Open Web Advocacy (via Tim Hardwick, tweet): Apple’s ban of third party browsers on iOS is deeply anti-competitive, starves the Safari/WebKit team of funding and has stalled innovation for the past 10 years and prevented Web Apps from taking off on …
Lees meerNinji (tweet): All of the tools I needed could be accessed via MPW. Could I get these to run externally somehow? […] The obvious choice to start with here is Unicorn Engine, which is essentially the CPU emulator from QEMU made into an embeddable lib…
Lees meerCade Metz: After saving up for a radio operator’s license, David began building ham radios, spending his nights chatting with other operators across the country. His brother remembered the two of them stringing antennas from a second-floor bedroom t…
Lees meerNelson Minar (tweet): Goodreads lost my entire account last week. Nine years as a user, some 600 books and 250 carefully written reviews all deleted and unrecoverable. Their support has not been helpful. In 35 years of being online I’ve never encoun…
Lees meerBombich Software: Added navigation buttons to the CCC toolbar to make it easier to get back to a task after making volume configuration changes (e.g. when adjusting snapshot settings). […] The Source and Destination selectors are now enabled while a…
Lees meerPanic (Hacker News): The full Playdate SDK is for folks already comfortable with coding — but we’ve worked hard to make it as easy and approachable as we can. It gives you two choices of languages: Lua, for a higher-level scripting language experien…
Lees meerDominic Lautner (via Hacker News): So far, this is the first paid service I’ve encountered that doesn’t support a catch-all. […] Even after you set up your domain for iCloud Mail, it’ll actively prevent any management actions you want to take if any…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple today confirmed that it has stopped all product sales from its online website in Russia, which means customers in Russia can no longer purchase Macs, iPhones, iPads, and other Apple devices. Attempting to make a purchase from the …
Lees meerSt. Clair Software: As you can see in the image on the left, App Tamer now displays graphs of P and E core usage as well as overall CPU usage. You’ll get these automatically if you’re running App Tamer on an M1-powered Mac. […] When you click on an …
Lees meerHoward Oakley: To assess the effect of IOPOL_THROTTLE policy, standardised TMA backups were run with and without the policy in force, on an M1 Pro MBP backing up to an external USB-C/SATA SSD under macOS 12.2.1. […] However, transfer rates during th…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: At its heart, each M1 chip has a total of eight processor cores, all based on Apple’s development of technology licensed from Arm. Four are described as Performance cores, dubbed Firestorm, and four are Efficiency cores, or Icestorm. …
Lees meerToby Sterling: The Dutch antitrust regulator on Monday issued a sixth weekly fine of 5 million euro ($5.7 million) against Apple for failure to comply with an order to open its App Store to alternative forms of payment for dating apps in the Netherl…
Lees meerMozilla: The research — which spanned five continents — reveals that within a single country, consumers can be quoted up to 31 unique price points for a Tinder Plus subscription. Further, some people are charged up to five times more for the exact s…
Lees meerChance Miller (via Ryan Jones, MacRumors): This time around, Mosseri has taken a slightly different approach to address this complaint. In response to a tweet from Marques Brownlee about the lack of an iPad app, Mosseri this time acknowledged that I…
Lees meerJim Dalrymple (tweet): After almost 30 years of reporting on Apple, I am retiring. I guess the biggest question is what happens to The Loop. Daily posts will stop, but the site will remain online, and we’ll use it to host The Dalrymple Report podcas…
Lees meerThe App Store Paid Applications Agreement used to say: Beginning January 1, 2021, You will not be eligible for the App Store Small Business Program if You participate, either as the Transferor or the Recipient, in the transfer of a Licensed Applicat…
Lees meerSlava Pestov, in 2020: More precisely, the introduction of SE-0142 and SE-0157 has made canonical type computation into an undecidable problem. […] Clearly, the GenericSignatureBuilder is able to solve word problems for at least some semi-groups tod…
Lees meerAdam Engst: Because I’m a runner and race director, I often need to map out a running course to determine distances and share with others. Numerous services provide such features, but I’ve found On The Go Map best at providing the features I need in…
Lees meerWill Truman (via Nick Heer): I think the concerns about an edit button are overblown, but there would be very little downside to Twitter having a “retraction” option, wherein the tweet is left up but with a strikethrough indicating it is not or is n…
Lees meerElizabeth Lopatto: One problem with cryptocurrency is that the technology is fairly user-hostile, at least to normal users of the internet. And so centralized services have sprung up for the non-technical, such as Coinbase, OpenSea, Metamask, VeVe, …
Lees meerBasicAppleGuy: As features have continued being added to macOS, Apple has opted to force new preferences inside existing ones to avoid icon overcrowding. Focus Mode on iOS is crammed into the new ‘Notifications & Focus’ tab on macOS, Night Shift is …
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