438 posts tagged ‘Technology’
Sonoma, iCloud Drive, and Time Machine
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Howard Oakley: Sonoma fixes a long-standing bug in whether local files can be ‘evicted’ to iCloud, or the download removed from your Mac’s local storage. In some circumstances you could find Sonoma downloading everything you have removed from your local storage, which may come as a surprise.[…]If your Mac has Optimise Mac Storage turned off […]
The Monetized Web
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Nobody loves a paywall, but everybody loves Substack Increasingly, it feels like paid memberships for web content are not only a viable alternative to surveillance-driven ad revenue, but one that readers are eager to embrace. The success of Substack demonstrates this. This success is often framed as a preference for reading in the inbox rather […]
Apple’s Use of Swift and SwiftUI in iOS 17
Alexandre Colucci (Hacker News): Unsurprisingly, there has been a significant increase in the number of apps adopting SwiftUI this year. Notable mentions include: The Preferences app with several of its bundles (StorageSettingsUI, WallpaperSettings, MultitaskingAndGesturesSettings, ThirdPartyApplicationSettings, ActionButtonSettings, …) Several binaries related to Health (Health.app, HealthUI, MentalHealthUI, WorkoutUI, …) The Home app, which appears to have undergone […]
The Problem With China and AI
Benjamin Mullin, John Koblin, and Tripp Mickle (Hacker News): Jon Stewart’s show on Apple’s streaming service is abruptly coming to an end, according to several people with knowledge of the decision, the result of creative differences between the tech giant and the former “Daily Show” host. […] The show initially had difficulty gaining traction. By […]
The Average Lifespan of a Smartphone
Isabel Rubio (via Hacker News): While Marcos Fernández managed to last six years with his previous device, the average lifespan of a smartphone is much lower. In Europe, for instance, it’s about three years, according to the European Environment Office (EEB). This figure is far less than the 25 years that a phone would need […]
SpamSieve 3.0.1
SpamSieve 3.0.1 fixes almost all of the known issues with version 3.0. It also improves the workaround for the macOS bug where sometimes Mail extensions don’t work at all. So everything that the Mail extension does now has a fallback implementation using AppleScript. Other interesting bugs were: Core Data uniqueness constraint resolution can fail and […]
Apple Pencil (USB-C)
Apple (Hacker News): Today, Apple is bringing more choice to iPad users with a new, more affordable Apple Pencil. With pixel-perfect accuracy, low latency, and tilt sensitivity, the new Apple Pencil is ideal for note taking, sketching, annotating, journaling, and more. Designed with a matte finish and a flat side that magnetically attaches to the […]
USB-C Cables Comparison
lumafield (via Hacker News, tweet): Does Apple’s Thunderbolt 4 cable really warrant its $129 price tag? Or does a $5 cable get the job done just as well? We’ve used our Neptune industrial X-ray CT scanner to uncover the hidden engineering differences between them.[…]Overall, the Thunderbolt cable is a stunning piece of precision engineering.[…]Less than […]