Kirk McElhearn (Bluesky, Hacker News): I use Apple News to keep up on topics that I don’t find in sources I pay for (The Guardian and The New York Times). But there’s no way I’m going to pay the exorbitant price Apple wants for Apple News+ – £13 – because, while you get more publications, […]

Colin Cornaby (Mastodon): Certain tasks have worked well for me. These tasks tend to fit the LLM model well. […] It’s probably not surprising that there is a relationship between the sunk cost fallacy and gambling. Gamblers get a huge dopamine rush when they win. Sunk cost fallacy feeds that. No matter how much they’ve […]

Mark Alldritt (Mastodon): I’ve released a new command-line tool called AEQuery. It queries scriptable macOS applications using XPath-like expressions, translating them directly into Apple Events. The short version: you describe what you want using a slash-delimited path, and AEQuery resolves the SDEF terminology, constructs the Apple Events, and returns the results as JSON. […] The […]

Howard Oakley: Time Machine had happily gone that long without backing up or warning me that it had no backup storage. […] I think this results from Time Machine’s set and forget trait, and its widespread use by laptop Macs that are often disconnected from their backup storage. […] If you do just set it […]

Rich Trouton: Using the log command line tool doesn’t require root privileges or require admin authorization, but it needs to be run by a user with admin rights. […] What this does is create a sudo configuration which allows all members of the staff group on the Mac, which is a group that has all […]