Articles by lapcat
14

Talking Liquid Glass with Apple (captainswiftui.substack.com)

29

A tech-law measurement and analysis of event listeners for wiretapping (arxiv.org)

3

Should we summarize HN submissions?

2

TextKit 2 – The Promised Land (krzyzanowskim.com)

1

Partial Example.org and Example.com Outage

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I tried to replace myself with ChatGPT in my English class (lithub.com)

1

Celebrating 20 Years of Vienna RSS (vienna-rss.com)

2

Man told to leave U.S. despite being a born-and-raised citizen (wkow.com)

25

Google Search to redirect its country level TLDs to Google.com (searchengineland.com)

4

Certificate will expire on 14 March – update Firefox to prevent add-on breakage (blog.mozilla.org)

4

How your Mac can update macOS when you don’t want it to (eclecticlight.co)

3

Beyond the Hype of AI: Machine Intelligence and the Pancake Problem (nubero.ch)

24

Google's 7-year slog to improve Chrome extensions hasn't satisfied developers (theregister.com)

2

Last Week on My Mac: A boot mystery solved? (eclecticlight.co)

4

The cod-Marxism of personalized pricing (pluralistic.net)

1

Start Charging for Browser Extensions (saasminded.dev)

3

What happens on your device, stays on your device – until it doesn't (obdev.at)

2

Apple's built-in macOS firewall breaks third-party firewalls (obdev.at)

8

HN feature request: "I read the article" checkbox

1

Spctl command line tool no longer able to manage Gatekeeper on macOS Sequoia (derflounder.wordpress.com)

1

Warning: Safari 18 extension storage data loss bug (underpassapp.com)

10

Warning: macOS Sequoia 15 may bypass DNS encryption (obdev.at)

4

iOS 18 and macOS 15 migrate passwords to Passwords app and sync to iCloud (mastodon.social)

1

macOS firewall slows DNS queries (lapcatsoftware.com)

4

My Chrome extension got a legal complaint from LinkedIn threatening removal (reddit.com)

2

Adding Trusted Types to YouTube (chrome.com)

176

AI Detectors Get It Wrong. Writers Are Being Fired Anyway (gizmodo.com)

1

268% Higher Failure Rates for Agile Software Projects, Study Finds (engprax.com)

4

Let's buy some fake reviews for a pointless Chrome extension (mattfrisbie.substack.com)

4

Fraudulent App Impersonating LastPass Currently Available in Apple App Store (lastpass.com)

1

The HTML dialog element API is a mess (lapcatsoftware.com)

2

Vision Pro, unscrambled, is "I Poison VR" (creativegood.com)

2

Apple faces 'strong action' if App Store changes fall short, EU's Breton says (reuters.com)

5

New owner of FadBlock extension added malicious code (github.com/0x48piraj)

2

PC Magazine, PC World, and Macworld's Origins, as Told by David Bunnell (technologizer.com)

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Hospitals owned by private equity are harming patients, reports find (arstechnica.com)

2

Chrome: Permanent Safety Checks, Tab Groups syncing and Memory info rolling out (ghacks.net)

4

Edge 118: updated on-page search may send data to Microsoft (ghacks.net)

2

The Tech Industry Has a New Plan to Stop Right to Repair Laws (404media.co)

6

Apple is destroying the Mac by trying to make it safer (macworld.com)

2

Apple's latest OSes switch iCloud Keychain on without user permission (defcon.social)

3

macOS 0day: App Management (lapcatsoftware.com)

249

Apple stole $100s from me, Customer Service says there's nothing they can do (reddit.com)

2

Chrome rolls out the Privacy Sandbox (cunderwood.dev)

2

American Views of Space:US Role, NASA Priorities and Impact of Private Companies (pewresearch.org)

15

Apple refused to repair my iPhone and accused me of “unauthorized modifications” (reddit.com)

5

Follow-up to Firefox 115 can silently remotely disable my extension on any site (lapcatsoftware.com)

5

Safari private browsing on iOS 17 uses Apple DNS server (defcon.social)

2

Home.social will close down on June 16th 2023 (home.social)

2

Apple discloses number of monthly active users for the App Store in Europe (9to5mac.com)

124

The dark side of the Mac App Store (privacyis1st.medium.com)

2

macOS' Rapid Security Response: Designed into a Corner (khronokernel.github.io)

5

For Lower-Income Students, Big Tech Internships Can Be Hard to Get (nytimes.com)

4

Chrome extension manifest V2 phase-out postponed until 2024 (groups.google.com)

109

Banks as collateral damage in a class war (annpettifor.substack.com)

3

Document Shows Regulators Knew of SVB Risk Five Years Ago (levernews.com)

4

SVB Chief Pressed Lawmakers to Weaken Bank Risk Regs (levernews.com)

7

Mastodon.social Hit by a DDoS Attack (mastodon.social)

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Mastodon instance mastodon.au will shutdown in 3 months time at 16 May 2023 (mastodon.au)

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Mastodon.au instance to shut down in 3 months (mastodon.au)

5

Mastodon instance mstdn.plus with over 4K users suddenly broke (lapcatsoftware.com)

3

Social Influence Bias: A Randomized Experiment (2013) (researchgate.net)

2

Apple, US developers agree to App Store updates (2021) (apple.com)

10

macOS Monterey still vulnerable to CVE-2022-40303 (lapcatsoftware.com)

1

Hide System Preferences Dock Badge (lapcatsoftware.com)

9

Has the HN API Stopped Updating?

11

Web pages can overwrite your system clipboard without your knowledge

1

Extensions API Broken in Mac Safari

2

iOS Dictation Is Dickish

4

Twitter crypto spam bots copy real tweets to appear real