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I’ve tried:

- redownloading the app

- deleting all local state in the Music folder

- logging out of my account, and logging back in

- deauthorising my PC, then reauthorising it

It just never starts playback, no matter what I do!

Cider works fine. The Music apps on my phone and Mac work fine. Very weird.

edit: plus, they have a lot of problems with music artists getting mixed together - if an artist has a common name, say “Ray”, you’ll see music from other artists with the same name mixed in. Apple’s support totally disclaim responsibility and said I should contact the record label to get them to correct it. This is absolutely ridiculous, and the record label predictably doesn’t care. It ruins recommendations :/

Prosecutions are basically unheard of, but it’s not legal nonetheless.

codebase section: short summary

longer description if necessary

eg: cocoaui: fix images being incorrectly aligned on high dpi displays

We were calculating the position of the image in logical pixels, but not converting that to actual display pixels for rendering.

I think it's a really nice style that makes commit messages really easy to scan in a short log, and lets you ignore commits easily that don't touch the area you're interested in

Desktops work if you have an office, but our dev team is entirely remote. But you can't take a desktop into a meeting, or take a desktop on the train to our office for in-person meetings/events.

Eg at work we use M1/M2 macs and dev on those using docker - so that’s a Linux VM essentially with some nice tooling wrapped around it.

We certainly see differences - mostly around permissions (as docker for Mac doesn’t really enforce any access checks on files on the host), but we also mostly deploy to ARM Linux on AWS.

We went Mac only from a mix of Linux, Windows and Mac as we found the least overall friction there for our developers - Windows, even with WSL, had lots of problems, including performance issues. Linux we had issues finding nice laptops, and more support issues (developers are often not *nix experts!). Mac was a nice middle ground in the end.

Bringing in Windows or Linux has a set up cost and a maintenance cost that may exclude it from even being considered.

Edit: plus, Macs are ARM, other options are inevitably x86. So it’s also two CPU architectures to maintain support for, on top of OS specific quirks - and even if you use eg Docker, you still have a lot of OS specific quirks in play :/

It’s absolutely possible to get x86_64 to the same power/performance envelope as apple’s M series chips :)

I deleted my Reddit account because I don't want to support Reddit any longer, so I lose access to anything I used "Sign in with Reddit" for - it's subtle lock in that tends to only hit issues months later.

It's why I never use social media logins for anything that gives me the choice not to.

Adobe used to bundle Chrome by default with Acrobat Reader for instance. - this was how a LOT of people got Chrome the first time.

I remember at the time how more and more irrelevant they seemed compared to the Wintel behemoth, and that really didn’t start to turn around until the G3 iMac, and later the iPod.

Edit: devs get 32G pros though, and we loathe the extra RAM pricing on those. Cheap compared to the cost of a developer, though!

We're relatively unique compared to a lot of countries though, where we have an infrastructure provider that serves basically the whole country with very good to tolerable internet (mostly) - Openreach.

Any ISP can sign up to use Openreach's network & a backhaul provider for providing services, and they usually get handover from their backhaul provider in London. Means we have a lot more small/niche ISPs that can still cover the entire country, and provide unique features - like static IPs or even blocks of static IPs.

There are alternative providers too (lots of 'alt-nets', and virgin media) - they're mostly not so open, though.

edit: it always shows random stuff every time this one comes up!

Definitely dedicated just to me.

edit: and I've been the only user of this static IP for a decade at this point.

I'd say that's pretty conclusive?

It shows me as recently torrenting a ton of content that I've never even heard of, and definitely haven't done.

Either someone's poisoning the data at trackers (TPB used to do this?), or they're just making stuff up...

I liked this - the human element is underemphasised often in these kinds of reports, and trying to fix a major outage while overly tired is only going to add avoidable mistakes.

I don’t know how it would work for an org of Cloudflare’s size, but I know we have plans for a significant outage for staff to work/sleep in shifts, to try to avoid that problem as well.

Issue there is that you need a way to hand over the current state of the outage to new staff as they wake up/come online.

I do like the Mikrotik switches though (and their kit in general) - affordable, decent feature set, reasonable performance.

edit: they’re not flawless, but as far as prosumer or small/medium business kit goes… very reasonable.