438 posts tagged ‘Technology’
Chaos in the Cradle of A.I.
The New Yorker,
The Sam Altman saga at OpenAI underscores an unsettling truth: nobody knows what A.I. safety really means.
Black Friday 2023
mjtsai,
My apps (DropDMG, EagleFiler, SpamSieve) are on sale for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and here are some other good deals that I found: Apps: Adobe Affinity Akismet AllTrails Apparent Software Appfigures Astro CYME Corel Curio Dada Mail Deckset (INDIE-APP-SALES) DisplayBuddy (INDIEAPPSALES) DEVONtechnologies DevUtils Drafts Ducklet DxO Ergonis Flexibits Gaia GPS Gentlemen Coders Gitonium GlanceCam […]
The Hidden Secrets of the Fn Key
Adam Engst: Apple began adding a globe icon to the Fn keycap a few years ago and, starting in macOS 14 Sonoma, began to call it the Globe key. This is likely for consistency with iPad keyboards, which dropped the lowercase “fn” letters entirely in favor of a globe icon.[…]Because Apple doesn’t include the Fn […]
HandBrake 1.7
HandBrake (Hacker News): Improved performance on arm64 / aarch64 / Apple Silicon architectures[…]Added support for drag and drop of multiple files at once[…]Added support for VideoToolbox H.265/HEVC, H.264/AVC, ProRes, and VP9 hardware decoders on macOS 13 and later[…]Added GPU accelerated Crop & Scale, Rotate, Pad, Yadif, Bwdif, Chroma Smooth, Unsharp, Lasharp, Grayscale filters[…]Improved SVT-AV1 encoding […]
The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software Is Unsustainable
Thomas Stringer (via Hacker News): But… in the back of my mind I know that I have open source projects that need some attention. One happens to be heavily used. I’m nearly 3/4 million downloads, and it’s something that people seem to think has some level of usefullness. Those are the good parts. The bad […]
Lessons From a Bad Apple Repair Experience
Ric Ford: It’s now clear that a new Mac, purchased directly from Apple, can fail completely and suddenly without any warning after running fine for a few weeks. Apple’s proprietary storage design means that a Mac failure is now also a storage failure that will prevent you from accessing any of your files in any […]
Altman and Brockman Out at OpenAI
OpenAI (Hacker News): Sam Altman will depart as CEO and leave the board of directors. […] Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities. The board no longer has confidence in […]
SpamSieve 3.0.2
SpamSieve 3.0.2 greatly improves the workaround for the macOS bug where sometimes Mail extensions don’t work at all. By reading Mail’s database directly, instead of using AppleScript, SpamSieve is able to work much faster, with no overhead in Mail itself. It’s also no longer limited by mailboxes that have so many messages that Mail would […]