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Public Triplebyte Profiles

dinsdag 26 mei 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Ammon Bartram: Now, you can use your Triplebyte credentials on and off the platform. Just like LinkedIn, your profile will be publicly accessible with a dedicated URL that you can share anywhere (job applications, LinkedIn, GitHub, etc). When you do…

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Netflix Stops Charging Inactive Customers

dinsdag 26 mei 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

BBC (via Hacker News): The company said the notifications would be sent to those people who signed up with a credit card or other payment method, but have not watched anything in the year since signing up. It will do the same for other users who hav…

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Grocery Shopping With Guided Access

maandag 25 mei 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Ole Begemann: Problem: Face ID doesn’t work with face masks. You have to type in your passcode all the time during grocery shopping to check your shopping list. Solution: Open your shopping list app and activate Guided Access. Tada! Apple: Guided Ac…

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unc0ver Jailbreak Tool for iOS 13.5

maandag 25 mei 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Frank McShan (Hacker News): The team behind the “unc0ver” jailbreaking tool for iOS has released version 5.0.0 of its software that claims to have the ability to jailbreak “every signed iOS version on every device” using a zero-day kernel vulnerabil…

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Solving the “Miracle Sudoku” in Prolog

maandag 25 mei 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jason Kottke: The solver himself calls it “a work of sublime genius” and “one of the most extraordinary puzzles we’ve ever seen”. It’s fascinating listening to him slowly uncover different aspects of the puzzle — watching him methodically figure out…

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macOS 10.15: Slow by Design

vrijdag 22 mei 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Allan Odgaard (via Cocoa-Dev, Hacker News): In episode 379 of ATP both Marco Arment and John Siracusa described noticeable delays and stalls after upgrading to macOS 10.15. […] Another way to reduce the delays is by disabling System Integrity Protec…

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What Time Is It in London, Siri?

vrijdag 22 mei 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

John Gruber: Nilay Patel asked this of Siri on his Apple Watch. After too long of a wait, he got the correct answer — for London Canada. I tried on my iPhone and got the same result. Stupid and slow is heck of a combination. […] Worse, I tried on my…

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Marking Unused Required Swift Initializers As Unavailable

vrijdag 22 mei 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Jesse Squires: However, if you do not use Interface Builder, then init(coder:) is irrelevant and will never be called. It is annoying boilerplate. But the real problem is that Xcode (and presumably other editors) will offer init(coder:) as an auto-c…

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New York Times Phasing Out 3rd-Party Advertising Data

vrijdag 22 mei 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Sara Fischer: The New York Times will no longer use 3rd-party data to target ads come 2021, executives tell Axios, and it is building out a proprietary first-party data platform.[…]The Times will begin to offer clients 45 new proprietary first-party…

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Apple Purchasing Podcasts

donderdag 21 mei 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Lucas Shaw and Mark Gurman: Apple Inc. is ramping up its push into original podcasts by seeking an executive to lead the initiative and buying shows that would be exclusive to its services. The technology giant has begun acquiring two types of origi…

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HEIC and the College Board

donderdag 21 mei 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Monica Chin (via Nilay Patel): Nick Bryner, a high school senior in Los Angeles, had just completed his AP English Literature and Composition test last week. But when he snapped a photo of a written answer with his iPhone and attempted to upload it …

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Remote Code Execution in qmail

donderdag 21 mei 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Qualys (via Marcel Weiher, Matthew Garrett, Hacker News): Surprisingly, we re-discovered these vulnerabilities during a recent qmail audit; they have never been fixed because, as stated by qmail’s author Daniel J. Bernstein: This claim is denied. No…

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“Lack of Action” on Siri Recordings

donderdag 21 mei 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Alex Hern (via Julian Mair): A former Apple contractor who helped blow the whistle on the company’s programme to listen to users’ Siri recordings has decided to go public, in protest at the lack of action taken as a result of the disclosures. In a l…

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iOS 13.5

donderdag 21 mei 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Juli Clover: Apple today released iOS and iPadOS 13.5, major updates that come more than a month after the launch of iOS and iPadOS 13.4.1. iOS 13.5 is a major health-related update that brings many features related to the ongoing public health cris…

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Hide UI

donderdag 21 mei 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Olivia Solon (via John Gruber): Software called Hide UI, created by Grayshift, a company that makes iPhone-cracking devices for law enforcement, can track a suspect’s passcode when it’s entered into a phone, according to two people in law enforcemen…

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Don’t Bury a Wet Laptop in Rice

woensdag 20 mei 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Kevin Purdy (via Josh Centers): Most importantly, don’t try to use rice to “draw out the moisture.” It doesn’t work, at all. You’re giving water more time to corrode your laptop, and you’re probably getting rice inside your laptop or under your keys…

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Joe Rogan Moves to Spotify

woensdag 20 mei 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Joe Rogan: Starting on September 1 the podcast will be available on Spotify as well as all platforms, and then at the end of the year it will move exclusively to Spotify… The podcast was already hugely financially successful, and it seems like this …

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Halide’s Third Birthday

woensdag 20 mei 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Ben Sandofsky: Meanwhile, a storm brewed on the horizon: iOS 13. At the start of summer, we tested Halide with the first iOS beta, and found significant issues. We filed tickets with Apple and hoped for the best, but as iOS 13 reached its last few b…

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Be Careful When Scheduling Events Using Siri

woensdag 20 mei 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Adam Engst: When I used Siri to create the calendar event for the call, because I specified Mickie and Gary by name, Siri tried to be smart and invited them to the event without telling me. I didn’t want that to happen—the event was for my reference…

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Timing in SSH

dinsdag 19 mei 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Dr. Drang: Apparently, in its neverending quest to save battery, Apple is powering down the wifi system between packets, which means a delay when new packets arrive or need to be sent. This doesn’t materially affect file transfers or streaming becau…

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Why NetNewsWire Is Fast

dinsdag 19 mei 2020 inMichael Tsai (Column-Blog)

Brent Simmons (tweet): The parsers are fast — but we also do our best to skip parsing entirely when we can. There are two ways we do that. We use conditional GET, which gives the server the chance to respond with a 304 Not Modified, and no content, …

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