Notices by Uli Kusterer (Not a kitteh) (uliwitness@chaos.social)

Anyone know what this "Low Power Mode" on macOS is for? (Other Options are “Always”, "Only on Battery”, “Only on Power Adapter”)

Is that like the iPhone’s thing when you’re low on battery, where it turns off important functionality, or is this more like Windows where you can optimize for performance or for battery? Anyone know what the default is? Because I don’t remember whether I changed this.

@lfa Or maybe life is too short to use a language that has so many wrong defaults, undefined/implementation-defined behaviors etc., when, instead of trying to remember all the things you shouldn’t do, you could just use a language that does the right thing by default, freeing your brain up to actually design and plan the parts that make your program special.

Maybe I'll finally know what I'm doing and will learn after another 29 years of writing C.

Oh wow. Ubisoft must really not be doing well. They released an NFT game: https://www.inverse.com/gaming/ubisoft-nft-rpg-champions-tactics

@Codeberg Strap a display and keyboard to that, and you have the perfect laptop. Well, except maybe for gaming, I doubt the GPU in that one is anything fancy 😜

@siracusa @atpfm I think you might be mixing up Google Play Services with the app store. Services is how google sneaks all its new API and bundled apps past the device manufacturers and carriers who drag their feet updating the OS.

So AIUI the apps mentioned in the court filing are things like GMail, Maps and Settings, so Google can’t punish manufacturers by withholding them.

My Little Unit Test — Failure is Magic.

Wie haben Leute eigentlich damals ihren ersten Quelle-Katalog bekommen?

Hat man da in der Werbung irgendwo eine Adresse gelesen, an die man eine Bestell-Postkarte geschickt hat? Telefonnummer & hoffen, dass sie die Adresse richtig verstehen?

Lag der Katalog in Konkurrenz-Geschäften aus?

Ich mein, für Postwurfsendung ist der dann doch zu groß und zu teuer, oder?

In the end it’s your stream and you can set whatever rules you want (and need, to protect yourself from spambots etc.).

But just between you and me? Kicking people from stream for lurking (i.e. watching the stream without chatting) is not something that will endear you to me.

Elon Musk gets a tiny comeuppance
https://sfba.social/@eniatitova/113171171428750938

@siracusa @atpfm The problem with Patreon pulling out of the App Store is that they have a Twitter-like timeline feed that’s the main way many creators push out their content or disseminate links to their exclusive stuff. It’d at the least be a huge step down in usability for people scrolling through their favorite artists every morning.

@quephird Guard let and Defer are the two things I miss whenever I have to go back to C-based languages.

I had completely forgotten this song was a thing ... I think this was from the He-Man and She-Ra movie or something? Heard it and my brain immediately went “Yes, I know that song and tune.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loSHIOdT0UY

(This one is a cover)

Update: Yes, 1985 movie, says so in the closing credits.

Oh right, VMWare was bought by Broadcom and it's now impossible to re-download any executables.

So I guess I'm not getting a Windows version and just hoping that by the time it stops working completely on my Mac (or I retire my Mac) I've no longer a need for this Mojave VM.

Watch me stream Mass Effect: Andromeda! https://www.twitch.tv/uliwitness

I don't like "big-endian" and "little-endian" as terms. Feels like they're always the opposite of what I expect them to be, because it's ... like ... big-end first, not big stuff at the end, but the word "big-ENDian" contains the word "end”, so that kind of invites the other interpretation.

@NanoRaptor Today this furriner learned that the metaphorical use was even an option.

For me it'd depend very much on context.

Updated ValueConverter, my tool for viewing a bunch of bytes as different data types, to support big-endian data again (like it used to before the rewrite).

Also threw in a quick app icon.

https://github.com/uliwitness/ValueConverter/

iOS developers stop subscribing to notifications with a `nil` object when they really want a notification for a singleton challenge 2024.

Seriously, don’t pass `nil` when the documentation says the notification is sent to a particular object. `nil` means "any object”. If anyone else re-posts a notification elsewhere, you'll get those notifications too. Have fun dealing with duplicates.

#iOS #UIKit #swiftLang

TIL landfall≠ to make landfall. The former just means spotting land. Only the latter means actually reaching it.

@thomasfuchs Seems about right.

The only non-evil use case I’ve seen (of all people!) was Adobe's content-aware fill. Made it easy to infinitely stretch out a background for a web site etc. (And even that has the potential to be used for evil).

But that was a way older, simpler use case of trained content. Nothing like stealing an entire art style, basically just generating patterns.