The Economist (via Hacker News): The site has no shareholders, has generated no billionaires and sells no advertising. Today’s aspiring tech giants burn vast quantities of investors’ money subsidising taxi rides (Uber) or millennial messaging (Snap)…
Lees meerDan Goodin (Hacker News, Bruce Schneier): WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned messenger that claims to have privacy coded into its DNA, is giving its 2 billion plus users an ultimatum: agree to share their personal data with the social network or delete th…
Lees meerAdobe (MacRumors): Since Adobe will no longer be supporting Flash Player after December 31, 2020 and Adobe will block Flash content from running in Flash Player beginning January 12, 2021, Adobe strongly recommends all users immediately uninstall Fl…
Lees meerJuli Clover: The SanDisk Extreme Pro Portable NVMe SSD offers up to 2000MB/s read and write speeds, and its aluminum chassis serves as a heatsink to deliver higher sustained speeds. The SanDisk Extreme Pro Portable SSD will be available later this q…
Lees meerChris Hynes: You find names appearing under icons to be irritating, especially since you’ve long since memorized what all your app icons look like. When you click on something that looks like a folder, you’ve always wanted it to launch the app under…
Lees meerMichael Ilseman: FilePath appeared in System 0.0.1 with a minimal API. This proposal adds API for syntactic operations, which are performed on the structure of the path and thus do not consult with the file system or make any system calls. These inc…
Lees meerAlyssa Rosenzweig (via Hacker News): Apple’s latest line of Macs includes their in-house “M1” system-on-chip, featuring a custom GPU. This poses a problem for those of us in the Asahi Linux project who wish to run Linux on our devices, as this custo…
Lees meerAlejandro Martinez: Sadly, SwiftUI doesn’t provide a native way of generating images from its views. We need to resort to tricks used in its ancestor frameworks. […] First, we need to create a NSHostingView with the SwiftUI view that you want to cre…
Lees meerRyan Mac and John Paczkowski (tweet, MacRumors, Hacker News): “We have received numerous complaints regarding objectionable content in your Parler service, accusations that the Parler app was used to plan, coordinate, and facilitate the illegal acti…
Lees meerPanic: Once upon a time, we made one of the earliest MP3 players for the Mac, Audion. We’ve come to appreciate that Audion captured a special moment in time, and we’ve been trying to preserve its history. Back in March, we revealed that we were work…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Apple announced that the Mac App Store was “open for business” in a press release timed with the launch. “With more than 1,000 apps, the Mac App Store is off to a great start,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s co-founder and former CEO. “We t…
Lees meerLloyd Chambers: MPG reviewed the Samsung T5 back in 2017 and found a lot to like. Great performance, and prices came way down by 2020—an excellent value. […] That is, the Samsung T7 can deliver speeds slightly exceeding 1000 MB/sec for reads and wri…
Lees meerJames Cridland: But not all of Apple’s products are as private as they should be. And one of them, which doesn’t have a privacy label since it’s part of the underlying OS, is built very poorly indeed when it comes to privacy. […] Apple Podcasts does…
Lees meerErik Berlin: When we started Breaker, podcast apps were productivity apps, similar to feed readers and to-do lists. Breaker added a social community element with features such as liking and commenting on episodes. We’re now inspired to go even furth…
Lees meerZoe Schiffer (Hacker News): A group of Google workers have announced plans to unionize with the Communications Workers of America (CWA). The Alphabet Workers Union will be open to all employees and contractors at Google’s parent company. Its goal wi…
Lees meerZac Bowden: Project Monarch is the end-goal for Microsoft’s “One Outlook” vision, which aims to build a single Outlook client that works across PC, Mac, and the Web. Right now, Microsoft has a number of different Outlook clients for desktop, includi…
Lees meerZoom (via Rogue Amoeba): Zoom Rooms weekly system restart functionality will restart your computer weekly with the following conditions[…] By default, the Zoom Rooms computer will restart on Saturday, but you can also select a day for the restart. T…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: APFS has developed rapidly since we first started getting to know it in High Sierra. By the time it has reached version 1677.60.23 in Big Sur, it has grown many new features, of which most support the new Sealed System Volume, and Tim…
Lees meerWilliam C. Gustafson (tweet): Amphetamine is a free app that helps keep your Mac awake. Amphetamine has been on the Mac App Store since 2014 and it’s been downloaded over 432,800 times. It currently has over 1,400 reviews and a 4.8 out of 5.0 rating…
Lees meerTom Angistalis: It was surprising to be honest that it was approved on first try. I was expecting some changes to be made around the subscription stuff. Nice to have it ready for release! Tom Angistalis (via Dave Wood): I spoke too soon. I seriously…
Lees meerThomas Tempelmann (tweet): So, if a user on a Linux system creates a folder that contains an Umlaut such as “ü”, it’ll end up precomposed on the (ext4) file system.Now, I can nicely access files in such a folder from macOS, as long as I only use POS…
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