lvillani

قبل 8 أيامdiscuss

Interesting. OpenRouter classifies the Moonshot provider as ZDR. I wonder whether they have a ZDR agreement or it's a misclassification on their part.

lvillani

قبل 3 أشهرdiscuss

Not the OP, but I just downloaded the latest stub from an M2 MacBook Air using Safari and it appears to be an x86_64-only binary:

  % file /Volumes/Steam/Steam.app/Contents/MacOS/steam_osx 
  /Volumes/Steam/Steam.app/Contents/MacOS/steam_osx: Mach-O universal binary with 1 architecture: [x86_64:Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64]
  /Volumes/Steam/Steam.app/Contents/MacOS/steam_osx (for architecture x86_64): Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64

lvillani

قبل 3 سنواتdiscuss

It is only kept on the device.

Sources:

- https://www.apple.com/business-docs/FaceID_Security_Guide.pd...

- https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204587

- https://support.apple.com/guide/security/welcome/web

lvillani

قبل 6 سنواتdiscuss

On macOS you can search menu items via Shift–Command–QuestionMark (or by opening the Help menu). Most toolbar actions are also exposed as menu items, so this lets you essentially search for almost every function of every application that plugs into standard macOS frameworks.

Some applications have features that extend beyond what can be surfaced through the standard menu bar but the infrastructure is there for "normal" apps.

Ubuntu used to have something similar in earlier versions of Unity. It would surface Gtk and Qt menu trees in a searchable interface.

lvillani

قبل 6 سنواتdiscuss

Some apps offer to move themselves to /Applications on first launch.

Still, there's the possibility of users clicking "Cancel". Even then, it's a bit more code to write, test and pay for (from the POV of a client).

Wrapping the bundle inside a .pkg instead of a .dmg solves the problem "for free".

lvillani

قبل 6 سنواتdiscuss

Another reason could be to ensure that you have at most one copy of the application ever, since you can force it to install stuff always at the same location.

On an unrelated product we learned that users ended up with many different copies of the app scattered throughout the system, if they were allowed to use the traditional bundle + DMG distribution method. Spotlight would then helpfully pick one random copy, with obvious consequences wrt. project file versioning. That is despite the DMG having the usual symlink to /Applications for a drag-and-drop installation.

lvillani

قبل 6 سنواتdiscuss

You have to take into account the helper and renderer processes. A freshly launched instance takes around 250 MB on my system. It consumes more as you open files that trigger lazy loading of additional extensions. Still less than other IDEs, though.

lvillani

قبل 8 سنواتdiscuss

Yes! Thanks for releasing this and making my life easier :)

I have an old app deployed to App Engine. The app itself is rock solid and chugging along fine (I touch it once a year or so), but I dreaded having to deploy it due to the lack of vendoring support and other... peculiarities of the Go runtime. Glad to see this is no longer an issue!

lvillani

قبل 8 سنواتdiscuss

AFAIK Google doesn't do that anymore.

Source: https://www.blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-tractio...

lvillani

قبل 8 سنواتdiscuss

FastMail. It's one of the few third party hosts to support push email on iOS with the native Mail app (it's a custom protocol based on APNS), since Mail doesn't implement IMAP IDLE [1].

They are also the main sponsors behind the JMAP protocol [2] and some open source projects such as the Cyrus IMAP server.

[1]: https://fastmail.blog/2016/12/21/what-we-talk-about-when-we-... [2]: https://jmap.io

lvillani

قبل 8 سنواتdiscuss

It depends.

I used to have my own email server.

Having to manage yet another public server is a stress on its own. Having to worry about server backups, security, DKIM, SPF, DMARC, avoid being blacklisted, etc made it even worse. Despite all of this I couldn't shake off the feeling that my mails went directly to the recipient's spam folder.

I'm not interested in maintaining mail servers. I can certainly do it, but my spare time is scarce.

Nowadays, I periodically sync all mailboxes to my laptop, so that they enter the backup chain I already have. If GSuite goes down or Google disables my account, I'll upload my backups to Fastmail, point the MX records there and go on with my life.

I find this setup way easier to understand and maintain than a mail server.

lvillani

قبل 8 سنواتdiscuss

I read this as HipChat’s own export function having problems handling large amounts of data.

I’m not sure how this is Mattermost’s fault.

lvillani

قبل 8 سنواتdiscuss

> since modern thermal pastes are non-conductive, there is no real downside to an enthusiastic application of paste except for making a mess

I recently re-applied thermal paste (an old Arctic MX-2 I had lying around) on a late 2013 MacBook Pro which has bare-die CPU and GPU. The first time I did it, I applied too much paste and it had an observable negative effect on thermal dissipation. Once I applied the correct amount, I got slightly better results than stock paste.

lvillani

قبل 8 سنواتdiscuss

I tried to create a secondary email address on Gmail and Outlook.com and they both required me enter a phone number.

Ended up using Protonmail instead, which allowed me to register with username and password and nothing else.

lvillani

قبل 8 سنواتdiscuss

His knowledge is solid, sure, but would you really want to work with someone who has such a strong inclination to cheat and deceive? I certainly wouldn't.

lvillani

قبل 8 سنواتdiscuss

I strongly doubt that they were able to shrink Darwin/iOS down to the Cortex M0+ that the AirPods have. I would love to be proven wrong, though.

lvillani

قبل 9 سنواتdiscuss

> written by Zuse (after whom SuseLinux is named)

I was under the impression that SuSE (now SUSE) stood for "Software und System Entwicklung" (Software and System Development, translated from German), are we referring to the same Linux distribution?

lvillani

قبل 9 سنواتdiscuss

> I wish there was an equally useful feature to get back to the bottom.

WhatsApp shows a small button in the lower-right corner once you scroll up a few messages for this purpose. iMessage scrolls back to the bottom as soon as you focus the input field. I don't know about the others.

But yeah, it highly depends on how the developers decide to implement it, which is suboptimal :(

lvillani

قبل 9 سنواتdiscuss

If you think this is weird, what about the "shake to undo" thing? :-)

Seriously, try to e.g. delete an email from the system's mail app, then vigorously shake your phone in anger. A popup asking you to "Undo delete" should appear on the screen (Many applications hook into this seemingly standard undo mechanism on iOS).

Some things in iOS are objectively weird and unintuitive but I miss them so much whenever I use an Android phone.

lvillani

قبل 9 سنواتdiscuss

> on iPhone X when you accidentally click top left corner of the phone where the clock is - for some inexplicable reason the whole conversation scrolls all the way to the top, which is incredibly annoying!

That's by design and standard iOS behaviour (it has been there for years). Tapping anywhere on the system toolbar (i.e. where the clock, wifi, signal strength indicators are) brings the main scrollable view to its "topmost" position.

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