Where’s Apple here? I’d love AR glasses with privacy included. Not an oversized 3500$ helmet that you can’t wear in public.
@steipete
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Firefox privacy tracking concerns tied to Google sponsorship
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Is that what happens when the majority of your sponsoring comes from Google? https://
noyb.eu/en/firefox-tra
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App Review Systems Protect Users From Malicious Applications
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So glad we have app review to protect us from bad apps.
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Ayahuasca Experience Reignites Passion for Coding After Burnout
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Counterpoint: Ayahuasca helped me find my love for coding again, after a 3 year hiatus through burnout.
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Bug Fix Helps Users After 10 Years of Sharing
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Love getting random emails like this:
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Chinese Social Media Censorship: AI and Content Moderation
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interesting thread on chinese social media censorship.
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iOS 18 eliminates forced autoplaying videos feature
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The joy of nuking @arstechnica ‘s forced autoplaying videos out of existence. Thanks iOS 18!
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Apple’s Software Quality Issues Breaking Cybersecurity Tools
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“I get it, that writing bug-free software is challenging, but maybe if Apple spent less time and money on marketing, and more time on actually testing their software, we’d all be better off!” https://
techcrunch.com/2024/09/19/app
les-new-macos-sequoia-update-is-breaking-some-cybersecurity-tools/
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Reverse Engineering Apple’s ScreenContinuityUI Framework and Swift Challenges
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The actual app is just a thin shell around ScreenContinuityUI.framework. Swift really doesn't make reverge engineering easy, I miss the good old ObjC times. I see some Combine use too. There's also some code for Telemetry… guess that's for Apple to track how reliable the
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Remote Control and App Launch Accessibility Home Screen
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Interesting. The home screen is accessible. So there should be a way to remote control and control apps, at least to start them.