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Bypassing iOS 16.2 Location Privacy

woensdag 1 februari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Rodrigo Ghedin: iFood, Brazilian largest food delivering app evaluated at USD 5.4 billion, was accessing his location when not open/in use, bypassing an iOS setting that restrict an app’s access to certain phone’s features. Even when the reader comp…

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Pausing Finder Copies and Dragging to the App Switcher

woensdag 1 februari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Tim Hardwick: When you copy a large file or folder to another location in Finder using the Copy and Paste options, a pie chart progress indicator next to the copying item’s name gives you an idea of how long the copy will take to complete. If it loo…

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Renewing the App Store Small Business Program

woensdag 1 februari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Greg Pierce: I got an email from Apple saying I’m eligible for the Small Business Program–which I am already in. Do we need to re-apply? So did I, though I don’t recall getting such an e-mail last year. There doesn’t seem to be a place to actually c…

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Disk Mount Conditioner

dinsdag 31 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Peter Hosey: TIL about Disk Mount Conditioner, a macOS feature like the Network Link Conditioner but for file I/O. Throttle throughput or add latency to make a device behave like something slower. See man dmc(1) for details. dmc(1): The Disk Mount C…

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CNET’s AI-powered SEO Money Machine

dinsdag 31 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Mia Sato and James Vincent: CNET is the subject of a swirling controversy around the use of AI in publishing, and it’s Jaffe’s team that’s been at the center of it all. Last week, Futurism reported that the website had been quietly publishing articl…

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Reverse Engineering the MacBook Clamshell Mode

dinsdag 31 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Alin Panaitiu: You notice you never use the MacBook built-in display anymore, and it nags you to have it in your lower peripheral vision.Closing the lid is not an option because you still use the keyboard and trackpad, maybe even the webcam and Touc…

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Disabling the MacBook Screen Lock Key

dinsdag 31 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Mark Dominus: If you tap the mystery button momentarily, the screen locks, which is very convenient, I guess, if you have to pee a lot. But they put the mystery button right above the delete key, and several times a day I fat-finger the delete key, …

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Using JavaScript in a Swift App

maandag 30 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Douglas Hill: If you’re writing an iOS app using Swift and trying to solve a problem you’re sure has been solved before, you may look for existing code that solves that problem. It’s likely you’ll first think of looking for open source code written …

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Safari Safe Browsing Blocks GitLab in Hong Kong

maandag 30 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Sam Biddle (tweet, via Tim Sweeney): When Safari users in Hong Kong recently tried to load the popular code-sharing website GitLab, they received a strange warning instead: Apple’s browser was blocking the site for their own safety. The access was t…

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Switching on iCloud Photos

maandag 30 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Matthias Gansrigler: 65 photos were unable to upload, according to Photos on my Mac. Why? I couldn’t honestly tell you. Photos didn’t tell me. It should have, if you ask me. I’d have liked to know. And there’s no way to retry to sync those photos wi…

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DOJ Accuses Google of Abusing Ads Monopoly

maandag 30 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

David McCabe and Nico Grant (via Hacker News): The Justice Department and a group of states sued Google on Tuesday, accusing it of illegally abusing a monopoly over the technology that powers online advertising, in the agency’s first antitrust lawsu…

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NSURLSession Connection Leak

maandag 30 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jeff Johnson (Mastodon): What it doesn’t tell you is that if you don’t invalidate the session (via finishTasksAndInvalidate or invalidateAndCancel), then the internet connection created by the session remains open until the app terminates, even afte…

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SwiftUI in Timing App

vrijdag 27 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Bardi Golriz: It took a few hours to fall in love with SwiftUI. So much so that we instantly decided to abandon a cross-platform codebase and go fully native on iOS. […] Towards the latter stages of development, we even re-considered our decision to…

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Weather Machine

vrijdag 27 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Electric Dream Machine: Weather APIs are notoriously complicated—every vendor offers their own proprietary data structures, unit types, and request formats. With Weather Machine, you can write just one integration and get highly accurate global fore…

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The Enshittification of All Things

vrijdag 27 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Cory Doctorow: Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Th…

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Apple Appeals UK CMA Decision

vrijdag 27 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Florian Mueller: On Friday the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) published a summary of application (PDF) of Apple’s January 18, 2023 appeal of the November 22, 2022 decision of the UK Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) to make a market invest…

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Normal Mac User Accounts

donderdag 26 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Howard Oakley: There are a few unexpected features that aren’t available to the normal user, of which the most irksome is accessing the log. […] A traditional argument in favour of running as a normal user is that it separates your data from the sys…

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What Happened to Virtual Memory?

donderdag 26 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

alessandro308: Your system has run out of application memory. To avoid problems with your computer, quit any applications you are not using. Jason Koebler: why do people pretend like RAM is somehow not important on Apple Silicon? I have a $2,000 14"…

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SwiftUI Views Are Lists

donderdag 26 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Chris Eidhof (Mastodon): When you write SwiftUI, all your views conform to the View protocol. The name of this protocol is a bit misleading: it could be called Views or ViewList, or something else that suggests plurals.[…]As mentioned, the Layout pr…

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Missing Tweets

donderdag 26 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Lora Kolodny (Hacker News): Twitter’s full-time headcount has dwindled to approximately 1,300 active, working employees, including fewer than 550 full-time engineers by title, according to internal records viewed by CNBC. […] Musk has contradicted t…

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Lisa Source Code on 40th Anniversary

donderdag 26 januari 2023 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Benj Edwards (MacRumors): As part of the Apple Lisa’s 40th birthday celebrations, the Computer History Museum has released the source code for Lisa OS version 3.1 under an Apple Academic License Agreement. With Apple’s blessing, the Pascal source co…

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