Ole Begemann: @MainActor is a Swift annotation to coerce a function to always run on the main thread and to enable the compiler to verify this. How does this work? In this article, I’m going to reimplement @MainActor in a slightly simplified form fo…
Lees meerTroy Hunt (via Nick Heer): Ah, now we know the cert has been issued to DigiCert Inc. in the US. So, all good right? No, because who are they? I mean, all we know is that the cert has been issued to an entity with that name, we don’t know if they are…
Lees meerJames Vincent (Hacker News): Early Saturday morning, after hours of negotiations, the bloc agreed on the broad terms of the Digital Services Act, or DSA, which will force tech companies to take greater responsibility for content that appears on thei…
Lees meerMitchell Clark: Microsoft has announced a lineup of adaptive accessories which are meant to augment or replace the regular keyboards and mice that people with disabilities could struggle to use. The lineup consists of three different devices: the Ad…
Lees meerNick Heer: Here are the two ways I most frequently use AirPlay through my Apple TV: I want to listen to music on my living room speakers, so I play albums — local and streamed from Apple Music — from my iPhone or my Mac. I want to watch a movie I pr…
Lees meeralgalgal: I recently learned that some USB-C hubs, with power pass through and an Ethernet port, seem to destabilize a wired network when they are connected to ethernet and to power but not to a computer. They do this by flooding the network with ba…
Lees meerZach Lloyd (via Hacker News): If you’re an engineer at Google or Facebook, you’re likely focused on one career question: when am I going to make it to the next level? Getting to the next level unlocks a lot – more money, more responsibility, more re…
Lees meerApple (MacRumors, Hacker News, Slashdot): Since its introduction over 20 years ago, iPod has captivated users all over the world who love the ability to take their music with them on the go. Today, the experience of taking one’s music library out in…
Lees meerDalvin Brown (via Joanna Stern): Apple iPhone Users Got Alerts About Strangers’ AirTags. The Trackers Were Never Found. The company alerts users when an unknown AirTag is ‘near you.’ When those people don’t appear to be in the path of any rogue trac…
Lees meerNilay Patel: Tony’s written a new book called Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making, which, I’ll be honest, is total bait for Decoder. It’s one part memoir, one part tech industry gossip, and one part org charts and decision-makin…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: In a statement obtained by journalist Nando Kasteleijn, the Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) said that while Apple eliminating its requirement for Dutch dating apps to create a separate app binary in order to accept alternati…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: After a brief exchange with a Level 10 expert [in the Apple Support Community Forums], they were told that they could delete a large snapshot on their Mac’s Fusion Drive ‘to free up space’. The snapshot in question was clearly the Sig…
Lees meerBryan Menegus (via Dave Mark): And. And. And. And. And. For whatever reason that specific string of words seems to be enough to permanently brick a Google Docs page. Noted Google’s support pages mere hours ago, the poster who seemingly discovered th…
Lees meerJessica Lessin: Um. Anyone had an Apple App Store update rejected because Apple didnt like their pricing strategy? I cannot believe this just happened to @theinformation! Trying to fix but lets say this takes Apple’s power over the entire tech ecosy…
Lees meerMarine Nozerand (via Dave Verwer): All in all, alternative app stores can be classified into different categories: Device-specific app stores: like the Samsung Galaxy Store or the Huawei App GalleryCountry or culture-specific stores: AppToko is for …
Lees meerDr. Drang: Because the name of the process is what we want to return, name has to go last in the chain of calls, and it’s the one that gets the parentheses. We’re applying the whose filter to the processes, so it has to go after processes. The prope…
Lees meerTN3125: Provisioning Profiles: A macOS app can claim certain entitlements without them being authorized by a provisioning profile. These unrestricted entitlements include:com.apple.security.get-task-allowcom.apple.security.application-groupsThose us…
Lees meerJuli Clover: Apple Music appears to be affected by a bug that is causing the app to install itself directly into the dock when downloaded from the App Store, with the app even replacing other first and third-party apps located in the dock. […] There…
Lees meerJon Brodkin: A federal judge has ordered all Internet service providers in the United States to block three pirate streaming services operated by Doe defendants who never showed up to court and hid behind false identities.The blocking orders affect …
Lees meerMatt Sephton: Often I want to restore the latest version of a file from Time Machine, but using the Time Machine interface to do so is awkward and slow. So I came up with my own solution that can be triggered from the Finder context menu of any file…
Lees meerMichael Potuck: Reincubate launched its Camo app back in 2020 to seamlessly upgrade your Mac’s webcam with the iPhone you already have. Over the last two years, the app has been continuously upgraded, and today brings a major milestone. Camo now has…
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