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lisamelton, to apple My name is Elizabeth but please call me Lisa.
I'm probably best known as the person who started the #Safari and #WebKit projects at #Apple. You may think you know my deadname but... you don't.
I've drawn underground comics, pioneered using a Mac for newspaper graphics and developed software at Adobe and Netscape.
Now I write video #transcoding scripts and sometimes podcast.
Follow me and I'll fill your timeline with boosts.
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drahardja, to apple I guess this is how #Apple does #layoffs these days.
First they require in-person #returnToOffice, then they relocate business units from one location to another, and force those who can’t uproot their lives to leave.
The Apple location in #SanDiego isn’t going away. But they intentionally forced 121 people to choose between moving to #Austin, or lose their jobs. Make no mistake, this is a layoff.
Never mind the fact that #Texas is hostile to anyone with a uterus, or is not cishet—why the hell anyone would move to that state? If anything, Apple should be shutting down their Austin office, and paying for people to relocate to a state that better ensures their safety.
“Apple to Shutter 121-Person San Diego AI Team in Reorganization”
Unpaywalled link: https://archive.ph/TnOUv
darwinwoodka, @drahardja fuck this shit, move the Texas team to SD if anything.
My husband's company not only lets people work remotely but will pay their moving costs if they need to leave a state like Texas.
Companies don't have to be shitty. Demand better.
drahardja, Oh and for folks wondering why #Apple is insisting that people work in #Austin #Texas: I can’t speak for their actual motivation, of course, but this much is true:
In 2018, Apple received $25M in grants from the Texas Enterprise Fund, as well as a $16M property tax abatement from Williamson County for building their new campus, contingent on Apple bringing in 4,000 new workers to Williamson County over 12 years.
I’m sure those financial considerations come into play.
https://austin.curbed.com/2018/12/14/18141017/austin-apple-incentives-taxes-city-state-county
https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/12/18/apples-new-austin-campus-won-by-41m-in-incentives
https://www.wired.com/story/how-amazon-apple-google-played-tax-break-game/
rabbijill, to apple I signed this, along with more than 160 Jewish leaders calling on #apple #disney #google & #amazon to stop doing business on Twitter. I encourage others to leave that platform & stop giving Musk any legitimacy by your presence. #antisemitism https://www.xouthate.org/
jwildeboer, to apple Yes, #Apple will demote WebApps to bookmarks on iOS 17.4 in the EU. Yes, they claim the EU is to blame. And no, that is not true IMHO. What is right is that under the DMA (Digital Market Access) rules WebApps could become a real escape route for Apps to avoid the Apple App Store tax. So better to close that possible loophole and blame the evil EU. IMHO. Reminds me a lot of the Cookie Banner stuff. Same story. Same blame game.
jwildeboer, Apple can rely on the tech media and social networks algorithms to blow this out of proportion with people fighting over „Apple is evil“ and „Apple is always right“ while both sides will unconsciously support the wrong „The EU is evil“ argument. And THAT is what the spindoctors want you to believe.
jwildeboer, (edited ) Ask yourself. If it really was EU regulations, why is this action from Apple limited to iOS? Why is it not announced nor implemented on MacOS and IpadOS at the same time?
vga256, to apple so this is a bit wild
i've got an oldie iPad 2 running iOS 9.3.5. this has some expired root certificates which results in several apps not working properly. Plex will load, but it won't be able to negotiate with your plex server, for instance.
since apple doesn't offer new iOS updates for it (with refreshed certificates).. it seemed like i was kinda stuck.
as it turns out, and is documented nowhere aside from a post on reddit, you can manually download your own root certificate - and iOS lets you install it without complaint.
if you're on an ancient iOS device, just point its Safari browser to this url: https://letsencrypt.org/certs/isrgrootx1.der
tap Install when prompted - and you've got working certificates again!
this just breathed new life into a 10+ year old iPad, which will become a bedtime plex viewer.
rhoot, @vga256 It is documented, just in the old Apple documentation, not clearly enough, and it's way too hard to find. https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/qa/qa1948/_index.html
If you scroll down a bit there's a section named "Installing a CA's Root Certificate on Your Test Device". I went through that last year when adding my own root cert to all my devices. IIRC only the Apple Configurator method worked then.
routinehub,
pschiller, to apple A very exciting day today at #Apple #WWDC23 I hope you can watch our event
https://www.apple.com/apple-events/
scottearle, @pschiller have a good one!
gc_headtech, @pschiller on site and ready #WWDC23
saili, to apple Apple is not your friend. The company that used the governments to become a monopoly, is now crying because the government told them to allow iPhone users to install applications from other sources.
We live in a world where we need government regulations to allow us to run whatever code we want on our computers.
Oh and stop calling it 'side loading'. It's just called 'installing software'. 😪
bowreality, @promovicz @hukl @saili I care about my phone and since it’s not clear how optional or not this is going to be I am stating I do NOT want side loading or whatever it’s called. I didn’t want USB-C either but I got no choice now!
promovicz, @bowreality @hukl @saili Why should it not be optional? Even Google took that step. My preference is for open vendor-lock - give users alternatives. All will be well in your version of the story.
