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C'mon they meant 'executable' more broadly, not literally a '.exe' Windows program.

This is only for public servers. If you were using a nickname on _public servers_ that was easy to identify before, then that was already a big mistake.

And this feature does not affect old messages - only ones after December 2026.


That is outdated now. You can run emulators on iOS and you’ll find plenty in the App Store. The only limitation right now is no JIT, which is a problem for more modern console emulation.

This seems like a pretty abstract claim to me. What does "protect the people" mean vs "whatever makes the rich people happy"? There are laws on the books which the police enforce.

Now, I agree that the police are not your friends, and they are incentivized to find crimes when there may not really be any at times, but I disagree with the notion that they are simply the lapdogs of the wealthy. In fact, it seems like in a lot of places in California it's the law-abiding, wealthier citizens that are hassled most by the police for minor infractions, because they know they can actually extract revenue from them.


Cases in point:

You work at a retail store. You take $100 from the till. They have you on camera. Management calls cops, and has you arrested for misdemeanor theft. You spend night in jail.

You work in retail store. You log in at 9am. And your manager was told to cut payroll and edits your (and 9 other peoples) timecards to the tune of $1000. You catch this. Management refuses to correct it and/or punish the manager. Nobody is arrested. You're told this is a civil issue.

Wage theft is larger than all other theft combined, but treated as a civil, not criminal matter. I wonder why.

https://www.tcworkerscenter.org/2018/09/wage-theft-vs-other-...

You secured your expensive road bike ($2000) cause its your primary transportation. You put a gps tag on it, so if its ever stolen, you can make the appropriate report and retrieval. The lock was cut, and the bike taken. Its at a nearby house. You report it. Cops wont take report and wont get the stolen property. You even have definite proof. They dont care, and they dont have to.

Target (retailer) has a policy to let people steal from them, and to do facial recognition until a thief surpasses the statutory felony limit (usually $1000). THEY send a report to the police, which isnt ignored, and the police go do the corporates' dirty work and arrest the alleged perpetrator.

During the 1980's there was well known pushes (by Biden etm) to criminalize cocaine severely. But the cocaine they punished wasnt the white powder. That was used predominantly by executives. Instead, the heavy criminalization focused on crack cocaine, which was used predominantly by the lower (poor, black) people. Punishments were upwards of 10x disparity against the poor classes.

The misattributed quote "If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class" (to Final Fantasy Tactics, not true attribution), is something we see all the time.

Anthropic - mass for-profit copyright fraud against the public? Fine.

All insurance - if you lie? Insurance fraud. If they lie, get rekt and die or something.

Banks - guilty of mass laundering and made $50B? Oh, $2B fine. $48B profit. If a human did that, theyd go to jail for decades.

These disparities exist everywhere in "law". Law only defends elite, wealthy, donor class, and well known monied local elites. It almost never defends the average wronged citizen.


The wage theft one always blows my mind, every time. Just eclipses every other form of larceny COMBINED and the authorities do NOTHING. AT. ALL.

Almost every middle/lower class ill disappears if you eliminate wage theft and close the tax loopholes that wealthy people take advantage of. They're massive distortions of the economic machinery, and no one should be surprised that things don't make sense even when circumstances are "normal".

Agreed. It’s really helpful and refreshing to see the facts like this without resorting to emotional claims.

I rarely use Windows these days but that is the first setting I always change. MacOS hides a lot of them too by default, sadly.


But on MacOS it doesn’t matter, right?


Correct, on most unix-like it doesn’t matter because extensions are for the Desktop Environment not execution.


Yep I played via “Classic mode” until Apple removed support


This is super exciting! Also would love to see the code when you share it


Can you elaborate on why it was a “miss”?


A few things off the top of my head (we've been on deno since 2022)

- They originally bet on being a TypeScript dialect that didn't quite match the expectations of node in a few small places that ended up mattering hugely.

- One of the original value propositions was "deno compile" and "deno bundle", and those never actually worked well enough to be robust for our real-world use cases (early on they didn't support TLA, then dynamic imports didn't work, then they had issues with ARM compilation)

- Then they simultaneously tried to support node syntax out of the box with npm import specifiers _and_ create a new javascript registry (jsr.io)

- At the point where we expected them to actually make their base-level ecosystem robust, they pivoted to edge compute, and then the writing was on the wall


How would macOS know if the request is coming from the URL bar or not in some untrusted software?

These permissions are clearly all-or-nothing, or else they wouldn’t work.


> These permissions are clearly all-or-nothing

Clearly not, as it took me weeks to figure out. I don't think macOS informs the application that it's being restricted, so Firefox can't really tell me that somethings up. Now I get that macOS can really do that either, otherwise users would be spammed with "This application tried accessing the network", but there should be some feedback mechanism that informs the user that something is probably wrong. Maybe there is and I've haven't found it.


> I don't think macOS informs the application that it's being restricted, so Firefox can't really tell me that somethings up.

What APIs is Firefox using? If it's using the Unix/POSIX-y stuff, I don't think there's a way for that kind of feedback. Not sure about the Objective-C/Swift APIs.


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