@KenHatesSoftwar Looks like you can do Int32(Double(Int32.max)), but for 64 bits the floating point rep is not exac… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@KenHatesSoftwar Why can’t you compare it with Double(Int.max)? That does fit in an Int.
Apple Documentation and SwiftUI for Mac: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/2… #mjtsaiblog
Clubhouse Wants to Upload Your Contacts’ Phone Numbers: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/2… #mjtsaiblog
Outdated Software Keeps Inmates Beyond Their Release Dates: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/2… #mjtsaiblog
Excessive Mac SSD Wear: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/2… #mjtsaiblog
@tclementdev @tempelorg Right, otherwise you are funneling even more of your traffic through the same IP unique to you?
Steve Jobs Stories: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/2… #mjtsaiblog
Fry’s Electronics Closing: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/2… #mjtsaiblog
One-to-One IP Targeting: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/2… #mjtsaiblog
Anker PowerCore Magnetic 5K Wireless Power Bank: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/2… #mjtsaiblog
macOS 11.2.2: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/2… #mjtsaiblog
The Context and the Logic: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/2… #mjtsaiblog
Unified Office App for iPad: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/2… #mjtsaiblog
Similar Detritus Not Allowed: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/2… #mjtsaiblog
Arizona Bill on App Store Payments: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/2… #mjtsaiblog
Epic Counterclaims, Europe, and Valve: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/2… #mjtsaiblog
Swift Proposal: ConcurrentValue and @concurrent Closures: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/2… #mjtsaiblog
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Arq 7
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Apple Store Polices “Irrationally High Prices”
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Chromebooks Outsell Macs: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/2… #mjtsaiblog
Google vs. iOS App Privacy Labels: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/2… #mjtsaiblog
A Retrospective Look at Mac OS X Snow Leopard: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/2… #mjtsaiblog
spamsieve SpamSieve 2.9.43 improves compatibility with the forthcoming macOS 11.3: c-command.com/blog/2021/02/2… (cc: @MailPlugins)
@swgs Yes.
@swgs macOS
@z31r4m Appreciate the advice, but sometimes it’s the phone that doesn’t receive the messages, and everyone I commu… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@mboesch_ios Oh, that sounds much worse. I do get *almost* all the messages on each device. I don’t know if it’s a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@stemount Yep, I’ve tried that. And I do get 99% of the messages. But some never arrive, and this has been happening since day 1.
Still having iMessages that randomly never arrive on one of my devices, even though they show up on all the others… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@tylerhall Good to know. I got some confusing receipts myself in December or early this year.
Apple Store Polices “Irrationally High Prices”: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/1… #mjtsaiblog
Unhelpful App Store E-mail Receipts: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/1… #mjtsaiblog
Safari to Support WebM Video Playback: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/1… #mjtsaiblog
Apple Adds Proxy for Safe Browsing Queries: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/1… #mjtsaiblog
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Code Signing When Building on Apple Silicon
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DTK
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Swift AsyncSequence
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Check Free Space B… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@cocoaphony @lapcatsoftware So what else do you think “this tampering could enable an attacker to extract encrypted user data” refers to?
@tempelorg Can you use NSWindow.userTabbingPreference?
@lapcatsoftware It seems like they are worried that it’s not actually secure at rest. I think the idea isn’t that y… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@lapcatsoftware Either because you want to donate your time or because you think it will make a fix that you care about more likely.
@lapcatsoftware There are lots of non-developers in the public beta program. And developers would still be incentiv… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@lapcatsoftware Exactly. Developers not reporting bugs isn’t going to prevent customers from buying, which is what… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@lapcatsoftware Hard to say that anyone’s crossing a picket line when there isn’t even a strike. I don’t think this… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@lapcatsoftware Yes, maybe things would be different if a boycott were on the table. But it isn’t. Apple already ha… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
LastPass Pricing Changes: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/1… #mjtsaiblog
Citibank’s $500 Million UI Lesson: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/1… #mjtsaiblog
2021 State of Mac Malware: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/1… #mjtsaiblog
Mail Search vs. Big Sur’s Fast User Switching: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/1… #mjtsaiblog
Code Signing When Building on Apple Silicon: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/1… #mjtsaiblog
Why Reporting Bugs to Apple May Harm Software Quality: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/1… #mjtsaiblog
eaglefiler EagleFiler 1.9.3 can now merge mailbox files with .eml files; improves importing from Web pages, Evernote, Outlook,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
PodSwap: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/1… #mjtsaiblog
Swift for TensorFlow Canceled: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/1… #mjtsaiblog
Why Does the Apple TV Still Exist?: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/1… #mjtsaiblog
The Long Hack: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/1… #mjtsaiblog
dropdmg DropDMG 3.6.2 improves the “Get Image Info…”, “Mount Image…”, and “Verify Image…” panels; error logging; and the so… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@simX I’ve used it less than a week. But, personally, I’m glad I already updated, and I’ve not heard from anyone who regrets it.
@NSExceptional @lapcatsoftware I was more wondering if it stops working after a while if you do that.
@jcieplinski Right. My point is that Apple has defined it so that what matters is who owns the app. Google Analytic… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@r_ffin @jcieplinski I’m guessing that would be Not Tracking so long as it’s not linked with Google data that was o… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@jcieplinski I assume that Apple is not doing that. But given their definitions, they could do do and still say tha… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@jcieplinski According to Apple’s definition, Google linking Google Music data with data they got from Google Analy… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@jcieplinski I get that it’s a hard line to draw, but I’m not sure this really makes sense. And it has nothing to d… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@jcieplinski Instagram using the Facebook SDK before 2012: Tracking. Instgram and Facebook using the same ad network today: Not Tracking.
