Thomas Brand: In 2020 I am watching less stupid on YouTube by skipping the algorithm. Instead of letting the YouTube decide which videos it wants to show me, I am watching only the videos I want to see by subscribing to my favorite content creators …
Lees meerFabián Cañas (tweet): The problem is that since Swift doesn’t think this value can be nil, it’s not trivial to check. […] It says the non-optional value shouldn’t be compared to nil, and that it’s always false. But at run time, the nil is detected, …
Lees meerwyoung (Hacker News): I worry that Git might be the last mass-market DVCS within my lifetime. Git effectively has a global monopoly on DVCSes, and I don’t see how you replace such a thing. Replacing RCS with CVS was easy. Replacing CVS with Subversi…
Lees meerJ3nRa1n: No one asked for this. But here it is: every macOS wallpaper from Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah to macOS 10.15 Catalina combined. The full-resolution image is here, and there’s also one for iOS. Previously: Recreating Mac Desktop Picture Photos Mac…
Lees meerwh0 (via Nick Heer): Conveniently, the emojis studied in this post depict the scissors from a viewpoint parallel to the axis of the hinge. This allows us to simulate swinging the blades with basic image rotations. I collected a dataset of emojis fro…
Lees meerApple has been in the news this week because of iPhone security. As noted by Katie Benner of the New York Times, Attorney General William Barr stated that he needed Apple's help to access information on an iPhone used by...
Lees meerJesse Squires: I am often in a situation where I have a number of tabs open in Safari. I may be reading a collection of blog posts about how to implement a new iOS API, or I may be researching something I need, like new running shoes. I cannot alway…
Lees meerKyle Mizokami (via Espionage News): The NSA eventually shipped all of the electronics located at the embassy back to the U.S. for study. They struck gold: parts inside an IBM Selectric typewriter had been cleverly duplicated but rigged to transmit t…
Lees meerGlenn Fleishman: More recently, the Chicago Tribune published the results of testing from a firm it had hired to check if emissions from modern smartphones truly fell below FCC safety limits. In those tests, many appeared to exceed regulatory limits…
Lees meerBluetooth SIG (MacRumors, Hacker News): As the names suggest, Classic Audio operates on the Bluetooth Classic radio while LE Audio operates on the Bluetooth Low Energy radio. […] LE Audio will include a new high-quality, low-power audio codec, the L…
Lees meerMarco Arment: In light of today’s rumor that a Pro Mode may be coming that seems to offer benefits in the opposite direction, I wanted to re-make the case for a Low Power Mode on macOS — and explain why now is the time. […] Apple’s customers don’t u…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: Every Safari extension that runs JavaScript — in other words, almost every Safari extension — will have these same warnings, so what are users supposed to do with the warnings? Avoid Safari extensions entirely? Then why does Apple prov…
Lees meerGuillaume Louel (via Tanner Bennett): In macOS Catalina, 3rd party screensavers are now running in a sandboxed container which limits everything. As of right now there are no workarounds for many of the restrictions. […] Aerial can only write in the…
Lees meerAdam Engst (tweet, Hacker News): Unfortunately, Apple’s marketing claims about Dark Mode’s benefits fly in the face of the science of human visual perception. Except in extraordinary situations, Dark Mode is not easy on the eyes, in any way. The hum…
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