11 posts tagged ‘Datacide’
Autodesk Deletes Old Forum Posts
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Autodesk (via Hacker News): To keep our community efficient and up to date, we’ll be archiving content older than 10 years. We built a policy around document retention to stay relevant to our users and customers.[…] The archiving process will start in December and is planned to be completed before the end of [2024].[…]Archiving is based […]
Bench Shut Down, Then Acquired
Charles Rollet (Hacker News): Bench, a Canada-based accounting startup that offered software-as-a-service for small and medium-sized businesses, has abruptly shut down, according to a notice posted on its website.[…]The company’s entire website is currently offline except for the notice, leaving thousands of businesses in the lurch. Bench touted having more than 35,000 U.S. customers just […]
Deleting Unused Photos From Apple Photos
I’ve been trying to reduce the storage that the Photos app uses, both on my Mac and in iCloud. I use Lightroom for my photo library, so I would like to delete all the photos that are not referenced by projects (calendars and photo books). Unfortunately, Photos is unable to display any of my projects […]
Lost iCloud Notes
Benjamin Mayo: Some iPhone users are reporting a scary bug with the Notes app on iPhone. After agreeing to new iCloud terms and conditions as prompted by the system, the Notes app appears to disconnect from iCloud and instead presents users with a screen of zero notes, as if all the user’s notes have been […]
Time Machine in Sequoia
Der Teilweise: Backing up to a NAS currently says 3 days (!) left, after having backed up ~160GB. Was using WiFi with TX rate 133MBit. Now I connected using Gigabit Ethernet, does not seem to be faster. Plus: CPU usage is ridiculously high, fans spinning up to medium/max speed several times per hour. […] I […]
The Boeing 737 MAX and Alaska Airlines Flight 1282
Luke Bodell (via Hacker News): In August, the FAA issued an Airworthiness Directive (AD) warning MAX operators about using the engine anti-icing system in dry air. The AD came about following in-flight testing, which found that deploying the anti-icing system for longer than five minutes under specific conditions led to overheating and damage to the […]
tvOS 17.2 Removes Wishlists
Juli Clover: Unfortunately, Apple’s move to consolidate purchasing and viewing in the Apple TV app has done away with wishlists, and customers who used the feature got no warning about their elimination.On Reddit, Twitter, the MacRumors forums, and the Apple Support Community, customers are complaining about the change.[…]The wishlists did not transfer over to the […]
Google Reneges on Unlimited Storage and on Read-Only Preservation
Mike Masnick (Hacker News): We’ve written a few times about independent journalist Tim Burke. Earlier this year, the FBI raided his house and seized all of his electronic devices after he had obtained and published some leaked video footage from Fox News. As we noted, this seemed like a pretty big 1st Amendment issue. Burke […]