Thomas Tempelmann (tweet): So, if a user on a Linux system creates a folder that contains an Umlaut such as “ü”, it’ll end up precomposed on the (ext4) file system.Now, I can nicely access files in such a folder from macOS, as long as I only use POS…
Lees meerJon Gotow: Yes, the Open and Save dialogs keep appearing at their smallest possible sizes in Big Sur 11.1. It’s not just you, and it’s not something you’ve done wrong – it’s a bug in Big Sur. […] Sadly, resizing the dialog so it’s larger only works …
Lees meerTrieu Pham v. Apple (PDF, via Llyod Chambers): After plaintiff Pham approved the Guo Media App, the Chinese government contacted defendant Apple and demanded that the Guo Media App be removed from defendant Apple’s App store. Defendant Apple then pe…
Lees meerJohn Blair: I reported my discovery to the integrator and the chip vendor (look, it’s the Android Thread scheduler!), but they continued to push back on the Netflix behavior. Why don’t you just copy more data each time the handler is called? This wa…
Lees meerOliver Haslam: Google Authenticator for iPhone has had some attention lavished on it, with the new app featuring a redesigned interface that also includes support for dark mode for the first time. Alongside the new look, Google has also added a new …
Lees meerJason Snell (Hacker News): But Mac OS X wouldn’t ship for another two years, and it would be a painful years-long transition away from the classic Mac OS. In the meantime Apple needed to start making money again, needed that infusion of cash that wo…
Lees meerWill Shanklin: Gazelle is ending its entire device trade-in and buy-back program, with the closure effective February 1, 2021. Founded in 2006, Gazelle had been one of the most popular online services for trading in used iPhones, iPads, and other mo…
Lees meerNiko Matsakis: As of Jan 4th, I’m starting at Amazon as the tech lead of their new Rust team. Working at Mozilla has been a great experience, but I’m pretty excited about this change. It’s a chance to help shape what I hope to be an exciting new pha…
Lees meerTimothy B. Lee: So I went to Amazon.com, searched for “children’s drone,” and sorted by “average customer review,” figuring the best-reviewed drones were likely to be high quality. They weren’t.[…]When I sorted the reviews by date, I saw that the mo…
Lees meerMr. Macintosh: A quick follow up on macOS Automatic Update Snapshots. The feature was introduced in High Sierra and removed in Catalina 10.15.3. Mojave still creates automatic snapshots before the security update is installed. This was such a great …
Lees meerMr. Macintosh (tweet): Starting in early December, macOS Big Sur Internet Recovery was replaced by Catalina as the newest version available. […] Why did Apple make this change? I didn’t report on this earlier because I figured it was a server side i…
Lees meerA mere “website” — say, Wikipedia — that reaches an audience of billions is like the surface of an ocean: enormously expansive, but visible. Facebook is like the *volume* of an ocean: not merely massive, but unknowable.
Lees meerI've been using Apple's AirPods Pro for almost a full year, and they are one of my all-time favorite Apple products. I use them every single day to listen to music, listen to podcasts, participate in videoconferences, and conduct phone...
Lees meerJuli Clover (docket PDF, Hacker News): Apple last year sued Corellium for copyright infringement because the Corellium software is designed to replicate iOS to allow security researchers to locate bugs and security flaws. According to The Washington…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: Many macOS Mojave users, including myself, have experienced frequent failures of App Store to update their installed apps. Whenever this occurs, App Store shows the completely unhelpful error message “cancelled”.[…]One of the most frus…
Lees meerDan Luu (tweet, Hacker News): In the classic 1986 essay, No Silver Bullet, Fred Brooks argued that there is, in some sense, not that much that can be done to improve programmer productivity. His line of reasoning is that programming tasks contain a …
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