Casey Liss

But now it's like, actually, there's no security benefit because anyone who cares can Google this in two seconds and download a GUI app that will set all the things to the future.

So this is, I'm assuming Apple will see this and then in a future update to Sequoia, come up with a different, much more secure system that doesn't allow you to run a single default write command or download a GUI app to change this and never have to worry about it again. Because like, what's the point of the feature? It's just annoying people for no reason at that point, right?

So this is, I'm assuming Apple will see this and then in a future update to Sequoia, come up with a different, much more secure system that doesn't allow you to run a single default write command or download a GUI app to change this and never have to worry about it again. Because like, what's the point of the feature? It's just annoying people for no reason at that point, right?

And the second thing is, how has life been on Sequoia with these screen recordings? Well, I did use Zoom, and I did share my screen, and it did prompt me. And I'm like, ah, well, Zoom, how often do I share my screen? I think in the, what, week or two I've had Sequoia, I've gotten prompted like four times by four different apps. And it just keeps catching me by surprise.

And the second thing is, how has life been on Sequoia with these screen recordings? Well, I did use Zoom, and I did share my screen, and it did prompt me. And I'm like, ah, well, Zoom, how often do I share my screen? I think in the, what, week or two I've had Sequoia, I've gotten prompted like four times by four different apps. And it just keeps catching me by surprise.

Just today, I used TechSniper, which, by the way, I still recommend. And what was I using TechSniper for? Not to get fines out of photos. You know what I was using it for? Ah, good old preview. I had a PDF that had text in it. And I wanted to copy and paste that text out of the PDF. But unfortunately, that text was tabular.

Just today, I used TechSniper, which, by the way, I still recommend. And what was I using TechSniper for? Not to get fines out of photos. You know what I was using it for? Ah, good old preview. I had a PDF that had text in it. And I wanted to copy and paste that text out of the PDF. But unfortunately, that text was tabular.

And selecting the text in preview and hitting copy and then pasting into a plain text document was just a soup.

And selecting the text in preview and hitting copy and then pasting into a plain text document was just a soup.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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...

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

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

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.