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OS X allows you to specify a DefaultKeyBinding.dict for Cocoa apps, and we have set up editing motions that the native fields support, but when you do them on Twitter dot com's tweet field, it wedges the input field in terrific ways that mean you have to reload the page to get backspace to work again



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I also don't understand it. I was reading about the heart of darkness recently and also thinking about how it's set in a jungle, which is related to safaris tangentially.

Sometimes I'm not fast enough with slapping impulse's hands away from the controls.

in reply to @atax1a's post:

oh sure! copy/pasting from somewhere else, we just said:

it is the native web browser on macos
the thing that is integrated into the infrastructure of the platform
but it is expected, especially if you have a desktop fucking mac, that you will be using chrome or firefox or a chrome-or-firefox-based browser
yet, weirdly, safari garners this bizarre disrespect!

upon which they were enlightened:

"it is expected by" gestures to several communities that are traditionally very whitebro

but yeah, weird how straight up every time we have a problem with a website in safari, the response is "i don't care about making it work for you, switch to chrome", huh?

also like, we mentioned how web app frameworks implement a shadow interface to the actual underlying OS widgets, but that interface is fake and at best appropriates the default behavior of the widget, and does not respect any of the environmental customizations that the full platform offers. if that helps make the metaphor land.

i dont know, i feel like its not unreasonable for a small dev team with not a lot of resources to devote more time to browsers and systems that are widely used over ones that arent
i know more people that use desktop linux than use desktop macs
actually i dont think ive known anyone who uses desktop macs since i was in high school
i dont feel like its especially white to not devote resources to something little-used when you only have so many resources to spare and a large part of the macOS userbase uses chrome anyway. it is white to be disrespectful about it though

edit: apparently macs have a third market share so im an idiot nevermind

thats kinda what we mean, the expectation and widespread understanding that the native browser on desktop mac is little-used and doesn't matter because everyone who matters uses chrome is in fact white people shit

it is literally the only browser on this platform that respects my goddamn DefaultKeyBindings.dict correctly

we are plural, not an entire SRE org, and we think linux sucks for MANY reasons (many of which are related to us being at odds with white-people engineering culture), so we run macos, openbsd, and freebsd at home, because it gives us orders of magnitude fewer headaches than dealing with linux, which we reserve for our actual dayjob work.

another anecdote that should be illustrative of our approach:

we back up our freebsd machine to a tape drive. we can look at the history in the source code and trace the lineage of our tape drivers and the userland commands all the way back to individual gays in the 70s who were dealing with SCSI tapes on fucking vaxes.

we have used the linux tape drive stack in past lives, and it feels like a cheap plastic imitation formed by looking at what the BSD stuff did but without any of the historical background โ€” tapes were not common things on i386 PCs like they were in older unix systems, and so the toolchain and drivers generally are less robust

they're both, at the end of the day, products of a white supremacist system, but linux is a scenario where the loudest dude with the least amount of grasp of the prior art visibly (to us) dominates, and well what's more gringo-tech than that?

ive got to be honest this is so far out of my wheelhouse i wouldnt know where to start
i just use a computer and sometimes i can get it to do a thing i want that other people dont know about
i dont bother with that stuff because nothing i do is worth preserving and i have no application for it.
you have a long memory.

we have been running our own email server, DNS, and web hosting, in some capacity, since we were 15. we are currently 36.

we don't quite have every email we've ever transacted since then, but we do have 288,385 of them. and we very simply are not white. people, even people of color, make the assumption that we are, based on our light skin color, but this is a fundamentally inescapable difference between myself and the vast majority of people who are not myself, and it always leaves us in exactly this sort of situation eventually.