Despite the program’s name, I think it’s not so much about individual users repairing their own personal devices. The biggest ramification, I think, will be that the program will allow unofficial independent repair shops to procure genuine OEM Apple…
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Lees meerGeoff Chappell (in 1999, via Hacker News): In e-mail of dubious origin sent to security expert Richard M. Smith, it is alleged not only that the AIM client software has a so-called “buffer overflow” bug but also that AOL actually does use its knowle…
Lees meerGlenn Faison: I recently saw first-hand why I should never copy and paste any code I found online (or anywhere, for that matter). […] To cut the long story short, what looks like a loose inequality check on line #4, is deceptively an assignment oper…
Lees meerlevel1807 (via John Siracusa): The well-known presentation already available on YouTube is from January 24 of 1984. What’s not so well remembered: Jobs did it all twice, in less than a week. Six days after unveiling the Mac at the Flint Center on th…
Lees meerDespite the program’s name, I think it’s not so much about individual users repairing their own personal devices. The biggest ramification, I think, will be that the program will allow unofficial independent repair shops to procure genuine OEM Apple…
Lees meerMicrosoft Word is one of the most useful apps for attorneys on the iPhone and iPad. There are currently two ways to use Word. You can use the app called Microsoft Word, or you can use the app called Microsoft...
Lees meerDespite the program’s name, I think it’s not so much about individual users repairing their own personal devices. The biggest ramification, I think, will be that the program will allow unofficial independent repair shops to procure genuine OEM Apple…
Lees meerErnie Smith (via Gus Mueller, Hacker News): Around this time 30 years ago, two separate working groups were putting the finishing touches on technical standards that would come to reshape the way people observed the world. One technical standard res…
Lees meerBartosz Polaczyk (Hacker News): We are excited to be open sourcing XCRemoteCache, the library we created to mitigate long local builds. As the name suggests, this library is a remote caching implementation for iOS projects with an aim to reuse Xcode…
Lees meerAdam Engst: Now and then, we get a report from a reader whose TidBITS issue has an entire article formatted as a column of text that’s a single character wide. I could tell what happened in at least two cases, but I’m utterly stumped as to what migh…
Lees meerFilipe Espósito: Pacifist is a popular file extractor for macOS that lets users view and extract multiple file formats, including PKG, DMG, XAR, and TAR. CharlesSoft: Completely rewritten in Swift 5 […] Added command-line interface […] Support for A…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple in iOS 15.2 is making it easier for your loved ones to access your personal data in the event of your death with the addition of a Legacy Contact feature. A person set as your Legacy Contact gets a special code that can be provide…
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