Natasha Lomas (via Slashdot): The coordinated complaints about Amazon’s confusing and convoluted cancellation process for Prime were announced back in April 2021 — so it’s taken just over a year for the e-commerce giant to agree to change its ways.F…
Lees meerJuli Clover: There is no word on what’s new with the Apple TV Siri Remote, but it likely includes minor bug fixes and performance improvements. […] Apple also does not provide details on how to update the Siri Remote, but the software will be instal…
Lees meerJason Snell: If reports are true, the iPhone 13 mini will be the last of its line, replaced by a larger iPhone 14 Max this fall. And as someone who owns and loves an iPhone 13 mini, this makes me sad. […] First, let’s consider the report that the iP…
Lees meerJesper: View models and functional UI look like solutions, and they are indeed effective ways of managing complexity by making all the constituent state visible and enumerated. But in my experience they also encourage a way of programming where you …
Lees meerMarcel Weiher (tweet, Hacker News): Blackbird depends crucially on a number of architectural elements: first are stores of the in-process REST architectural style. These can be thought of as in-process HTTP servers (without the HTTP, of course) or c…
Lees meerJoe Fabisevich (tweet): Apple has never provided a blessed architecture for SwiftUI, and many developers have spent thousands of hours filling the gaps with their own ideas. A familiar approach for many developers is to take the MVVM pattern many pe…
Lees meerApple (MacRumors, Hacker News): Apple today detailed two initiatives to help protect users who may be personally targeted by some of the most sophisticated digital threats, such as those from private companies developing state-sponsored mercenary sp…
Lees meerHartley Charlton (Hacker News): European Union lawmakers have approved landmark legislation to heavily regulate Apple, Google, Meta, and other big tech firms.[…]Under the DMA, gatekeepers may have to:Allow users to install apps from third-party app …
Lees meerHoward Oakley: While reading from each of the Disk Images was almost as fast as from the SSD, write speeds were severely reduced. The sparse bundle was least impaired, with a write speed just under half that of the SSD, but all three disk images wro…
Lees meerLuc Beaudoin brought to my attention that there is a serious bug in the current Monterey beta. So far it’s affected every app I’ve tried that uses AppleScript. The script will fail with error -609 (connectionInvalid). Sometimes the script succeeds t…
Lees meerVadim Yuryev (video): We discovered SEVERE thermal throttling with Apple’s new M2 MacBook Pro, proving that it needs a BETTER cooling system with two fans instead of one. We exported 8K Canon RAW and saw temps hit 108°C, more than we’ve ever seen on…
Lees meerMajid Jabrayilov: The task view modifier starts the unstructured async task and binds it to the view lifecycle. SwiftUI automatically cancels ongoing tasks whenever the view disappears by propagating cooperative cancellation. […] Another variant of …
Lees meerCarly Page (Hacker News, paper): The attack, appropriately called “Pacman,” works by “guessing” a pointer authentication code (PAC), a cryptographic signature that confirms that an app hasn’t been maliciously altered. This is done using speculative …
Lees meerfrownface84: Phone had about 6gb of free space yesterday and was out of space when I woke up this morning. What’s this 10gb worth of system data? AwsomeOHdog: Why would “System Data” be using almost 40 GB of storage? Mizikame (via Meek Geek): Erase …
Lees meerBen Kuhn: I just did another round of “what’s making my Zoom calls stutter every 60s” and this time the culprit was… APPLE #!*$ING MAPS. That’s right, Macs now come preloaded with software to ruin wifi latency :(You can fix by revoking Maps’ locatio…
Lees meerBrendan Carr (Hacker News): TikTok is not just another video app.That’s the sheep’s clothing.It harvests swaths of sensitive data that new reports show are being accessed in Beijing.I’ve called on @Apple & @Google to remove TikTok from their app sto…
Lees meerRon Avitzur: C++ is and always has been an effective language for managing complexity in large projects, so why did I change languages? I was incredibly impressed with Apple’s Augmented Reality technology. […] I’ve worked the last 18 months rewritin…
Lees meerChime (via Matt Massicotte): TaskQueue Conceptually similar to a serial DispatchQueue, but can accept async blocks. Unlike with an unstructured Task, this makes it possible to control the ordering of events. […] CancellingContinuation Just like a Ch…
Lees meerFontExplorer: As of June 30th 2022, FontExplorer X products are no longer available for purchase or renewal[…] we will not offer any updates and/or support after June 30th, 2023.[…]We are working on an exciting new product! Sign up for our newslette…
Lees meerJen Simmons: WebKit is 100% on Git. The SVN repo is officially retired. Previously: Swift Bugs Moving to GitHub Issues
Lees meerOpen Web Advocacy (Hacker News): The CMA [UK Competition and Markets Authority] says [Apple’s browser] ban not only doesn’t protect security it could make it worse![…]Out of each of the three major browser engines, Safari has had the had highest num…
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