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Gargron, to apple If #Apple continues on this path I’m going to have to switch back to Android. The idea that they deserve a fee from developers for people simply running programs on their operating system is unhinged. The App Store fee is justified because it’s a distribution channel. But whatever this is, is nonsense.
Hobbs, @Gargron what about the cost of developing all the developer facing api’s?
josh, @Gargron do it. Android is better now anyway
quadra700, to apple Sends other UNIX boxes to /dev/null. On of my favorite #Apple ads. #retrocomputing #vintageapple
devnull, @quadra700 UNSUBSCRIBE
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wossman, @quadra700 That OS X is one baaaadddd mammajamma! 😎
settern, to apple Yo: Our Apple Vision Pro programs are now live 🎉
Come test out your #visionOS app at one of our labs and check out Vision Pro for yourself. Or — if you have a really great idea and need more time with hardware to make it reality — apply for a developer kit!
jamesthomson, @alistairlogie @settern I certainly appreciate the thought :)
andresmh, @settern our lab at Princeton will apply. We’d like to port this iOS AR app for kids to the headset https://ar.cs.princeton.edu/capybara.html
applsec, to apple 📣 EMERGENCY UPDATES 📣
Apple pushed updates for 3 new zero-days that may have been actively exploited.
🐛 CVE-2023-32434 (Kernel):
- macOS Big Sur 11.7.8
- macOS Monterey 12.6.7
- watchOS 8.8.1
- watchOS 9.5.2
- iOS and iPadOS 16.5.1
- macOS Ventura 13.4.1
- iOS and iPadOS 15.7.7
🐛 CVE-2023-32439 (WebKit):
- iOS and iPadOS 16.5.1
- macOS Ventura 13.4.1
- iOS and iPadOS 15.7.7
🐛 CVE-2023-32435 (WebKit):
- iOS and iPadOS 15.7.7
davemark, to apple 😮
OG Macintosh team will gather today at the Computer History Museum to talk about the Mac at 40.All star cast:
Bill Atkinson, Steve Capps, Andy Cunningham, Andy Hertzfeld, Bruce Horn, Susan Kare, Dan’l Lewin, Mike Murray, Chris Espinosa, Guy Kawasaki, Steven Levy, and David Pogue.
It'll be live on-line, register for a free virtual ticket here, scroll to the bottom of the page (pass it along)...
https://computerhistory.org/events/insanely-great
#Apple #Macintosh #History
chucker, @the5thColumnist @davemark sort of. Portrait screens for the Mac became a big thing a few years later. For example:
JsonCulverhouse, @sb @the5thColumnist @davemark The Radius display hooked up to the Macintosh Plus it was pretty ingenious how they did it. Here is a video where someone hooked up a display board to a HDMI monitor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slY_F1MxGlk&t=18s
jenni, to apple OMG i just learned something mindblowing with SF Symbols. You can create a custom symbol and combine it with other symbols and badges 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
jenni, @alpennec for what it’s worth, I’m using these for a project and someone in real life showed me. But maybe they saw your thing?
jenni, German
shac, to apple Ten years ago today #Apple launched the #iPhone 5S and announced the #arm64 CPU inside. It was the first public disclosure of a 64-bit ARM architecture, and it was available for you to buy in a phone. Nobody else was even close to having a chip ready to tape out, much less put in a product, and it was a performance monster.
shac, For many of us it was the culmination of years of effort creating this chip and porting all of our software to it. I was working on the kernel and EL3 monitor. When we started we had no compiler, no assembler, no debugger, and really no documentation and the ISA still in flux. Someone wrote a macro-based assembler. Code gen bugs were a huge problem as clang was adding support. LLDB never caught up so someone on my team did a port of GDB.
shac, @dougall The ISA was designed by Arm. It was commissioned by Apple to align with its microarchitecture goals. Other customers were involved in the design process. I have little insight into their contribution, but Apple was clearly doing the driving in the early years.
Double size pointers hurt us a lot. It was about 15% increase in heap usage IIRC. But TBI pointer tagging was a big perf gain for ObjC and JavaScript.
pluralistic, to apple #RightToRepair has no cannier, more dedicated adversary than #apple whose most innovative work is dreaming up new ways to sneakily sabotage repair while claiming to be a caring environmental steward, a lie that covers up the mountains of #ewaste that Apple dooms our descendants to wade through.
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/22/vin-locking/#thought-differently
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mikeloukides, @janxdevil @pluralistic Well, yeah. Many years ago, the burglar alarm on our car went off when we leaving a shopping center. The problem? Our car didn't have a burglar alarm. But it wouldn't let us drive it away. AAA came, and said "all these cars have a burglar alarm, it's just disabled by a jumper that they remove if you pay for it. And it's fairly common for that jumper to fail, enabling the alarm on a car that doesn't have one."
gnemmi, @pluralistic no other "ad-hoc" law has ever laid such a solid foundation for the fictional creation of a monopolistic market so heavily concentrated in such a small group of corporations. The #DMCA is, without a doubt, the most extreme legal expression of an anti competitive market ever passed.
