SE-0306 (forum, Hacker News): Actors allow you as a programmer to declare that a bag of state is held within a concurrency domain and then define multiple operations that act upon it. Each actor protects its own data through data isolation, ensuring…
Lees meerFlying Meat (tweet): Acorn now sports a unified window with a matching toolbar. Gone are the floating palettes everywhere and getting in your way. Palettes are now inspectors and can be brushed away by pressing the TAB key, and brought back the same…
Lees meerJonny Evans (via MacRumors, Hacker News): Adobe has released Photoshop for M1 Macs, delivering a huge boost in application performance on Apple Silicon in contrast to how it performs on similar Intel-based machines.[…]“At the moment, Photoshop and L…
Lees meerJesse Squires: I have been periodically deleting my tweets for a while now. Yesterday, I finally found a reliable solution for deleting my Twitter “likes” as well and I spent some time deleting all of them. Long ago, I also deleted all of my content…
Lees meerZac Hall: You can trust that Apple will continue to make new iPhones and Macs for the foreseeable future, but Apple’s home products resemble Google’s betting strategy more than Apple’s usual commitment to focus and delivery. […] How confident are we…
Lees meerNick Statt (tweet, MacRumors, Hacker News): At the time he began accusing Apple of abetting App Store scams early last month, Eleftheriou revealed that his FlickType app had been targeted by competing software he says either didn’t work well or didn…
Lees meerSami Fathi: Intel has called on the services of former “I’m a Mac” actor Justin Long in a series of new ads in which Apple’s latest custom-made M1 processors are cast as inferior to newer laptops powered by Intel processors.[…]In one ad, Long promot…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Dropbox today announced that it will be rolling out a limited version of its Dropbox Passwords password manager to users with a free Dropbox Basic account in early April. The feature launched last year for paying subscribers only. Dro…
Lees meerJoe Rossignol: Google today announced that, starting July 1, it will be lowering its Play Store commission from 30% to 15% for the first $1 million of revenue developers earn using the Play Store billing system each year, as reported by TechCrunch. …
Lees meerLorenzo Franceschi-Bicch (Hacker News): Adobe wants Twitter to take down a tweet from five years ago that links to a site that allows visitors to download a 27-year-old version of the company’s PDF reader.On March 6, a company that works on behalf o…
Lees meerMatthew Panzarino (tweet, MacRumors, tweet, Slashdot, Hacker News): Apple has discontinued its original HomePod after four years. It says that it will continue to produce and focus on the HomePod mini, introduced last year. The larger HomePod offere…
Lees meerJonathan Deutsch: Apple’s documentation should also state provisioning profile requirements of API.I just burned a day thinking I’d be able to use HomeKit on a Developer ID app.There’s no way the App Store will approve my utility; so the feature (wh…
Lees meerDavid Smith: Underused GCD patterns: Making a serial queue that’s less aggressive about creating threads (“non-overcommit”): let q = DispatchQueue(…, target: DispatchQueue.global()) All serial queues ultimately target a global queue, which is respon…
Lees meerJoseph Cox (tweet): I hadn’t been SIM swapped, where hackers trick or bribe telecom employees to port a target’s phone number to their own SIM card. Instead, the hacker used a service by a company called Sakari, which helps businesses do SMS marketi…
Lees meerrachelbythebay (Hacker News): A couple of weeks ago, I read a post about how the “sealed system” on Big Sur was hurting people. I kind of skimmed through it and figured it was mostly complaining about the size of the download. For whatever reason, t…
Lees meerHoward Oakley: The first gigabyte or so of the update has to be downloaded direct from Apple’s servers[…] For M1 Macs these are marked out so that they can’t be obtained from the Content Caching Server. The size of this additional directly downloade…
Lees meerJohn Gruber: Amazon even called their rip-off the same name — “Everyday Sling” — although they’ve since changed the name to “Camera Bag”. The crew at Peak Design did the right thing in response: they mercilessly mocked Amazon in this video. Previous…
Lees meerWilliam Turton and Mark Gurman: When it initially removed Parler from the App Store in January, Apple asked the social network to change its moderation practices. Apple said that Parler’s new community guidelines, released when the service came back…
Lees meerBen Thompson: In short, Roblox isn’t a game at all: it is world in which one of the things you can do is play games, with a persistent identity, persistent set of friends, persistent money, all disconnected from the device that you use to access the…
Lees meerDaniel Boffey (Hacker News): Ottens’s idea was that the cassette tape that should fit in the inside pocket of his jacket. In 1963 the first tape was presented to the world at an electronics fair in Berlin with the tagline “Smaller than a pack of cig…
Lees meerBrave (tweet, Hacker News): Today Brave announced the acquisition of Tailcat, the open search engine developed by the team formerly responsible for the privacy search and browser products at Cliqz, a holding of Hubert Burda Media. Tailcat will becom…
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