Ron Amadeo (Hacker News): Amazon is going through the biggest layoffs in the company’s history right now, with a plan to eliminate some 10,000 jobs. One of the areas hit hardest is the Amazon Alexa voice assistant unit, which is apparently falling o…
Lees meerHiawatha Bray (Hacker News): A nonprofit law firm has filed a class action lawsuit against the Massachusetts Department of Public Health for allegedly working with Google to secretly install COVID-tracing software onto as many as a million smartphon…
Lees meerTommy Mysk (Hacker News): Apple’s analytics data include an ID called “dsId”. We were able to verify that “dsId” is the “Directory Services Identifier”, an ID that uniquely identifies an iCloud account. Meaning, Apple’s analytics can personally iden…
Lees meersleeping_ghost (via Hacker News): iCloud for Windows is corrupting videos recorded from an iPhone 14 pro max resulting in black videos with scan lines. On rare occasions, it is inserting stills into videos from unknown sources, possibly other’s iClo…
Lees meerChris Hanson: One of the annoying things about Mastodon is that it’s tough to share Mastodon links and have them open in your favorite app instead of in a web browser. This is due to the lack of a shared scheme or a shared server—which makes sense f…
Lees meerRob Griffiths: Apple, in their infinite wisdom, removed the Locations feature from the Network System Settings panel.I use locations a lot, as they make it easy to switch between various network configurations. In my case, I have locations created t…
Lees meerTerrastruct (via Hacker News): D2 is a modern diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams. […] D2 is built to be hackable -- the language has an API built on top of it to make edits programmatically. […] D2 is designed with language tooli…
Lees meerDurham Goode (Hacker News): Sapling is a new Git-compatible source control client.Sapling emphasizes usability while also scaling to the largest repositories in the world.[…]We’ve spent the past 10 years building Sapling, a scalable, user-friendly s…
Lees meerCraig Hockenberry: Now that you know what Xcode is using, you’ll wonder where it’s getting the disk image. It’s located in a sibling directory: /Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Images. That folder also contains an images.plist file that contains met…
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Lees meerThere seems to be little common ground around Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter. It’s either the greatest thing EVAH (freedom fries for murica) or
Lees meerBalazs Varkonyi: Smart Folders Are BackThese are folders that automatically update their content according to the search criteria you specify.It can also send you notifications, and a unique icon can be selected for each one.[…]The text size of the …
Lees meerAlejandro Alonso: I propose adding a new module to the Swift toolchain named Reflection that provides high level APIs for reflection in Swift. This makes use of reflective information that has always been available, but was never exposed as API unti…
Lees meerJesse Grosjean: There isn’t much documentation of the macOS implementation. Much of the following behavior was discovered by experimenting with TextEdit. […] When text is deleted by certain actions it gets added to the kill ring. By default the kill…
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