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I don't know how Apple has evaded regulatory scrutiny for their refusal to sign Nvidia's eGPU drivers since 2018.

Not true. Here is a mirror of an image posted earlier in this thread: https://i.postimg.cc/MK86WX6s/TEmek6j.png

I've tried several times before to install syncserver using those pip instructions, on multiple platforms, without success.

Apple now continues to support older operating systems with security updates, allowing users to remain on iOS 18 without immediate pressure to update or forfeit critical patches. This makes it much easier for users to remain on older software.

This is an incredible untruth to end this article on. MacRumors' own reporting (https://www.macrumors.com/2025/12/19/ios-18-forced-ios-26-up...) showed Apple denying the existing iOS 18.7.3 security update to iPhones, and then shutting down the beta channel workaround the same day that MR drew attention to it, leaving iOS 26.2 as the only option.

What was the root question of law?

I want to be optimistic, but Dye was just a symptom. The rot in modern Apple design must run much deeper.

For CLIs - most reasonable commands either have a `-h`, `--help`, `-help`, `/?`, or what have you. And manpages exist. Hunt the verb isn't really a problem for CLIs.

"Hunt the verb" means that the user doesn't know which commands (verbs) exist. Which a neophyte at a blank console will not. This absolutely is a problem with CLIs.

There are already ads in Apple Maps: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255060954

This would just be more ads.

Thanks.

Can you touch on how some of these patches were made/backported from and to closed-source binaries? Which underlying proxy is Aqua Proxy built on?

Tai disagreed that Tai's model is simply the trapezoidal rule, on the basis that her model uses the summed areas of rectangles and triangles rather than trapezoids.

Oh my god.

Apparently "compact" here refers to the five lines of actual code.

Just use <bitstring.h>.

The exchange at 47:48 has been coming to mind more and more of late.

"Where do you see the future of Siri and other AI going?"

There's a lot of, I mean..."Siri and other AI," there's Siri, there's the..."Can you ask something a question?" Like, when we were doing Siri, I was blown away by it—having had my Master's in artificial intelligence—so when I saw Siri I thought, "Wait, this is supposed to be 20 years from now, I can't believe it's now." And I kind of thought, you know, Google is...if you go to a library and you look up in the card catalog, "What reference materials do you have related to this," and then you go and look at every one and figure out who's right. Siri is, you ask a reference librarian: "Go find the answer to this question." I think that sort of thing is very very interesting, and the more we can do to have that...now, if you look at AI, I think there's a lot we can do with AI that we're not doing right now that I hope we get to. I can talk about it if you want...?

"Let's go on."

Beat Saber's reveal trailer is still one of the best I've ever seen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIzRbI1JUe4

A tight 30 seconds of wordless, uncut gameplay that intuitively unveils the game mechanics while the simple track, just when it seems overly easy, crescendoes into the beat drop and trickier motions. The finishing touch is the missed note right before the hard cut to title.

A note to myself for future upgrades, from the upgrade guide:

• Check available disk space in /usr. Verify that the /usr partition has a size of at least 1.1G. With less space the upgrade may fail and you should consider reinstalling the system instead.

When this says "available disk space," it means "total" disk space of the /usr partition, not "free" space. I had less than 1.1GB of unused free space on /usr and had to verify that that was fine before proceeding.

A top-level /AppleInternal/ directory on macOS, even if empty, will enable certain features in Apple developer tools.

The lack of a fan or any decent cooling, the "lack of a floppy disk" (for those of us who didn't use Zip drives), it was pretty to look at but hard to work with.

The G4 Cube had an (empty) standard mount and power connector for an optional fan.

Not from me. A black box filesystem that can't even accurately say how much space is free and destroys mechanical hard drives with longer term use. There were other options to deal with HFS+'s 2038 problem.

Why are people who go out of their way to select Google search "Apple's users" but never "Google's users"?

I would have loved to have had a course in school about "The Design of Scientific Experiments." One that described the processes of landmark historical experiments from antiquity onward, and challenged students throughout: "Given this set of constraints, how would you design and execute an experiment to estimate the size of the Earth? Disprove phlogiston and luminiferous aether? Measure the speed of light?"

I was hoping this had meant he'd written a new story.

"We're trying to get away from programming. We've got to get away from programming because people don't want to program computers. People want to use computers."

— Steve Jobs, 1983

Who remembers Skytorrents (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13423629)? Posted as a "Show HN" here, it was a DHT-sourced index and stack written in C with no JavaScript, no cookies, no ads, no tracking. Skytorrents was unbelievably fast, friendly, and complete, and this translated into rapid adoption and traffic growth that caused the site to shut down due to server costs after just a year (https://torrentfreak.com/skytorrents-dumps-massive-torrent-d...).

It was a shame that the technology behind Skytorrents was never open-sourced; it was the best torrent crawler and site I've ever seen, and I would have liked to see how it worked so well.

Both, I assume. "Git" was already slang for "stupid person," so this is a clever name.

What's surprising to me is that this deal is apparently about content and IP, not the Unreal Engine technology per se.

I find this interesting in that Apple is already speedrunning the pivot to industrial/health uses that Magic Leap (https://www.magicleap.com/en-us/magic-leap-2-video) and HoloLens (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/hololens/industry-healthcare) both eventually turned to.

These gotchas make keeping a big-endian machine around totally worth it.

All Apple Silicon is unified memory.

Apple devices don't even actually turn off anymore when you try to power them down. They blank the screen and continue reporting their location.

This page was updated yesterday to remove the following text from the final section, which was added in November 2020:

  In addition, over the the next year we will introduce several changes to our security checks:
  
   • A new encrypted protocol for Developer ID certificate revocation checks
   • Strong protections against server failure
   • A new preference for users to opt out of these security protections