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  • WDYT about GNU

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  • Systemd is more important than GNU.

  • California moves to exempt Linux from its upcoming age-verification law after backlash over forcing operating systems to collect users’ ages

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  • Red Hat is the biggest power on Linux.

  • California moves to exempt Linux from its upcoming age-verification law after backlash over forcing operating systems to collect users’ ages

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  • California software companies have serious lobbying power.

  • How to balance work, career development and personal projects

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  • Do something fun and nourishing in your free time.

    Complex work projects will always suck in one way or another. Just accept it. Do what good you can. It’s all you can do.

    Be kind to yourself. No need to hold on to unrealistic expectations.

  • Why I'm leaving GitHub for Forgejo

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  • Fossil scm does that

  • Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple's chief executive officer, and hardware engineering chief John Ternus is set to take over September1st, Apple announced today.

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  • Sure. Tim Cook was great at driving costs down and selling more devices and services.

    Design is how it works, not just how it looks. Apple has focused much more on the looks instead of functionality and usability since Cook took over. You can even see it on Apple’s website. It’s looks flashy and elegant, but finding technical information is a hassle. The user interface is optimized to look clean and elegant in screen shots, not for usability.

    I recently used an older Mac and was delighted with using it.

    macOS has gotten noticeably worse in many aspects. The Human Interface Guidelines are often ignored. Some system applications like Disk Utility were rewritten with less features than before. QuickTime only has a fraction of the features of QuickTime 7. Hiding UI elements like scrollbars, excessive transparency made usability worse. The new System settings are a convoluted mess compared to the old one. The way permissions and app notarization are implemented is user hostile, while giving only marginal security improvements.

    Also on the technical side it has been meh. Swift if a good programming language but it suffers from endless feature creep. Compile speed and debugging is still worse than Objective-C.

    Apple used to dogfeed new APIs in house first for a few years and then open it up once it was working. They have changed this completely. New APIs are first introduced for public use while in an unfinished state.

    SwiftUI being a major example. It’s a giant framework introduced with the idea of being cross platform between all of Apple’s platforms. However, it hasn’t managed to do that. SwiftUI is different on all of them. It even makes it harder to write proper Mac apps. All while being much slower, more buggy, and more limited than UIKit and Appkit.

    Or look at the options for scripting and automation. Shortcuts is cross platform. However it’s limited and can’t do everything that’s possible with Automator, AppleScript, and shell scripting. It also doesn’t integrate with the existing Services menu in macOS. The share menu still feels kind of alien on macOS.

    iPadOS is held back by lots of limitations. For example the file manager is a joke compared to Finder on the Mac. It’s still bogged down by design decisions that were made for the first iPhones that had extremely limited memory and no swap. The windowing and multitasking are clunky and inelegant.

    Liquid Glass is so bad usability wise, the guy who lead it left the company.

    The yearly releases of major versions for operating systems led to a less stable platform. Every year millions of developers spend time to test adjust to the new version. This means they can’t work ok features or other bugs. This has lead to lots of abandoned software especially on iOS, that could still work if Apple didn’t break stuff every year.

  • Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple's chief executive officer, and hardware engineering chief John Ternus is set to take over September1st, Apple announced today.

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  • Steve Jobs gave a shit and is the reason Apple products had good design. Since his death Apple has been coasting and iterating aimlessly.

  • Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple's chief executive officer, and hardware engineering chief John Ternus is set to take over September1st, Apple announced today.

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  • Mac Studio is a Mac mini with better cooling and better all around specs.

    The trash can MacPro was kinda cool when introduced, but then they never bother to upgrade it.

  • xkcd #3235: Types of Board Game

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  • Overcomplicated is when you have a thick book for rules and spend an hour just to sort and setup all the different tokens, figures, cards, dice, etc.

  • Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple's chief executive officer, and hardware engineering chief John Ternus is set to take over September1st, Apple announced today.

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  • The user experience and user interface has suffered.

  • Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple's chief executive officer, and hardware engineering chief John Ternus is set to take over September1st, Apple announced today.

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  • The MacPro line has been finally canceled after being neglected for years.

  • It's already running

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  • It’s necessary because people develop software with Macs.

  • It's already running

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  • macOS just makes you jump through a hoop every time you run an application that’s not notarized.

    In practice that means cross platform open source projects don’t want to pay money to join apple’s developer program and set up code singing and deal with certificates.

    So after download an unsigned app, macOS refuses to start it until you go to system settings > security > and allow.

    You have to do this again after every update.

    It’s very annoying and does very little for security.

  • Courage

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  • Not if you’re doing it while traveling.

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  • FCKGW

  • Courage

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  • Hitchhiking and couch surfing is a thing.

  • No More Spreadsheet APIs

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  • Scripts and aliases make this easy to set up.

  • No More Spreadsheet APIs

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  • What do you mean by natural? Do you want stateful APIs?

  • Git @programming.dev
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    15+ years later, Microsoft morged my diagram

    nvie.com /posts/15-years-later/
  • Science Memes @mander.xyz
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  • Programming @programming.dev
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    “But software design is just vibes!” No, it’s absolutely not.

    hachyderm.io /@thomasfuchs/115854934888561882
  • Apple @lemmy.world
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    I foretold that Mac app notarization is security theater

    lapcatsoftware.com /articles/2025/12/5.html
  • ADHD @lemmy.world
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    Dopamine Responsibly

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    Read the Following Manual

  • Programming @programming.dev
    bestboyfriendintheworld @sh.itjust.works

    Fossil: A Coherent Software Configuration Management System (self hosted git & GitHub alternative)

    fossil-scm.org