Howard Oakley: The only common factor is that, when trying to back up folders containing seriously large numbers of very small files, some of which may be hard links, the rate of copying falls to ridiculously low numbers. […] Looking back before 10.…
Lees meerJeff Atwood: From here, if you were lucky, you might have a cassette tape drive. If you knew the right commands, you could type them in to load programs from cassette tape. But that was an expensive add-on option with early personal computers. For m…
Lees meerNick Heer (in 2020): Avast’s web browser extensions were caught collecting every website users were visiting for sale by its Jumpshot subsidiary. Those extensions were pulled and the company insisted that the information had no personal information …
Lees meerFlorian Köhler (via Ken Harris): For whatever reason, a few months later, in September 2002, a MySQL developer decided to push a one-byte commit UTF8 now works with up to 3 byte sequences only to the repository and change the allowed bytes from six …
Lees meerAshley Carman: All the industry’s major players have, over the past two years, acquired companies focused on one feature: inserting ads into podcasts. […] The industry is sprinting toward this programmatic advertising future. However, there are some…
Lees meerBrian Krebs (Hacker News): Norton 360, one of the most popular antivirus products on the market today, has installed a cryptocurrency mining program on its customers’ computers. Norton’s parent firm says the cloud-based service that activates the pr…
Lees meerPhilip Elmer-DeWitt, quoting Bernstein (via Dave Mark, Hacker News): We now forecast that Google’s payments to Apple might be nearly $15B in FY 21, contribute an amazing ~850 bps to Services growth YoY, and amount to ~9% of company gross profits. [……
Lees meerKuba Suder (tweet): It was hard to figure out the purpose and intended use of each kind of button, and there were hardly any clues inside Xcode itself. So I decided to do some research to find some tips about what each button is for. I put together …
Lees meerZak Doffman (via John Wilander): Facebook goes even further, using the accelerometer on your iPhone to track a constant stream of your movements, which can easily be used to monitor your activities or behaviors at times of day, in particular places,…
Lees meerJuli Clover (Hacker News): Apple’s former Director of Mac System Architecture Jeff Wilcox this week announced that he has left Apple to take on a new role at Intel. As noted on LinkedIn (via Tom’s Hardware), Wilcox was part of Apple’s M1 team and he…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers today granted Apple’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed against the company by Jay Freeman, creator of an alternative App Store known as Cydia for “jailbroken” iPhones and iPads. Previously: Cydia Sues App…
Lees meerTechieFreddie (via Dave Mark): macos used to have intro videos, here’s their history! These are the videos that would play during installation, from Mac OS 8 through Snow Leopard. Previously: Default macOS Wallpapers 21 Years of Apple Home Page Tabs…
Lees meerPeter Hosey: Wordle is a word puzzle game by Josh Wardle. The game is this: Every day, there is a new five-letter word to guess. The word changes every day at midnight. You have six tries to figure out what the word is. In each of your guesses, the …
Lees meerFlorian Albrecht: Kaleidoscope 3.1.3 and later can show XCTest failures in that format for you! No further trick or conversion is needed. Kaleidoscope parses the incoming content and automatically splits it into A and B parts, so the exact differenc…
Lees meerGuilherme Rambo: The CodableReference property wrapper implements Codable and takes care of encoding only the id of the wrapped value, and decoding the id and resolving the reference when it’s being decoded. There is a missing piece of the puzzle th…
Lees meernumbers-parser (via Hacker News): numbers-parser is a Python module for parsing Apple Numbers.numbers files. It supports Numbers files generated by Numbers version 10.3, and all 11.x up to 11.2 (current as of November 2021).[…]Numbers uses a proprie…
Lees meerobb (via Zane Shelby, Hacker News): Ad-hoc ClojureScript scripting of Mac applications via Apple’s Open Scripting Architecture.[…]ClojureScript code is evaluated through SCI, the same interpreter that powers babashka. SCI is compiled to JavaScript w…
Lees meerMichael Seibel (Hacker News): A recent small medical issue has highlighted how much someone needs to disrupt Google Search. Google is no longer producing high quality search results in a significant number of important categories. Health, product re…
Lees meerGerrit De Vynck and Cat Zakrzewski: The tech giants managed to build and launch the “exposure notification” framework in months, a previously unheard-of level of collaboration for the rivals. […] But nearly two years later, as the omicron variant sw…
Lees meerApple (via John Wilander): When Private Relay is in use, the user’s device opens up a connection to the first internet relay (also known as the “ingress proxy”). The software for the first internet relay is operated by Apple in locations around the …
Lees meerJeff Johnson (tweet): I have no interest in Siri, and I don’t want my devices to phone home to Apple with so-called “anonymous” data that always turns out to be less anonymous than claimed. I expected that the OS would respect my setup screen choice…
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