The Economist (via Hacker News): The site has no shareholders, has generated no billionaires and sells no advertising. Today’s aspiring tech giants burn vast quantities of investors’ money subsidising taxi rides (Uber) or millennial messaging (Snap)…
Lees meerDan Goodin (Hacker News, Bruce Schneier): WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned messenger that claims to have privacy coded into its DNA, is giving its 2 billion plus users an ultimatum: agree to share their personal data with the social network or delete th…
Lees meerAdobe (MacRumors): Since Adobe will no longer be supporting Flash Player after December 31, 2020 and Adobe will block Flash content from running in Flash Player beginning January 12, 2021, Adobe strongly recommends all users immediately uninstall Fl…
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Lees meerJuli Clover: The SanDisk Extreme Pro Portable NVMe SSD offers up to 2000MB/s read and write speeds, and its aluminum chassis serves as a heatsink to deliver higher sustained speeds. The SanDisk Extreme Pro Portable SSD will be available later this q…
Lees meerChris Hynes: You find names appearing under icons to be irritating, especially since you’ve long since memorized what all your app icons look like. When you click on something that looks like a folder, you’ve always wanted it to launch the app under…
Lees meerMichael Ilseman: FilePath appeared in System 0.0.1 with a minimal API. This proposal adds API for syntactic operations, which are performed on the structure of the path and thus do not consult with the file system or make any system calls. These inc…
Lees meerAlyssa Rosenzweig (via Hacker News): Apple’s latest line of Macs includes their in-house “M1” system-on-chip, featuring a custom GPU. This poses a problem for those of us in the Asahi Linux project who wish to run Linux on our devices, as this custo…
Lees meerAlejandro Martinez: Sadly, SwiftUI doesn’t provide a native way of generating images from its views. We need to resort to tricks used in its ancestor frameworks. […] First, we need to create a NSHostingView with the SwiftUI view that you want to cre…
Lees meerRyan Mac and John Paczkowski (tweet, MacRumors, Hacker News): “We have received numerous complaints regarding objectionable content in your Parler service, accusations that the Parler app was used to plan, coordinate, and facilitate the illegal acti…
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