Jason Snell (Hacker News): For many years, I tried very hard to travel with only an iPad. (Why bring two devices? And I’m not leaving my iPad at home.) Since the arrival of Apple silicon, however, I’ve gone back to traveling with both an iPad and a …
Lees meerWikipedia (via Accidental Tech Podcast): mg, originally called MicroGnuEmacs (and later changed at the request of Richard Stallman), is a public-domain text editor that runs on Unix-like operating systems. It is based on MicroEMACS, but intended to …
Lees meerMatt Birchler: Anyway, I linked to the show’s Wikipedia page because the original episodes are no longer available to download from the official source (here’s an archived version). Happily, a kind soul has recently uploaded many episodes to YouTube…
Lees meerSean Hollister: If you’re thinking of buying a SanDisk Extreme Pro, Extreme Portable, Extreme Pro Portable, or WD MyPassport SSD, maybe just don’t. My colleague Vjeran just lost 3TB of video we’d shot for The Verge because the drive is no longer rea…
Lees meerJason Koebler (Hacker News, at the new 404 Media, Hacker News): Apple told a California legislator that it is formally supporting a right to repair bill in California, a landmark move that suggests big tech manufacturers understand they have lost th…
Lees meerRenaud Chaput (via ednl, Hacker News): Full text search has been merged in #Mastodon main branch, and will be in the next (and final?) 4.2.0 beta.It is opt-in, so it will take some time to be filled with people content as they enable their profile t…
Lees meerTom Warren (via Hacker News): A public preview of the feature is available today, allowing Excel users to manipulate and analyze data from Python. “You can manipulate and explore data in Excel using Python plots and libraries, and then use Excel’s f…
Lees meeraxeman12 (via Hacker News): As of the newest MacOs releases (11.7.9, 12.6.8, and 13.5) I am no longer able to increase the ulimit of my computer using the strategies outlined here.[…]This is relevant for me as I am using Vite which is currently brok…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Meta-owned Twitter competitor Threads is finally getting a highly requested feature -- web access. The Threads social network can be accessed on the desktop and mobile devices using any web browser. However, it does not seem to support …
Lees meerJack Purcher (via Hacker News): Plaintiff received a boilerplate message from Apple’s App Store Review stating that Apple determined that Digital Will’s ADP membership “has been used for dishonest or fraudulent activity,” and thus, Plaintiff’s ADP a…
Lees meerIoannis Kouvakas: The existing IPA regime appears to already allow the U.K. government to demand that companies alter their services in a manner that may affect all users. For example, a technical capability notice requiring the “removal by a releva…
Lees meerAshley Carman (via Hacker News): [The] company has achieved its goals to recruit more creators to the platform with 44% of all podcasts being hosted on Anchor as of July 2022. At the same time, though, not all the podcasters fit the classic show mol…
Lees meerAaron Trickey: I’ve been building the iPad version of TimeStory for some time now, and it’s going well. I want to start journaling interesting or useful aspects of the project, and a logical place to start is with the choice of UI toolkit and the ba…
Lees meerZack Whittaker (Hacker News): Microsoft still doesn’t know — or want to share — how China-backed hackers stole a key that allowed them to stealthily break into dozens of email inboxes, including those belonging to several federal government agencies…
Lees meerMac Power Users: Since the dawn of multitasking, users have needed to juggle things on their screens. Apple has taken several swings at building good window management tools into macOS, but better solutions can be found in a long list of third-party…
Lees meerNatalia Panferova (Mastodon): Remote push notifications are messages that app developers can send to users directly on their devices from a remote server. These notifications can appear even if the app is not open, making them a powerful tool for re…
Lees meerTom Coates (Hacker News): Twitter has now removed all media posted before 2014. That’s - so far - almost a decade of pictures and videos from the early 2000s removed from the service. […] This is what Twitter pre-2014 looks like - every image and vi…
Lees meerAdobe (via Reuters, Hacker News): Dr. Warnock co-founded Adobe in 1982 with Dr. Charles Geschke after meeting as colleagues at Xerox. Their first product was Adobe PostScript, groundbreaking technology that sparked the desktop publishing revolution.…
Lees meerJeff Johnson (Mastodon): In retrospect, I regret participating in the Apple Security Bounty program. It has been a giant, frustrating waste of time, and I wish I had just dropped this 0day on October 24 of last year when Ventura was released. I susp…
Lees meerMatt Sephton: On 9th August 2006, “Fake Steve (Jobs)” started blogging at The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs. The blog featured scathing criticism of Silicon Valley and the tech industry at large, a pinch of political satire, along with many in-jokes an…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Twitter or “X” owner Elon Musk today said that the option to block people on Twitter is going to be “deleted as a feature” in the future, as it “makes no sense.”Musk made the comment in response to a tweet asking whether there was a rea…
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