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Better tags for Ask Different

tags proposals and usage discussion welcome

bmike

Sun 23:13

room topic changed to Better tags for Ask Different: tags proposals and usage discussion welcome [tags]

bmike

Jul 22 21:58

Storage will need some care as we will need to place an appropriate tag per iOS, macOS, iPadOS, etc… before cleaning that up

bmike

Jul 22 21:57

After reviewing the 129 raid questions, that needs to be merged into macOS urgently as that tag is missing on many many of the questions and serving as a poorly executed meta tag in practice

bmike

Jul 22 21:54

apple.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/raid 2 questions this year, 129 uses total for [raid]

bmike

Jul 22 21:52

apple.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/storage 20 questions this year, 779 uses total for [storage]

bmike

Jul 22 21:50

Is there any reason we wouldn’t merge the raid tag in to storage? I don’t see either as useful, but consolidation seems good as a first step if we decide to burninate these both.

bmike

Jan 14 13:18

Example: apple.stackexchange.com/q/467641/5472

Ask Different Chat

bmike

Jun 7 18:37

Above situation is resolved

bmike

Jun 7 06:21

Q: It’s not you, image uploads are broken across the network

Please see the main meta post for updates. Uploads to SE image servers have started failing Chat image posting was broken from iOS devices and may be fixed Chat image posting was working from computers No platform is getting image uploads on posts without some clever tricks none of these trick...

bmike

Jun 7 06:13

Decent amount of votes, good problem statement. Thanks for the help @MartinSleziak

bmike

Jun 6 22:46

Thank you. I’ll try from a computer later. It’s not working for me on iPhone or iPad

bmike

Jun 6 22:12

(Here and editing posts on the main site)

bmike

Jun 6 22:12

Is image upload broken here for anyone else?

bmike

Apr 1 14:01

The site is frozen and chat isn’t. April fools indeed

bmike

Feb 13 23:17

It wasn’t intended to be related. It was a new topic.

bmike

Feb 12 00:21

Transfer purchases from one Apple Account to another Apple Account. If it works well, this will make quite a few people very very happy.

bmike

Feb 12 00:20

support.apple.com/en-us/117267

bmike

Feb 12 00:20

Speaking of never, this was something I would have not expected to see from Apple.

bmike

Feb 12 00:20

@absolutelynotthethe no one ever comes here

bmike

Jan 6 22:49

Q: Displaying difference between APFS snapshots

Problem APFS is amazing... and infuriating with its lack of tools available. What I'm trying to do is simply an equivalent of btrfs send --no-data -p /snapshots/parent /snapshots/child My investigation Most of the google-fu returns usages of tmutil tmutil is able to listlocalsnapshots / de...

time-machine development apfs carbon-copy-cloner

bmike

Jan 6 22:49

It’s been a few years since I used tmutil compare and it’s no longer making sense to me. I dropped a bounty in case anyone has a better plan than mounting snapshots and doing an rsync —dry-run to see what has changed between intervals.

bmike

Jan 6 16:14

Thanks!

bmike

Jan 3 22:56

I did leave open the possibility the OP detected a bug and needs to report it, but I can’t see any problems yet with the implementation.

bmike

Jan 3 22:55

Very nice edit. I don’t use that web site, so I can’t really test, but I did several other tests before answering and saved web sites stayed private in my testing. There isn’t any reference since it seems obvious it should work that way

bmike

Dec 31, 2024 20:34

Happy New Year! I hope everyone is wearing festive hats or otherwise having a marvelous week.

bmike

Dec 30, 2024 16:50

apple.stackexchange.com/posts/346091/revisions

bmike

Dec 30, 2024 16:50

To my eye, the title was in need of a touch up. See

bmike

Dec 30, 2024 16:45

We do tend to get a lot of edits that really are nit picking and yours wasn’t that case.

bmike

Dec 30, 2024 16:45

I agree with the rejection of that edit, I personally don’t like to see How to… due to overuse, but I also see that as a personal preference. The rest was really not making the question substantially better.

bmike

Dec 30, 2024 16:44

im so glad you stepped up and did anything and also are drawing attention to edits here. Let me review some recent edits and see how they look to me.

bmike

Dec 30, 2024 16:43

Hi @PatMyron and welcome

bmike

Nov 25, 2024 02:24

Brilliant! Things like that @grg are the only way we sometimes get to have a peek under the hood on how things are related. Crazy unexpected dependency between the mode of passcode and functionality deep down in an app calling a portion of code from a different app.

bmike

Nov 19, 2024 17:10

naehrdine.blogspot.com/2024/11/…

bmike

Nov 19, 2024 17:10

This is an amazing read if you follow infosec or platform security or just appreciate an attempt to reverse engineer something that may not be documented publicly.

bmike

Nov 8, 2024 23:55

@grg Hoping you get something soon...

bmike

Nov 8, 2024 23:55

Photo cleanup is nice, also basic

bmike

Nov 8, 2024 23:54

Image playground dropped. It's fun and basic

bmike

Nov 7, 2024 16:56

Still waiting on 18.2 image playground invite…

bmike

Oct 27, 2024 17:10

@grg even in the US, once you install a beta, you then have to queue for AI features. I’ve got the proofing tools from 18.1 but not yet the image playground feature on 18.2

bmike

Oct 26, 2024 00:42

Aah. Thanks for that extra detail.

bmike

Oct 25, 2024 23:23

Also, blatantly off topic question should get a close vote instead of a flag and possibly a down vote if you think it’s a decent question and might get migrated somewhere else. No need to down vote something for it to land in the proper venue

bmike

Oct 25, 2024 23:22

@AndyGriffiths I don’t recall that flag and only VLQ.

bmike

Oct 17, 2024 00:48

Anyone playing with macOS beta and Apple Intelligence ?

Discussion on question by rebusB: Pre…

Imported from a comment discussion on apple.stackexchange.com/...

bmike

Apr 4 15:43

Having defense in depth is table stakes for any widely used OS, the threat is still there and managing a quarantine bit is easy. It’s not causing any of the problem here from what I can see

bmike

Apr 4 15:41

Why isn’t a healthy quarantine tagging a good thing? Scanner drivers are a malicious injection vector and malformed images are notoriously used for jailbreaks and exploits.

bmike

Apr 4 15:40

Very interesting results. Good troubleshooting steps

bmike

Mar 28 23:59

I can’t reproduce your results. From what I can tell it seems quite unlikely every document preview opens is affected. Is there some background you’re not sharing with the post? Are you able to show a publicly available document that reproduces this?

Artisan Spammer Cannery and Loanshar…

We can spammers and do the one form of ethical shark hunting. ...

bmike

Jan 2 13:43

@Cow hello and thanks for the good work

Discussion on question by tink: How c…

Imported from a comment discussion on apple.stackexchange.com/...

bmike

Oct 17, 2024 00:49

I used to have an account rep and support engineer to get that sort of feedback. Not anymore…

bmike

Oct 12, 2024 21:36

I haven’t been at a Jamf national conference for a few years, but they typically list the number of managed computers in the millions. Probably a small but sizable fraction of the 30+ million managed devices they advertise are macOS.