Howard Oakley: Recovery modes on Apple silicon Macs have also changed. In Big Sur, the primary Recovery system is stored in a hidden container on the internal SSD, and a fallback Recovery system in a volume alongside the boot volume group. Monterey …
Lees meerJeff Johnson on the News app’s Share menu: This doesn’t open in Safari but rather in my default web browser, which is Link Unshortener.Any normal Mac app — including Link Unshortener — can call the API to determine which app is your default web brow…
Lees meerTimothy B. Lee (Hacker News): Twitter users on Friday began noticing that they could not retweet or reply to tweets containing links to the Substack.com domain. This behavior seems to have started less than 48 hours after the popular newsletter plat…
Lees meerJeff Teper (via Ben Sandofsky, Slashdot): We have been listening to your feedback which has culminated in a reimagining of Teams from the ground up. The new app is built on a foundation of speed, performance, flexibility, and intelligence—delivering…
Lees meerGergely Orosz: Wow. @SubstackInc experimented with pricing, reducing it by 1 cent, so e.g. instead of $10/month, do $9.99/month. The result? A significant decrease for the pricing ending with .99. Which goes against conventional pricing wisdom!! Pad…
Lees meerMatthieu Bloch (Hacker News): Jacob Ziv, known for his pioneering contributions to communication and information theory that inspired generations of researchers, passed away on March 25, 2023 at the age of 91. Perhaps his most celebrated achievement…
Lees meerYnet (via Hacker News): The first major milestone of Lempel’s oeuvre came in 1977 when he and his colleague Prof. Jacob Ziv published LZ77, the first version of the Lempel-Ziv algorithm, which was followed up the very next year with LZ78. The Limite…
Lees meerGuilherme Rambo: However, when it comes to these local XPC services, the assumption that their scope is limited -- both in terms of functionality as well as which processes can even look them up to initiate a connection in the first place — means th…
Lees meernewZWhoDis: Essentially, the latest iOS (16.4 at post time) allows your cellular carrier (via eSIM) to add “managed networks” to your device. These networks cannot be removed, they cannot have “automatically join” disabled, and they have equal prior…
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, security): According to Apple’s release notes, iOS 16.4.1 add a fix for an issue that could cause Siri not to respond in some cases, and it adds skin tones variations for the pushing hands emoji. Juli Clover: According to…
Lees meerJuli Clover (release notes, security, full installer, IPSW): According to Apple’s release notes for the update, it introduces a fix for a bug that could cause Auto Unlock with Apple Watch not to work, plus it includes a fix for an issue that caused …
Lees meerAndy Baio (Hacker News, MacRumors): While trying to fix my printer today, I discovered that a PDF copy of Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin whitepaper apparently shipped with every copy of macOS since Mojave in 2018. […] If you’re on a Mac, open a Terminal…
Lees meerDaniel Jackson: Appropriately, Apple synchronized this action with the undo action of the general Undo concept. So if you send a message and then immediately execute an undo, it is interpreted as undo send, even without clicking the special transien…
Lees meerBitestring (via Hacker News): But companies found another way to uniquely identify you across different sessions and websites without using cookies or other persistent storage. It’s called web fingerprinting. Fingerprinting is a more sophisticated a…
Lees meerZippyshare: Since 2006 we have been on the market in an unchanged form, that is, as ad financed/free file hosting. However, you have been visiting in less and less over the years, as the arguably very simple formula of the services we offer is slowl…
Lees meerAmy Graff (Hacker News): Bob Lee, 43, died after being found stabbed on the 400 block of Main Street in SoMa. Lee was chief product officer of MobileCoin[…] Romain Dillet: Before joining MobileCoin, Bob Lee worked at Google for the first few years o…
Lees meerJeff Johnson (Mastodon): Today I’m introducing StopTheFonts, a Safari content blocker for web fonts on iOS and macOS, available now in the App Store.[…]There are a number of reasons to use StopTheFonts: to protect your privacy, because every web fon…
Lees meerJohn Voorhees: The free version of Dark Noise includes eight sounds, continuous sound looping, Shortcuts support, Siri integration, and a timer. The Pro subscription increases the number of sounds to over 50 and adds custom sound mixes, alternate ap…
Lees meerra13 (via Hacker News): Around 14th February 2023 several Google Drive accounts started showing an error of “Upload Failed” for any creation action carried out. (Eg. creating a new empty folder).I faced the same on my Google Drive account (2 TB). My…
Lees meerJohn Voorhees (via Federico Viticci): Recently, Alex Hay, the developer of Toolbox Pro and other apps, passed away after a battle with cancer.[…]In any creative field, though, there are always some people who stand apart from the pack. You don’t not…
Lees meerHartley Charlton (Hacker News): General Motors (GM) will phase out Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in its vehicles starting this year, shifting to a built-in infotainment system co-developed with Google (via Reuters). GM owns Buick, Cadillac, Chevrol…
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