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@anki This was a big issue a couple months ago. But everyone who has been writing and talking about it, completely misled readers and watchers imo. The issue isn't Apple. The issue is OCSP. Your browser does the exact same thing for every website you go to. That's regardless of what browser and what OS you use.

Happy Christmas, holidays, and Hatmas to all!

So, it's Christmas morning here down under. Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays to everyone! I hope you have an awesome and safe day, whatever you're doing! :)

It's hats time!

Just walked in to an Apple store with a Lightening cable (one pin corroded), walked out five minutes later with a free brand new one. This is why I'm an Apple customer :D

twitter.com/lizardbill/status/1560677407073632258

PSA. Do everyone a favor and set up content caching at work and at home this week. support.apple.com/en-us/HT204675

AKA FLATTEN ALL TEH THINGS

Parallels had the jump on M1 / M2. Virtualization, but all the cows are coming home lately.

I bet Apple’s new “don’t call me, I’ll call you” feature is going to be very appealing to people not in their initial target market…

Try editing posts instead of just flagging them for moderator attention. More and more I'm just making tweaks to posts to improve them when dealing with moderator flags and that's not at all what moderator flags are supposed to be used for.

Has anyone seen a nice visual mapped of the app launch process and daemons and calls on macOS lately? If you thought launchd was complicated, the new process is quite intricate.

quick tip you may or may not know, if you are unsure whether time machine is actually doing something or is frozen during the "Preparing backup" stage, you can go into your backup drive, find the most recent .inProgress file > right click > show package contents > find the .log file and run sudo tail -f /path/to/the/log/file.log. You will see very detailed progress information there. The tail -f updates the console live.

The deletion was related to other interactions the user who posted it had with the site, I hope you understand that I can't share details.

I am absolutely not here to amuse you.

So @DougMasters, the point you made about acquiring points is now pointless? That’s a pointed statement, but I see your point. Glad i was able to point you in the right direction. 🤣

@bmike Hats are fun!

Hats at winter bash 2014 are on!

And don't get discouraged when you get a down vote. We do have our "Negative Nellies" that will down vote without leaving a comment as to why they think you're wrong. Ignore them! You learn by participating. You learn even more when you make mistakes. I'm super enthused that you've found this site a place to learn and you're embracing topics that's outside your "zone" so-to-speak.

I love folders. They make me happy on iOS and iPadOS - I have two screens on my phone (three since the first one has nothing on it except the dock and my background : - )

github.com/blog/1099-jason-salaz-is-a-githubber

so, I figure since we're splitting the last iPad, want to switch off every other week?

@Josh computers are the WORST - they do exactly what we tell them to, not what we want them to do.

The system is really balanced. All new people do scrape up reputation and it takes quite a long time to feel you can spend some rep just to push down one post. By the time you hit 10k you're well to the point about realizing that reputation are "fake internet points" and worth spending to put a bounty on someone else's great question - helping to surface good content and helping to point out weak / wrong content.

I just gotta say, it's amazing the difference between the official Apple forums and Ask Different. Half of the questions over there (and half of the answers) wouldn't pass muster here at all; they're just "Whine whine whine, it's broke but I won't give any important details, I should have stuck with Windows 10." Coming here for answers is a real pleasure.

With UI Scripting you can use Accessibility Inspector to ascertain the hierarchy. You can also query the app's UI element to ascertain additional information. You can also use the Watch Me Do action in Automator to get the code you did and convert it to a better format as I did. I use all three methods depending on my needs at that moment.

John Siracusa's 24-page review of OS X 10.9 Mavericks is up.

Also, I have a new rule on voting. If a question is worth answering, it's worth a vote, up or down. If I find a question with no votes, but 3 answers, I upvote it regardless, because if it wasn;t a good one people wouldn't have answered it.

@Tetsujin Absolutely love this!!! "BTW - call me any gender pronoun you like, or avoid all of them... I simply don't care." :)

Winter Bash 2021 has started. Enjoy!

Please don’t down vote while it’s closed - there’s no need to penalize that post further until it’s reopened.

The column view style is called Miller columns <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_columns>

Envisioning Lauren trying to complete the contest but being dragged away from her work by endless queries

I think the box of money would make it through the mail just fine, as long as it were camouflaged as something unwanted, say, "BlackBerry PlayBook".

Maybe you’re not searching for the right term, that will help dozens of people. Maybe the results just can’t be found - that will also help people. And the best part, is everyone who uses the same search term in the future will now find our Q&A indexed by future google and get better help. Win / win / win.

I just want to remind people. We love questions where you show your research. If you asks a question like “I’m trying to do this. I searched for these terms, here is why the top two results (and link to those results) don’t help me” we can provide expert guidance.

i want the new iPad, that's all.

This chat was a lot more active a year ago.

A mountain lion is the same animal as a puma. Does this mean Apple's re-releasing Mac OS X 10.1?

Fun fact: The first thing I did on my first computer was type in How do I get rid of my neighbours? :) Gosh, was I naive as to what I was gonna achieve with that computer! LOL

@JBis don’t forget two things. 1. We aim to be the place google sends people for their searches 2. Something that’s easily searched usually makes a great Q&A here

@JoyJin you were targeted for votes and the automatic system corrected that behavior. You did nothing wrong, and it was a minor infraction by the voter in question.

@user3439894 he still seems to visit the site, that‘s all I can see. @klanomath, hope you are ok?

appleseed.apple.com/sp/betaprogram for those who want to play with Yosemite on a spare install and promise not to bug us with questions on here and don't have $99 to drop for fun ;)

@KyleCronin Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

@NimeshNeema zsh autocomplete is reaaaallly good. Look here for more info → stackabuse.com/zsh-vs-bash

What about macOS in iTunes?

Also as always, don't forget the golden rule of editing to fix all you can with a post, don't just fix the image if there's other things that can be improved in a post :)

It was a joint decision, but I was in favor of adding people before too long. Having new people rotate in is the best way I know to keep the governance fresh and share knowledge before we have someone step down