Jamie Zawinski: If posts in a social media app do not have URLs that can be linked to and viewed in an unauthenticated browser, or if there is no way to make a new post from a browser, then that program is not a part of the World Wide Web in any mea…
Lees meerFlorian Mueller: This is the DOJ’s motion, which already states very specifically what aspects of the case the Biden Administration will address (every single one of which weighs in favor of at least a partial reversal of the district court’s judgme…
Lees meerFederico Viticci: At this point, you may be wondering: if someone has an account on a different instance, or posted something I want to reply to, how can I do this from my account on a separate Mastodon instance?This is where my friend Jason Snell c…
Lees meerChristian Tietze: I was under the (wrong) assumption that the mutating func needed to, well, somehow mutate the receiver of that method call, like change a property value. And that this in turn would be noted “somewhere”. Conversely, I was under the…
Lees meerTim Kientzle: I thought it would help to have an informal sketch to help outline why move-only types are interesting, clarify a few subtle points (like what “move” really means), and briefly explain some of the issues we’ll need to tackle in order t…
Lees meerDougall Johnson (Hacker News): Generally translating each instruction only once has significant instruction-cache benefits – other emulators typically cannot reuse code when branching to a new target. […] Given these constraints, the goal is general…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: You might think that apps are either running or they’re not, but there are actually four different states a macOS ap can be in (in addition to those a user shouldn’t directly encounter, such as suspended). […] Intel apps running with …
Lees meerSean Hollister: Yes, I am playing Dope Wars on a Palm Pilot inside my iPhone. It’s thanks to The Internet Archive, which is once again launching a giant collection of software you can instantly play on any web browser, up to and including your touch…
Lees meerAmy Worrall: TextKit has the option to truncate the last line of text if there’s more text than will fit in the container. It does this by displaying an ellipsis. But what if you wanted to display something else to indicate truncation? (In my case, …
Lees meerOle Begemann: The clipped() modifier in SwiftUI clips a view to its bounds, hiding any out-of-bounds content. […] When you run this code, you’ll discover that the button isn’t tappable at all. This is because the (unclipped) square, despite not bein…
Lees meerSarah Perez (via Hacker News): Tumblr will add support for ActivityPub, the open, decentralized social networking protocol that today is powering social networking software like Twitter alternative Mastodon, the Instagram-like Pixelfed, video stream…
Lees meerDr. Drang: I’ve always had this silly belief that I should be able to convert an outline into the skeleton of a report (or a blog post or whatever, but it’s usually a report) more or less automatically and then flesh it out into a final product. Thi…
Lees meertechknowlogick (Hacker News): With Gitea reaching 6 years old, it is time to reflect on the past, and to look forward to the future. With over 14k+ commits, 1k+ contributors, 40+ maintainers, and 300M+ Docker Hub pulls, Gitea has come a long way. Ou…
Lees meerRon Amadeo (Hacker News): Amazon is going through the biggest layoffs in the company’s history right now, with a plan to eliminate some 10,000 jobs. One of the areas hit hardest is the Amazon Alexa voice assistant unit, which is apparently falling o…
Lees meerHiawatha Bray (Hacker News): A nonprofit law firm has filed a class action lawsuit against the Massachusetts Department of Public Health for allegedly working with Google to secretly install COVID-tracing software onto as many as a million smartphon…
Lees meerTommy Mysk (Hacker News): Apple’s analytics data include an ID called “dsId”. We were able to verify that “dsId” is the “Directory Services Identifier”, an ID that uniquely identifies an iCloud account. Meaning, Apple’s analytics can personally iden…
Lees meersleeping_ghost (via Hacker News): iCloud for Windows is corrupting videos recorded from an iPhone 14 pro max resulting in black videos with scan lines. On rare occasions, it is inserting stills into videos from unknown sources, possibly other’s iClo…
Lees meerChris Hanson: One of the annoying things about Mastodon is that it’s tough to share Mastodon links and have them open in your favorite app instead of in a web browser. This is due to the lack of a shared scheme or a shared server—which makes sense f…
Lees meerRob Griffiths: Apple, in their infinite wisdom, removed the Locations feature from the Network System Settings panel.I use locations a lot, as they make it easy to switch between various network configurations. In my case, I have locations created t…
Lees meerTerrastruct (via Hacker News): D2 is a modern diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams. […] D2 is built to be hackable -- the language has an API built on top of it to make edits programmatically. […] D2 is designed with language tooli…
Lees meerDurham Goode (Hacker News): Sapling is a new Git-compatible source control client.Sapling emphasizes usability while also scaling to the largest repositories in the world.[…]We’ve spent the past 10 years building Sapling, a scalable, user-friendly s…
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