Mastodawn

https://paulstraw.itch.io/xkpd

Kevin Beaumont Jul 9

I believe Citrix may have made a mistake in the patching instructions for CitrixBleed2 aka CVE-2025-5777.

They say to do the instructions on the left, but they appear to have missed other session types (e.g. AAA) which have session cookies that can be stolen and replayed with CitrixBleed2. On the right is the CitrixBleed1 instructions.

The net impact is, if you patched but a threat actor already took system memory, they can still reuse prior sessions.

Tell anybody you know at Citrix.

CodingPanic Jul 2

@siracusa fired up my G4 mini running 10.3 yesterday and I was instantly reminded of how far Apple has fallen in design. Tahoe’s lack of interface density looks like a Tonka toy in comparison. Interface inflation and bloat is very real.

CodingPanic Jun 30

Playdate Jun 30

A free Playdate app to sideload: xkpd, Paul Straw's xkcd reader—check out the latest comic, go to a specific one, or jump around randomly. Cool use of the new networking APIs!

CodingPanic Jun 25

Daring Fireball Jun 25

Sorry, MacOS Tahoe Beta 2 Still Does the Finder Icon Dirty
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/24/sorry-macos-tahoe-b2-finder-icon

Sorry, MacOS Tahoe Beta 2 Still Does the Finder Icon Dirty

Link to: https://512pixels.net/2025/06/finder-icon-fixed/

Daring Fireball

CodingPanic Jun 24

@geerlingguy crazy question… I’m looking at switching some of my systems to Wayland… but graphical remote access seems to mostly be limited to RDP on Ubuntu. I’m currently using vnc extensively… do you know of a vnc server that works with Wayland, that isn’t wayvnc? (It needs wlroots compositors)

Federico Viticci

Jul 22

Pocket Casts for iOS 18 on the left, Apple Podcasts for iOS 26 on the right.

Between the illegible glass and the tab bar that disappears on scroll, I honestly have no idea who can take a look at this and say "Yes, that'll do it. That's good."

Liquid Glass is a mess so far, *especially* on iOS. Actually pushing me to use apps without Liquid Glass.

David Harrison 🇨🇦Jul 22

@viticci Alan Dye is who.

Richard Diaz Jul 22

@viticci it’s weird seeing how they came up with the right balance in Safari with the bottom bar option, but then no other system app even offers it.

Matt Jul 22

@viticci Apple is going to destroy the public opinion that they’re good at design with this release

@matthubble @viticci
I think that threshold was reached and breached years ago.

@viticci I'm still yet to see *any* benefits of Liquid Glass so far

Jaime Creixems Jul 22

@keir it just looks cool

@webjac if only that were the case 😆

Adam Faircloth Jul 22

@webjac @keir IMO it fails at that too. I think it looks goofy.

Zimmie Jul 22

@keir @viticci The glass visual effect makes it pretty solidly unusable, but I like some of how it works. It feels like the Dynamic Island extended to involve more of the UI. Imagine if the UI elements were opaque and silvery (though they’d have to get Robert Patrick to become the new voice of Siri). The control grouping and the flow could be good.

It does seem to push too hard towards hiding everything in a hamburger menu. Even without that, it seems very easy for developers to get things wrong and wind up with a frustrating interface.

@bob_zim @viticci hiding more and more of the interface has been an ongoing trend with Apple for a while now unfortunately. Some apps like consumption apps, sure, mostly makes sense I guess but it's just applied everywhere. It's an awful trend.

@bob_zim @keir @viticci

> It does seem to push too hard towards hiding everything in a hamburger menu.

You just summarized Alan Dye’s entire design philosophy.

Niléane Jul 22

@viticci The glassy scrubber in the Weather app is a disaster of a UI element

@nileane @viticci wow…

Andrei Torres Jul 22

@nileane @viticci oh wow… (screenshot from iPadOS 26 beta 4)

Niléane Jul 22

@andreitorres @viticci perfection

Slaíne Jul 22

@nileane @andreitorres @viticci JFC, are they even using this.

Marijke Luttekes Jul 22

@andreitorres @nileane @viticci When you don’t need a tool to determine that buttons lack an accessible color contrast between foreground and background, I'm wary of the rest of the UI.

fuomag9 Jul 22

@andreitorres @viticci @nileane is it still like this? I went back to iOS 18 because on beta 3 my phone started constantly lagging even after reboots, but at this point I'll wait for iOS 26.1 before updating

Andrei Torres Jul 22

@fuomag9 @viticci @nileane I think we will need a new 'snow leopard'-like release to adjust everything that's off on 26.

fuomag9 Jul 22

@andreitorres @viticci @nileane agreed

@andreitorres @fuomag9 @viticci @nileane
I think what we need is a new C-level product person at Apple—someone with good taste and common sense—to rein in Alan Dye’s ridiculous ideas and refocus on the overall user experience instead of just self-indulgent, minimalist aesthetics.

Robert Petersen

Jul 22

@andreitorres @nileane @viticci meanwhile in Mail. Invisible controls on bottom.

Andrei Torres Jul 22

@Sonikku @nileane @viticci very intuitive

@Sonikku @andreitorres @nileane @viticci

Thomas Hartwig Jul 22

Come on. This is simply a bug. Look at the navigation controls, they work the way the bottom controls will also work. This is beta 4 …

Andy Norman Jul 23

@andreitorres @nileane @viticci but who could have predicted the background to the map would have been pale ?!

