‘Increasingly Rightwing’ Police Unions Have Made Policing More Dangerous in America

The ‘Well, Actually, Smoke Isn’t Even a “Gas”’ Defense

Google Chrome Incognito Lawsuit

Tim Hardwick (also: Hacker News): A proposed class action lawsuit in the U.S. has accused Google of violating federal wiretap laws by tracking the online activities of users when in Incognito mode. According to Reuters, the class action argues that …

Claquette 2.0

Peakstep: Adds support for importing and converting videos and GIFs Adds support for iOS device recording […] Adds cursor click and drag visualizations for screen recordings Adds support for creating and managing export presets Previously: The Story…

Unable to Enable Safari Extensions

Jeff Johnson (tweet): In macOS 10.15.3, Apple introduced a bug that can prevent you from enabling or disabling Safari extensions. In order to enable or disable an extension, you must click the checkbox next to the extension in the Extensions pane of…

Apple’s Linker & Deterministic Builds

Milen Dzhumerov: Universal deterministic builds require that all paths in artifacts must be repo checkout independent.On Apple platforms, the linker will insert absolute paths to object files in executables.In Xcode 11, Apple added a new linker opti…

The ‘Well, Actually, Smoke Isn’t Even a “Gas”’ Defense

The Misery Machine

There are no cogs at Facebook. There are complicit accomplices. The accomplices are not changing Facebook from the inside. If you work at Facebook, stop. If you sell coffee to Facebook employees, stop. If you buy ads on Facebook, stop. If you use Fa…

Mike Mullen: ‘I Cannot Remain Silent’

Barry Schnitt: ‘Dear Facebook Employees’

George Will: ‘There Is No Such Thing as Rock Bottom for Trump. Assume the Worst Is Yet to Come.’

Anonymous Outrage Holds No Water

Exploring Hearing Aid Integration in iOS

Klaus Wirtz: I learned that besides normal hearing aids, there are “Made for iPhone” (MFi) hearing devices that are directly recognized and controlled by iOS. An Apple support document lists manufacturers and products that have earned the MFi label.…

Clario’s MacKeeper

Howard Oakley: Several weeks ago, I expressed surprise that MacKeeper had now been notarized. Following discussions with the good folk at Clario who now own and develop this product, and in the spirit of fairness and objectivity, this article looks …

BBEdit 13.1

Bare Bones Software: The Markdown custom language preferences (via Languages -> Language-specific settings) provide control over the default Markdown renderer, used for Preview in BBEdit as well as exporting to HTML.[…]There’s a new command on the T…

Rebuilding Slack on the Desktop

Mark Christian and Johnny Rodgers, writing last year (also: Hacker News): Today, after more than half a decade of hyper-growth, Slack is used by millions of people with larger companies working with more data than we ever could have imagined when we…

Profiles in Courage

It’s a Bad Orchard

Sarah Cooper, Trump Satirist Extraordinaire

TPM: ‘Cops Break Up Peaceful Protest With Tear Gas So Trump Can Have a Church Photo-Op’

Amazon No Longer Puts What You Ordered in Email Confirmations, Presumably to Thwart Data Harvesters