121 posts tagged ‘macOS 14 Sonoma’
Smaller and Faster Updates With Sonoma
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Howard Oakley (Hacker News): When a user accepts Software Update’s invitation to upgrade to macOS 13 or 14, rather than downloading a full installer app of about 12 GB, Ventura or Sonoma will instead attempt an update, in which only changed files are copied to the System volume, substantially reducing the amount to be downloaded, […]
Disabled Safari Extensions Are Not Fully Disabled
Jeff Johnson: The good news is that when you navigate to a new page in a Safari tab after disabling the extension, its content script won’t get injected into the new page. The bad news is that if you navigate back to the old page with Safari’s back button, the disabled extension’s injected content script […]
MarsEdit 5.1
Daniel Jalkut: The addition of Mastodon support is a natural extension of the new Micropost Panel which was introduced in MarsEdit 5. I’ve prioritized the feedback of many users and added the ability to resize, add images, view character count, and more. This is a welcome addition, although I haven’t settled on exactly how I […]
Disk Images in Sonoma
Howard Oakley: Band size is the maximum size of each band file, and determines two things: the number of band files, and how efficiently the whole sparse bundle can change in size. In most cases, the default is 8.4 MB, which generally works well for all but the largest of sparse bundles. There’s one important […]
macOS 14.1.2
Juli Clover (release notes, security, developer, enterprise, full installer, M3, IPSW, M3): According to Apple’s security support page, the update fixes two vulnerabilities that Apple says were exploited on versions of iOS earlier than iOS 16.7.1. See also: Mr. Macintosh and Howard Oakley. Previously: macOS 14.1.1 Update (2023-12-08): Nick Heer: According to Project Zero’s spreadsheet, […]
Composable Architecture and Swift Observation
Brandon Williams and Stephen Celis (Mastodon): But now with the Observation framework you get to forget about almost all of that complexity, and just build your features in the most naive way, with basically zero adornments, and it just works. And it works in the most efficient way possible, where only the data accessed in […]
Google Drive Loses Months of Customer Data
Yeonjoong (via Hacker News): My Google Drive files suddenly disappeared. The Drive literally went back to condition in May 2023. data from May until today disappeared, and the folder structure went back to status in May.Google Drive activity doesn’t show any changes (only show activity that was in May) No files was deleted manually, so […]
YouTube’s Ad Blocker Crackdown
Paresh Dave (Hacker News, Reddit): In early October, the people who make ad blocking tools convened in Amsterdam for their industry’s annual conference. One session was a welcome pitch from Google product leaders about tweaks made to address fears that a security update to the company’s Chrome browser could hamper ad zapping. Google, which draws […]