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"Can I pet dat dawg?" Little girl's viral bear encounter turned into musical hit
Boing Boing,
You might remember this video from a few months back, featuring an adorable little girl who sees a bear in her backyard and repeatedly asks her mother, "Can I pet dat dawg?" Well, piano maestro Brandon Ethridge has added music to the girl's pleading, turning it into a great 7-second song: Here are some other Brandon Ethridge videos we've posted over the years: The cat lawyer "sings" in this 48-second mini-musical Suffering from CDC whiplash? — Read the rest
A Short History of Recovery in macOS
mjtsai,
Howard Oakley: For the first ten years of Mac OS X, its closest substitute was Single User Mode, or SUM, entered by starting the Mac up with the Command and S keys held down. OS X then booted into the command line, where you could for example repair your startup volume[…] […] With Mac OS […]
Time to Back Up Bandcamp
David Rutland (via Hacker News): If you’ve spent your hard earned cash supporting independent artists through Bandcamp, a series of ownership changes and layoffs suggest that now might be the best time for audiophiles to download their audio files to secure offline storage.[…]According to Aftermath, Bandcamp is a mess right now, with most of the […]
Moving on From Xojo
Sam Rowlands: Since 1998, I’ve built every single Mac app with the Xojo development tool (Aka Real Studio and REALbasic).Over the last ¾ of a decade, Xojo started ignoring bugs, feature requests and industry trends. New features felt rushed, incomplete and sometimes unusable. Dark mode support and concurrency are two prime examples. Something is clearly […]
Google Pays to Be Default on Samsung Phones
Adamya Sharma: The ongoing Google vs. Epic trial has brought out another interesting piece of information. As per testimony presented by Epic Games (via Bloomberg), Google paid Samsung $8 billion over a period of four years to keep Search, Assistant, and Play Store as default services on Samsung phones.[…]One internal document also shows how Google […]
Tata Code Theft
Richard Speed (via Hacker News): A jury has sided with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) against Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) over the theft of source code and documentation. A total of $210 million was this week awarded.According to the verdict [PDF], a Texas jury agreed that TCS had “willfully and maliciously” misappropriated both source and confidential […]
Saltburn's Emerald Fennell Dreams of Making an Erotic Jurassic Park
Gizmodo,
Where can the Jurassic Park franchise go after the disappointing Jurassic World Dominion? How about down an unexpectedly sexy path? If Oscar winner Emerald Fennell (Saltburn, Promising Young Woman) has her druthers, that maybe could happen—if only in our collective imaginations. Read more...
Strange Spike of Child Pneumonia Cases in China Likely Not a Novel Pathogen, Officials Say
An unusual surge of respiratory illness has been plaguing China in recent months, with increased cases of pneumonia affecting children in particular. Despite some early confusion, however, local health officials say these cases are not being caused by a novel germ. Instead, the surge is likely tied to a mix of known… Read more...