Steve Hayman (Hacker News, MacRumors): In retrospect, the tech involved in the merger wound up being so one-sided that many people say “NeXT actually bought Apple for negative $400,000,000.” A few years later, something like 70% of Apple’s VPs were …
Lees meeriA Writer: We get a lot of support requests because, on installation, @Grammarly for Mac kills system spell-checking in all other apps (including iA Writer). Deleting Grammarly won’t restore the spell-checking. You have to manually do it using Termi…
Lees meerParty Time (Oh no, sorry… Essential Work Meeting). Jeff Gamet, GazMaz, Patrice Brendamour and Mark join the regulars Nick, Simon and Jim to just The post Essential Apple Podcast 248: Essential Christmas Party Work Meeting appeared first on MyMac.com…
Lees meerNathan Leamer: Four years ago today the FCC rightly repealed #netneutrality regulations. And guess what? The Internet works fine. But never forget the hyperbolic predictions. Thread below Karl Bode (tweet): This week a coalition of infotainment outl…
Lees meerAnish Athalye (via Hacker News): Microsoft PhotoDNA creates a “unique digital signature” of an image which can be matched against a database containing signatures of previously identified illegal images like CSAM. The technology is used by companies…
Lees meerJustine Tunney (Hacker News): The SectorLISP project has achieved its goal of creating a LISP that’s tiny enough to fit in the master boot sector of a floppy disk. To the best of our knowledge, this is the tiniest LISP to date. Since a master boot r…
Lees meerRoss Cohen (via Hacker News): If a string substitution is attempted for any reason on the following string, it will trigger an infinite recursion, and the application will crash: ${${::-${::-$${::-j}}}}. This is fixed in Log4j 2.17. xg15: So, let me…
Lees meerLuca Bernardi (via Dave Verwer): SwiftUI has a new, pretty cool, debugging utility to help you understand what is causing a view to be reevaluated. Call Self._printChanges() inside the body of a view to print out the changes that have triggered the …
Lees meerPeter Kirn (Hacker News): In the interest of security and privacy, Apple on macOS Monterey has added a prominent orange dot to display outputs when audio capture is active. That renders their machines unusable for live visual performance, though, si…
Lees meerAlexandre Colucci (tweet, Hacker News): iOS 15 contains 114 binaries using SwiftUI, that’s almost 3 times the number from iOS 14. Likewise the number of binaries containing at least one line of Swift code has doubled between iOS 14 and iOS 15[…] […]…
Lees meerGlenn Fleishman: USB-C was supposed to be the last cable you would ever need. It hasn’t worked out that way. […] The problem is that USB-C has become a connector for distinctly different purposes and glancing at a port or cable rarely tells you enou…
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