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From the article: «According to a lawsuit filed Friday, Liu departed with three things: a company-issued MacBook he never returned, a close relationship with an Apple employee who …

You can really get into this article and enjoy it. The text includes lots of interesting source mentions without resorting to footnotes. The red flags I see are a nod to a little-k…

Coherence, balance, taste.

Command line: https://github.com/XcodesOrg/xcodes GUI: https://github.com/XcodesOrg/XcodesApp

They have a retailer search. Found this for USA: https://www.studica.com

As a long-time reader of Daring Fireball I learned to be highly skeptical of the things that are promoted there. In the case of Wavelength, I thought and still think it’s a solid a…

In Germany, you might be required by law to publish your address for everyone to see. Original German text of the law: https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/ddg/__5.html Google transl…

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Every time we tested any of the child protection features as adults the software failed basic tests. It did so ages ago with Mac OS X when we only had nieces to worry about, and mo…

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SJ = Scarlett Johansson VA = Voice Actor Backstory: https://theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/20/chatg...

Interesting. This -szer suffix seems to be used a lot. Attached to hajtó, it turns driver to fuel. Attached to autó, it turns car to car service. Attached to pàra, it tuns vapor to…

Yes, please don’t assume that most people who speak German call it a revolution either. Wende means turnaround and that’s good enough for the rest of us. But today I learned that H…

Wende is the term that most Germans use without thinking twice. It’s been a common word, which existed long before 1989, and while it is since then strongly linked to the events ar…

There’s a song for that, too. Tragic Comic by Extreme. https://youtu.be/_44jokODfzM

The Macintosh version of the FlightStick had an ADB (Apple Desktop Bus) plug that had a port on the other end so you could plug in another device. It’s been 30 years. Do you think …

That’s the way I started but eventually used two FlightSticks. Banking movement with one hand (forward, backward, sideways), rotating around two axis with the other (barrel roll, p…

There’s this review that stands out: «I am the CEO of Orbital Design Studios, and am the designer behind the canceled "Descent IV" project in 2002. This game is a thing I thought I…

Did you have trouble with nausea?

The linked Twitter post above contains at least one picture of a fully penetrated floor.

From the linked article: «Namely, in iOS 10.1 and 102 (sic!), metadata for APFS was test written and the superblock header was created but not actually written out. The file data r…

Both. Some less sophisticated network gear might allow you to connect to an SSH server on port 80 for example. But usually you’ll have a traffic inspecting firewall that isn’t fool…