Juli Clover: Lockdown, a new app launching today, is designed to be an open source firewall, letting users block any connection to any domain, including those that use ad tracking services and analytics platforms to monitor device usage. Lockdown is…
Lees meerBruce Schneier: Yesterday, Attorney General William Barr gave a major speech on encryption policy -- what is commonly known as “going dark.” Speaking at Fordham University in New York, he admitted that adding backdoors decreases security but that it…
Lees meerGoogle (via Hacker News): We’re here to help: we open sourced the C++ library that our production systems use for parsing and matching rules in robots.txt files. This library has been around for 20 years and it contains pieces of code that were writ…
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Lees meerThis week we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing. Mike recalls the actual landing (he’s an old fart) and we discuss the The post Geekiest Show Ever 313 – Over the Moon for Movies appeared first on MyMac.com.
Lees meerThere are no statistics to back up my premise that dongles are here to stay forever other than the fact that dongles have been around about forever. Maybe longer. As much as members of the technorati elite politburo criticize Apple for new connector…
Lees meerYou know the story about privacy and data, right? You’re losing both. Whatever there is to know about you, your family, your history, and your online habits (whether via apps or browsing) the behemoths of the internet already know it. We’re talking …
Lees meerRead receipts should be under the control of the recipient, not the sender. Full stop.
Lees meerRead receipts should be under the control of the recipient, not the sender. Full stop.
Lees meerI think Apple has struck a nearly perfect balance here, between doing what’s right for most users (installing these rare emergency updates automatically) and doing what’s right for power users who really do want to control when all updates — even es…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: If you work with xattrs, you’ve probably already seen this in xattrs whose name ends with a hash # then one or more characters: that’s actually the flags, not part of the name, what Apple refers to as a ‘property list’. To avoid confu…
Lees meerDave Verwer: I’d be much, much happier with the weird situation where one part of the system says it’s full, while another says there is 5Gb free if I was constantly being shown error messages. In that case, it’d just be a bug with the amount of spa…
Lees meerJason Snell: After 24 hours of trying to use Catalina in earnest with all my data and apps intact, the new security features are incredibly annoying. Apps constantly asking for permission to see various folders, lots of relaunches and trips to Syste…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: As for the $10,000-plus, 18-karat gold Apple Watch Edition, the report claims Apple’s sales were “in the low tens of thousands” of units, with “few after the first two weeks.” The line was discontinued in September 2016 after just 16 …
Lees meerJuli Clover (Hacker News): Apple received a total of 80 requests from 11 countries to remove 634 apps from various App Stores in different countries. While Apple did not provide specific details on which apps it was asked to pull, requests from Chin…
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