438 posts tagged ‘Technology’
Bluesky CEO taunts Musk with "billionaire proof" design claim
Boing Boing,
LIKE BOING BOING BUT NOT THE ADS? CLICK HERE TO GO AD-FREE! The fast-rising Xitter alternative Bluesky is designed to be "billionaire-proof," says CEO Jay Graber. Speaking to CNBC's Money Movers, Graber explained that unlike Musk's walled garden, Bluesky's open-source architecture means users can pack up their digital bags — followers and all — and move if the network becomes a cesspool of sociopathic manbabies. — Read the rest The post Bluesky CEO taunts Musk with "billionaire proof" design claim appeared first on Boing Boing.
Hair dryer explodes in woman's hand. Police investigate foul play
A 37-year-old woman from Karnataka, India, suffered severe injuries to her palms and fingers after a hair dryer exploded in her hand. Police are now investigating the incident and suspect foul play. According to The Independent, Basavarajeshwari Yarnal collected a parcel on behalf of her neighbor, identified only as Sasikala. — Read the rest The post Hair dryer explodes in woman's hand. Police investigate foul play appeared first on Boing Boing.
EagleFiler 1.9.16
mjtsai,
EagleFiler 1.9.16 is a maintenance release of my Mac files/notes/e-mail manager. This version improves the formatting of community notes and quote tweets when importing from X/Twitter and includes a bunch of other fixes (e.g. for the help viewer) along the lines of what was in SpamSieve 3.1. I had left in support for Growl, even […]
Privileges 2.0
Rich Trouton: SAP has released a new major version of their open source Privileges app. This tool provides macOS standard user accounts with a way to request administrator rights. Privileges 2.x includes a number of new features not available in Privileges 1.x and in particular fulfills two particular long-standing requests from its user community:It provides […]
Slopes Interactive Maps
Curtis Herbert et al.: As of this season, Slopes is a team of seven full-time employees, two contractors, two interns, and me. 🤯 Everything you’ve seen in Slopes over the past few years around interactive resort maps is the kind of feature only an amazing team can pull off. I thought it’d be cool to […]
Let’s Encrypt Is 10
Josh Aas (in 2014, via Hacker News): For many server operators, getting even a basic server certificate is just too much of a hassle. The application process can be confusing. It usually costs money. It’s tricky to install correctly. It’s a pain to update.Let’s Encrypt is a new free certificate authority, built on a foundation […]
SpamSieve 3.1
SpamSieve 3.1 improves the accuracy of my Mac e-mail spam filter, amongst many other enhancements. Some interesting issues were: NSHelpManager seems to be broken under Sequoia in that sometimes you have to click a help link multiple times for it to open the right page—until then it just opens the main help book page (FB15763353). […]
Overcast 2024.11.1
Overcast: The price change goes into effect tomorrow (November 21). Premium is going from $9.99 to $14.99, the first price increase since it was introduced 8 years ago. Chance Miller: The new 48-hour listening history feature builds upon the undo seek feature that Overcast introduced earlier this year.48-hour History and Undo: Accidentally seek too far, […]