Dana Mattioli: No competitor is too small to draw Amazon’s sights. It cloned a line of camera tripods that a small outside company sold on Amazon’s site, hurting the vendor’s sales so badly it is now a fraction of its original size, the little firm’…
Lees meerBruce Schneier: Cellebrite announced that it can break Signal. (Note that the company has heavily edited its blog post, but the original — with lots of technical details — was saved by the Wayback Machine.) moxie0: Last week, Cellebrite posted a pre…
Lees meerJesse Squires: Conclusion: self was just nil the whole time! What a goofy mistake! […] However, that was not the case. Specifically, self was not nil. Not only that, but self wasn’t the self I expected.[…]Second, why is self an instance of (MyTableC…
Lees meerMark Fletcher: I mentioned a year ago that I was considering changing to a per-member based pricing scheme for new groups. This would align our revenue with our costs; the larger the group, the more it costs us to host. It’s also industry standard. …
Lees meerBrent Simmons (tweet): As I’m using my 2019 16" MBP, it lets out, at some random moment, a startlingly aggressive “Fehhhhh,” and then it shuts down. It sounds as if the fan goes to 11 for about a second, and then it turns silent and dark.
Lees meerHoward Oakley (tweet): The most obvious method of doing this is to run the Big Sur installer app, and select a freshly formatted external drive as its destination. Some who have attempted this using an M1 have reported that the installation never co…
Lees meerJeff Johnson (tweet): Curiously, the API documentation for shadowOffset is now shared between AppKit and UIKit. […] So there is a change in behavior of NSShadow shadowOffset in AppKit on Catalina, presumably to emulate UIKit. Sigh… why does the Mac …
Lees meerJosh Centers: I decided to spend a bit more than I had hoped and buy the LG 27UK850-W, which usually sells for $450 but was on sale for $380. Even at full price, it’s $250 cheaper than the LG UltraFine 4K display and $850 less than the LG UltraFine …
Lees meerDepartment of Justice (via Hacker News): According to the complaint, Jin served as Company-1’s primary liaison with PRC law enforcement and intelligence services. In that capacity, he regularly responded to requests from the PRC government for infor…
Lees meerFFmpeg (Hacker News): Here’s to 20 more years of open source multimedia! 🎉 Wikipedia: FFmpeg is a free and open-source software project consisting of a large suite of libraries and programs for handling video, audio, and other multimedia files and s…
Lees meerRuby (Hacker News): Ruby 3.0 ships with rbs gem, which allows parsing and processing type definitions written in RBS.[…]Currently, TypeProf serves as a kind of type inference.It reads plain (non-type-annotated) Ruby code, analyzes what methods are d…
Lees meerThe PHP Group (Hacker News, Slashdot): PHP 8.0 comes with numerous improvements and new features such as:Union TypesNamed ArgumentsMatch ExpressionsAttributesConstructor Property PromotionNullsafe OperatorWeak MapsJust In Time CompilationAnd much mu…
Lees meerAmazon (via Tim Bray, Hacker News): Amazon S3 now delivers strong read-after-write consistency automatically for all applications. Unlike other cloud providers, Amazon S3 delivers strong read-after-write consistency for any storage request, without …
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