosis is endless — one of the key features of the psychosis is a compulsion to •prove• untouchability: “You can’t make me, you can’t touch me, I’m never wrong, it’s never my fault.”
Doubling down? Yes, times 100: his response to being put on his heels is to set everything on fire in mindless defiance — not just outright •self• destruction, but destroying •everything in sight• — because the most important thing in the world is that he can never, ever experience consequences for anything. I think he’ll sacrifice his political standing and even his power and wealth before he sacrifices his ego.
That makes him extremely weak and extremely dangerous. Both.
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P.S. My MacBook spontaneously locked the screen again •while I was typing this thread•
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With Cook and Ternus, I keep coming back to what Jobs said of Microsoft: “They just have no taste.”
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Something I always did appreciate about Steve Jobs was his willingness to refuse, just stubbornly •refuse•, to release something that didn’t work — where “work” refers to both the engineering and the experience.
Sometimes Jobs was stubborn about that to the point of mass outcry. (Think of how long you couldn’t even rearrange the apps on the iPhone home screen. Think how of long the iPhone itself spent in secret R&D!) In hindsight, however, the biggest blemishes Jobs’s product record were the times he broke that rule (e.g. MobileMe).
But now? Whew.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@markgurman/117581496076398066
While Tenus huffs investor farts, I’m living through my MacBook just randomly locking its screen multiple times per day while I am typing.
Apple users are not clamoring for fancier Siri, my dude. They are clamoring for elegantly designed devices that consistently don’t suck. That’s it.
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OK, so apparently it’s not just Macalester.
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RE: https://eupolicy.social/@bert_hubert/117571655060783901
Fascinating technical details aside, this is also a beautiful example of some underlying software truths:
- Software systems, even extremely well-specified ones, are not logical abstractions. They are real, complex, messy artifacts
- formed by human consensus, not just specification
- and •reified• by implementation
- which in turn becomes a new ingredient of that consensus, not just a fulfillment of it
- in ways that can be surprising to everyone involved (including the specifiers and the implementers).
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Stephen Miller terrorized, kidnapped, and murdered my neighbors.
This is not some vague figurative sloganeering thing. I can take you on a walk from my house and point out the spots where they took people. I know multiple people who had relatives abducted by ICE, including citizens. My wife personally knew Alex Pretti, and found out he died when she saw his face on the news.
Stephen Miller. This was his brainchild. This was his fantasy. This is on his hands. Just so we’re clear.