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My Email to Tim Cook(substack.com)
6 points by ryannielsen 1y ago|1 comments
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by ryannielsen 8y ago
From Apple's own two-factor account support documentation: "While [Apple Support] can answer your questions about the account recovery process, we can't verify your identity or expedite the process in any way." Even if y
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by ryannielsen 8y ago
Apple still does this kind of crap. Not for users who've opted into two-factor authentication: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204915 From the page: Do I still need to remember any security questions? No. W
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by ryannielsen 11y ago
> Some parts of the filesystem become off limits, even as root. But installers have access! Point of clarification: only Apple-signed installers can modify system paths. (c.f. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204899
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by ryannielsen 11y ago
> Apple can [sic] starts using the new Trusted Computing[4] features on new CPUs (such as SGX[5]), good luck regaining control. It seems the apocalypse came to pass a while back, with the Secure Enclave in Apple's A7 processors. &gt
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by ryannielsen 11y ago
I'm idly curious: what were your "symlink issues with /usr/bin/"? As with other unices, /usr is system-owned and anything not under the /usr/local hierarchy may be modified or destroyed during OS
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by ryannielsen 11y ago
If you're looking to hide your activity from malware, you should be incredibly excited by SIP. With SIP enabled, you have more protection from malware introspecting other processes or monitoring activity on the system. Hell, if you&#
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by ryannielsen 11y ago
Improved privacy is one benefit https provides. There are two other benefits worth considering: authentication and integrity. Without https, there is no way trust a site's identity, and no guarantees the data you're receiving was
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by ryannielsen 12y ago
The "pcapd capability" is iOS's remote virtual interface. https://developer.apple.com/library/Mac/qa/qa1176/_index.htm... OS 5 added a remote virtual interface (RVI) facility that lets
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Tumult Hype 2 and Hype Reflect for iOS – for Creating HTML5 Content(blog.tumult.com)
29 points by ryannielsen 13y ago|0 comments
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by ryannielsen 13y ago
It was signed with a Developer ID; thus, by definition, it could not have been distributed in the store. Anything distributed through the App Store is signed by Apple. Developer ID signed binaries can only be distributed outside of the stor
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A classic bug(dadhacker.com)
5 points by ryannielsen 14y ago|0 comments
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Myth busting the HTML5 performance of transform:translate vs. top/left(blog.tumult.com)
11 points by ryannielsen 14y ago|6 comments
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Tumult Hype 1.6's New Features - now with CSS Filter Effects(tumult.com)
45 points by ryannielsen 14y ago|2 comments
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
I suggest you look at the author of the comment to which you replied, and compare his name to the author of the article…
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Keeping Safari a secret(donmelton.com)
283 points by ryannielsen 14y ago|102 comments
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NORAD Tracks Santa (with Open Web standards)(hacks.mozilla.org)
5 points by ryannielsen 14y ago|0 comments
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When I first heard the name "Safari"(donmelton.com)
350 points by ryannielsen 14y ago|177 comments
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Apple and Twitter(patrickbgibson.tumblr.com)
17 points by ryannielsen 14y ago|1 comments
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
If I'm arguing a straw man, you're arguing a red herring. There is no "RDF" at play here. Form absolutely does impact function. In fact, form distinctly defines function. Please, state a cogent argument otherwise.
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
So… you'd rather carry around a briefcase with an attached external handset as a cellphone, rather than a somewhat modern cellphone? What about carrying around a laptop with a tethered cellphone vs. a smartphone? If you prefer the latter op
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
It doesn't just look thinner. It is thinner. Yes, there is a hump around the base's hinge, but it is still significantly, noticeably thinner – per the article, the machine's volume was reduced by 40%.
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Introducing CSS FilterLab(adobe.com)
6 points by ryannielsen 14y ago|0 comments
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Regime Change(appleoutsider.com)
11 points by ryannielsen 14y ago|0 comments
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About Fusion Drive(support.apple.com)
24 points by ryannielsen 14y ago|10 comments
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
So, what exactly is untrue about what I said? Potentially nothing, but it is all anecdotal. Where's the widespread or researched evidence of HFS (especially in its HFS+ or HFSX variants) being a slow and easily corruptible file system? It
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
The whole "it's not a cache" thing is a canard. Doing it right means doing it much like swap: you may have dupes in certain cases. Going beyond that actually hurts performance. It's fundamentally not a cache. If it were a cache, Fusion
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Understanding Apple's Fusion Drive(anandtech.com)
4 points by ryannielsen 14y ago|0 comments
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
On a typical HHD, under typical circumstances, all writes go to the SSD, and are copied to the HDD later on. So far so good; Apple's solution will do the same thing. And stuff being read gets copied to the SSD in both cases. Also great. T
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by ryannielsen 14y ago
Steve Jobs at D8: ‘PCs are going to be like trucks’ Yep. Not dead, not by any stretch of the imagination, but certainly not as ubiquitous as other devices. http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/2010/06/02/steve-jobs-at...

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