Using a Mac Without Phoning Home

Howard Oakley: A great deal has happened in the two years since Apple promised that it would provide an option to stop online checking of certificate validity using OCSP, and that of notarization. Instead, it has introduced two quite different enhan…

Bugs in OpenBSD’s UTF-8 Decoding Logic

Exotic Silicon (via Hacker News): In this article, we’ll take a look at the [sorry] state of affairs regarding UTF-8 support on the OpenBSD kernel, at least as of OpenBSD 7.2-release. It’s not a pretty picture, but hopefully we can improve things.[……

Converting the Streaks Apple Watch App to SwiftUI

Quentin Zervaas: At this time, Streaks for Apple Watch still supports watchOS 6. Even though SwiftUI runs on watchOS 6, there were some roadblocks in our implementation, so if you’re on watchOS 6, you’ll still be running the WatchKit version.[…]In S…

★ To Ship or Not to Ship, Headset Edition

But let’s say for the sake of argument that Cook *is* preoccupied with thoughts of his legacy. If that’s true, he’d likely be overly cautious about launching this new platform, not rushing it out the door against staunch internal opposition.

★ To Ship or Not to Ship, Headset Edition

But let’s say for the sake of argument that Cook *is* preoccupied with thoughts of his legacy. If that’s true, he’d likely be overly cautious about launching this new platform, not rushing it out the door against staunch internal opposition.

★ To Ship or Not to Ship, Headset Edition

But let’s say for the sake of argument that Cook *is* preoccupied with thoughts of his legacy. If that’s true, he’d likely be overly cautious about launching this new platform, not rushing it out the door against staunch internal opposition.

U.S. Treasury: All Silicon Valley Bank Depositors Will Have Access to All of Their Money Starting Tomorrow

Pattern Matching on Swift Error Codes

Ole Begemann: I was wondering why this shorter syntax works. Is there some special compiler magic for pattern matching against error codes of NSError instances? Turns out: no, the answer is much simpler. Foundation includes an overload for the patte…

Ventura Time Machine Backups and the APFS Uncertainty Principle

Howard Oakley: Before making any snapshots for this backup, TMA performs housekeeping on its own previous snapshots, both on each volume being backed up, and on the target volume (backup storage). The rule it applies is inflexible: it deletes any lo…

Indispensable Developer Tools

David Smith: This isn’t comprehensive, but my hope is to surface potentially less well known tools that I have found super helpful. The obvious ones like Xcode and Terminal are obviously essential, if not particularly interesting. Sim Genie is an ab…

David Zaslav Might Be Stupid

‘Can You Believe We Have to Talk About This Shit Again?’

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TechFan 488 – Classical Apple Rode 

David gets a new (used) Mac and Tim gets new Rode NTH-100 headphones. Plus, HP is back to their slimy printer ink ways and Apple

Silicon Valley Bank Is Shut Down by Regulators in Biggest Bank Failure Since Global Financial Crisis

The Talk Show: ‘Fine Hypertext Products’

Reddit Post Seemingly Proves That Samsung’s Galaxy S-Series ‘Moon Photos’ Are Fake, and They’ve Been Blatantly Lying About Them