Daniel Boffey (Hacker News): Ottens’s idea was that the cassette tape that should fit in the inside pocket of his jacket. In 1963 the first tape was presented to the world at an electronics fair in Berlin with the tagline “Smaller than a pack of cig…
Lees meerBrave (tweet, Hacker News): Today Brave announced the acquisition of Tailcat, the open search engine developed by the team formerly responsible for the privacy search and browser products at Cliqz, a holding of Hubert Burda Media. Tailcat will becom…
Lees meerDavid Temkin (via John Gruber): Today, we’re making explicit that once third-party cookies are phased out, we will not build alternate identifiers to track individuals as they browse across the web, nor will we use them in our products.[…]People sho…
Lees meerZak Doffman (via DuckDuckGo): When you upload your photos to Facebook or Instagram, most metadata is stripped out and replaced by Facebook’s own codes. The date and time remain, but the location data does not. This is a major privacy benefit, you do…
Lees meerThe American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility issues ethics opinions that interpret the Model Rules of Professional Conduct. While not binding precedent, these ABA Formal Opinions are often cited as pers…
Lees meerMatthew Cassinelli (via Dave Mark): It’s my pleasure to announce that I’ve completely revamped my Shortcuts Library portion of my Shortcuts Catalog, remaking what was previously hundreds of shortcuts into a condensed set of:25 free example shortcuts…
Lees meerJesse Squires: Search in the Mail.app on Big Sur stopped working for some users. In addition to the workarounds mentioned here, Ben used OnyX to delete Mail’s Mailboxes index. After that, search in Mail.app started working for him again. More recent…
Lees meerFredrick R. Brennan (via Jason Snell): It is abundantly clear that this is the font they used, and no typewriter was involved in the production of this scene, even though the documents were the primary object of the scene. While working on the proje…
Lees meerAdam Engst: This change increases security even more, but it also prevents all backup apps from creating bootable duplicates because they cannot sign the backed-up System volume. In theory, Apple’s asr (Apple Software Restore) tool makes this possib…
Lees meerIn mid-2017, Apple announced the HomePod and started shipping it in early 2018. According to the reviews, the audio quality is great, but with an introductory price of $349 (it now sells for $299), and with Apple encouraging you to...
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