Chance Miller: Following its acquisition of the popular Day One journaling app last month, Automattic has announced that it is also acquiring the popular podcast application Pocket Casts. For those unfamiliar, Automattic is the company behind WordPr…
Lees meerBase11 Studios: Unclack is the small but mighty Mac utility that mutes your microphone while you type. No more getting called out for clacking your way through a Zoom meeting on your clicky keyboard! Via Nick Heer: This is, for me, a perfect additio…
Lees meerOgnjen Regoje (via Hacker News): I’ve stopped using Reddit mostly because I no longer wanted to support a site that has aggressively started to employ disrespectful design patterns. Not only that, but they kept trying to present them in a way that m…
Lees meerDan Goodin (Hacker News): The Russian state hackers who orchestrated the SolarWinds supply chain attack last year exploited an iOS zero-day as part of a separate malicious email campaign aimed at stealing Web authentication credentials from Western …
Lees meerRobots & Pencils (via Christian Selig): The easiest way to install and switch between multiple versions of Xcode.[…]List all available Xcode versions from Xcode Releases’ data or the Apple Developer website.Install any Xcode version, fully automated…
Lees meerJeff Johnson (tweet): Gatecrasher is an empty Mac app that I created in Xcode in a few minutes. It has no code other than the standard NSApplicationMain and the default MainMenu.xib file with the main menu and window. Gatecrasher isn’t signed with a…
Lees meerPaulos Yibelo (tweet, Hacker News): I quickly realized that TextEdit can be tricked into thinking the file opened is an RTF-HTML file even when the file extension is TXT. The ability to inject HTML into a TXT file obviously opened lots of potential …
Lees meerJuli Clover (tweet, Hacker News): In the third developer beta of macOS Monterey, which came out this morning, Apple has overhauled the design of Safari, making the tab bar more similar to the current tab bar in macOS Big Sur. […] The new and separat…
Lees meerRobin Stewart: Weather Strip’s groundbreaking week-long hourly view shows you the whole forecast at a glance, so you can more quickly choose the best times to go outside — or check on likely weather for upcoming events and outings. Via John Gruber: …
Lees meerIssie Lapowsky (Hacker News): But appealing to antitrust regulators was only one prong in Rosewell’s plan to get Google to delay its so-called Privacy Sandbox initiative. The other prong: becoming a member of the World Wide Web Consortium, or the W3…
Lees meerIlya Brown (via Hacker News, MacRumors): We built Fleets as a lower-pressure, ephemeral way for people to share their fleeting thoughts. We hoped Fleets would help more people feel comfortable joining the conversation on Twitter. But, in the time si…
Lees meerWesley Hilliard (via gbdoc): According to a German data recovery company, Datenrettung, the Time Capsule has a design flaw leading to failure and data loss in the aging machines. Golemreports that the German company has seen several Time Capsule fai…
Lees meerNicolas Brunner (Hacker News): In march 2020 I found a way to access a User’s location permanently and without consent on any iOS 13 (or older) device. This seemed like a critical issue to me — especially with Apple’s focus on privacy in the last ye…
Lees meerPhil Stokes (via Hacker News): Full Disk Access means what it says: it can be set by one user with admin rights and it grants access to all users’ data system-wide. […] When Alice grants FDA permission to the Terminal for herself, all users now have…
Lees meerMatt Shockley (tweet, Medium): TCC stores these user-level entitlements in a SQLite3 database on disk at $HOME/Library/Application Support/com.apple.TCC/TCC.db. Apple uses a dedicated daemon, tccd, for each logged-in user (and one system level daemo…
Lees meerCsaba Fitzl: On macOS Mojave Gatekeeper only verifies executables, which are run with the open command or the user double clicks. It won’t verify files, that are executed through other means like, directly executing a binary ./myapp regardless of th…
Lees meerCsaba Fitzl (tweet): This is a rather old vulnerability I found in TeamViewer back in 2020, and reported it through VCP/iDefense. TeamViewer fixed the vulnerability last November[…] The TeamViewer macOS client used a PrivilegedHelperTool named com.t…
Lees meerAlex Grebenyuk (tweet): Pulse is a powerful logging system for Apple Platforms. Native. Built with SwiftUI. Record and inspect network requests and logs right from your iOS app using Pulse Console. Share and view logs in Pulse macOS app. Logs are re…
Lees meerManton Reece: I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the longevity of Micro.blog and where we need help to continue to grow the platform and community. As we approach 4 years since the public launch, there are some parts of the platform and supportin…
Lees meerDave Scocca: I have an iTunes library of almost 15,000 songs, mostly ripped from my CDs but with a number of iTunes store purchases. I have a 256 GB iPhone to allow me to have my music with me, and my new-ish Civic has CarPlay. It used to be great–I…
Lees meerDerek Wise (Hacker News): Apple is often brought up when talking about right to repair, usually in reference to their anti-repair practices. In response to a Cameo request, Steve Wozniak spoke for almost 10 minutes on the importance of right to repa…
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