20 août
iOS and MacOS recently started parsing media codec parameter sets in the kernel, leading to bugs like this bugs.chromium.org
19 août
Apple spent years encouraging apps to embed web browsers instead of opening Safari. Most notably, I remember at one point they rejected apps that implemented OAuth flows through Safari. Congratulations for giving users the worst expectations. twitter.com
🔥 New Post: Announcing InAppBrowser - see what JavaScript commands get injected through an in-app browser
👀 TikTok, when opening any website in their app, injects tracking code that can monitor all keystrokes, including passwords, and all taps.
18 août
🚨ATTENTION🚨
Apple found two 0-days actively in use that could effectively give attackers full access to device.
For most folks: update software by end of day
If threat model is elevated (journalist, activist, targeted by nation states, etc): update now techcrunch.com
17 août
You can supposedly disable Core Sync in System Preferences / Extensions. That doesn’t seem to prevent the actual binary from restarting after a force-quit and immediately respawning FORTY-ONE THREADS (but it doesn’t seem to be hogging the CPU anymore).
Just Creative Cloud’s sync utility emptying my battery over a few hours while I’m otherwise doing nothing, just running a few prompts over Discord.
I haven’t added, edited, or removed files from Adobe’s cloud storage in months, and I never intend to.
TIL that you can combine 3D pen and oven-bake clay in the same sculpture, since the plastic melts at a much higher temperature youtube.com I’m not even sure it’s all that beneficial compared to using only clay, but I still want a 3D pen anyway.
Vu comme je suis épuisé avec seulement une demi-heure d’elliptique alors qu’il ne fait pas horriblement chaud, j’ai encore dû faire une rechute, soit de long covid, soit de vieillesse.
À Edinburgh 🏴, vous recevez une amende si votre voiture dépasse des places de parking. C’est une manière très maligne de lutter contre les énormes SUV qui encombrent l’espace public. 🚘 twitter.com
My heart bleeds for Edinburgh city centre SUV owners whose enormous vehicles do not fit in parking spaces and hence get tickets.
Je viens d’apprendre une info qui m’obsède : la station Balard tient son nom de Antoine-Jérôme Balard, inventeur du Poppers.
I finished Blood of Elves yesterday and it’s nice that the gross objectification of women was almost gone.
I’ve been listening to the Witcher audiobooks and every time I’m surprised by how good they are, yet when I’m done I never feel in a hurry to start the next one. I guess it’s hard to tell how much of that is the narrator, though.
4/ Et elles peuvent être rapidement bouchés par des déchets jetés par les usagers. D’où un entretien constant.
(J’ai fait un stage dans le service RATP qui entretient ses pompes lors de mon DUT 👍😋).
16 août
When you institutionally have no taste — almost by design — and you think you can pivot to creating environments for people to live in twitter.com
Trying to put all my Meta biases aside, I just cannot fathom how ugly this looks. They’re betting the company on this?! twitter.com
it’s going to be great when you have to do the same thing to get your robot boss to approve annual leave. “I need time off work next week union workers rights European vacation”
creating digital art involves memorising by rote a list of shibboleths that must be incanted to trick the computer into generating the desired effect
C’était bien la peine de refaire l’électricité de l’appartement si c’était pour qu’elle saute dans tout le quartier.
There’s a lot to take in here, but it is wild to me that the takeaway by the exec is to change focus away from what the demographic they want to keep is watching. twitter.com
in absolute hysterics at this paragraph deadline.com
15 août
Like remember when each version of Adobe Creative Suite had to be better because if it wasn’t you could just sit on your existing version and Adobe wouldn’t see a dime from you until they fixed their mess
Finder’s “Keep Both” button randomly disappearing right as I’ve developed a workflow that relies on it 🤬
Can’t make head or tails of what triggers this — I ended up moving the files one by one and “Keep Both” was available for each. Most times, it works just fine on batches.
One of my fav TikTok things is people discovering the insane VJ’s we employ for our pharmacies in Europe
How did we let the printer market get do bad? arstechnica.com
An Aztec temple, the largest man-made pyramid in the world, sits buried in earth with a Spanish church set on top. atlasobscura.com
14 août
Effet inattendu du traitement TDAH : l’envie d’écouter des podcasts pendant que je travaille — avant, c’était forcément de la musique sans paroles pour ne pas me distraire. Mais j’ai fini les archives de tous les podcasts d’actual play dont le groupe n’est pas insupportable 😒
Context and source, since the tweets captured seem too absurd to be real: businessinsider.com twitter.com
Elon Musk is one of the founders of OpenAI, creators of DALL·E. They poured a billion dollars into pushing us towards a future of automated art built off the backs of countless artists who will never benefit from it.
13 août
Y’a pas à dire, Imvanex, ça tape carrément plus en version officielle que celui expiré et réchauffé de la mairie de Paris #FeverDreams
This photo is bringing back sensory memories twitter.com
12 août
Ooh, Sublime Text displays non-breaking spaces in source code as hexadecimal entities 😍
(This is a mostly azerty-specific issue — brackets and curly braces are hidden behind the Alt key, which results in frequent parsing errors due to accidental non-breaking spaces.)
I could try and tolerate changing my preferences for a code editor in a json file, but at least put a goddamn font picker in there so I don’t have to guess what weird name you’ll manage to recognize.
Quand tu ne sais pas si tu es malade à cause du vaccin d’hier ou si tu as juste encore mangé quelque chose que tu n’aurais pas dû
one last dispatch from hell: Amazon’s MGM Television Studios is producing a show using Amazon’s Ring surveillance camera footage. It’s also produced by the company behind “Live PD”, a copaganda reality TV show that just got rebooted. vice.com
