TN3150: In a modern file system, a file’s content may not be available locally on the device. A file that contains only metadata is known as a dataless file. The file’s content typically resides on a remote server and is available to people or apps,…
Lees meerUmar Shakir (via Hacker News): Starting in the next couple of weeks, millions of Discord users will be forced to say goodbye to their old four-digit-appended names. Discord is requiring everyone to take up a new common platform-wide handle. For Disc…
Lees meerFrederic Lardinois: At its annual I/O developer conference, Google today announced the launch of a number of AI-centric coding tools, including its competitor to GitHub’s Copilot, a chat tool for asking questions about coding and Google Cloud servic…
Lees meerIsaiah Poritz (via Corellium, Hacker News): Apple Inc. failed to fully revive a long-running copyright lawsuit against cybersecurity firm Corellium Inc. over its software that simulates the iPhone’s iOS operating systems, letting security researcher…
Lees meerThe iMac turned 25 on May 6th 2023. The computer has kind of fallen to the wayside in popularity even with Apple users these
Lees meerElon Musk (via John Scott-Railton): We’re purging accounts that have had no activity at all for several years, so you will probably see follower count drop. John Carmack: I may be reading this incorrectly, but if you are actually deleting inactive a…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Most recently, Quinn “The Eskimo!” of Apple’s Developer Technical Support has explained: “The exact circumstances where the system translocates an app is not documented and has changed over time.” […] Surprisingly, the third condition…
Lees meerOccamSec (in 2021): It is far easier, however, to break the codesigning system and sign your binary as an Apple binary. But let’s get this straight: even though the machine will be aware that the LC_CODE_SIGNATURE LoadCommand is tainted, it will sti…
Lees meerKarl Bode (in 2019, via Daniel J. Wilson, Hacker News): Adobe this week began sending some users of its Lightroom Classic, Photoshop, Premiere, Animate, and Media Director programs a letter warning them that they were no longer legally authorized to…
Lees meerApple (MacRumors, Hacker News, MacStories, 9to5Mac): Apple today unveiled Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPad. Video and music creators can now unleash their creativity in new ways that are only possible on iPad. Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for iPa…
Lees meerJesse Squires (Mastodon): I am writing this for anyone who is interested in trying to go independent — either with your own app development business, solo contracting and freelancing, or both. […] For me, the first year was full of learning — how to…
Lees meerDavid Pogue (via CYME): After 30 years of shutterbugging, my photos were all over the place. 150,000 of them were on Flickr, which was once free but has crept up to $80 a year—and is ancient and pretty terrible for photo management (can’t search by …
Lees meerAnders Borum: Making decisions for my coming S3 app. Does Apple app review allow free to download apps to put everything behind a paywall, such that users can download and use the app during a free trial but when the trial expires nothing is availab…
Lees meerJeff Johnson (Mastodon, Hacker News): One thing is painfully clear to me already: the BigCos are coming for our passwords, so passkeys can’t be ignored. Google recently wrote about the beginning of the end of the password. Apple has also indicated t…
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