Understanding that the #DMCA is the most harmful piece of legislation ever passed against consumers and free and competitive market as a whole is paramount.
parismarx, to apple Apple fans are reporting headaches and burst blood vessels as they bring back the Vision Pro before their 14-day return window closes.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/14/24072792/apple-vision-pro-early-adopters-returns
dhinojosa, @parismarx iHemorrhage?
karlsson_goku, @parismarx these creep me out so much. the other day i was driving car and some asshole teenager crossed the road wearing those, staring at me, i assume filming me while provoking an accident and farming my reaction.
tomayac, to apple So, what exactly did Apple break in the EU 🇪🇺? A new blog post in which I analyze the current situation for Home Screen Web Apps on iOS 17.4 in the European Union.
https://blog.tomayac.com/2024/02/so-what-exactly-did-apple-break-in-the-eu.md/
niutech, @tomayac The rules doesn't say anything specific about PWA support (standalone mode, push notifications, isolated storage), which points are worrisome? Web browser vendors like Google should have enough resources to provide Chrome for iOS based on Blink with support for PWAs even with these strict rules.
tomayac, @niutech The fact of having to maintain two apps alone for EU/non-EU is painful, especially since the EU app will need Apple/iOS integrations (as per the rules) that the non-EU variant doesn't.
ashleygjovik, to apple I was noticing many weird, histrionic posts from the Apple blogs about an ex-employee being convicted of a federal crime - but always smearing the employee about worrying about Apple spying on him. Many posts also called it a "short trial." I got curious.
PACER showed a 21 month long trial, across two states, with over 180 docket entries. Motions to suppress evidence exposed the FBI illegally spied on the employee, illegally searched his property, & illegally arrested him -at referral of Apple.
A federal jury has convicted a former #Apple software engineer for threatening to injure FBI agents after a short trial.👀
image of docket
ashleygjovik, The employee was attempting to report alleged misconduct by Apple & claimed he had evidence
In June 2022, FBI tracked the employee (via illegal surveillance) to Alabama, & sent a Marshal to arrest him
FBI then got an illegal search warrant for employee's Tesla where they seized "over 21 electronic devices, including laptops, smart watches, thumb drives, & external hard drives."
Despite the illegal seizure, the FBI refused to return the devices for over 15 months or say what they did with them
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ashleygjovik, @flowerpot Yeah they kind of Barbara Streisand Effect'ed their own cover-up with their absolutely wild behavior on this one. Honestly I probably would have never looked into it if they didn't also get Apple blogs to shamelessly smear him over the last 48 hours. They're bad at cover-ups.
pluralistic, to apple They seem nice
(Watch my @defcon talk at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rimtaSgGz_4)
(support @eff at https://supporters.eff.org/donate/j)
#Apple #Defcon #TechnologicalSelfDetermination #Hatemail #enshittification
angusm, @valkyrie @pluralistic @defcon @eff Has someone already taken "Pebcak Fuck” as a band name? Because if not …
wendynather, @jferg @simplenomad @pluralistic Just want you all to know that I received many compliments on my hoodie at a conference (click to see the glorious part)
dimillian, to apple Meet @IceCubesApp for the Vision Pro! It's available on day one as a fully native experience tailored for the #visionOS. And this is just the beginning. Maybe one day, it’ll become the best way to browse Mastodon!
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ice-cubes-for-mastodon/id6444915884?platform=appleVisionPro
nevarro, German @dimillian @IceCubesApp Promise me you‘ll still push updates for @IceCubesApp when Apple is finally able to offer real subtle AR glasses with Apple Watch like battery life. 😉
bekz, German
Kirkman, to apple
Kirkman,
Kirkman, Several people have asked about text size.
My "Dynamic Type" is set just below middle, and "Display Zoom" is "Larger Text".
Changing "Display Zoom" to "Default" reduces the effects, but the root problem persists. Scores still overlap. Team names still spill out of their containing boxes. etc, etc.
I wish the #UI was responsive. When screen size is small, or type is big, move side-by-side elements into stacks.
#Apple should account for its settings and device sizes.
Screenshot shows the Apple Sports app with "display zoom" set to "default."
parismarx, to apple Apple is cutting Vision Pro production as it fails to meet sales targets.
Analysts expected it to sell 700-800k units in 2024, but it could now be as low as 400k. A lower cost model could now be pushed beyond 2025, if it ever arrives.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/23/24138487/apple-vision-pro-cut-shipment-forecast-kuo-rumor
mrcompletely, @parismarx turns out the expensive bullshit no one actually needs market is yet another zero interest rate phenomenon at best
paezha, More proof that the metaverse was an idiotic idea from the start
blablalinux, to apple French
tero, to apple "Just like Apple, Meta is behaving as though the #DMA permits it to carry on its worst behavior, with minor cosmetic tweaks around the margins. Just like #Apple, #Meta is daring the #EU to enforce its democratically enacted laws, implicitly promising to pit its billions against #Europe’s institutions to preserve its right to spy on us."
Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead" | #ElectronicFrontierFoundation https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/big-tech-eu-drop-dead