Jason Koebler (Hacker News, at the new 404 Media, Hacker News): Apple told a California legislator that it is formally supporting a right to repair bill in California, a landmark move that suggests big tech manufacturers understand they have lost th…
Lees meerRenaud Chaput (via ednl, Hacker News): Full text search has been merged in #Mastodon main branch, and will be in the next (and final?) 4.2.0 beta.It is opt-in, so it will take some time to be filled with people content as they enable their profile t…
Lees meerTom Warren (via Hacker News): A public preview of the feature is available today, allowing Excel users to manipulate and analyze data from Python. “You can manipulate and explore data in Excel using Python plots and libraries, and then use Excel’s f…
Lees meeraxeman12 (via Hacker News): As of the newest MacOs releases (11.7.9, 12.6.8, and 13.5) I am no longer able to increase the ulimit of my computer using the strategies outlined here.[…]This is relevant for me as I am using Vite which is currently brok…
Lees meerWorld’s longest “short” podcast that Guy and Gaz have ever done. No big tech show this week though Gaz’s snippets are still there. So,
Lees meerI don’t think Apple has any such interest or appetite. Nor do I think Disney envisions its own future as anything but the independent company it has been since Walt and Roy Disney founded The Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio 100 years ago.
Lees meerJuli Clover: Meta-owned Twitter competitor Threads is finally getting a highly requested feature -- web access. The Threads social network can be accessed on the desktop and mobile devices using any web browser. However, it does not seem to support …
Lees meerJack Purcher (via Hacker News): Plaintiff received a boilerplate message from Apple’s App Store Review stating that Apple determined that Digital Will’s ADP membership “has been used for dishonest or fraudulent activity,” and thus, Plaintiff’s ADP a…
Lees meerIoannis Kouvakas: The existing IPA regime appears to already allow the U.K. government to demand that companies alter their services in a manner that may affect all users. For example, a technical capability notice requiring the “removal by a releva…
Lees meerWhat will actually happen, I believe, is that E2EE messaging platforms like WhatsApp (overwhelmingly popular in the U.K.), Signal, and iMessage *will stop working and be pulled from app stores in the U.K.*, full stop. The U.K. seems to think it’s a …
Lees meerAshley Carman (via Hacker News): [The] company has achieved its goals to recruit more creators to the platform with 44% of all podcasts being hosted on Anchor as of July 2022. At the same time, though, not all the podcasters fit the classic show mol…
Lees meerAaron Trickey: I’ve been building the iPad version of TimeStory for some time now, and it’s going well. I want to start journaling interesting or useful aspects of the project, and a logical place to start is with the choice of UI toolkit and the ba…
Lees meerZack Whittaker (Hacker News): Microsoft still doesn’t know — or want to share — how China-backed hackers stole a key that allowed them to stealthily break into dozens of email inboxes, including those belonging to several federal government agencies…
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