[HN Gopher] Fixing QuickLook (2023)
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       Fixing QuickLook (2023)
        
       Author : rogual
       Score  : 73 points
       Date   : 2024-06-25 19:45 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | a2tech wrote:
       | Well that was an interesting journey. I don't think rounded
       | corners would bother me enough to go digging that deep, but I
       | appreciate that it bothered someone enough that they went to the
       | trouble and wrote it up.
        
       | fredsted wrote:
       | I'm puzzled someone in the macOS department made it a priority to
       | fiddle with adding some border to QuickLook when there's so much
       | stuff broken in macOS (and QuickLook itself)
        
       | dlivingston wrote:
       | Cool investigation into the guts of macOS. I had no idea symbols
       | were still present for production builds in macOS and that they
       | are so easily 'hackable'.
       | 
       | I hadn't noticed before, but it is very strange to round corners
       | of images in QuickLook. Apple should revert this change.
        
         | saagarjha wrote:
         | Apple provides basic symbols for some of their binaries-
         | particularly older ones. I assume the default setting used to
         | be to not strip those, or some kind soul picked that option and
         | nobody revisited it. Unfortunately a lot of new code is shipped
         | stripped by default :(
        
       | projektfu wrote:
       | I recognized myself in this article, except I usually don't get
       | to the solution at the end. Bravo.
       | 
       | Anyone have a good way to not be distracted by every egregious
       | annoying thing that appears in your daily routine?
        
         | codezero wrote:
         | be conscious of it, when the shiny thing appears, write it down
         | on a piece of paper and tell yourself you'll come back to it if
         | it's interesting enough. At the end of the day, throw away the
         | paper :)
        
       | krackers wrote:
       | Note that if you're just experimenting you can also use LLDB's
       | breakpoint commands + "thread ret"/reg write to control logic.
       | 
       | But I've had some weird issues using "thread ret" (even when
       | using it as the first instruction in a function when it shouldn't
       | corrupt the stack), so patching memory is probably cleaner.
        
       | lloydatkinson wrote:
       | I know nothing about mac but damn what is Apple playing at? Have
       | they succumbed to the dumb trend ux people are obsessing over of
       | late - removing buttons or making buttons appear unclickable?
       | 
       | Look at the left and right screenshot. On the left, I can clearly
       | see the Preview button. On the right, it's barely a button. Also,
       | the default window background colour now looks like a washed out
       | water colour brown.
       | 
       | What are they thinking?
        
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