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Casey Liss

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Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

right but text sniper actually printed it a line at a time it didn't put tabs between it or anything but at least it was like here's the first row here's the second row here's the third row text selection in both web pages and pdfs continues to be an unsolvable problem apparently if you ever try to like select text in a complicated web page and you just want the text to be pasted just like it appeared in your web page but when you paste it you see that it's like out of order or it's selected other weird stuff same thing with pdfs at least in the preview app

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

right but text sniper actually printed it a line at a time it didn't put tabs between it or anything but at least it was like here's the first row here's the second row here's the third row text selection in both web pages and pdfs continues to be an unsolvable problem apparently if you ever try to like select text in a complicated web page and you just want the text to be pasted just like it appeared in your web page but when you paste it you see that it's like out of order or it's selected other weird stuff same thing with pdfs at least in the preview app

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

I can select it and I can hit copy. And when I hit paste, I expect it to to print those lines. But sometimes it just absolutely doesn't. It prints a scrambled mess of the lines all all connected to one big long line or interleave with each other or whatever. But TechSniper did it because TechSniper doesn't care about that stuff.

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

I can select it and I can hit copy. And when I hit paste, I expect it to to print those lines. But sometimes it just absolutely doesn't. It prints a scrambled mess of the lines all all connected to one big long line or interleave with each other or whatever. But TechSniper did it because TechSniper doesn't care about that stuff.

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

TechSniper just sees pixels that look like text and it parses them as lines of text and it will print them as lines of text. But of course, when I launched TechSniper, it said, hey, TechSniper wants to capture your screen. Do you want to allow it? Allow for one month, blah, blah, blah. And so this is sort of the ongoing battle because every new app still prompts you.

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

TechSniper just sees pixels that look like text and it parses them as lines of text and it will print them as lines of text. But of course, when I launched TechSniper, it said, hey, TechSniper wants to capture your screen. Do you want to allow it? Allow for one month, blah, blah, blah. And so this is sort of the ongoing battle because every new app still prompts you.

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

And then I went to the command line at the defaults right and said, now you're never going to ask me again until 3024 or until Sequoia 15.1 when Apple changes all of this. So this is a disappointing...

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

And then I went to the command line at the defaults right and said, now you're never going to ask me again until 3024 or until Sequoia 15.1 when Apple changes all of this. So this is a disappointing...

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

stopping point i'm not going to say conclusion in this saga of supposed increased security because now all the security not all the security benefits but most of the security benefits are out the window and yet we're still continuing to be annoyed by it to the point where people are writing gooey apps to help people circumvent this feature of mac os this is not a good sign for apple that they have struck the right balance with the features they've shipped

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

stopping point i'm not going to say conclusion in this saga of supposed increased security because now all the security not all the security benefits but most of the security benefits are out the window and yet we're still continuing to be annoyed by it to the point where people are writing gooey apps to help people circumvent this feature of mac os this is not a good sign for apple that they have struck the right balance with the features they've shipped

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

And then the security, again, if the security benefits are non-existent, if anybody who's trying to do something nefarious just Googles for it and gets a thing they can paste into terminal and solve the problem for them. Like it's just, it's very frustrating.

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

And then the security, again, if the security benefits are non-existent, if anybody who's trying to do something nefarious just Googles for it and gets a thing they can paste into terminal and solve the problem for them. Like it's just, it's very frustrating.

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

Oh, well, you did get to unbox pretty much all the new products, didn't you?

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

Oh, well, you did get to unbox pretty much all the new products, didn't you?

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

That's part of the setup. You should talk about that now.

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

That's part of the setup. You should talk about that now.

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

And neither did the employees, by the way, last time I was at the store, which was, which was not a busy day. I was sent to a table and then eventually someone came to help me and they disappeared for a little bit. And when they were gone, two other employees came up to me and said, uh,

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

And neither did the employees, by the way, last time I was at the store, which was, which was not a busy day. I was sent to a table and then eventually someone came to help me and they disappeared for a little bit. And when they were gone, two other employees came up to me and said, uh,

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

are you being helped like don't you know if i'm being helped shouldn't you know i'm being like the whole system is you send us off to these little tables to distribute this visible line so we can't see the actual line but then we get serviced in order and people are assigned to us you should know that somebody already is already handling it if you don't know then what is the system do you just look look wander the store looking for people who look lonely and say that person looks like they're not being helped let me help them

Accidental Tech Podcast
606: A Decade of Half-Presses

are you being helped like don't you know if i'm being helped shouldn't you know i'm being like the whole system is you send us off to these little tables to distribute this visible line so we can't see the actual line but then we get serviced in order and people are assigned to us you should know that somebody already is already handling it if you don't know then what is the system do you just look look wander the store looking for people who look lonely and say that person looks like they're not being helped let me help them