Tommy Mysk (Hacker News): Apple’s analytics data include an ID called “dsId”. We were able to verify that “dsId” is the “Directory Services Identifier”, an ID that uniquely identifies an iCloud account. Meaning, Apple’s analytics can personally iden…
Lees meersleeping_ghost (via Hacker News): iCloud for Windows is corrupting videos recorded from an iPhone 14 pro max resulting in black videos with scan lines. On rare occasions, it is inserting stills into videos from unknown sources, possibly other’s iClo…
Lees meerChris Hanson: One of the annoying things about Mastodon is that it’s tough to share Mastodon links and have them open in your favorite app instead of in a web browser. This is due to the lack of a shared scheme or a shared server—which makes sense f…
Lees meerRob Griffiths: Apple, in their infinite wisdom, removed the Locations feature from the Network System Settings panel.I use locations a lot, as they make it easy to switch between various network configurations. In my case, I have locations created t…
Lees meerTerrastruct (via Hacker News): D2 is a modern diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams. […] D2 is built to be hackable -- the language has an API built on top of it to make edits programmatically. […] D2 is designed with language tooli…
Lees meerDurham Goode (Hacker News): Sapling is a new Git-compatible source control client.Sapling emphasizes usability while also scaling to the largest repositories in the world.[…]We’ve spent the past 10 years building Sapling, a scalable, user-friendly s…
Lees meerCraig Hockenberry: Now that you know what Xcode is using, you’ll wonder where it’s getting the disk image. It’s located in a sibling directory: /Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Images. That folder also contains an images.plist file that contains met…
Lees meerMy apps are on sale for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and here are some other good app deals that I found: Adobe Creative Cloud AllTrails Apparent Software BundleHunt macOS Bundle CYME Corel DEVONtechnologies DropDMG EagleFiler Lines of Zen Linotyp…
Lees meerBalazs Varkonyi: Smart Folders Are BackThese are folders that automatically update their content according to the search criteria you specify.It can also send you notifications, and a unique icon can be selected for each one.[…]The text size of the …
Lees meerAlejandro Alonso: I propose adding a new module to the Swift toolchain named Reflection that provides high level APIs for reflection in Swift. This makes use of reflective information that has always been available, but was never exposed as API unti…
Lees meerJesse Grosjean: There isn’t much documentation of the macOS implementation. Much of the following behavior was discovered by experimenting with TextEdit. […] When text is deleted by certain actions it gets added to the kill ring. By default the kill…
Lees meerCory Doctorow (via Bruce Schneier): Yesterday, the Washington Post’s Joseph Menn published an in-depth investigation into Trustcor, a certificate authority that is trusted by default by Safari, Chrome and Firefox:Menn’s report is alarming. Working f…
Lees meerFilipe Espósito: Apple today released iOS 16.1.1 for all users. While the release notes for the update say nothing about new features or major changes, there’s a significant one coming for users in China. Jess Weatherbed: Apple has placed time restr…
Lees meerJuli Clover: iOS 16.1.1 fixes a few unspecified bugs that iPhone users have been dealing with, according to Apple’s release notes. Users have been afflicted with widespread Wi-Fi bug, for example. The Wi-Fi bug resulted in random disconnects, with s…
Lees meerJuli Clover (full installer, IPSW): macOS Ventura 13.0.1 is a bug fix update, and it addresses two security vulnerabilities that could allow for unexpected app termination or arbitrary code execution by a remote user. Neither was known to have been …
Lees meerAffinity (Hacker News): Wielding hundreds of timesaving improvements and a completely redesigned UI that will optimise your workflow, V2 is heralding in a new creative era. […] Experience the full power of Version 2 of Affinity apps with the Univers…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: At the time, I suggested a workaround involving manual ejection of Time Machine backup snapshots[…] Looking in the hidden folder of snapshots on that Mac, there were no longer any listed as mounted for backups. Although that may not b…
Lees meerJason Snell: [There’s] no way to share albums in iCloud Shared Photos. All the photos can be shared, but the concept of an album is currently limited to a single Apple ID. […] Every item in the Photos library can be assigned a keyword, and keywords …
Lees meerThomas Germain: The iPhone Analytics setting makes an explicit promise. Turn it off, and Apple says that it will “disable the sharing of Device Analytics altogether.” However, Tommy Mysk and Talal Haj Bakry, two app developers and security researche…
Lees meerTwitter has lots of problems, but it also has the advantages of lots of users I want to follow and some great client apps. I also haven’t been impressed with the alternatives. However, some people I follow are leaving for Mastodon and cohost, so I’m…
Lees meerJoel Bruner: Lockdown mode is new feature for macOS Ventura and for many MacAdmins we’ve been wondering how to detect this state. Why? Lockdown mode affects how macOS and Mac apps behave. This is something a helpdesk might like to know when trying t…
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