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Meredith Whittaker and Joshua Lund (Hacker News): Signal is also a nonprofit, unlike almost every other consumer tech company. This provides an essential structural safeguard ensuring that we stay true to our privacy-focused mission. To put it blunt…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: Looking at the packet trace, the share menu attempts to fetch the icon files favicon.ico, apple-touch-icon.png, and apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png from the site.[…]And of course your IP address is leaked.My belief is that a website s…
Lees meerMy apps (DropDMG, EagleFiler, SpamSieve) are on sale for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and here are some other good deals that I found: Apps: Adobe Affinity Akismet AllTrails Appfigures Astro CYME Corel Deckset (INDIE-APP-SALES) DisplayBuddy (INDIE…
Lees meerAdam Engst: Apple began adding a globe icon to the Fn keycap a few years ago and, starting in macOS 14 Sonoma, began to call it the Globe key. This is likely for consistency with iPad keyboards, which dropped the lowercase “fn” letters entirely in f…
Lees meerHandBrake (Hacker News): Improved performance on arm64 / aarch64 / Apple Silicon architectures[…]Added support for drag and drop of multiple files at once[…]Added support for VideoToolbox H.265/HEVC, H.264/AVC, ProRes, and VP9 hardware decoders on m…
Lees meerThomas Stringer (via Hacker News): But… in the back of my mind I know that I have open source projects that need some attention. One happens to be heavily used. I’m nearly 3/4 million downloads, and it’s something that people seem to think has some …
Lees meerRic Ford: It’s now clear that a new Mac, purchased directly from Apple, can fail completely and suddenly without any warning after running fine for a few weeks. Apple’s proprietary storage design means that a Mac failure is now also a storage failur…
Lees meerHow in the world it took the board until now to realize Altman was leading OpenAI in directions completely contrary to their charter is beyond me. It’s like the police chief in *Casablanca* being “shocked — shocked!” to find out that gambling was ta…
Lees meerHow in the world it took the board until now to realize Altman was leading OpenAI in directions completely contrary to their charter is beyond me. It’s like the police chief in *Casablanca* being “shocked — shocked!” to find out that gambling was ta…
Lees meerWe know for a fact that their Snapdragon chips for phones have always lagged years behind Apple’s A-series chips in both sheer performance and performance-per-watt, with no sign that they’re catching up. So how in the world would their ARM chips for…
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