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Ben Kirton Feb 16, 2025

@atpfm The encryption conversation seems to focus on what happens in the UK or what all the other gov’s will also ask for, but something I’m not yet hearing discussed is can Apple even sell devices once they are known to have a backdoor to a foreign government?
Will any gov agency in any country allow the use of an iPhone knowing the UK (and of course anyone else) 100% has access?
Will any other anything?
Will I? Will you?

Ben Kirton Feb 3, 2025

Jim Kubicek Feb 2, 2025

The hardest problem in computer science is trying to figure out how any Apple API works by just reading the docs.

Ben Kirton Jan 26, 2025

Joe Rosensteel 🏳️‍🌈Jan 25, 2025

“Tim Cook Is Failing Us”

“So yes, I do hold Tim to a higher standard than these other robber barons, but that’s because Tim claims he holds himself to those high standards. I am measuring him against the ruler that he has provided and he comes up short.”

https://joe-steel.com/2025-01-25-Tim-Cook-Is-Failing-Us.html

Tim Cook Is Failing Us

Ben Kirton Dec 17, 2024

@imyke Finally getting on the keyboard building bandwagon and was looking for the build streams I remember you doing a while ago but can’t find anything at all on them. Do they exist as videos or are they gone into the aether?

-also congrats! Being a dad is the absolute best (and only occasionally the hardest) thing in the world and I expect you will love it and also crush it.

Ben Kirton Dec 16, 2024

@atpfm John’s app name suggestion:

“That’s a reference!”

Ben Kirton Sep 20, 2024

So this camera button is in a terrible position. My hands aren’t huge or tiny, quite standard sized, and this button absolutely sucks to use.
My hand is half over the screen holding in an awkward grip.

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Ben Kirton Aug 20, 2024

@jsnell @connected
🫡

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Ben Kirton Aug 20, 2024

Forgot to attatch the actual image of course and now I have deleted it.
It was the standard screen recording warning in betas, but for Mail.app, which doesn’t record the screen.

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Ben Kirton Aug 20, 2024

@jsnell This happen right after hearing in @connected that you are the pop-up guy.
That’s what you said, yeah? Send all popups to you?

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Ben Kirton Aug 20, 2024

@jsnell @caseyliss @siracusa A system-wide framework for apps to provide this info on top of an interface that can also maybe shame those that don’t (a la “Apps using significant power”, etc) feels like a win-win for Apple, respectable Mac/iOS developers, and definitely for users.
I’m know there would be avenues for abuse and lying by the not-so-respectable devs, but if the interface shows what they are actually doing, we may have a starting point to figure it out.