438 posts tagged ‘Technology’
Amazon Employees Returning to Offices
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Jane Thier (via Hacker News): Mike Hopkins, senior vice president of Prime Video and Amazon Studios, reportedly told members in an internal meeting that when it comes to returning to the office, “it’s time to disagree and commit. We’re here, we’re back—it’s working,” he said. “I don’t have data to back it up, but I […]
Computational Bridal Photo
Matt Growcoot: A woman says that “the fabric of reality crumbled” after she looked at an iPhone photo of herself trying on a wedding dress and noticed that her reflection looked different.Standing in front of two large mirrors, Tessa Coates’ reflection does not return the same pose that she is making, and not only that, […]
Dave Cutler Interview
Dave Plummer (via Hacker News): Dave Cutler is a seminal figure in computer science, renowned for his contributions to operating systems. Born in 1942, he played pivotal roles in the development of several OSes, most notably VMS for Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and Windows NT for Microsoft. Cutler’s design principles emphasize performance, reliability, and scalability. […]
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 […]
Vivlio
Romain Dillet (via Jason Snell): While Amazon’s Kindle is the clear leader and Rakuten’s Kobo the obvious challenger, Vivlio has been building an open European alternative to these two tech giants. And it proves that you can compete with tech giants with a team of 35 as long as you have a distinct strategy with […]
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, […]