Howard Oakley: All storage media, including memory, SSDs and rotating hard disks, can develop fragmentation, but most serious attention has been paid to the problem on hard disks. This is because of their electro-mechanical mechanism for seeking to …
Lees meerMario Guzmán (Mastodon): Customizing an application’s Dock tile when the application itself is not running requires that you write a plug-in. The plug-in’s principal class must implement the NSDockTilePlugIn protocol.The name of the plugin is indica…
Lees meerKevin Yank: When I import a large batch of shots from my camera into Photos, I usually want them in an album, sorted in the order I shot them. The Keep Sorted By Oldest First option would seem to be what I want, but unfortunately its sorting is only…
Lees meerNick Botticelli (via Hacker News): Now, to get started, a strategy for approaching the daunting task of running iOS on vma2 is needed. I found the most success with reusing a fully macOS 12.0.1 bootchain and simply replacing the system (OS) image, a…
Lees meerJess Weatherbed: Amazon is adding Apple TV Plus to Prime Video, a move that could help bolster the iPhone maker’s languishing streaming service. Apple TV Plus will be available on Prime Video in the US later this month as a $9.99 monthly add-on — th…
Lees meerLawrence Abrams (Hacker News): Internet Archive’s “The Wayback Machine” has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records.[…]Hunt told BleepingComput…
Lees meerRicky Mondello (Mastodon): To make these passwords easier to type on suboptimal keyboard layouts like my colleague’s game controller, where the mode switching might be difficult, these new passwords are actually dominated by lowercase characters. An…
Lees meerMatthias Gansrigler: If you’re using Yoink on macOS Sequoia, you might have encountered an issue where Yoink would not accept any files anymore.[…]Basically any app that handles file URLs and saves them as a security-scoped bookmark for later access…
Lees meerMichael Buckley (Mastodon, Hacker News): At some unknown point in the future, Google will revoke Transmit’s access to Google Drive. Sometime after that, we’ll be releasing updates to Transmit and Nova that remove the ability to create Google Drive c…
Lees meerAshley Belanger: Musi, a free music-streaming app only available on iPhone, sued Apple last week, arguing that Apple breached Musi’s developer agreement by abruptly removing the app from its App Store for no good reason.According to Musi, Apple deci…
Lees meerBruce Schneier: The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Chinese hackers (Salt Typhoon) penetrated the networks of US broadband providers, and might have accessed the backdoors that the federal government uses to execute court-authorized wiretap re…
Lees meerSean Hollister (PDF, Hacker News, MacRumors): Today, Judge James Donato issued his final ruling in Epic v. Google, ordering Google to effectively open up the Google Play app store to competition for three whole years. Google will have to distribute …
Lees meerDave Winer: Today is the 30th anniversary of this blog.I did a roundup of thoughts when this blog turned 25. I stand by what I wrote then, but I’d add this. My blog started because I needed content to test a script I had written that sent emails on …
Lees meerSt. Clair Software: When you set keyboard shortcuts for ejecting, sleeping and remounting, they are now shown in Jettison’s menu.Fixed a bug that could result in an error message when manually mounting a volume even though the volume mounts correctl…
Lees meerJeremy Gray (Hacker News): In Photoshop Elements 2025, a new AI-powered Remove Tool makes it easy to erase and replace distracting objects in photos, including unwanted people and distracting objects. This new feature also includes an accompanying “…
Lees meerChristian Bender: We don’t recommend upgrading [to Sequoia] now because there are several bugs related to networking and firewalls in the 15.0 release. We expect most of them to be fixed in 15.1.[…]There are individual reports of websites aborting l…
Lees meerChristian Selig (Mastodon): It seems at some point, even though UserDefaults is intended for non-sensitive information, it started getting marked as data that needs to be encrypted and cannot be accessed until the user unlocked their device. I don’t…
Lees meerDave Rahardja: There are two ways to refer to this protocol in Swift: using a native Swift type, or using an Objective-C Protocol object reference. let fungibleSwiftProtocol = Fungible.self let fungibleObjCProtocol = NSProtocolFromString("Fungible")…
Lees meerSarah Reichelt (Mastodon): In Xcode 16, project files and folders are arranged differently in the Project navigator. What used to be a group is now a folder, and this simple change has some interesting effects. At first, I was against the new scheme…
Lees meerAlexander Martin (via Hacker News): The social media giant Meta has been fined €91 million ($101 million) for accidentally storing hundreds of millions of its users’ passwords in plaintext instead of in an encrypted format on its internal systems. M…
Lees meerKeith Gugliotto: The Mac App Store places a receipt file in each purchased application. The receipt includes a certificate the application uses to validate that receipt to be sure you’ve made a bona fide purchase. That certificate is only valid for …
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