Just to clarify one thing, to preempt someone saying Apple did this on purpose to kill off Hackintosh: they didnt. Apple never cared about Hackintosh scene, its entirely irrelevant to their business. They did what they should be doing, improving the macOS codebase. Its always a good thing to remove obsolete and deprecated code thus Apple is doing the right thing for their product.
Source: Hackintosh is (almost) dead
If these same people put the same amount of effort into improving desktop Linux, I wonder how different the world would be…
]]>The full reasons for this are beyond the scope of the post; for the purposes of this post, it’s sufficient to note that slow pages are often super-linearly slow as devices get slower and that slowness on one page doesn’t strongly predict slowness on another page.
While you can get into trouble with HTML pages that are so large that browsers can’t really handle them, for pages with a normal amount of content, it generally isn’t until you have complex CSS payloads or JS that the pages start causing problems for slow devices.
Source: How web bloat impacts users with slow devices
So… how do we learn from this and move forward?
]]>There are some circumstances where government officials are allowed to block people from commenting on their social media pages, the Supreme Court ruled Friday.
The ruling suggests that government officials can block people from commenting on personal social media pages where they discuss official business when that speech cannot be attributed to the state and merely reflects personal remarks.
Because SCOTUS did not set a clear standard, officials risk liability when blocking followers on so-called “Mixed use” social media pages, SCOTUS cautioned.
Source: Public officials can block haters–but only sometimes, SCOTUS rules
]]>The upholsterer proceeded to lecture me, in a helpful, passionate, and sometimes kindly manner, about how sofas made in the past 15 years or so are absolute garbage, constructed of sawdust compressed and bonded with cheap glue, simple brackets in place of proper joinery, substandard spring design, flimsy foam, and a lot of staples.
The big change in shipping logistics came when furniture manufacturers developed new ways of deconstructing and flat-packing their product, allowing sofas to be shipped via regular carriers, both more cheaply and more quickly.
“It’s almost like these are the 501 of furniture.” The neutral or muted colors, unadorned wooden legs, and simple shapes have become the baseline for sofas.
Source: Why Are (Most) Sofas So Bad?
Huh
]]>It’s impossible to overstate the impact of Akira Toriyama, the legendary manga artist and character designer who has been working in the manga industry since 1978. His death at 68 years old has thousands around the world mourning his loss.
Source: Akira Toriyama, The Dragon Ball, Dragon Quest, And Chrono Trigger Artist That Inspired The World
What a loss
]]>At work, one of the things I do pretty often is write print generators in HTML to recreate and replace forms that the company has traditionally done handwritten on paper or in Excel. This allows the company to move into new web-based tools where the form is autofilled by URL parameters from our database, while getting the same physical output everyone’s familiar with.
This article explains some of the CSS basics that control how your webpages look when printed, and a couple of tips and tricks I’ve learned that might help you out.
Source: CSS for printing to paper
]]>Entirely expected, but no less unconscionable. Banking applications, government ID services, and now even messaging platforms – all entirely crucial functions in the very fabric of society and government that we’re just handing over to two ruthless abusive companies. It’s simply no longer possible to function in many modern societies without having either a blessed Android device, or an iPhone, since any other platform will often lock you out of crucial functionality that you need to function in today’s world.
Source: Google Messages is blocking RCS texts on rooted Android phones – OSnews
]]>MethaneSAT, a new satellite, is set to launch on a SpaceX rocket to monitor methane emissions globally. Developed by the Environmental Defense Fund, it will use a high-resolution infrared sensor and spectrometer to detect methane from oil and gas sites. MethaneSAT aims to cover 80-90% of global oil and gas production, enhancing leak detection and accountability. The satellite’s data will be public.
Source: How MethaneSAT Will Track an Invisible Climate Menace From Space
Also, a reminder that there are other sources of methane. Please consider reducing your consumption of animal products.
]]>Whenever Microsoft offers a way or an API to run and/or develop applications for Windows, and it isnt Win32, you can be certain theyre going to kill it within a few years.
Source: Microsoft kills Windows Subsystem for Android - OSnews
]]>After a few weeks of internet drama, Apple has responded to complaints about the death of Progressive Web Apps in the European Union and is restoring them to how they worked in iOS 17.3 and before.
Source: Progressive Web Apps in EU will work fine in iOS 17.4
Probably not the last we hear of this
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