Jeff Johnson: Notifications Preferences lists apps in alphabetical order, but it’s missing A! Can you say App Store, kids? […] Enter the following command. defaults write com.apple.appstored LastUpdateNotification -date "2029-12-12 12:00:00 +0000" P…
Lees meerNikita Popov (via Hacker News): Yesterday (2021-03-28) two malicious commits were pushed to the php-src repo from the names of Rasmus Lerdorf and myself. We don’t yet know how exactly this happened, but everything points towards a compromise of the …
Lees meermikey: Wrapper for codesign, spctl & stapler to check code signing and notarisation of individual or all non system applications.
Lees meerBrent Simmons (tweet): Changes since 5.1.3: Big Sur app icon Big Sur UI (when running on Big Sur) App is now sandboxed Apple Silicon native code Syncing via iCloud Syncing via BazQux, Inoreader, NewsBlur, The Old Reader, and FreshRSS Share extension…
Lees meerCasey Newton (Hacker News): In a blog post, billionaire Medium founder Ev Williams announced the latest pivot for the nearly nine-year old company. Just over two years into an effort to create a subscription-based bundle of publications committed to…
Lees meerThomas Wisniewski (via Hacker News): In building these extra-strong privacy protections in Private Browsing windows and Strict Mode, we have been confronted with a fundamental problem: introducing a policy that outright blocks trackers on the web in…
Lees meerAsha Barbaschow (MacRumors, Slashdot): Apple has responded further to the Australian consumer watchdog’s probe of app marketplaces, this time rejecting characterisation that the Apple App Store is the most dominant app marketplace and saying there a…
Lees meerJuli Clover (tweet): On March 24, 2001, a Saturday, Apple began allowing customers to purchase Mac OS X, the successor to the classic Mac OS. The first version of Mac OS X, “Cheetah,” was famous for its “Aqua” interface with a water bubble-style des…
Lees meerMatthew Cassinelli (tweet, Reddit, Federico Viticci):Hello all – we’re currently experiencing a fairly major outage for iCloud links related to Shortcuts, and at the moment almost every shortcut that has been shared in the past cannot be installed.[…
Lees meerNick Heer (tweet): But, screen fidelity aside, it was clear after a day that using Catalina felt cramped and messy. Icons and text in the menu bar were not as well-aligned. Rows in the Finder were squished together like every pixel on the display re…
Lees meerDr. Drang: The M1 MacBook Air is the only machine I have running Big Sur, and for the first few days I kept wondering why certain commands were disabled. They weren’t—I was confused about their status because the gray keyboard shortcut was catching …
Lees meerJesse Squires: I started saving links and planned to add a new “Xcode tips” section to my TIL repo on GitHub to reference later. But as I started, I realized that the resulting markdown file would not be easily discoverable or shareable. I thought, …
Lees meerAndy Yen (Hacker News, MacRumors, 9to5Mac): ProtonMail is not the only Proton app being used by activists and protesters in Myanmar. For the past month, the Myanmar military has forced the national telecom companies to regularly shut down the intern…
Lees meerTimmy O’Mahony (via Hacker News): To state the obvious: there is no $2,023 plan here. There is a “founding member” option, but I’m sure I didn’t click that?Wait, what did I do? I’m certain I selected “monthly $10", then I opened 1Password and clicke…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: That’s too much a coincidence to be a bug, right? Could it be that web browsers are keeping open connections after windows are closed on purpose?[…]Closing the private window closed the connections associated with the window, in every …
Lees meerSergiu Gatlan: The new user privacy protection feature against accidental leaking of sensitive user data will be introduced in Firefox 87. Once updated, the web browser will automatically trim user-sensitive information like path and query string in…
Lees meerJuli Clover (tweet): Apple customers unhappy with the butterfly keyboards used in MacBook models from 2015 on will be able to proceed with a lawsuit against the Cupertino company, as the judge overseeing the case has given it class action status [PD…
Lees meerBrent Simmons (Hacker News): Every notification and every callback happens on the main thread. Though a given object (or small system) may use a serial queue internally, it never, ever lets that fact leak out beyond its own boundaries. […] Some deve…
Lees meerBen Cox (Hacker News): @backblaze’s B2 web UI seems to submit all of the names and sizes of my files in my B2 bucket to facebook. I noticed because I saw “waiting for facebook.com” at the bottom while trying to download a backup…?!?!?!?I even opted …
Lees meerSami Fathi: In September of last year, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) launched an investigation into Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store to examine the experiences of consumers, suppliers, and developers in Australia…
Lees meerApple: App Analytics now provides usage metrics for Mac apps, including data on installations, sessions, active devices, crashes, and deletions. And now you can measure user retention to see how often users return to your app after downloading it. N…
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