Notices by Der Teilweise (teilweise@layer8.space)

@gedeonm
#29 “What's in the surprise egg for me?”
#40 “She can touch your lobes but never your eggs”
#60 “Keep your eggs consistent.”
#66 “Someone's always got bigger eggs.”
#280 “If it ain't broke, don't fix it.”

#StarTrek #RulesOfEggquisition

@aral I finally found the time to report it (https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/226595-unexpected-network-connection-accessing-bookmarks-and-reading-list-entries/), here’s the response by a user marked as “staff”:

“From speaking to the Dev team, this will be Apple components doing their own checks. Affinity itself can't and doesn't read you browser bookmarks or reading list. This has also been reported for other apps as well, one of those reports is here (https://community.bitwarden.com/t/little-snitch-reports-many-connections-45-on-mac-desktop-client/75054/2).”

Of course I cannot verify this but it sounds reasonable.

@aral Fair. Do you mind if I mention this thread on the forum?

I think this needs to be fixed and since this does not happen for everyone it might be worth making sure that Serif is aware of the issue.

@aral Doesn’t happen here. 2.5.7, non-AppStore.

Did you write about it in their forums? Their staff actually reads reports there and they tag bug reports so a bot will add a comment when the fix is released. Quite the opposite of how Apple handles bug reporting.

Given how serious this is, I‘m convinced they will investigate it.

I do not want to believe that Apple will get away with this.

Why would EU citizen rights (the right is to *install* Apps, the right to *use* is none of Apple’s business) end when they leave the EU for some time?

Even worse: The EU law is to allow fair markets for European companies. Why should it be allowed for Apple to sell products to non-EU-citizens but is not for European companies?

https://9to5mac.com/2024/03/05/ios-17-4-app-stores-stop-working-travel/?utm_medium=mastodon

@feld Sure, I’ll change my name to not contain unicode characters.

Nobody needs unicode. Actually, BCDIC was good enough. Nobody needs uppercase characters in URLs.

It’s OK, I will just piss off.

Welcome to the kill file.

@feld Try to copy & paste this URL: https://github.com∕kubernetes∕kubernetes∕archive∕refs∕tags∕@v1271.zip
(Not everything that looks like a ∕ is a /.)

The problem with .zip is that it is widely seen as a “safe” extension. (Otherwise .com would have been an even bigger problem …)