The Talk Show: ‘Two-Legged Stool’

Former Designer of Google Maps on Its Updated Design

The Talk Show: ‘Two-Legged Stool’

The OpenAI Coup Saga Seemingly Ends, With Sam Altman Returning as CEO

Ducklet 1.0.1

ohoj Software: Ducklet makes using SQLite databases easy for everyone, whether you’re a developer, data analyst, or just curious. We’ve designed a user-friendly interface for a smooth and intuitive experience, so you can focus on your data.[…]Experi…

Git Tower 10.2

Tower: Sync Action: This action synchronizes your HEAD branch with a remote branch by pulling and then pushing commits (if pulling was successful). If you are not using the default toolbar item set, you can add the Sync action to your toolbar by run…

Rumor of Cellular MacBook

Arnold Kim (2011): One of the most requested features for Apple’s MacBook Pro line has been for the integration of some sort of built-in 3G cellular data to allow for anywhere wireless connectivity. MacBook Pro users presently need to purchase a sep…

Apple Asked Amazon to Block Rival Ads

Eugene Kim (via Hacker News): Apple’s latest products directly sold by Amazon have a much cleaner page layout on Amazon with no ads or recommendations until the very bottom of the page, an Insider review of the e-commerce site shows. Most other bran…

Spotify’s Google Play Store Deal

Adi Robertson and Sean Hollister (Hacker News): Music streaming service Spotify struck a seemingly unique and highly generous deal with Google for Android-based payments, according to new testimony in the Epic v. Google trial. On the stand, Google h…

Nothing’s iMessage App Was a Security Catastrophe

Ron Amadeo (via Hacker News): Last Tuesday, Nothing Chats—a chat app from Android manufacturer “Nothing” and upstart app company Sunbird—brazenly claimed to be able to hack into Apple’s iMessage protocol and give Android users blue bubbles. We immed…

Privacy Is Priceless, But Signal Is Expensive

Meredith Whittaker and Joshua Lund (Hacker News): Signal is also a nonprofit, unlike almost every other consumer tech company. This provides an essential structural safeguard ensuring that we stay true to our privacy-focused mission. To put it blunt…

Safari Share Menu Now Violates Privacy

Jeff Johnson: Looking at the packet trace, the share menu attempts to fetch the icon files favicon.ico, apple-touch-icon.png, and apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png from the site.[…]And of course your IP address is leaked.My belief is that a website s…

Background Information on Hemisphere/DAS

Secretive U.S. Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of U.S. Phone Records

Black Friday 2023

My apps (DropDMG, EagleFiler, SpamSieve) are on sale for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and here are some other good deals that I found: Apps: Adobe Affinity Akismet AllTrails Appfigures Astro CYME Corel Deckset (INDIE-APP-SALES) DisplayBuddy (INDIE…

OpenAI Drama Continues

[Sponsor] Kolide: ‘The Dirty Secret of OS Updates’

OpenAI Drama Continues

The Hidden Secrets of the Fn Key

Adam Engst: Apple began adding a globe icon to the Fn keycap a few years ago and, starting in macOS 14 Sonoma, began to call it the Globe key. This is likely for consistency with iPad keyboards, which dropped the lowercase “fn” letters entirely in f…

HandBrake 1.7

HandBrake (Hacker News): Improved performance on arm64 / aarch64 / Apple Silicon architectures[…]Added support for drag and drop of multiple files at once[…]Added support for VideoToolbox H.265/HEVC, H.264/AVC, ProRes, and VP9 hardware decoders on m…

The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software Is Unsustainable

Thomas Stringer (via Hacker News): But… in the back of my mind I know that I have open source projects that need some attention. One happens to be heavily used. I’m nearly 3/4 million downloads, and it’s something that people seem to think has some …