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The fact that Apple OSes and apps for them feel faster only because they didn't jump on the whole multi-platform Electron garbage should make developers think about their decisions. But it doesn't.
@mischievoustomato actually there are still plenty of X11 window managers still working. Macports also still let's you install X11 builds of many applications over their aqua counterparts and they are still marked as known goods.
@RedTechEngineer @mischievoustomato that's really pathetic. I remember when macOS X had its own official X server that you could install. GTK Wayland applications run just as natively on Haiku OS as QT applications do.
@mitchconner @RedTechEngineer @mischievoustomato The official client was Xorg. I think they dropped official support for it somewhere around 10.8. Probably to lock their ecosystem even more.
You also have companies who focus a lot on their "brand" meaning they want e.g. Spotify to be the same black-and-green everywhere. Their marketing and design teams spent a lot of time picking out that shade of Mountain Dew green, so you must see it and acknowledge its excellence in its pure form, as originally provided by the company.
@bruh_momento @mischievoustomato The dream of a unified app across platforms should have never existed. Your app shouldn't work the same on computers as it does on a phone. Both paradigms of computing are almost always mutually incompatible.
The reason why it became reality is because normies get confused when apps don't look exactly the same everywhere.
@RedTechEngineer @mischievoustomato fail-fox and various forks are finally available for Haiku, rather recently, I remember when Mozilla was still Netscape and we called it nutscrape
Your enlightened self interest gives you power and structure at the cost of intimacy. To be a Machiavellian is to betray the raw potentiality of life for a false pragmaticism. Relinquish control, get over yourself, and allow yourself to love vulnerably.
There was this old duke who, a bit sloshed at the time, was handed a bottle of a new type of condiment for his beef. He looked at the bottle suspiciously and slurred, "Hey. Wuss dishere sauce?" Rather than make their boss look bad the servants just said, "Yep." and the name stuck.
My AI says: The pronunciation of "Worcestershire" varies, but the most widely accepted and correct pronunciation, especially in British English and for the sauce, is "Woo-stuh-sheer".
Reader's Digest says: So you’ll start the word off by saying “wooster” and finish with the British “shire,” as in “Woostershire.”
Stackexchange has someone saying "Ironically, a person from Worcestershire would most likely say something like /ˈwʊstərʃər/ "
Not seeing anywhere with just the wooster 2 syllables.
UK person here... Worcester is a city, lacks the 'shire' both in spelling and pronunciation. Worcestershire is a county, has the 'shire' both in spelling and pronunciation. Worcestershire sauce is a condiment... and the label spells it in full, and I pronounce it in full. But Wikipedia suggests that some don't.
First time I saw the spelling, I pronounced it war chester shire. The common pronunciation where I was brought up was worst uh sher. Then a friend told me his English grandmother said wooster sauce.
Sometimes the people to whom a name pertains pronounce it differently from everyone else. The capital city of South Dakota is Pierre. The people who live there pronounce it Pear.
I've heard that the Nez Perce (a native American ethnic group) pronounce it nezz peersee. Of course it's the French that gave them that name. They call themselves nimíipuu.
The last time I visited the UK (more than 40 years ago) a TV ad kept urging me to become a "Lester investor." They were actually saying "Leicester investor."
I worked in the Surrey town of Godalming - a very pretty town. But when I first arrived the agent at the rail ticket office refused to sell me a ticket, he claimed that the place I was asking for did not exist.
I was saying "God-all-ming". I pointed at the map. He said "Oh, you mean 'Got-ul-ming'. He sold me a ticket only after I was able to demonstrate that I got the pronunciation right.
The last time I visited the UK (more than 40 years ago) a TV ad kept urging me to become a “Lester investor.” They were actually saying “Leicester investor.”
And if I'm not mistaken. that advert was also Fry and Laurie!
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Rory discusses a concept he coined in which companies will simplify a problem, solve for that simplified problem, yet be left with a sub-optimal outcome! #ro...
I re-found this old ad I saw years ago. Apparently it's 11 years old. Where they took a cat's head and tail and photoshopped it onto a golden retriever.
It's obvious what they did. But, despite that, it's hilarious. Absurd, but the jank is funny. Just thought of it when someone was talking to me about AI videos with fake animals.
Like many ads, I do not understand what they are advertising, though this ad would make sense if they were literally advertising oxygen (get out and get more air, as a public PSA), but obviously that's not the case.
