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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • I think Apple has the best sandbox UX. By default sandboxed apps have access to zero of your files. It can’t even see they exist. It’s only granted access to any file/directory the user manually selects through a system UI - opening through file type associations, the open/save dialogs, or drag & drop. This means that access is given seamlessly, there aren’t any prompts, and the user doesn’t even realize there’s a sandbox. If the program wants to manage a project, just have the user select the folder and all the sub-contents are also granted.



  • BTW the Brother scare about them adding DRM that was in the news a while back turned out to be false, it was just a random guy on Reddit with a bad third-party cartridge, and Brother replied that they do not block third-party cartridges.

    That said, I’m not a huge fan of their weird PPD installer on Linux that installs some random, undocumented crap








  • I came over with everyone else in the big exodus wave from Reddit when they killed third party apps.

    I didn’t even use a third party app so it didn’t affect me, but as an old-school Internet user I believe in federated networks over centralized services and it seemed like the one opportunity to finally get critical mass.