trinix912 (u/trinix912)

trinix912 commented on Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode apple.com/newsroom/2026/0... · Posted by u/davidbarker

aylmao · 5 days ago

> All software of comparable size and complexity have shortcomings that everyone learns to work around.

This is part of the issue IMO. Is this size and complexity warranted?

Rust for example; its a complex language, can target pretty much all platforms under the sun, and yet it's configured with just text files, builds with just terminal commands, and works great with any text editor.

I've seen people in big tech work on codebases millions of files big with everything from VSCode to a russian text editor from the 90s. Linus Trovalds is building Linux with MicroEMACS. Why do I need a behemoth like Xcode to build a To Do app? Why does it have to be this "big and complex"?

trinix912 · 12 hours ago

The big part of Xcode is the integrated Interface Builder. With SwiftUI it might slowly become irrelevant, but as of now, there's still no replacement for Xcode's Interface Builder. JetBrains' AppCode is/was a decent replacement for the code editor, but you still had to switch to Xcode for the UI parts.

trinix912 commented on Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode apple.com/newsroom/2026/0... · Posted by u/davidbarker

andrekandre · 3 days ago

  > into floating utility panels

yes, that is another option, and ironicaly iirc project builder (xcode up to v3) and interface builder had this paradigm in use more, then in xcode v4 they just chucked everything into a single window... its like they just gave up and decided to copy visual studio (but worse)

trinix912 · 12 hours ago

The Xcode interface up to v3 was an even bigger mess. Interface Builder and Xcode were two separate programs, you'd quickly fill your screen with 15 little windows that you had to constantly drag around, open, close, switch between... The IB didn't even have a canvas so you'd have all your screens inside a NIB just floating around the code windows, the inspector panels, the controls toolbox... Want to switch to this or that IB screen? Move all other windows out of the way, then bring the inspector and toolbox back, and so on. Nowadays you just Cmd-Shift-] a few times.

Putting it all into a single window was a good idea IMO, they should just make it more flexible - allow sidebars/panels to be reorganized and windows to be dragged out of the main window.

trinix912 commented on Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs? windowscentral.com/micros... · Posted by u/josephcsible

leoedin · a day ago

What makes Linux not an option? Is there specific apps you need to use? Or IT policies? Or something else?

The company I work for got bought by a big conglomerate, and I managed to stubbornly hold out using Linux for a really long time. It turns out if your workplace has adopted “Bring your own device” type policies, that often means you can auth with enough services that working on Linux is feasible.

trinix912 · a day ago

It's much harder for non-dev jobs where the management won't let you BYOD for whatever reasons, which could range from IT being too stubborn to allow you to keep company data on your own laptop that's not centrally managed, to everything including licenses for random 3rd party software the company is using being tied to the ActiveDirectory fleet of computers with centralized storage.

This is the reality of IT equipment in big parts of the non-dev world, and you'll have a hard time convincing the IT dept to take on extra hassle just for you to use Linux out of all hundreds of employees who're just fine with Windows.

trinix912 commented on Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs? windowscentral.com/micros... · Posted by u/josephcsible

lousken · a day ago

Switch to linux, don't look back

trinix912 · a day ago

Unless you work a job where you're not in control of the OS you're using, which just happens to be most of the non-dev office jobs out there. Dismissing Windows problems with "just switch to Linux bro" doesn't really help.

trinix912 commented on Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs? windowscentral.com/micros... · Posted by u/josephcsible

sandworm101 · a day ago

Every horrible windows story is yet another glorious day for linux.

Fyi, in Mint if you search application for "notepad", "Text Editor" is the first result. That is curated search done right. Search for notepad on windows and you probably get an ad for a travel website.

trinix912 · a day ago

> Fyi, in Mint if you search application for "notepad", "Text Editor" is the first result. That is curated search done right. Search for notepad on windows and you probably get an ad for a travel website.

So it was with Windows Vista, Windows 7, even Windows 8. It's not an impossible ask for Windows either.

trinix912 commented on Stay Away from My Trash tldraw.dev/blog/stay-away... · Posted by u/EvgeniyZh

Cthulhu_ · 2 days ago

> If writing the code is the easy part, why would I want someone else to write it?

Arguably, because LLM tokens are expensive so LLM generated code could be considered a donation? But then so is the labor involved so it's kinda moot. I don't believe people pay software developers to write code for them to contribute to open source projects either (if that makes any sense).

trinix912 · 2 days ago

Interesting point. To me, it seems more like those donations where you’re offerred some money in exchange for taking an action which you know is going to take more time/cost way more than the donation amount. Tho to be completely fair, it’s similar with large non-LLM pull requests as well.

trinix912 commented on Everyone Is Stealing TV theverge.com/streaming/87... · Posted by u/naves

masfuerte · 3 days ago

Right? Each legitimate stream, including the pirate's, includes a unique ID. The content protection company subscribes to the pirate stream, gets the ID, and shuts down the pirate. This works today.

The problem that Sky has is that most premium sports content is available in other countries with less effective copy protection, so that's where the pirate streams originate, and Sky can't do anything about them.

You're right that none of this affects the end-users.

trinix912 · 3 days ago

Sure, you can buy a box and inspect that stream, but if there's a multitude of pirate streams it's an eternal whack-a-mole game. You cancel one pirate's subscription, the streams redirect to another, in the meantime the first pirate somehow gets access to another legitimate stream and so on.

This also doesn't account for the fact that there might be another proxy pirate in the middle who would relay the stream without the ID to the box (this and the first pirate might as well be the same person). This way even if you have the box you cannot find out which subscriber specifically the stream originates from, as the ID is gone before the stream is sent to the box.

To be 100% sure nothing is pirated, the streaming provider would have to either MITM the traffic from the ISP to the end-user (not legally possible) or just plain old show up at a place of a non-subscriber and inspect the equipment (again legally questionable).

trinix912 commented on Everyone Is Stealing TV theverge.com/streaming/87... · Posted by u/naves

masfuerte · 3 days ago

You don't need to. During premium streams the clients are frequently rekeying. So you cancel the streamer's subscription and the stream soon stops. The streamer also loses the rest of the month's subscription and goes onto a blacklist. This is already a thing with, for example, Sky in the UK.

trinix912 · 3 days ago

This works as long as each of these boxes connects directly to the streaming provider's servers. With pirate streams often there's a pirate streaming provider with a legitimate subscription, whose STB handles the rekeying, then the already-decoded AV stream is captured and redistributed. The end-users never actually stream from the streaming company, they stream from the pirate. That's often how sports are pirated, and your best bet is going to everyone's homes and checking that they're not watching your streams without a license.

trinix912 commented on Everyone Is Stealing TV theverge.com/streaming/87... · Posted by u/naves

elzbardico · 3 days ago

You don't need to serve it all the time. A couple hundred frames here and there maybe would do the trick.

trinix912 · 3 days ago

Good luck finding the person streaming it and proving that they did. The days of BBC TV license vans are long over.

trinix912 commented on Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is running into problems wsj.com/tech/ai/microsoft... · Posted by u/fortran77

tester756 · 4 days ago

>Microsoft has also tried hard to push Edge, annoying nearly every Windows user on the planet, with no real success.

False, Edge is actually decent product and viable replacement for Chromium based browsers.

I use Firefox daily, but at work Edge is my way to go

trinix912 · 3 days ago

Have you forgotten about Edge 1 that was the evolution of IE’s Trident rendering engine? It failed that’s why they then started with the rebranded Chromium Edge 2.