Reid Blackman (Hacker News): Like Messages on your iPhone, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, Signal uses end-to-end encryption, making it impossible for the company to read the contents of user messages. But unlike those other companies, Signal also …
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Lees meerAaron Trickey: I just open-sourced my Help Compiler, a self-contained command-line tool to build HTML help from simple plain-text source. […] A Mac app’s user guide will frequently reference its main menu. HC has built-in syntax to look up a menu it…
Lees meerKashmir Hill: If I were suddenly cut off from any of these services, the data loss would be professionally and personally devastating. […] Some of my data landlords were more accommodating than others. Twitter, Facebook and Instagram offered Takeout…
Lees meerKashmir Hill (Mastodon, Hacker News): Google refused to reconsider the decision in August, saying her YouTube account contained harmful content that might be illegal. It took her weeks to discover what had happened: Her 9-year-old eventually confess…
Lees meerUnder the Radar: Abandoning the CloudKit plan for Overcast in light of new information. He’s still finding the CloudKit Web API to be unreliable. Also, a surprising 10% or so of the app’s users can’t use CloudKit, either because the phone isn’t sign…
Lees meerTim and David discuss Henry Cavil’s Superman ouster and games to get you through the holidays, including Spider-Man, Atari 50th anniversary, and Vampire Survivors.
Lees meerMarques Brownlee (via Dave Mark): Google Assistant vs Apple’s Siri vs Amazon Alexa vs Samsung’s Bixby He says that Google Assistant is far ahead and that Alexa is not what it once was. Siri comes in second, but that seems to mainly be due to the iOS…
Lees meerAccidental Tech Podcast: It’s 2022 and we still haven’t solved email, batteries, or sharing files between two computers. Sean Heber: I really hate local network file sharing. It never seems to work right.I setup a folder to share on my mac. My compu…
Lees meertresinnoctem: I use the SMB file sharing system to access files on my MBPro from my iPhone 12, on my local network. Until now, this has been robust, reliable and fast. After updating my MBPro to Ventura 13.0 and my iPhone to iOS 16.1 I cannot connec…
Lees meerSometimes it’s hard to know what features an OS is offering that might be to your liking? If really any at all. So we’re
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