Stuart Schechter: Your master password should be at least 12 lowercase characters or five words. Why use lowercase characters or words when you’ve probably been told (and coerced) to use uppercase characters and symbols in the past? If you have to e…
Lees meerSoroush Khanlou (tweet): A problem presents itself, however. You need to build a feature that takes 1,000 lines of code, but you’d like to merge it in in smaller chunks. How can you merge the code in if it’s not finished?Broadly, the strategy is cal…
Lees meerChris Lamb (via Hacker News): Accessing mirrors over HTTPS would not prevent a compromised mirror tampering with packages, so APT already has other mechanisms to guard against this. Also, HTTPS would not stop a determined attacker deducing which apt…
Lees meerSt. Clair Software: macOS 10.15 Catalina will not run 32-bit Mac applications. At all. Once you upgrade to Catalina, those apps won’t even launch. To prepare, I wrote Go64, a free application that scans your system for 32-bit apps and shows them all…
Lees meerApple has pushed yet another silent update to macOS to address the Mac hijack vulnerability in RingCentral and Zhumu. These two apps are powered by Zoom, and thus present the same web server vulnerability as Zoom. The Zoom vulnerability, which was d…
Lees meerIf you’re a die hard Apple fan, you’ve missed it for years. And it may be coming back. Per a reliable anonymous tipster, Apple may be planning to reintroduce its classic rainbow logo on some of its products as early as this year, the tipster citing …
Lees meerAfterShokz $79.95 from the AfterShokz website (with free shipping in the USA) or from retailers AfterShokz is a range of open-ear headphones that use The post AfterShokz Trekz Titanium – Review appeared first on MyMac.com.
Lees meerI think Apple has struck a nearly perfect balance here, between doing what’s right for most users (installing these rare emergency updates automatically) and doing what’s right for power users who really do want to control when all updates — even es…
Lees meerI think Apple has struck a nearly perfect balance here, between doing what’s right for most users (installing these rare emergency updates automatically) and doing what’s right for power users who really do want to control when all updates — even es…
Lees meerIf losing the mobile market to Android was Gates’s biggest mistake, you can argue it started when he agreed to support Apple and the Mac in 1997.
Lees meerHappy World Emoji Day! To celebrate, Apple is giving us a preview of some of the new emoji that you will be able to use later this year. The ideas for new emoji are considered and approved by the Unicode...
Lees meerIf losing the mobile market to Android was Gates’s biggest mistake, you can argue it started when he agreed to support Apple and the Mac in 1997.
Lees meerLucas Shaw and Mark Gurman (MacRumors, Hacker News): Apple Inc. plans to fund original podcasts that would be exclusive to its audio service, according to people familiar with the matter, increasing its investment in the industry to keep competitors…
Lees meerBenson Leung (via Hacker News): We have a matrix of 2 x 3, with 2 current rating levels (3A max current, or 5A max current), and 3 data speeds (480mbps, 5gbps, 10gpbs). Adding a bit more detail, cables 3-6, in fact, have 10 more wires that connect e…
Lees meerSimon Migliano: Unfortunately, the majority of apps appearing in the top results for “VPN” searches are free products from obscure and highly secretive companies that deliberately make it very difficult for consumers to find out anything about them.…
Lees meerRobert Wiblin (via Hacker News): Whenever you share a photo with a specific person or account on Google Photos, it creates a link that will allow anyone in the world to view those photos, forever, until you go and manually deactivate that link in an…
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