badidea @0xabad1dea·Nov 7, 2014.@munin VLC asked me to let it update itself like it does virtually every time I open it, and then that happened21
@MacLemon@chaos.social (Fediverse)@MacLemon·Nov 7, 2014@0xabad1dea @munin I’ve had that happen a few times. Wondering of this is “closed betas” or malicious redirects or just a bug.1
badidea @0xabad1dea·Nov 7, 2014@MacLemon @munin the conclusion was it’s buggy interfacing with the OSX filesystem and to simply try again1
@MacLemon@chaos.social (Fediverse)@MacLemon·Nov 7, 2014@0xabad1dea @munin Ah, just saw it. Maybe @andy_matuschak can shed some light on this Sparkle behaviour?2
Andy Matuschak@andy_matuschak·Nov 7, 2014@MacLemon @0xabad1dea @munin But yeah, it's totally possible that the call which is trying to determine that is busted.1
badidea @0xabad1dea·Nov 7, 2014@andy_matuschak @MacLemon @munin I got overwhelming replies about a race condition, there’s surely no password on the .dmg.1
Andy Matuschak@andy_matuschakReplying to @0xabad1dea@0xabad1dea @maclemon @munin That sounds totally plausible; quite likely ten-years-ago-Andy's fault. If so: very sorry!3:50 PM · Nov 7, 2014·Twitter for Mac1 Like
@MacLemon@chaos.social (Fediverse)@MacLemon·Nov 7, 2014Replying to @andy_matuschak@andy_matuschak THANKS for Sparkle and thanks for helping to understand what is happening. Much appreciated. @0xabad1dea @munin1
Lukas Pitschls@lukele·Nov 7, 2014@MacLemon @andy_matuschak @0xabad1dea @munin We've had this problem with @GPGTools updates as well. IIRC it was a failing isEncrypted check