Spending a few hours perusing the state of the art in Android Mastodon clients gives me the distinct impression that Android is forever stuck in its Window 3.x era of UI polish and design. It’s rough.
Lees meerPeter Hosey: TIL about Disk Mount Conditioner, a macOS feature like the Network Link Conditioner but for file I/O. Throttle throughput or add latency to make a device behave like something slower. See man dmc(1) for details. dmc(1): The Disk Mount C…
Lees meerMia Sato and James Vincent: CNET is the subject of a swirling controversy around the use of AI in publishing, and it’s Jaffe’s team that’s been at the center of it all. Last week, Futurism reported that the website had been quietly publishing articl…
Lees meerAlin Panaitiu: You notice you never use the MacBook built-in display anymore, and it nags you to have it in your lower peripheral vision.Closing the lid is not an option because you still use the keyboard and trackpad, maybe even the webcam and Touc…
Lees meerMark Dominus: If you tap the mystery button momentarily, the screen locks, which is very convenient, I guess, if you have to pee a lot. But they put the mystery button right above the delete key, and several times a day I fat-finger the delete key, …
Lees meerDouglas Hill: If you’re writing an iOS app using Swift and trying to solve a problem you’re sure has been solved before, you may look for existing code that solves that problem. It’s likely you’ll first think of looking for open source code written …
Lees meerSam Biddle (tweet, via Tim Sweeney): When Safari users in Hong Kong recently tried to load the popular code-sharing website GitLab, they received a strange warning instead: Apple’s browser was blocking the site for their own safety. The access was t…
Lees meerMatthias Gansrigler: 65 photos were unable to upload, according to Photos on my Mac. Why? I couldn’t honestly tell you. Photos didn’t tell me. It should have, if you ask me. I’d have liked to know. And there’s no way to retry to sync those photos wi…
Lees meerDavid McCabe and Nico Grant (via Hacker News): The Justice Department and a group of states sued Google on Tuesday, accusing it of illegally abusing a monopoly over the technology that powers online advertising, in the agency’s first antitrust lawsu…
Lees meerJeff Johnson (Mastodon): What it doesn’t tell you is that if you don’t invalidate the session (via finishTasksAndInvalidate or invalidateAndCancel), then the internet connection created by the session remains open until the app terminates, even afte…
Lees meerYes, Tim and David talk about Dabney Coleman. Plus, Star Wars Bad Batch, Top Gun Maverick, Willow, Yellowstone 1923, and the big movings coming
Lees meerThere’s some speculation that 2023 may be the year that the M-series Mac Pro may finally be released. There’s also lots of speculation (and
Lees meerOn episode 392 of Geekiest Show Ever, Elisa and Melissa share updates on their newest tech and gear. Check out our full show notes
Lees meerWow what a week, Apple went quietly mad and released new M2 Macs, full size HomePods and iOS 16.3! Simon and Nick chat about
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