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Apple Discontinues macOS Server

donderdag 21 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (MacRumors, Hacker News): As of April 21, 2022, Apple has discontinued macOS Server. Existing macOS Server customers can continue to download and use the app with macOS Monterey. The most popular server features—Caching Server, File Sharing Se…

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Removing AMP By Default

woensdag 20 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Brave (via Tim Hardwick): Brave is rolling out a new feature called De-AMP, which allows Brave users to bypass Google-hosted AMP pages, and instead visit the content’s publisher directly. AMP harms users’ privacy, security and internet experience, a…

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Plenty of Tracking Despite App Tracking Transparency

woensdag 20 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Dan Goodin: Last week’s research paper said that while ATT in many ways works as intended, loopholes in the framework also provided the opportunity for companies, particularly large ones like Google and Facebook, to work around the protections and s…

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How We Lost 54k GitHub Stars

woensdag 20 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jakub Roztočil (via Hacker News): Due to an unfortunate sequence of events, I accidentally made the project’s repository private for a moment. And GitHub cascade-deleted our community that took 10 years to build.[…]It’s a peculiarity of GitHub, to p…

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GitHub Deleting Contributions From Russian Developers

woensdag 20 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jesse Squires: According to various reports ([1], [2], [3], [4]), GitHub is suspending accounts of Russian developers and organizations linked to or associated with organizations sanctioned by the US government over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. […]…

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DuckDuckGo, youtube-dl, and Bing

woensdag 20 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Ernesto Van der Sar (via Hacker News): Privacy-centered search engine DuckDuckGo has completely removed the search results for many popular pirates sites including The Pirate Bay, 1337x, and Fmovies. Several YouTube ripping services have disappeared…

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Disabling Universal Links

dinsdag 19 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Buzz Andersen: Am I the only one who finds Apple Universal Links to be, like, an enormous pain in the ass? Paul Haddad: As much as Apple makes a big deal about privacy, the fact that you can’t globally disable universal links feels like an info leak…

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Feed Wrangler Shutting Down

dinsdag 19 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

David Smith: After 9 years, I’ve decided it’s time to shut down Feed Wrangler. I’m stretched too thin with my other apps, it’s time to let it go. I’ll turn off the servers next year on March 1, 2023. See also: Widgetsmith 3.0. Previously: Evergreen …

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SwiftUI Performance Tips

dinsdag 19 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Martin Mitrevski: SwiftUI has been around for almost 3 years now, and during this period working with it, I’ve noticed few groups of developer mistakes (both mine and from others) that can impact its performance. In this post, we will look at these …

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M1 Thunderbolt Ports Don’t Fully Support USB 3.1 Gen 2

dinsdag 19 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Howard Oakley (Hacker News): Apple claims that all its new models using M1 series chips come with Thunderbolt ports which support “USB 3.1 Gen 2 (up to 10Gb/s)”. However, many users have reported performance which doesn’t reach 10 Gb/s for directly …

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UI Browser to Be Retired

dinsdag 19 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Bill Cheeseman: UI Browser will reach its end of life and be retired on October 17, 2022. The current release of UI Browser, version 3.0.2, will not be updated. On the end-of-life retirement date, the PFiddlesoft website will be closed. Thereafter, …

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NSPersistentCloudKitContainer in 2022

maandag 18 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Steve Troughton-Smith: For the longest time, Core Data had a very bad rap for iCloud syncing, so I just never engaged with it even after the APIs were improved. What is the story in 2022? Is Core Data + CloudKit in a good place, or nightmare fuel? W…

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OWC miniStack STX

maandag 18 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Other World Computing: The miniStack STX now features Storage and Thunderbolt Xpansion, continuing its award-winning legacy as the best sidekick a Mac mini can have. Meet the world’s first Thunderbolt certified Thunderbolt 4 storage solution. With a…

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Satechi Dual Vertical Laptop Stand

maandag 18 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Satechi (via MacRumors): Keep your workstation tidy and every device within reach with Satechi Dual Vertical Stand for laptops and tablets. The 2-in-1 design supports your Macbook and iPad vertically at the same time, improving your working efficien…

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DALL-E

maandag 18 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Ben Thompson (Hacker News): Last week OpenAI released DALL-E 2, which produces (or edits) images based on textual prompts; this Twitter thread from @BecomingCritter has a whole host of example output[…] […] [C]reating games, particularly their art, …

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Former Employee Downloaded Cash App Account Info

maandag 18 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

SEC 8-K (via Hacker News): On April 4, 2022, Block, Inc. (the “Company”) announced that it recently determined that a former employee downloaded certain reports of its subsidiary Cash App Investing LLC (“Cash App Investing”) on December 10, 2021 tha…

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More Users Opting in to App Tracking

vrijdag 15 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Filipe Espósito: While the number of users opting to let apps track them was low at first, a new research from Adjust shows that some people have been changing their mind about this option.According to the research firm, the industry feared that the…

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Mac App Store Ransomware

vrijdag 15 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Kosta Eleftheriou: I didn’t think this was possible: This App Store app [My Metronome - Tempo Keeper] immediately asks you for money and then disables the “Quit” option so that you can never close it! And it’s been like that on the App Store for yea…

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1Password 8 for iOS Early Access

vrijdag 15 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Michael Fey: Over the last couple years we’ve been making a concerted effort to unify our design language. We built a user interface that’s cohesive across all our apps, but also makes you feel right at home on the platform where you’re using it. Th…

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Moving From 1Password to KeePass

vrijdag 15 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Josh Centers: I always somewhat regretted switching away from KeePass, which stores its encrypted database in a standardized, open format. The original KeePass has always been Windows-only, but there are multiple KeePass-compatible apps for all plat…

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Apple-Funded Study on Success of Third-Party Apps

donderdag 14 april 2022 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Apple (PDF): Today, economists at Analysis Group published a new report on the proliferation of third-party apps on the App Store, with new insights into how third-party apps perform in categories ranging from maps to music streaming, among others. …

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