I absolutely love the way Windows computers show up as a beige low-budget monitor with a BSOD. I wonder how they show up these days - I no longer have Windows boxes on my network.
They still show up that way, same with linux servers running Samba.
To be completely honest, the joke is getting a little bit old. They could at least update the graphic. But Windows has not been that crashy since Windows ME.
Maybe they could update it with something that pokes fun at how much Windows spies on you by default.
> To be completely honest, the joke is getting a little bit old.
The real joke is Apple shipping a buggy, DIY'd version of SMB because they ditched Samba over some GPL3 quibble, and they abandoned AFP. Meanwhile, Microsoft is still the reference implementation of SMB...
I assume the icons are still there because there is nobody left at Apple that knows how they got there and where the code is that controls it.
Something that has haunted me for many years is how much Apple has built a brand around "we don't let anyone touch your data!"
And I don't mean just as a branding that "normal people" (ones who aren't interested in or involved with tech) believe
They even manage to sell it to people who know how things work behind the curtain!
I have had people I once respected that are as deep into the weeds of technology as I am ask me, point blank to my face. "Can you prove it?" when I snark that things like iCloud in China are obviously backdoored. This was before they bent the knee to the UK as well [1]
Chinese iCloud is hosted in domestic servers[0] with custom HSMs (Hardware Security Modules) installed[1] to geolocate E2EE keys for Chinese users in Chinese servers.
If Chinese authorities demanded physical access to the data there is nothing Apple can do to stop them. There is no proof that Apple provides credible security to these users and no historical audits that suggest they can.
So when Microsoft responds to an American warrant (or NSL) requiring a copy of a customer's data stored on Microsoft servers, that is a "backdoor in Windows"?
Well, first off, I never called it a backdoor. I just laid out the pitiful security situation Apple created for their Chinese users. You're the one putting words in my mouth.
Secondly, yes, especially if it's OneDrive. Both iCloud and OneDrive are first-party software products, they are built-into their respective operating systems as native features. If BitLocker was compromised, it would be a "Windows backdoor" too.
> Windows has not been that crashy since Windows ME.
Windows was still crashy, most frequently due to poorly written drivers.
What changed was that Microsoft altered the default setting so that Windows silently rebooted the computer when it crashed instead of displaying the BSOD information on what caused the crash until the system was manually rebooted.
The old text to speech voices are still around in Sequoia. Some have been changed to a generic "my name is x". But most still make their fun little jokes.
Found in the voice over utility app.
Accessibility > Voice Over > Voice Over Utility > Speech > Add Voice
They are probably talking about the company as a whole. Back when there were easter eggs and the UI was more raw, yet more "approachable".
I stopped using Apple Macintosh OS after Snow Leopard, aftger they started making it more difficult than necessary to access the full power of the Unix underpinnings. In some way, I miss Macintosh OS 7.5, 8, and 9 more than OS X.
No it makes sense. MacOS is neither a good enough Unix nor is it a good enough Mac OS. There’s a lot to like about either Unix or System 7, many of which aren’t very well reflected in modern MacOS.
I don’t know what you’re talking about as modern macOS is fantastic for both of those things. I sense nostalgia and rose tinted glasses winning over the facts here.
I'm sure there's lots of creative people there, but unfortunately they work for a company that seems to determined to just keep going back to the well over and over
As mentioned in yesterday's article [0], they can't be used because they haven't been mapped to a Unicode code point:
> (A note on most of these characters is that they don't actually map to any defined Unicode code point; they are unconnected glyphs. Font Book will show them but you can't really copy them anywhere. A tool like Ultra Character Map will let you at least grab a graphical representation and paste it somewhere, as I have done here.)
You can open them in a tool such as FontForge and force an encoding. You might need to add some padding at the beginning so that you get the symbols on a usable range.
I was honestly surprised at how much older hardware is even in the newer SF Symbols library. When I saw my first iPod in there, I couldn't help but shout it out in my app... https://eph.me/pt-easter-egg.jpg
https://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2025/08/mac-history-echoes-i...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44819962