Roman Loyola (via Hacker News): Since the MacBook Air doesn’t have a fan for the SoC, its performance will throttle down during processor-intensive work to maintain a proper operating temperature. The M2 13-inch MacBook Pro, on the other hand, has a…
Lees meerCatalin Cimpanu (2019, via Hacker News): A former high-ranking Mozilla executive has accused Google of intentionally and systematically sabotaging Firefox over the past decade in order to boost Chrome’s adoption.He is not the first Firefox team memb…
Lees meerBrandon Williams and Stephen Celis (Mastodon): But now with the Observation framework you get to forget about almost all of that complexity, and just build your features in the most naive way, with basically zero adornments, and it just works. And i…
Lees meerSE-0413: Swift is known for being explicit about semantics and using types to communicate constraints that apply to specific APIs. From that perspective, the fact that all thrown errors are of type any Error feels like an outlier. However, it reflec…
Lees meerDana E. Stevens: I had a small balance in Apple Cash and had not made any transactions in a bit over 3 years. I received a text message notice of a “Balance Adjustment” resulting in a $0 balance in Apple Cash. Called Apple Support. They said the bal…
Lees meerYeonjoong (via Hacker News): My Google Drive files suddenly disappeared. The Drive literally went back to condition in May 2023. data from May until today disappeared, and the folder structure went back to status in May.Google Drive activity doesn’t…
Lees meerParesh Dave (Hacker News, Reddit): In early October, the people who make ad blocking tools convened in Amsterdam for their industry’s annual conference. One session was a welcome pitch from Google product leaders about tweaks made to address fears t…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: For the first ten years of Mac OS X, its closest substitute was Single User Mode, or SUM, entered by starting the Mac up with the Command and S keys held down. OS X then booted into the command line, where you could for example repair…
Lees meerDavid Rutland (via Hacker News): If you’ve spent your hard earned cash supporting independent artists through Bandcamp, a series of ownership changes and layoffs suggest that now might be the best time for audiophiles to download their audio files t…
Lees meerSam Rowlands: Since 1998, I’ve built every single Mac app with the Xojo development tool (Aka Real Studio and REALbasic).Over the last ¾ of a decade, Xojo started ignoring bugs, feature requests and industry trends. New features felt rushed, incompl…
Lees meerAdamya Sharma: The ongoing Google vs. Epic trial has brought out another interesting piece of information. As per testimony presented by Epic Games (via Bloomberg), Google paid Samsung $8 billion over a period of four years to keep Search, Assistant…
Lees meerRichard Speed (via Hacker News): A jury has sided with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) against Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) over the theft of source code and documentation. A total of $210 million was this week awarded.According to the verdic…
Lees meerJeff Johnson: I’ve recently run into a case that seems to call into question all extant sample code for Mac App Store receipt validation. […] I learned that the ethernet port of the customer’s Mac was fried as a result of electrical damage from a li…
Lees meerMariella Moon (via Hacker News): NVIDIA is facing a lawsuit filed by French automotive company Valeo after a screensharing blunder by one of its employees. According to Valeo’s complaint, Mohammad Moniruzzaman, an engineer for NVIDIA who used to wor…
Lees meerBruce Schneier: Jake Appelbaum’s PhD thesis contains several new revelations from the classified NSA documents provided to journalists by Edward Snowden. Stefania Maurizi: Communication in a world of pervasive surveillance is a public document and h…
Lees meerDell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra (Hacker News): A little-known surveillance program tracks more than a trillion domestic phone records within the United States each year, according to a letter Wired obtained that was sent by US senator Ron Wyden to t…
Lees meerJon Miltimore (Hacker News): “Marketed to Congress as a benign tool to help prevent drunk driving, the measure will mandate that automobile manufacturers build into every car what amounts to a ‘vehicle kill switch,’” wrote Barr, who was the Libertar…
Lees meerohoj Software: Ducklet makes using SQLite databases easy for everyone, whether you’re a developer, data analyst, or just curious. We’ve designed a user-friendly interface for a smooth and intuitive experience, so you can focus on your data.[…]Experi…
Lees meerTower: Sync Action: This action synchronizes your HEAD branch with a remote branch by pulling and then pushing commits (if pulling was successful). If you are not using the default toolbar item set, you can add the Sync action to your toolbar by run…
Lees meerArnold Kim (2011): One of the most requested features for Apple’s MacBook Pro line has been for the integration of some sort of built-in 3G cellular data to allow for anywhere wireless connectivity. MacBook Pro users presently need to purchase a sep…
Lees meerEugene Kim (via Hacker News): Apple’s latest products directly sold by Amazon have a much cleaner page layout on Amazon with no ads or recommendations until the very bottom of the page, an Insider review of the e-commerce site shows. Most other bran…
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