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Apple’s Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA
Jess Weatherbed: It’s been 16 months since a DMA ruling allowed iOS developers like Google and Mozilla to use their own browser engines in the EU, so… where are they? Open Web Advocacy (Hacker News): Apple’s compliance did not start well. Faced with the genuine possibility of third-party browsers effectively powering web apps, Apple’s first […]
Upgrading an M4 Pro Mac Mini’s Storage for Half the Price
Jeff Geerling (via Hacker News): I documented the entire upgrade—along with taking my old M4 mini 1TB SSD and putting it in my Dad’s M4 mini—in today’s video[…][…]Speaking of standards… you have to do a full DFU (Device Firmware Update) restore, because unlike conventional M.2 NVMe storage, the M4 uses a proprietary connector, a proprietary-sized […]
utiluti 1.2
Armin Briegel: I have also released an update to my CLI tool to set default apps for urls and file types (uniform type identifiers/UTI). utiluti 1.2 adds a manage verb which can read a list of default app assignments from plist files or a configuration profile. You can see the documentation for the new manage […]
Gatekeeper Change in macOS 15.4
Jeff Johnson (Mastodon): On macOS 15.2, I was able to drag the exact same downloaded WebP file to TextEdit and BBEdit with no Gatekeeper alert! Thus, it appears that the Reddit poster was correct, and something did change recently.[…]I perused the unusually long Apple support document About the security content of macOS Sequoia 15.4, but […]