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Developers cannot issue refunds from the Apple App Store. Contacting the developer by physical mail doesn’t have any effect.

I could understand limiting new registrations, but permanently and irreparably breaking people's website domains and email addresses feels pretty hostile considering how little res…

The historic information in here was really interesting, and a great example of an article rapidly expanding in scope and detail. How they combatted corporate IT “security” softwar…

Cal Academy released their own press release[1] about this, which included a nice gallery of photos and videos[2]. [1]: https://www.calacademy.org/press/releases/claude-the-albino-…

They are working on an SDK, which they will use for their own Linux client: https://proton.me/blog/proton-drive-sdk-preview

If you want to get location accuracy lower than 500m without significantly impacting battery life, you can use region monitoring. There's two paths: 1. Set up a region around the u…

You then use `restic` telling it to use rclone like... restic ... --option=rclone.program="ssh -i user@host" --repo=rclone: which has it use the rclone backend over ssh. I've been …

These are the changes that Apple was forced to make, specifically referencing 3.1.3 (Other Purchase Methods) and 3.1.3(a) (“Reader” Apps): > 3.1.3: The prohibition on encouraging u…

Except for 'reader apps' (those that sell digital content, basically) which Amazon is. Plus, Apple's rules are applied unevenly; Amazon is a giant WebView on Apple TV but it's disa…

I've used Podlet https://github.com/containers/podlet > somewhat successfully for this.

You can do non-root systemd units, including Quadlets. See https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-systemd.uni... > under "Podman rootless unit search path."

I like the `rdap` cli from https://www.openrdap.org (in Brew, too: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/rdap#default ). Very clean, concise output.

Knowing focus status and being told live when it changes are public API. I think other apps just choose not to do it. Sample project: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/user…

This doesn't change the search engine, it attempts to redirect from whatever one is configured in the settings. It's very much an unreliable hack.

Facebook never federated so their implementation was just an API they couldn't control to them: > Facebook Messages are evolving to allow people to share rich content beyond text: …

They've started work on a Linux version, too.

I think this is a pretty great step in the direction of not being wholly dependent on one platform; makes you start thinking about your website as the source and the social media n…