Nico Reese Jul 22

@nileane @viticci Some apps like Weather and Music miss the scroll edge blur effect and some like Notes have just a gradient without blur at the top and bottom, which I think is a bug. I believe it looks worse than it would with those in place. Not that there are no other issues, but still.

Andy Norman Jul 23

@nicoreese @nileane @viticci and the blurred section at the bottom in Safari is not all scrollable, with no way of guessing where the scrollable “content” begins (that would have been hidden before). And when you let your swipe start too far down the screen it feels like the UI has locked up as it doesn’t scroll

amonduin Jul 22

@nileane @viticci turns out separating UI controls and the actual content made it easier to use, who could have guessed /s

Jes - Lewd Edition

:vthicc:Jul 22

@nileane @viticci the cloud looks like

Elías Chao Jul 22

@nileane @viticci Can’t wait to explain to my mom how to do stuff with UI elements she’ll barely even notice. Yay!

Joshua Barretto Jul 22

@nileane @viticci I genuinely just sat here tapping that image because I assumed the greyed out effect was because my Mastodon client hadn't fully loaded the image yet or something

Joshua Barretto Jul 22

@nileane @viticci RIP anybody with difficulty perceiving contrast differences, people viewing their phones in sunlight, or anybody viewing their device at night with lower brightness, I guess

max oakland Jul 23

@nileane @viticci what am I even looking at?

Sophia

@nileane @viticci wtf is even that???

chris overcash Jul 22

@viticci why do you think the liquid glass style works on AVP but not on other devices?

John Davis Jul 22

@covercash

AVP dos not use Liquid Glass. It uses the iOS 18 blur materials.

chris overcash Jul 22

@its_john_davis but wasn’t liquid design inspired by the AVP floating translucent windows?

John Davis Jul 23

@covercash that appears to be part of their justification machine. I think it’s lame that the visionOS UI group said “we want no part in that” and then got name dropped as inspiration.

@its_john_davis @covercash
Also Vision Pro is mostly useless for anything other than media consumption.

Matt Birchler Jul 22

@covercash @viticci The glass effects on visionOS cover up reality, almost never content, which is why I think it makes a lot more sense there.

Joe Keller Jul 22

@viticci Reddit, apparently.

g_hill Jul 25

@jkeller87 @viticci It's a platform driven by attention economy, so expect substance to be lacking there. It's the same crowd who finds System Settings totally acceptable and even "good," because it looks like the iOS Settings app.

Chancerubbage Jul 22

@viticci @gedeonm

If there is not a setting for users to opt out (it really should be opt in) we are in for a world of hurt.

Greg Woods Jul 22

@viticci I also find it weirdly annoying that the curve of the bottom bar doesn’t match the curve of the phone.

Daron Brewood 🇬🇧Jul 22

@viticci Got to agree there, so poor.

KRSX Jul 22

@viticci Imagine believing that Apple’s take is „more focused on the content“.

zıəs uɐɟəʇs ✪Jul 22

@viticci One can only hope there will be an Accessibility-Setting similar to "Reduce Transparency" to switch that mess off alltogehter.

John Spurlock Jul 22

@viticci yep, opportunity for apps to do something completely different this year

MightyCoffeeMug Jul 22

@viticci iOS 26 a birthday present for Windows Vista’s 18th birthday 🎉🥳🍾👏🏻🎊

Thomas Brand Jul 22

@viticci bring back the tape deck!

Thomas Hartwig Jul 22

@viticci
I don’t know why the disappearing tab bar is such a big deal. It’s actually good to use more room of the screen for what I’m scrolling in. And if I need the bar to switch a tab? Just scroll up a thumbs width and it appears again.

rex❗ (he/him) ♿

@thartwig @viticci for me, it's an accessibility issue. my object permeance sucks thanks to having adhd & i've constant got hand & finger pain. even the simple act of scrolling on a touch screen can hurt me. i know i can use a bluetooth mouse, but it's not always practical (eg when i'm using public transport, which i often do since i can't drive).

i've regularly been using computers since the 1990s, so it's yet another new ui/ux element i need to adjust to. before the ipados 18 "upgrade", i've only made the tab bar (or its equivalent) disappear when i've clicked the full screen option on a window. the exception is mobile firefox, but there's an option to make it stay. there isn't in ios/ipados 18.

not much screen real estate is saved by making it disappear either.

it should be the user's choice whether or not it stays. if ipados didn't have so many decent accessibility options & apps i use every day, i would've switched to an android tablet by now.

Thomas Hartwig Jul 23

@industrial_cream @viticci
Fair point about the users choice and given how highly apple usually values accessibility it should be there!

@thartwig @viticci
Computers aren’t just for passively consuming content. They are also used to create, organize, search, and interact with content. For all of the latter, hiding all controls in a junk drawer is a failure of design.

Jeremy Gonis Jul 22

@viticci I’m pretty convinced I’ll be switching to Android this fall. Material 3 expressive looks *so* much better than this.

J.P. Wing Jul 22

@jgns @viticci I'm thinking the same thing. I keep thinking, "if Liquid Glass is this bad, what else is falling apart under the hood?"

tux0r

@jgns @viticci If UI matters more than technology and privacy, do enjoy.

Jeremy Gonis Jul 23

@tux0r @viticci usability matters far more. Besides being ugly, I can barely read anything on 26.

tux0r

@jgns @viticci That's true. I surely hope Apple will understand what might be the problem here. The opacity has been improved since the first beta already.