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Skype Credit Is No Longer Available
mjtsai,
Skype (via Hacker News): Skype Credit is no longer available. For new purchases, check out the monthly subscriptions or make a free Skype call to anyone anytime. This a shame, as I liked to keep Skype around as a backup way to make calls and for devices that don’t have cellular plans. I was happy […]
Storing Times for Human Events
Simon Willison: What’s wrong with calculating the exact UTC time the event is starting and storing only that? […] It’s surprisingly common for countries to make decisions about DST with very little notice. Turkey and Russia and Chile and Morocco are four more examples of countries that can often cause short-term chaos for software developers […]
Selling Outside of the Mac App Store
Matthias Gansrigler: But once the Mac App Store hit, I transitioned all my apps to it pretty much right away. It’s just so convenient: no license creation, no license verification (apart from receipt validation, but that has become more convenient recently), easy updating, no handling of payments, invoices, refunds, and the potential of getting featured […]
NetNewsWire 6.1.6
Brent Simmons (release notes): The theme of this release is using less bandwidth (and, as a consequence, less battery). It fixes a conditional GET issue and it now pays attention to Cache-Control response headers and 429 response codes. It also fixes an AppleScript bug I reported. Previously: ReadKit 3.3 News Explorer 2.0 NetNewsWire and Conditional […]
FTC and CFPB Reining in Data Brokers
FTC (tweet): The Federal Trade Commission will prohibit data broker Mobilewalla, Inc. from selling sensitive location data, including data that reveals the identity of an individual’s private home, to settle allegations the data broker sold such information without taking reasonable steps to verify consumers’ consent. Under the FTC’s proposed settlement order, Mobilewalla will also be […]
Tim Cook Interview About AI and AVP
Steven Levy (MacRumors): We are here to discuss Cook’s big move in this high-stakes environment: the impending release of Apple Intelligence, the company’s first significant offering in the white-hot field of generative AI. Some consider it belated. All year, Apple’s competitors have been gaining buzz, dazzling investors, and dominating the news cycle with their chatbots, […]
Community is…
Swiss Miss,
“Community is what happens when you do what you love together.” – Pete Davis
People I Want To Meet
Switzerland based Software Design Toni keeps a List of People he’d like to meet on his personal website. This is wonderful. Thank you for the inspiration! (via Chris Glass)