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Important caveat: > You must swap out an old electric unit; switching from gas to electric doesn't qualify.[0] That’s a bummer; totally would have done this otherwise [0] https://w…

I don’t think your original comment made it clear it was an Apple monitor

A fun read. I was hoping for the title to have some more relevance to the story, like someone who had handcrafted a piece of software and didn’t want others messing with it! Was th…

Very interesting article. But why does Apple want to avoid GPL v3? edit: found this previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20102640

> I can chat with my friends (not possible right now with whatsapp!) btw, WhatsApp has an Apple Watch App! https://faq.whatsapp.com/864470801642897

If you have a watch that was imported into the US before the restriction went into effect, you never lost the (original, watch-only) Blood Oxygen functionality and this update does…

I think this was motivated by non-English languages which have separate terms for different relations than English?

As of Swift 5.9, using Obj-C++ is no longer necessary! https://swift.org/documentation/cxx-interop/

Meta’s internal “you’ve been here longer than X% of the company” metric does not give credit to total tenure (ie. boomerangs), so IMO it’s highly misleading as a measure of attriti…

Gmail on iOS uses SFSafariViewController, which runs in a separate process from Gmail.app and can’t be interacted with, unlike WKWebview. My guess is that they ran metrics and deci…

A big benefit of files is discoverability. Fluid sounds awesome in terms of collaboration, but I'll be interested to see how hard it is to find a specific note or chart weeks later…

These rights are strikingly similar to the ones outlined in GDPR.

I grew up on Ghibli movies, so I will probably get a free trial of HBO Max when it launches to rewatch/binge them. On a different note, I hadn’t heard of HBO Max before this announ…

China has many other more effective means of blocking websites for users within China mainland. Since Tencent is used for a malware list instead of Google for all users who have th…

If the list of hashed URLs is relatively static, what’s to prevent Apple from caching this information on their own CDN? If this not possible in China due to the Great Firewall, at…

As far as I’m aware, community labor is generally sentenced as an alternative to prison time.

This is highly laudable and a great step in the right direction. Something that struck me though: what about all the time drivers are - idling and waiting for a ride - driving to a…

In my opinion, this move makes a lot of sense. The Safari Extensions Gallery was laughably outdated, similar to the Dashboard Widgets Gallery: https://www.apple.com/downloads/dashb…