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Compassion seeks to help by raising a person up out of their misery. At the end, a problem has been solved, and you are both okay.
Empathy seeks to help by making yourself as miserable as the other person, under the theory that misery loves company. At the end, no problems have been solved, and you’re both miserable.
Pay close attention to which one your religion considers a virtue.
She closed her eyes and whispered, God, grant me patience, for this burden is heavy. She sat on her baby bel cheese to wait and wait for it to be the appropriate temperature.
Who was bitching about the COVID vaccines getting de-approved? Wishing ill upon Saint RFK Jr? I forget some lib media assholes. Anyway, here's looking forward to chemo *der clink!* thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/f…
A bombshell peer-reviewed study out of Italy has just shattered the narrative peddled by Big Pharma, corporate media, and government health bureaucrats.
Trump wants to forcibly remove the 2,000,000+ Gazans from their homeland and ship them off to some desert country.
The entire population of Gaza would be relocated and the United States would take control of the Palestinian territory under a plan being considered by the Trump regime.
AMD labelling their new mobile CPUs as "Ryzen AI" when they have a little NPU or something is very funny and definite proof that we are not in a bubble whatsoever
When an article says "some scientists think" then remember this: I, a scientist, once thought I could fit a whole orange in my mouth. I could, it turns out, get it in there, but I hadn't given sufficient thought to the reverse operation.
There is an SF short story by Eric Frank Russell with the title "Into Your Tent I'll Creep." It's relevant to this post. Extraterrestrial aliens come to Earth and find that they can communicate telepathically with the most intelligent species on Earth -- and that species is not humans.
The title is from a song by Harry B. Smith and Francis Wheeler, with music by Ted Snyder. It's a jazz standard.
I'm the Sheik of Araby, Your love belongs to me. At night when you're asleep, Into your tent I'll creep.
One of my favorite programs for the Mac is from a company called Objective Development -- Little Snitch -- and it's a host-based firewall that alerts you anytime something on your computer tries to reach the Internet for the first time (or you can set to always ask all the time, which I wouldn't recommend just because of the alert volume). I personally like to know what programs and apps are doing and with whom they are communicating, and this app is a useful if imperfect way of doing that.
The most jarring aspect of Little Snitch is how some programs suddenly phone home but you have no idea what's going on because the requested IP is some shared Amazon cloud server or something. Even after spending a few minutes digging on the IP, you probably still won't find a hostname and you're no closer to gauging whether you should allow the connection or not. But most of the time the program is silent, operating the background to block or allow various connections that you have specified previously.
Anyway, what I wanted to share that's neat about Little Snitch is when you install an app that you've had on your phone or iPad onto your Mac, suddenly you have a much better idea of where (if not who) your apps are communicating with, and maybe even a little more info about what these apps are actually doing in the background.
The other thing that can be challenging for newbies with Little Snitch is that it can be tough to figure out how to undo an IP or hostname block if it turns out you blocked something like a common CDN or authentication script.
It would be nice if Little Snitch would show at least a bit of sample about what kind of data was transmitted (besides of the ports/protocols), but that would likely require local TLS certificate authority (or similar) for inspecting contents of the encrypted connections.
I also watch every alert and decide whether to all until quit or until restart. I’m frustrated that there seems to be no index or guide to common types. When searching I want to accept the minimum that will allow me To read text and see images, nothing more and then only until quit. *.cdn.* seem safe and “tag” or “doubleclick” seem unnecessary. Any other guides?
For desktop Linux, there's something similar called OpenSnitch. I can't vouch for it because I haven't used it, but I think I read about it a few years ago in Linux [Pro] Magazine.
back in the good old days of earlier OSX when piracy was a little more common for Mac "apps", Little Snitch was often the only piece of software certain people would buy because it was the most reliable way to stop all your pirated apps from phoning home.
I’ve been using Little Snitch for many years and find it invaluable. When I installed the Vivaldi browser I let Little Snitch show me what each site does. Frightening at t
Ive been using Little Snitch for years. I use some of objective-see’s tools as well but prefer Little Snitch for monitoring. When I installed the Vivaldi browser I let Little Snitch show me what each site was doing under the hood. Frightening.
my approach Buy Mac Pay cash Have usb with little snitch In the shop Boot Mac Configure privacy first No internet Install little snitch Load profile to block all telemetry from apple based on Michael bazzel Start internet
For me, on my Android phone, it's Glasswire, and it indicated recently a first network connectionan app for a phone I've had for years, with the app install/last updated date of 2008 which predators my phone and glassware app. "AudioMirroring".
