George Mari @GeorgeMari@qoto.org

Here we go 🚀

6 chapters, 14 pages, hundreds of features covered...

My iOS and iPadOS 18 review is now live on MacStories!

I did something different for my 10th annual review: in the age of generative AI, I hired a real artist to illustrate it instead.

It's my most personal review ever. I'm proud of it – especially the conclusion.

Enjoy. ❤️

https://www.macstories.net/stories/ios-and-ipados-18-the-macstories-review/

You may have heard of vantablack, the blackest substance invented. Well, Trader Joe’s is now selling the whitest substance ever invented

Hurricane #Francine is on initial approach to Louisiana this morning as a high-end cat 1 hurricane. Conditions will deteriorate on the Louisiana coast through Mississippi today. An update on what to expect across the region in our AM post: https://theeyewall.com/hurricane-francine-on-initial-approach-to-louisiana-this-morning/

“Greenlink West opens up vast areas of remote biodiverse deserts, Joshua tree habitats, sensitive sage grouse habitats, and forested basin and range landscapes to large-scale energy development, without balancing conservation needs,” said Laura Cunningham of WWP. “This represents a failure of the new public lands rule which was supposed to balance industrial extraction and development with conservation. We are very disappointed in the Interior Department.” https://www.westernwatersheds.org/2024/09/new-transmission-line-ensures-destructive-energy-development-on-great-basins-public-lands/

What if Sun Microsystems released a Zune digital media player?

I just boosted this but a bunch of my followers don't see boosts and this post from the esteemed @robpike is *important*.

https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2017/02/the-power-of-role-models.html

This is how it's done.

This is a proposal to expand the tried tl;dr standard for further usecases.

The authors propose

pw;dr - paywall; didn't read
ai;dr - ai, didn't read

This is a draft.

Professional at work

Last month, I heard from a U.S. veteran who had agreed to take a series of surveys from the U.S Department of Veterans Affairs regarding their attitudes about sharing health data. Participants were promised $50 in gift cards from the VA if they completed the surveys.

The reader was reaching out because he'd indeed received 5 $10 CVS gift cards in the mail via the VA, but all of them had zero balances when he checked them online.

The VA sent out a message to participating vets, saying that "due to a hacking issue with the CVS system, there is a chance the cards you receive may be less than $50 total value."

Another message from the VA's Timothy Hogan referenced "a hacking issue within the CVS system that may have affected the gift cards we sent in appreciation for completing a Veteran Affairs Patient Survey on how Veterans share their health data."

CVS has not responded to many requests for comment or clarification over the past two weeks. Like I don't exist.

Welp, I wonder how this experience has affected veteran attitudes about sharing data?

Why doomscroll when you could read "DRM scheduling cgroup controller" by Tvrtko Ursulin? https://blogs.igalia.com/tursulin/drm-scheduling-cgroup-controller/ 🧠

Our latest video, exploring subsidies for fossil fuels and EVs is now live for patreons!

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Why not join them and get early access!

i have a bookmarks folder just of @internetarchive links to stuff i want to watch/listen/read. it's such an invaluable resource.

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As a Blind person i never thought i would be on social media savoring photos. But the communal Mastodon alt text game is so strong that sweet, poetic or silly descriptions abound on my timeline. Thanks to legions of people who take time to write a meaningful description of the ephemera they post, i learn so much about insects, plants, buildings, memes — all dispatches from a dimension of the world that i otherwise wouldn't experience. If you're wondering whether anybody reads these things: YES.

I recently saw an amazing Navajo rug at the National Gallery of Art. It looks abstract at first, but it is a detailed representation of the Intel Pentium processor. Called "Replica of a Chip", it was created in 1994 by Marilou Schultz, a Navajo/Diné weaver and math teacher. Intel commissioned the weaving as a gift to the American Indian Science & Engineering Society. 1/6

Sub.club is here to help the fediverse make money https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/1/24232298/sub-club-fediverse-make-money

Years ago, I created a bot that posted Sun Tzu quotes, if Sun Tzu had written about cyber war. When X closed up API access that bot broke, and it never was high on my list of priorities to bring here. Well, I just fixed that. May I introduce you to @SunTzuCyber, which posts hourly. The posts are set up as unlisted/quiet public, so they won't show up in timelines unless you follow it.

In case you haven't seen it yet, the NSA just a few days ago released a 42 year old lecture given in secret by the amazing Grace Hopper. https://www.nsa.gov/Press-Room/Press-Releases-Statements/Press-Release-View/Article/3884041/nsa-releases-copy-of-internal-lecture-delivered-by-computing-giant-rear-adm-gra/

Serious question: How is increasing the minimum wage to at least $15/hour “socialism,” but corporations keeping wages low and forcing workers onto public assistance the free market?

Hi folks, my team is starting early discussions for internships for next year. If you are a student interested in working on App Intents, Apple Intelligence, and the Shortcuts infrastructure that powers it, drop me a DM please! Note that unfortunately we cannot help with immigration for folks outside the US. The position is local to Cupertino, CA.