Ryan FinnieSending a letter with just ".DS_Store" in the middle of the sheet to:
Apple Inc.
1 Apple Park Way
Cupertino, CA 95014
United States
jlin@foo haha
Steven D. Brewer 🏳️⚧️@foo Except you'd really need to send way more than one…
K. Reid Wightman 
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@stevendbrewer @foo One per envelope.
There's lots of envelopes in my house...
Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️I consider myself pretty darn nerdy... but this level of nerdiness is beyond me. Please explain.
Hasko 🇪🇺🦄🌻
Tanith the Gay@Blort @lontrachen @foo
.DS_Store 's where Finder stores information for each directory (like display preferences, or how the individual files've been arranged). So whenever ya view a directory in Finder, it's gonna create that file.
G. Allen Morris III@tanith @Blort @lontrachen @foo I don't even want to think about the multiuser issues with this design.
C-27733@Blort @lontrachen @foo not entirely sure but I think its a file used to store folder metadata on Mac
checked and yeah
In the macOS operating system, .DS_Store is a file that stores custom attributes of its containing folder, such as folder view options, icon positions, and other visual information. The name is an abbreviation of Desktop Services Store, reflecting its purpose. It is created and maintained by the Finder application in every folder, and has functions similar to the file desktop.ini in Microsoft Windows.
Wikipedia
Raineer 
🦆@lontrachen @Blort @foo it’s worse than that. .DS_Store is added to basically every directory a Mac ever touches. Including sometimes ones which you mount remotely through finder.
fraggLe!@raineer @lontrachen @Blort @foo If you admin a Samba server frequented by MacOS users, add .DS_store to the veto files setting for a touch of peace.
⁂ Fish Id Wardrobe
Elosha@fishidwardrobe Normally operating systems treat files beginning with . as hidden. Maybe you have set your file manager to show hidden files?
Frank ZimperAbnormal operating systems like Windows don't adhere to that convention.
Ed Hurtley@lontrachen @Blort @foo Not just format. But merely mount the drive. Format on Windows, copy a file, plug into a Mac, copy a file OFF, plug back into Windows, you'll see the .DS_store
Tired and Angry
David Zaslavsky@foo Depending on who receives this they're going to either be super confused and throw it out, or find it absolutely hilarious and the photo will be shared around the entire engineering department 😂
Rod Begbie@foo Kickstarter to send one to every Apple Store in the country.
🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦
David W. Keith [dwk]@foo @Cdespinosa how many bits of internet traffic could Apple save the world by including a default .gitignore config in root directory of every macOS install?
Jonathan HendryIt'd be funnier to put a bunch of “.DS_Store”-printed confetti in the envelope to spill out when they open it. With luck they'd be finding little .DS_Store bits of paper for months.
Andrew@jonhendry @foo the FBI will dub you the Unixbomber
Dym Sohin
Gabriel N@foo “returned to sender: .gitignore”
JJ Mayor of wutville@foo needs a blank stamp labeled as ._stamp.png
Mark Pauley
Nick@foo god this is so validating. I'm so sick of adding .DS_Store to my gitignores
David - Forking Mad@foo It's so F'ing annoying. Especially when you zip up a folder and send it to a non-Mac user. It usually warrants a reply email asking what the .DS_store file is
`Da Elf@foo *snorts hot coffee*
Marc Haber@foo I don't get that joke. Isnt the real address "1 Infinite Loop"?
Nico Erfurth@foo Well, I think a letter dropping drone would be more appropriate, just throwing it everywhere around the HQ.
Forbearance@foo
booo they moved from Infinite Loop
booo they moved from Infinite Loop
bitsavers.orgCook has no sense of humor.
They should have called it
1 Walled Garden
"Infinite Loop" was the winner of a contest to name the new set of buildings and a whole BS story about it was built up to fool Sculley
Dave/Loebas 
@[email protected] I need the adress of microsoft.
Just to send a paper with "System Volume Information"
Cherri 
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Orca 🌻 | 🎀 | 🪁 | 🏴🏳️⚧️
David Collantes
ZS
Bruce Elrick@foo I wonder if they modified the ls command so the -a option did not show .DS_Store and added an annoying --show-ds-store option whether it would be less annoying (with commensurate changes to Finder).
Wolf480pl
Pseudo NymThere was an earlier toot about printing out one of those little tear off flier pages, but instead of phone numbers, would just be slips of paper with .DS_store posted up all around Cupertino, so you could leave them where ever on the Apple campus.
Cassandrich@pseudonym @foo But leaving them all over the place where nobody wants them would be littering..?
Alex Rosenberg@foo This stupidity brought to you courtesy of Avie Tevanian.
cathos@foo can we make this a thing? Just send them thousands of these a week?
@foo i know I've deleted them thousands of times 😭
Jared Sinclair
Caleb Maclennan@foo All the more egregious considering they built the system and could have built in meta data other ways.
Waitman GobbleCareful you may end up on a "Watch List" :)
itsFriday@foo I was always under the impression that this is only on other systems than mac a problem. Apparently not.
DesultoryLogic🇨🇭@foo I was feeling a little superior as a macOS user and never having to see them. And then I remembered what it was like the first time I saw one in my git repo. I was senselessly angry at who put it in there. As the lone Mac user on the team guess who’s checkin put it there? Shit! Add one more thing to gitignore!
Dusty Pomerleau@foo @janriemer The saddest thing about .DS_Store is that most of them are created by a 20-year-old bug:
Jan 
