Imgur TOS Update (2021, via Hacker News): No nudity or sexually explicit content. Provocative, inflammatory, unsettling, or suggestive content should be marked as Mature. No hate speech, abuse or harassment. No content that condones illegal or violent activity. Connor Jones (Hacker News): The UK’s data watchdog has described Imgur’s move to block UK users as […]

Rosyna Keller: I wholly and utterly believe in the principle behind Apple’s App Tracking Transparency initiative. I therefore consider anything that is both uniquely tied to a user andavailable when “Allow Apps to Request to Track“ is disabled to be a gross violation of the spirit of App Tracking Transparency.[…]While Apple has fixed 3-4 (search […]

Mike Isaac (PDF): Practically overnight, a class of companies like SerpApi — known as “data scrapers” — found a new business selling data scraped from Google to companies looking to train their A.I. chatbots. On Wednesday, the internet message board Reddit decided to fight the data scrapers. It filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District […]

Howard Oakley: There’s a bug in Spotlight that can prevent it from indexing any of the contents of susceptible text files. This has been present since macOS 13 Ventura if not before, and is still present in Tahoe 26.0.1. […] To demonstrate this bug, all you need is a single UTF-8 plain text file, created […]

I was reminded of this post from former Nisus developer Martin Wierschin: How does does an emoji do that in text? By using a zero-width joiner character between its constituent characters. That way software knows to display all the codes together as a single glyph or image on screen. This joiner trick is used for […]