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This room has been relatively silent recently. Just in case it gets frozen, I will remind that moderators can unfreeze chatrooms - so you can ask some moderator (from any site) whether they would be willing to do so. See also: meta.stackexchange.com/tags/frozen-rooms/info and How do I unfreeze a frozen chat room?

Friendly reminder - never put a beta release on production hardware. Only devices you can afford to wipe and not have work for a week while you wait for the next build. You can’t always back track to previous versions.

12 years on this marvelous site. Thanks to everyone who makes this a wonderful place to learn, share and solve problems together.

This could be useful - mrmacintosh.com/…

If anyone needs an emoji based web game, this is curious - neal.fun/infinite-craft

I hope everyone finds joy, large and small this year!

@MartinSleziak I know, but shouldn't the Generic Bot take care of this?

Congrats to @NimeshNeema for joining the mod team, and thanks to @fsb for candidating!

if(anyAccountsHaveAnAuthError()){
   makeAMailWindowInteruptTheUserFromEverythingTheyAreDoingAndAnnoyTheShitOutOfThem();
}

My favorite part was when they went "We know how important and rooted or macOS icons are to our customers and thats why we thought about it and decided to totally trash it all and replace it with the iOS ones"

Re:the blog post - Navigation or forgetfulness? On finding purple links in your search I once googled an issue & the first hit was my own answer on Ask Different which I'd completely forgotten I'd ever posted.

@bmike Surveillance-Advertising Complex. Not "poorly" coined. It totally encapsulates the crap industry the Internet has become; completely opposite from what I'm sure we all hoped and envisioned when the web starting going main stream in the 90's.

twitter.com/lxztlr/status/1254022517326598144

I love this site. Sometimes a simple question is not.

Writing directions is hard - same with questions - twitter.com/Nick_Craver/status/1360837759817175043

@TimurShtatland github.com/paetzke/format-sql.el is the first package I found on this, there may be more.

you get a star, you get a star, everybody gets a star!

@grg Same to you, and to all the amazing people on this site!

Happy New Year! (I say while it's still 2020 here, but I can wish it wasn't here now it isn't somewhere else)

This discussion has been settled ages ago. "Ed is the standard text editor."

The Splunk hat looks good on you, actually

@nohillside There you go ;)

@nohillside There hasn't been one recent 'improvement' that has improved the look of it. It's starting to look like 1992 all over again. Any subtlety it had is now totally gone.

Separating content from presentation… what a concept

Wait, there are developer discounts? Tell me more - I only seem to pay Apple and would love to get paid if that’s possible.

I cannot say this enough: if it's worth flagging for a mod to review, it's worth down voting. There is not a enough down and up voting on this site AFAIC.

I would count many of you here to be good friends, so I hope you all have support that’s local if you should need it.

Finally - apple.stackexchange.com/a/446650/5472

twitter.com/lizardbill/status/1560677407073632258

> The goal isn't for people to talk to each other, the goal is for people to answer the damn question

Just in case anyone is stuck with an old 32-bit scanner - VueScan have a fix for Catalina - dpreview.com/news/0603222970/…

brew.sh/2021/02/05/homebrew-3.0.0

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

Congratulations @bmike, the first to reach 200,000 rep! 👏

@stuffe Thanks - surgery's tomorrow. Anyone caring to send us good wishes that the surgeon has a great day will be much appreciated.

Happy New Year everyone! :)

Happy New year to those already in 2021… & those still in waiting.

This may be the only time in history where hindsight really is 2020.

@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! :)

Which brings up that it's the 25'th anniversary of NeXT - happy birthday to iOS and OS X's parent.

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…