Many years ago I used to have a firewall like that. Probably on W95 or in the (DR-)DOS era. No idea any more with OS/2 2.1. I guess nothing ever replaced it.
Excellent app. You can also download and install publicly available blocklists of thousands of tracking sites. I found I didn’t have the patience to analyze outgoing destinations for every app. The blocklists probably miss some problematic sites, but using them seems like an easy win.
I've been using it for years. Another frustrating aspect is how perfectly valid phone home requests, even some by the OS itself, manage to look very suspicious and require a bit of digging on the Interweb before feeling safe.
I wish Apple would use apple[dot]com URLs (or similar).
I became a convert after switching back to macOS a few years ago - it's really handy when you juggle open source and commercial product dev and need to make sure things work as advertised on the network side; if you write code using open source dependencies (aka everyone writing code) you absolutely need something like this as an additional layer of defense on the supply chain side
One of my favorite programs for the Mac is from a company called Objective Development -- Little Snitch -- and it's a host-based firewall that alerts you anytime something on your computer tries to reach the Internet for the first time (or you can set to always ask all the time, which I wouldn't recommend just because of the alert volume). I personally like to know what programs and apps are doing and with whom they are communicating, and this app is a useful if imperfect way of doing that.
The most jarring aspect of Little Snitch is how some programs suddenly phone home but you have no idea what's going on because the requested IP is some shared Amazon cloud server or something. Even after spending a few minutes digging on the IP, you probably still won't find a hostname and you're no closer to gauging whether you should allow the connection or not. But most of the time the program is silent, operating the background to block or allow various connections that you have specified previously.
Anyway, what I wanted to share that's neat about Little Snitch is when you install an app that you've had on your phone or iPad onto your Mac, suddenly you have a much better idea of where (if not who) your apps are communicating with, and maybe even a little more info about what these apps are actually doing in the background.
OK so the first thing you need to know is you're going to be hearing some very weird shit about Giuliani and a lady that happened the night of the accident, and what you need to remember is that it was TOTALLY UNRELATED and TOTALLY NORMAL. RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jmte4…
What we're seeing in the UK (predominantly England) today is simply thinly-veiled racism dressed up as patriotism. Just call it what it is: scapegoating immigrants for problems created by decades of government policy and corporate greed.
To obtain the Blackwall Quickhack in Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, you need to complete the "Somewhat Damaged" mission after choosing to help Solomon Reed during the "Firestarter" quest. Inside the Experimental Prototyping room, you can find the blueprint for the Blackwall Quickhack, which requires either a special passcode or a Technical Ability of 15 or higher to access.
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state needs to do this!
Yesterday I messaged my governor, Bob Ferguson, asking him to do something so anyone in Washington State who wants the COVID-19 vaccine can get it. Maybe I’ll message him again so I can attach these screenshots.
I encourage everyone to contact your governor and sec of health to increase access of covid vaccines as NM is doing. I did and also asked them to form a state coalition for public health as the Northeast is doing but in the West/Midwest. I also asked if the state could buy vaccines in bulk in anticipation of further restrictions and possible eventual banning of the covid vaccine. The CDC can no longer be trusted to provide evidence and science-based guidance. #PublicHealth
Either CVS hasn't read the memo yet, or their system is absolutely *plowed* with appointments, or (most likely) their website is a howling piece of shit, because it won't even schedule me for the flu shot. So unless that changes PDQ, I guess I keep my appointment next weekend in (blecch) Texas.
How ever, there is one rule every broadcaster must follow! If I'm broadcasting or if someone is, everyone must message the other person first, for example, if I'm doing the coffee pot and you wanna do a show, you have to message me first. This is a fair rule. This insures that no one asks why they can't connect their incoders to the station. This rule only applies if someone is broadcasting and someone else wants to connect.
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he’s an awesome guy and I’m so glad I can see his posts again! Heh
tell me what it is! And I wanna give ya something over fedi. It’s a post. But it might take time.
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Unknown parent • • •@bruh_momento @mischievoustomato The dream of a unified app across platforms should have never existed. Your app shouldn't work the same on computers as it does on a phone. Both paradigms of computing are almost always mutually incompatible.
The reason why it became reality is because normies get confused when apps don't look exactly the same everywhere.
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