Telegram Ads
So Telegram now has ads. But unlike the ads from Google, Facebook or Apple, the ads are not personalized and much more privacy friendly. The ads simply consist of a maximum 160-character message with no external links and are displayed only in large public channels. ⌘ Read more

New, spooky, multi-retro-platform text adventure released!
Apple II, C64, DOS, Linux, Windows… with a community port to Amiga! ⌘ Read more

Now talking about macOS on Apple Silicone, and how the OS takes advantage of what the M1MAX has to offer.

The GPU that comes in the SoC seems incredible, even hard to believe. Apple is doing magic here.

Look at the specs on Apple. Jaw dropping.

Third generation of AirPods. So, new AirPods. Read more at Apple. 😂

New subscription plan for Apple Music: Voice Plan. Available for many countries. Using Siri to access songs. Meh.

Talking about Apple Music and Siri.

Apple Event for 18 October 2021, 10:00 PDT, 13:00 EDT begins. Commentary will stream as replies to this twt. I might miss things here and there, as I will also be on a work meeting from 13:00 to 14:00 EDT.

Apple Store online down before today’s event. Less than two hours till it goes live!

@prologic@twtxt.net I am thinking on calling in sick to work. 😂 Every time I order an iPhone, I take the day off on delivery day. On Apple events I normally use my lunch and break times all combined, to watch them.

Apple’s event on Monday is bringing, as always, speculation to the table. One thing most outlets seem to agree is the introduction of an “M1X” chip, thought Apple might call it differently. M1X might also mean, M1(we don’t know what comes after, or next generation). Either way, I would really like to see the return of the 27” iMac, but I will not hold my breath. Nevertheless, Monday is going to be an exciting day for many, including me! 🍎

If I worked for Apple, and had decision making on acquisitions, I would buy Lux, the makers of Halide. I mean, look at this!

“Join us for a special event.” Unleashed 😯

** How to install Uxn on macOS **
Uxn is an esoteric stack-machine with 32 bit instructions. It exists someplace at the intersection of a GameBoy, 6502 ASM, an Apple II, Forth, RetroForth, the z80, a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, and“what if Nausicaä from Studio Ghibli’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind used a computer?” It is tiny, unlike most anything else around these days, and, once you wrap your head around it, pretty fun.

I won’t go into how to develop for it … ⌘ Read more

I typed in “trenta” (Starbucks for “XL”) into my iPhone and it didn’t recognize it as a real word. Does Apple not understand its primary audience?

You miss Apple livestream tweeting? DON’T WORRY I GOTCHU AGAIN FAM

Snikket: Snikket iOS app now publicly released
This is the announcement many people have been waiting for since the project
began!

Opinions are often strong about which is the best mobile operating system.
However, while it varies by region and demographic, wherever you are it’s very
likely that you have Apple users in your life, even if you don’t use one
yourself. We want to ensure that the platform you use (by choice or otherwise)
is not a barrier to secure and decentralized communication wit … ⌘ Read more

Apple: “Designed in California, Assembled in China, Purchased by You, Owned by Us.” https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/all-seeing-i

Monal IM: Monal 5.0.1: Synchronized builds and bugfixes
We have released Monal in version 5.0.1 which contains mostly corrections and small improvements. Now the iOS and macOS builds are also synchronized and available in the Apple App Store.

Here are the changes in this release:

• Show warning if camera permissions are missing while trying to use camera
  
• Fixed duplication … ⌘ Read more

A screenshot of a very tiny c program written on System7

I’ve got to use macOS by nature of my work. Lately I’m increasingly down on this. Here I will not re-hash anything about the current state of Apple’s hardware and software ecosystem. I don’t care.

Wanting to take a trip down nostolgia lane, however (to when I was 2 years old) I thought I’d install Mac OS System 7. What follows is a quick guide for doing the sa … ⌘ Read more

How does Mail Privacy cloak my location? Does it proxy my e-mail through Apple?

Released: Docker Desktop for Mac [Apple Silicon] ⌘ Read more…

New Docker Desktop Preview for Apple M1 Released ⌘ Read more…

Apple Growers ⌘ Read more…

Monal IM: Mac 4.9 beta out with Apple Silicon support ⌘ https://monal.im/blog/mac-4-9-beta-out-with-apple-silicon-support/

Apple Silicon M1 Chips and Docker ⌘ https://www.docker.com/blog/apple-silicon-m1-chips-and-docker/

Google and Apple’s Contact-Tracing API Doesn’t Work on Public Transport, Study Finds ⌘ http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/ybZ7PwoWVRs/google-and-apples-contact-tracing-api-doesnt-work-on-public-transport-study-finds

The XMPP Standards Foundation: XMPP bites into the apple! ⌘ https://xmpp.org/2020/09/newsletter-09-september/

Wait, removing the power adapter from Apple Watch? How do you charge the thing? Someone else’s Qi charger?

Apple Watch and iPad today. OK, one out of two ain’t bad.

On the blog: Real Life in Star Trek, The Apple https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/09/10/apple.html #scifi #startrek #closereading

@mdosch@mdosch.de Oh wow. I thought Apple was the only org out there shipping zsh by default. What was their rationale for not defaulting to bash?

Apple Photos and photo captions ⌘ https://hack.org/mc/blog/apple-photos.html

The Real Cause of the Sign In with Apple Zero-Day ⌘ https://aaronparecki.com/2020/05/31/30/the-real-cause-of-the-sign-in-with-apple-zero-day

Evidence against “Apple wants to position the iPad as a proper computer”: ⌘⌫ does not delete a currently-being-viewed message.

Massive piles of implementation bugs notwithstanding, See (on Apple TV+) is pretty neat if you’re into worldbuilding like I am.

@sixbitproxywax@sixbitproxywax.com if I didn’t livetxt Apple presentations, one-per-decade would probably be enough for me. However…I might just get lazy and chop them up into one-per-decade things anyway.

@kas@enotty.dk doesn’t seem like a bad idea. I suppose I should do that one day too eventually, but I haven’t livetweeted enough Apple events to bloat my file to where I’d want to bother.

#Apple of 2019 is the #Linux of 2000: https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2019/10/apple-of-2019-is-linux-of-2000.html?m=1

@mdosch@mdosch.de Apple refuses to ship GPLv3 software. bash has security bugs that Apple doesn’t want to backport. So they’ve switched default shells again, this time to zsh. (bash and the previous default, tcsh, still ship with the OS.)

This won’t get me a “Dear Mr. Cook” mention in an Apple event, but I thought it was pretty cool to be able to use my iPad in the kitchen without touching it. Voice Control is pretty good.

@adiabetic@www.frogorbits.com I think my pulse would be high a lot of times if using iOS. I hear of so many problems from #xmpp devs fighting iOS and push. Not having a reliable chat app due to apples design constraints would really piss me off.

How can you tell when an Apple fan is dead tired? He blanks out when prompted for his Apple ID.

That looks like my local Apple Store. I wonder how similar the normal ones are to each other.

4K TV on Apple computers? Finally.

OK, Sign In With Apple…almost seems neat. Of course, Apple is relaying e-mail for you…

https://www.apple.com/apple-events/livestream/ doesn’t even support dark mode. Sad!

@adiabetic@www.frogorbits.com I am strongly refusing to use Apple products but for different reasons. But I wouldn’t consider anything except a computer or a console appropriate for gaming. Pads and phones might be for casual games but not for gaming.

Apple’s HQ, Ruskin, Gothic Architecture, and Agile – zwischenzugs https://zwischenzugs.com/2019/04/12/apples-hq-ruskin-gothic-architecture-and-agile/