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  • The Developer ID certificate is the digital signature macOS uses to verify legitimate software. The certificate that Logitech allowed to lapse was being used to secure inter-process communications, which resulted in the software not being able to start successfully, in some cases leading to an endless boot loop.

    This is 100% on Apple users for letting a company decide what their computer can and can’t run. And then brag about its security like it has some super special zero trust architecture and is not just a walled garden with a single point of failure dependent on opaque decision making criteria for what code should be “allowed” to run on the system.

    Key and signature based security model does not prove if it’s safe, it proves if it’s approved. They’re not the same.

    Macs don’t get malware. Unless it’s malware Apple approves, those are called apps.




  • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mltoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.mlelectron.jxl
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    it was called CROSS PLATFORM APPS

    Absolutely not unless it’s as sandboxed as the web (which even the web isn’t sandboxed that well).

    Working with software has only made me not trust software (that’s not open source.)

    Why we’re giving any random software full user level access in 2026 is beyond me.








  • I’ve heard reasons for it like "women’s bathroom needs places to dispose of pads/tampons but, like, it’s a box on the wall. Put one in both.

    Also heard reasons along the lines of “men are faster at using the bathroom so why should we need to share with women” (even though with single bathrooms the washing your hands part is the time bottleneck, not the peeing part) or just general disgust at the idea of sharing a bathroom with the other gender (have heard it from both genders).


  • I think having a TPM enables a number of worthwhile security features.

    But most of those security features place the TPM at the root of trust, something that is SEVERELY undermined by the fact that it is not open source, meaning it is inherently untrustworthy.

    Is it not the one chip we should demand and accept nothing less than complete openness in its implementation and complete control by the person who owns the device? I also think the types of protections it grants in theory are very good, but the fact that it’s proprietary means it’s terrible at actually granting you those protections.


  • HiddenLayer555@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlReside, vacation, party.
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    Reside: Vancouver. Biased because I mostly grew up here and am lucky enough to still live here but I really do think it’s something special.

    Vacation: Probably Qing Huang Dao. Gorgeous Chinese beach city that I’ve only ever been to twice in my childhood, but it’s also really nostalgic for that reason.

    Party (hardest one for me because I don’t party): Wanted to say New York or Vegas because nothing in Canada really compares to those, but with current events and my skin colour I’m going with Toronto instead. Like to not end up at a concentration camp while partying, but more generally because I know the laws of my own country better than somewhere else which I feel is a benefit if you want to party.



  • I don’t drive so it has more to do with the quality and reliability of transit going to a place than how many traveling minutes it is. Taking a train cross region feels faster than taking a bus cross town even if they take the same time because the train is more frequent, much more reliable, and generally has a lower mental barrier and therefore lower perceived distance.

    Transfers also add significant perceived distance even if they don’t add much actual travel time, because it’s more annoying than just sitting or standing there. The timing of your next bus is also another thing that can go wrong and significantly delay your trip. I often find myself choosing physically longer routes that have fewer transfers.

    Generally, if I’m near the train system, everywhere on the current line is “close” because it’s a one seat ride away on the highest quality transit mode. If not, I’d say 10 stops in either direction on the bus lines that directly serve the street I’m on is similarly “close.” Relatively, I consider one train stop to have the same “closeness” as two or three bus stops regardless of distance, but only because I would just walk if it was one or two bus stops away.

    Also, because I’m walking for my last mile transport, everything feels significantly closer when the weather is favourable. Rain adds some distance but I live in Vancouver so I’ve mostly stopped caring. If it snows though, everything outside my house isn’t “close” anymore because of the gauntlet of death Vancouver streets turn into when snow or ice is involved.