Howard Oakley: T2 Intel and Apple silicon Macs invariably encrypt the Data volume on their internal SSD; adding the protection of FileVault’s password comes at no cost. Some external SSDs can use APFS encryption without any reduction in performance …
Lees meerMilen Dzhumerov: As part of my work on the Buck2 build system, I needed a way to observe the network throughput of the system. After some research, the conclusion was to use sysctl() with NET_RT_IFLIST2: this provided access to 64bit metrics which d…
Lees meerOliver Mackenzie (in August 2022, via John Voorhees): Let’s take a look at our gaming benchmarks, calculated via video capture as is the Digital Foundry way.[…]It’s not a particularly large table because, unfortunately, there aren’t many high-end Ma…
Lees meerDiligent Robot: After a lot of dillydallying, we’re very pleased to announce the return of sync to MoneyWell. This is available in MoneyWell 2023.1. To go along with this, we’re releasing MoneyWell Express 2023.1 for iPhone. […] We know a subscripti…
Lees meerJeremy Perdue (AppleInsider, MacRumors, Slashdot, Hacker News): Now consumers can use Outlook for free on macOS, no Microsoft 365 subscription or license necessary. However, according to the pricing page, you need to pay in order for it to be ad-fre…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: With the guaranteed integrity of the SSV and cryptexes on IT2 and AS models, reinstalling the same version of macOS has no effect on the great majority of macOS. Similarly, installing an older version and updating it to the current on…
Lees meerPaul Kafasis: 20 years ago today, on March 3, 2003, Rogue Amoeba released Audio Hijack Pro 1.0. This was a crucial event in the company’s history, as sales grew a much higher level, taking Rogue Amoeba from a hobby to a viable business.On this anniv…
Lees meerSophia Teutschler: The source code for CoverSutra is now available on GitHub. This was a great app back in the day. So many of these talented indie developers ended up working at Apple. Via Dave Verwer: Sophia Teutschler has been open-sourcing her o…
Lees meerSerena (tweet): There are a few existing asset catalog viewer applications for macOS, however, none felt feature complete, Samra offers the following:Browse through the Asset Catalog fileShow all types of objects (renditions) in it, not just images …
Lees meerAdam Chandler: 150% of my iPhone 14 Pro Max’s screen on the App Store’s Today screen is occupied by advertisements that aren’t relevant to my interests. Apple’s services team is ruining the experience. Mario Guzman: Ugh. I got hit by two Apple ads t…
Lees meerBrave (via MacRumors): The Summarizer provides concise and to-the-point answers at the top of Brave Search results pages, in response to the user’s input, solely based on Web search results. Unlike a purely generative AI model, which is prone to spo…
Lees meerChloe Xiang (via Hacker News):: This blog post and OpenAI’s recent actions—all happening at the peak of the ChatGPT hype cycle—is a reminder of how much OpenAI’s tone and mission have changed from its founding, when it was exclusively a nonprofit. W…
Lees meerShawn Michels (Hacker News): The price of Shared and Dedicated compute plans will increase by 20%. Our shared Nanode plan remains unchanged at US$5 per month. Additional IPv4 IP addresses will increase from US$1 to US$2 per month. IPv6 addresses rem…
Lees meerNSViewController.ViewLoading: Use this property wrapper on view controller properties that can be nil before the view controller’s view loads. Wrapping view controller properties this way eliminates crashes that can occur from implicitly defining pr…
Lees meerBeatrix Willius: According to the German computer magazine Heise Outlook is now using “Microsoft Synch Technology” without asking the user. When you create a new account, there’s a checkbox to opt out, but the Heise article implies that existing acc…
Lees meerJohn Gruber: Twitter’s kneecapping of third-party clients didn’t just mean that their future revenue was gone — it meant revenue they’d already collected from App Store subscriptions would need to go back to customers in the form of prorated refunds…
Lees meerSelome Hailu: All episodes of “Arrested Development” are set to leave Netflix on March 15 — including Seasons 4 and 5, which Netflix produced itself. […] Netflix co-produced Seasons 4 and 5 with 20th Television and Imagine Entertainment, and the lic…
Lees meerAnnalee Newitz (in 2009): Thousands of people last week discovered that Amazon had quietly removed electronic copies of George Orwell’s 1984 from their Kindle e-book readers. In the process, Amazon revealed how easy censorship will be in the Kindle …
Lees meerJohn Sundell: So, regardless of whether we want to change the styles or structure of a view, or introduce a new piece of state, it’s starting to become clear that SwiftUI views and modifiers have the exact same capabilities. But that brings us to th…
Lees meerChance Miller (Hacker News): As reported by The Verge, the Phone Link app for Windows is meant to mirror your phone on your PC for things like notifications, phone calls, and messages. The app has historically only supported Android devices, but tha…
Lees meerLeah Nylen et al. (Hacker News): The Justice Department is preparing an antitrust lawsuit seeking to block Adobe Inc.’s $20 billion acquisition of startup Figma Inc., people familiar with the matter said.[…]The deal also faces an antitrust review in…
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