Instapaper: This release features a new CarPlay app for playing articles, a number of text-to-speech improvements including access to more voices, the ability to edit article metadata, and other improvements. Listening to articles is a cool idea, bu…
Lees meerJohn Gruber (Mastodon): Looking at the global chart, Chrome seems to be holding steady in the desktop market over the last year, but Safari does show an uptick from about 9.5 to just under 11 percent. As Benton points out, the most striking thing in…
Lees meerJeremy Howard (via Hacker News): But this “two-language” approach has serious downsides. For instance, AI models often have to be converted from Python into a faster implementation, such as ONNX or torchscript. But these deployment approaches can’t …
Lees meerTony Cunningham (via Hacker News): These are some of the error messages produced by Apple’s MPW C compiler. These are all real. (If you must know I was bored one afternoon and decompiled the String resources for the compiler.)[…]“You can’t modify a …
Lees meerJason Snell: I’ve had a Mac running as a server in my house for more than 20 years now, and I have zero regrets. As I detailed five years ago, the specific uses for my always-on Mac have changed numerous times over the decades, but the various Macs …
Lees meerStephen Hackett: Yesterday, I picked up my new truck, a 2023 Toyota Tundra. Coming from an older Tacoma, this truck is amazing, and that includes the large 14-inch screen. The truck has wireless CarPlay, and I noticed something right away: CarPlay’s…
Lees meerMatt Birchler: While Vivaldi targets people who want absolute control over everything and who always want more functionality, while Arc is more focused on appealing to Mac enthusiasts who want a reliable browser that looks great and sports all the k…
Lees meerJon von Tetzchner (via Bob Burrough): At Opera, we were the first to add their search into the browser interface, enabling it directly from the search box and the address field. At that time, Google was an up-and-coming geeky company.[…]Now, we are …
Lees meerJohn Gruber: The problem I was running into [here] was a bug that resulted from the fact I have split Apple ID accounts: one account for iTunes and App Store purchases, and a separate account for my Apple ID. […] Everything is simpler if you only ha…
Lees meerThomas Claburn (Hacker News): Google Cloud stopped operating in Paris early on Wednesday morning local time due to “water intrusion,” said the off-prem biz, which a day earlier reported profitability for the first time.[…]“Water intrusion in europe-…
Lees meerGaia GPS has worked well for me for years, but recently iOS has been reporting it as the reason my phone’s battery has been draining quickly. Of course, this is somewhat expected when I’m actively using the app, but the high battery use continues fo…
Lees meerTimothy Perfitt: I saw on Monty that fn-q brings up a new note. So what other shortcuts use the fn key? fn-a: activates item in dock so you can arrow around and space to launch app fn-n: open sidebar fn-c: open control center fn-h: show desktop fn-q…
Lees meerSean Heber: Wallaroo is the first app we’ve built entirely with SwiftUI, so in this series of more technical posts, I want to talk about some specific issues we ran into along with how we solved them. In a separate post, Craig discusses development …
Lees meerBrave (via Hacker News): When Brave Search launched in June 2021, about 13% of the queries required the help of third parties to achieve the desired level of quality across various types of queries.[…]By default, Brave Search users will now receive …
Lees meerThomas Tempelmann: I recently had brought up the question how a developer could test a program built for the Mac App Store before releasing it publicly on pre-Monterey (where there’s not TestFlight).The solution (explained to me by DTS) is to submit…
Lees meerWayne Ma (Hacker News): Late last year, a trio of engineers who had just helped Apple modernize its search technology began working on the type of technology underlying ChatGPT, the chatbot from OpenAI that has captivated the public since it launche…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: Apple is sadly no stranger to pulling updates. Ever since the days of classic Mac OS, there have been updates that have been rescinded faster than they appeared, sometimes leaving plenty of sick Macs in their wake. This week it seems …
Lees meerApple: Turn on Remote Login to access your Mac from another computer using SSH (Secure Shell Protocol) or SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol). This had been working for me for a long time, but at some point something happened to my TCC database and th…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Popular Apple accessory maker Belkin recently introduced the Connect 4-Port USB-C Hub, which is the company’s first U.S. product made from post-consumer recycled plastics (PCR).[…]Made to be compact, the hub includes four USB-C 3.2 Gen …
Lees meerJovi Umawing (Hacker News): Users are manipulated to download and execute this file onto their systems. Once achieved, a bogus password prompts users in an attempt to steal their real password. MacStealer then saves the password in the affected syst…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: When you look at the implementation of Little Snitch, the interpretation of the word “data” becomes crucial. Technically, unless you allow the connection, Little Snitch does indeed prevent HTTP data from getting sent. Nonetheless, Litt…
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