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This exists already! You can see it by going to Settings > Privacy & Security and turning on the App Privacy Report at the bottom.
Re:ST-NICCC demo for the TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculator on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @07:04AM (#41309021)
This is my port of the Oxygene ST-NICCC demo to the TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculator.

You can see an updated video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS20MHHLv8A

FYI Safari has been doing this (also enabled by default) for years on all Apple platforms.

To disable it on macOS: Safari > Preferences/Settings > Advanced > Uncheck "Allow privacy-preserving measurement of ad effectiveness"

To disable it on iOS: Settings > Safari > Advanced (scroll all the way down) > Turn off "Privacy Preserving Ad Measurement"

FYI Safari has been doing this (also enabled by default) for years on all Apple platforms.

To disable it on macOS: Safari > Preferences/Settings > Advanced > Uncheck "Allow privacy-preserving measurement of ad effectiveness"

To disable it on iOS: Settings > Safari > Advanced (scroll all the way down) > Turn off "Privacy Preserving Ad Measurement"

Check out the LG 24UD58-B!
Re:Ode to the M1 on Sunday August 13, 2023 @02:02AM (#37107123)
Have you tried updating UTM to the latest version? Many of these bugs have been fixed in newer versions. UTM doesn't auto update, so you have to check for updates yourself on their GitHub releases page: https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/releases
This reminds me of this video by engineerguy that discusses the use of heuristics in engineering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ivqWN4L3zU
Re:Companies must stop using Google Analytics on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @08:31AM (#36585794)
This is almost like U.S. high schools, which almost exclusively require students to have Texas Instruments TI-84 series calculators in math class.
Re:Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake on Friday June 30, 2023 @06:28AM (#36532652)
IMO it's not about running macOS on it but rather that there is a need for desktop-class features on iPad. Apple doesn't need to run macOS on iPad to add desktop-class features. I'd rather see those features added to iPadOS (as well as visionOS, which is clearly a derivative of iPadOS).
Re:Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake on Friday June 30, 2023 @06:25AM (#36532632)
This is probably because those developers haven't added support for opening files in place, which has been available since iOS 9. There are a few other things (e.g. the way you call open/save dialogs) that need to be changed if you want to add support as well.
Re:Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake on Friday June 30, 2023 @06:19AM (#36532603)
That's the fault of the developer, not Apple. For example, Instagram hasn't ticked the box in Xcode to support the iPad screen sizes.
This. Apps can declare support for Assistive Access by adding UISupportsFullScreenInAssistiveAccess = YES to their Info.plist:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/in...

There isn't any other way to further integrate into the feature though.

Of course you can change them, but only when submitting an app update. You can't change them between updates.
Re:Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design on Sunday April 16, 2023 @06:24PM (#35594810)
Apple's old OS X Human Interface Guidelines (pre-OS X Yosemite)[1] said almost exactly the same things.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140603021344if_/https://develo...

Re:Little Snitch Mini on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @09:47PM (#35269513)
iOS also has the App Privacy Report, which can tell you about the network requests that apps make:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212958

This is interesting especially considering Apple's upcoming launch of Apple Music Classical.
Re:macOS Cursors on Monday March 20, 2023 @08:15PM (#35240780)
This might be different based on model. On a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) with macOS 12.6.3, the cursor initializes in the top-left at bootup.

I think this started with Monterey, because on Big Sur and earlier, it always initialized in the center.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe NeXTSTEP also initialized the cursor close to the top-left corner. So this might either be an homage to NeXTSTEP (similar to how the Clarus dogcow has reappeared in macOS Ventura), or a bug. My bet is on the latter.

I wonder what he would think of Asahi Linux for Apple silicon Macs.