James Atkinson

@jimmyjamesuk
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Fascinated by file systems and low level kernel stuff. Audio/Video/Gpus. macOS and Unix.
@ismh86 Any idea what the thinking behind the 8 hour limit on Tahoe’s clipboard manager is? I can’t imagine a situation where I would only be interested in the last 8 hours.
@jsnell Tahoe's clipboard manager only keeping history for 8 hours seems like a strange decision. Any idea what the thinking is there? I can't imagine wanting a history of selected items, but for only 8 hours.
Periodic reminder that DHH is a piece of shit and his products suck.
@siracusa I’d love to see this topic (Exclaves in XNU) discussed on ATP. https://randomaugustine.medium.com/on-apple-exclaves-d683a2c37194
On Apple Exclaves - Random Augustine - Medium

Modern operating systems typically divide their operations into two main protection domains: the unprivileged domain (user mode) and the privileged domain (kernel mode). Software spends most of its…

Medium
@siracusa Although I am personally a little disappointed we got an M3 and not an M4 Ultra, it's worth remembering Geekbench 6 is specifically designed to make multi core chip scores worse (or more realistic) in a way that reflects consumer tasks. There are however a couple of Geekbench 5 results which show a 48% performance gain over the M2 Ultra. https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/23388823
Mac15,14 - Geekbench

Benchmark results for a Mac15,14 with an Apple M3 Ultra processor.

M3 Ultra Geekbench score. Why you'd buy this over an M4 Max is hard to see.
https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/10898551
@siracusa Do you still use eero wifi equipment? May I ask which model you use if so?
@caseyliss May I ask how your experience with Sonos is? Reading the Sonos subreddit, it seems like there are many problems lately.
@gruber Do you have any sense of whether Apple aims to compete with Nvidia on high end desktop gpus?
@siracusa Rare public comment from Dominic Giampaolo in reply to @snazzyq Unifi Nas video.