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lapcatsoftware

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Longtime indie developer of StopTheMadness and other software for Mac and iOS. You may remember me from the Mac OCSP appocalypse.

Boycott Feedback Assistant!

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saagar, to random

If your team dedicates at least one person/annum on wrangling Apple developer tooling, I’d love to hear your input on this: https://github.com/MobileNativeFoundation/discussions/discussions/204

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@saagar “Apple, of course, works hard to fix bugs in their software”

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@saagar

May The Fourth Be With You Do It GIF by Star Wars

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I wrote an addendum to the blog post with more details. It’s even worse than I thought, because the privacy violation is 100% needless and pointless. https://mastodon.social/@lapcatsoftware/111302131775542527

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@simevidas I don’t know, I don’t have an iCloud+ subscription.

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UW is the University of Wisconsin. The University of Washington needs to find a new acronym, you posers.

We’ve got dibs: the University of Wisconsin was founded in 1848, 13 years before the University of Washington.

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Is mastodon social having problems today?

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Safari share menu now violates privacy

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2023/10/8.html

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@MonaApp When I use the open in browser post action, Mona always adds the query ?kjy=spring to the end. I assume that this is some kind of leftover from Spring for Twitter. Is there any way to stop it? I don’t see the purpose.

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@MonaApp I don’t use that extension.

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@MonaApp What about a setting to disable the query?

Also, it would be nice to have a setting to open the URL in your own instance rather than the original instance.

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@MonaApp I think the settings needs to be documented somewhere. Even I don’t understand half of them.

“paste the URL into the search field” completely misses the point. I use a native client for convenience, and that’s not convenient. The Open in Browser button itself is for convenience.

davemark, to apple
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I am mystified by this timing.

  • Middle of the night for EU folks, others
  • 8p for folks on the east coast, time for winding down, relaxing, not work focus

AND:

  • Timed to line up with Monday Night Football! 🏈

My hope is that Apple rolls out a logical reason for this timing. I can think of none.

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@davemark https://mastodon.social/@lapcatsoftware/111291416907160000

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Tim Cook was just in China affirming Apple’s commitment.

Now Apple announces an unprecedented event at 5pm Cupertino time, which is 8am in Beijing.

https://9to5mac.com/2023/10/20/apple-remains-committed-to-china/

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The page seems to function normally without JavaScript.

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Why I disabled advanced tracking and fingerprinting protection in Safari

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2023/10/7.html

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My web browser extension StopTheMadness is updated in the iOS App Store and Mac App Store.

Bug fixes and performance improvements. Seriously!

https://underpassapp.com/news/2023-10-23.html

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The Mac App Store refund rate for StopTheMadness is troublingly high in 2023.

2018 0.6%
2019 1.9%
2020 3.7%
2021 2.6%
2022 2.3%
2023 6.7%

Monthly it’s even stranger. January through March were particularly bad, with a shocking 15% rate in February.

2022:
Oct 2.6%
Nov 1.0%
Dec 3.6%
2023:
Jan 9.2%
Feb 15%
Mar 9.2%
Apr 4.3%
May 4.9%
Jun 7.1%
Jul 5.8%
Aug 4.7%
Sep 7.8%

It’s calmed down a bit, but still higher than in the past.

lapcatsoftware, to random
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The moral case for blocking ad on the web:

  1. Do people without ad blockers read and click every ad? Is there a moral obligation to do so?

  2. Is there a moral obligation not to go to the bathroom or the kitchen during TV commercials?

  3. Is there a moral obligation to read every physical billboard on the road?

  4. Advertisers know that ads miss most targets. All that matters is that there are some hits.

  5. People who block ads still link to ad-supported sites, thus still creating hits.

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Safari 17 hidden feature: Always allow this website to open an app

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2023/10/6.html

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How to fix the disastrous new Xcode 15 console

In short, set the environment variable IDELogRedirectionPolicy to oslogToStdio

https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2023/10/5.html

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StopTheMadness skips YouTube video ads

If YouTube recently broke your ad blocker, use StopTheMadness instead!

https://underpassapp.com/news/2023-10-19.html

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Building UI in HTML is so damn painful, tedious, and ugly.

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Aversion therapy doesn’t work.

Otherwise I wouldn’t still write comments on HN.

kornel, to random
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I've finally managed to get notarized!

Try the beta build v1.9.1. It supports ARM fully now.

https://imageoptim.com/changelog.html#v1.9.1

lapcatsoftware,
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@kornel I’ve noticed that 1.9.1 adds a ColorSync profile to a file that doesn’t have one, unlike 1.9.0.

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@kornel Png. It’s reproducible.

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