@jcieplinski I agree that it’s not really hypocrisy. But Apple defines tracking in a way so that what they’re doing… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@jcieplinski The wording is ambiguous, but it sounds like Apple does track you across the three Apple apps that sho… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@jgordonshare @howardnoakley Not sure of exact ranking, but if going by the final release of each cycle I think 10.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Bad AppleScript: Fake RSS, Real Newsletter: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/1… #mjtsaiblog
The Evolution of “safe” and “unsafe” in Swift: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/1… #mjtsaiblog
FastScripts 3 Beta: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/1… #mjtsaiblog
Paul Taylor, RIP: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/1… #mjtsaiblog
Still no macOS 11.2.1 installer in the App Store. Nor downloadable updater.
Native Mac APIs for Go: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/1… #mjtsaiblog
North Dakota Bill on App Stores: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/1… #mjtsaiblog
Facebook Ads Relied on Deprecated Chrome Feature: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/1… #mjtsaiblog
Is Apple Banning Free Analytics SDKs?: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/1… #mjtsaiblog
Student’s Developer Account Mistakenly Terminated: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/1… #mjtsaiblog
Apple Removes Apps for Pakistani Government: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/1… #mjtsaiblog
“EDR” Brings HDR to Non-HDR Displays: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/1… #mjtsaiblog
The Battle Inside Signal: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/1… #mjtsaiblog
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@tjluoma Is there any reason that you would need to?
macOS 11.2.1: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/0… #mjtsaiblog
Apple’s Supply Chain: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/0… #mjtsaiblog
Scammy WatchChat Competitors: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/0… #mjtsaiblog
iOS 14.5: Setting the Default Music Service: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/0… #mjtsaiblog
Remaining Issues New in Catalina: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/0… #mjtsaiblog
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The Big Sur Sneeze
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@pointum Some RSS readers can detect updated articles (if they are still in the feed). But there’s not (yet) a sepa… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@geoffhackworth Yeah. In this case the customer has not been refunded.
Anyone know why a Mac App Store review would never show up in the store and then disappear from the reviewer’s hist… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@nickheer I bet you were using lots of apps simultaneously, too.
Intel’s M1 Benchmarks: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/0… #mjtsaiblog
Check Free Space Before Updating to Big Sur: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/0… #mjtsaiblog
Call Recorder Succumbs to Apple Silicon: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/0… #mjtsaiblog
iPhone’s Adult Content Filter Blocks Anything “Asian”: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/0… #mjtsaiblog
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No More Downloadable macOS Updates
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Deleting DerivedData the Right W… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Scammy KeyWatch and Trezor Apps
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Apple Wants Developer Transition Ki… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
@redsweater @danielpunkass Congrats! Looking forward to the FastScripts update.
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ContentFilterExclusionList
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Sudo
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Jeff Bezos
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AirPods Max
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Apple vs. Security Re… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Apple Report Card
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Homebrew 3.0.0: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/0… #mjtsaiblog
AdWords Phrase Match Changes: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/0… #mjtsaiblog
Yottamaster 4-Bay Hard Drive Enclosure: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/0… #mjtsaiblog
macOS 11.3 Beta: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/0… #mjtsaiblog
@NSExceptional @lapcatsoftware Seems like it uses NSFileManager. :(
@lapcatsoftware @NSExceptional I’m kind of surprised "xcodebuild clean" doesn't have a way to do this.
@NSExceptional What's "trash"?
Deleting DerivedData the Right Way: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/0… #mjtsaiblog
Apple Wants Developer Transition Kits Back: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/0… #mjtsaiblog
Tim Cook to Be Deposed for Epic Case: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/0… #mjtsaiblog
SwiftDtoa v2: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/0… #mjtsaiblog
Jeff Bezos to Step Down as Amazon CEO: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/0… #mjtsaiblog
LAMBDA: the Ultimate Excel Worksheet Function: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/0… #mjtsaiblog
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Restarting the Mac fixed this, as expected.
@Sam_Ohanaware I’m assuming this is a temporary bug that will resolve when I restart the Mac. The archive is less t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Finder shows 207 GB of free space but also says it doesn’t have enough room to expand Xcode_12.5_beta.xip.
Chrome Browser Extension for iCloud Passwords: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/0… #mjtsaiblog
Xcode 12.5 Beta: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/0… #mjtsaiblog
iOS 14.5: Unlock an iPhone While Wearing a Mask: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/0… #mjtsaiblog
macOS 11.2: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/0… #mjtsaiblog
@VadimShpakovski Planning to, just haven’t gotten around to it yet. In the meantime, maybe Safari Reader mode would help?
@ProfessaChapman That would be nice, but the rep would probably (truthfully) say that they care about quality and h… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Old SuperDuper for Big Sur: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/0… #mjtsaiblog
Misleading and Inaccurate iOS Privacy Labels: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/0… #mjtsaiblog
CDC’s Vaccine Data System: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/0… #mjtsaiblog
iMessage’s BlastDoor Sandbox: mjtsai.com/blog/2021/02/0… #mjtsaiblog