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Apple seems to feel that way, but they’re wrong.

You are saying the the dock on Mac OS has been ‘completely useless for the past 20 years’? I mean I can think of at least three uses… And certainly more if I bothered to actually count?

I would like the ability to see which specific folders I have granted access to on an app by app basis. And edit. It’s not clear to me how you revoke an app’s individual folder access after you have granted it.

Awesome, I hope they start to build a spatial concert library from this, as well as stream to their more popular devices.

As a long time apple fan, Copland and what may have been occupies far more of my mind than is reasonable. But I never thought I’d actually get a chance to touch it. This is awesome to see.

Wild that it didn’t already do this

On the other hand, it feels great to no longer have a box of old cables...

Better article without paywall:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/08/austr...

I think I agree with the premise of this. I miss when there were limits on our time with the web each day. I miss not being expected to be up to speed. I really miss magazines. Etc. Windows XP/Panther felt capable enough.

If we could go back I think turn by turn navigation would be the hardest thing to give up.

I think their point is that it’s amazing.

Hmm that acronym is already taken...

Yes! But beware the one computer in the second row that wrecks your disk, learned one by one, the hard way.

Gorgeous! Keep going

Based on what documentation?

For me panther (10.3) was more than adequate as a daily driver for the time. Fantastic OS.

Another underlying reason snow leopard is so fondly remembered is it was the final purely Mac version of Mac OS X. Starting with lion the focus shifted to bringing iOS-like features and design to Mac OS X. And it has never been Mac first since.

I think I’m missing something here, can someone share how this differs from the Claude usage that’s already included in the cursor subscription?

Edit: never mind I think it’s so you can use the Claude CLI but with your cursor allowances…

I was tripped up by ‘Claude’ being the name of several different but related things.

and don't forget Windows 93! https://www.windows93.net

This is wonderful. 30 seconds into trying the site and I’ve already found a couple of interesting books to read. The search I typed is ‘Stuff being made, how it was made, how history shaped its form’.

I still miss flight control, seems wrong that such an important early iPhone OS game is just… gone.

Lovely!

> Isn't it great, then, that these glasses don't do that?

As long as there’s a lens on them the perception remains. Ala panopticon. Particularly the idea that not knowing when you are being watched means you must assume you are being watched all the time. In the case of your glasses this maps 1 to 1. Your camera is there, it is pointing forwards at all times. We do not know what you are or are not filming.

Regarding your smart phone analogy. Which seems to make the point that you shouldn’t argue against the negative aspects of something that may later become popular, I have a story too. Before smart phones were a thing, my school attempted to ban the ‘camera phone’. Which was a pretty reasonable thing to do in that context and at that time. History shows that this was a good idea, even if the levee broke later with the smart phone which has been an absolute negative in school hours.

> sold a few million camera glasses for pervs

I think that’s a reasonable characterisation of what people think of these devices.

Even if not strictly for perving it’s still seriously uncool to go around pointing a camera at people 100% of the time. So maybe ‘glasses for inconsiderate people who are sometimes also pervs’ is a better description?

I did quite a bit of work in VR about a decade ago. The VR vs AR delineation was a constant conversation back then too. In meetings, at the bar, and so on: “This VR sure isn’t great but just you wait, AR will be the good one”…

But in reality it’s splitting hairs. Similar to discussing which tone pot values are better for your Stratocaster. Most people just don’t care, nor should they! “Stop trying to make fetch happen” as they say.

Close enough

A couple of useful things about it:

- It is interesting to see how the models make trade offs, given people are asking ever more of them.

- It is useful to look at a decision made by the model and say ‘ew yuck’ and think about what it means for your own opinions or actions (even if you’re never going to be nuking people it’s good to know how you feel about it. Seeing a non human talk it through lets you judge it at arms length)

The iTunes movie store launched 20 years ago. It’s far from perfect but it is essentially steam for movies. Sadly it’s been de-emphasised over time. But it is still there and was pretty good for a while.

Yeah that’s not how unions work in my country

Look at the big picture. Most consumers work somewhere. Better working conditions across the board can only be good for consumers.

Edit: and a note to say that comparing all unions to police unions isn’t a good faith/useful comparison. It’s true that the quality of unions vary, but overall they do far more good than bad.