Reading List
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M4 Macs Can’t Virtualize Older macOS
Howard Oakley: Running a macOS VM for any version before 13.4 Ventura on an M4 Mac results in a black screen, and the VM fails to boot. This is true whatever settings are used in the virtualiser, even if it’s set to boot the VM in Recovery mode. It’s also true when that VM has […]
Lawsuit to Reveal Wikipedia Editors
Glyn Moody: As Techdirt stories attest, Wikipedia has been attacked in the past for publishing true information that somebody doesn’t like. As well as wanting articles to be censored, those behind such attacks often also demand the names of those who worked on the article. Something similar is now happening in India, where the Indian […]
Firefox at 20
Kevin Purdy (Hacker News): Back in June 2002, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth was experiencing space for the first time, the Department of Justice’s antitrust case against Microsoft was reaching its final arguments, and Adam Price, using what was then called Mozilla on a Mac, had an issue with persistent tooltips.That relic is no more, as […]
The State of Mozilla
Bryan Lunduke (via Hacker News): The Mozilla Foundation has released their latest annual report -- covering the time up through December of 2022 (Mozilla’s reporting always lags by one year) -- and something peculiar leaps out of the data:The compensation of the Mozilla CEO has skyrocketed (by millions)While the Mozilla revenue dropsAnd the Firefox Marketshare […]
Final Cut Pro 11 for Mac
Apple (MacRumors, MacStories): In Final Cut Pro 11, editors can access two all-new AI-powered tools: Magnetic Mask and Transcribe to Captions. With Magnetic Mask, editors can effortlessly isolate people and objects in a video clip without the need for a green screen or more time-consuming rotoscoping. This powerful and precise automatic analysis provides additional flexibility […]