Today the rat met the bear

#OverUnder 073 with @ratfactor

He shares his thoughts about #HTML #emails, #Letterboxd, #Zettelkasten, #rats, and, #apple #pies.

His #blog is older than #Google !

He also replied to @yannick's question.

And, we got a recommendation for two #books.

#bloggers #bookstodon #book #fediverse #mastodon #food #BSD #Linux

https://lazybea.rs/ovr-073

EveryMac celebrates 30th birthday

EveryMac turned 30.

On July 2, 1996, EveryMac.com launched.

Thirty years is a long time -- and a great deal has changed since then -- but what has not changed is that EveryMac.com has been there to provide you with detailed info on every Mac from the original 128k to the current line. Thank you very much for your support through the years.
↫ EveryMac news item

https://www.osnews.com/story/145419/everymac-celebrates-30th-birthday/

#Apple

Tired: Complaining about #Apple
Wired: Leaving Apple for good

#YouCanDoIt! #TiredWired

The Macintosh G4 Cube is _____________. #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #apple

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An empty Mac g4 cube

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An empty Mac g4 cube

Sometimes I think that the designers at #Apple don't actually use Macs in their daily work.

Someone would have noticed by now, surely?

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part of macOS Tahoe System Settings for Keyboard, where the 'Keyboard' title at the top is completely obscured by a text label that has scrolled behind it.

@nixCraft

#NeXT / #Apple had the right idea.

* User homes are in /Users

* Each app is in /Applications and looks like a regular file but is actually a folder (i.e. you can cd into it and examine the contents)

* The operating system is in /System

* Files shared among apps (except files that come with the OS), including configuration files, are in /Library

* Static libraries, debug info, C headers, OS API reference docs, etc go in /Developer

#macOS #MacOSX #NeXTSTEP #Linux #Unix #BSD

iMessages Bug in macOS 26.5.1

Affects sending messages via RCS or SMS
#Apple #IMessage #iPhone #Mac

https://warnercrocker.com/2026/06/24/imessages-bug-in-macos-26-5-1/

The Neo now starts at $700, while the base iPad now starts at $450. On top of the previous Mac Mini hike to $800.

Thanks for nothing, AI...

Brace yourself, Apple's price hikes are here, and they're brutal | Macworld
https://www.macworld.com/article/3176418/ugh-apples-price-hikes-are-brutal.html

#Apple

#Apple ’s New CEO Must Rebuild a Design Team That Lost Its Way

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-06-21/apple-s-new-ceo-ternus-needs-to-shake-up-design-apple-s-2027-iphone-road-map-mqnust26

Apple internals: Swift in the kernel

Apple's Swift has become the de-facto language for Apple's own developers for a while now, and it seems that with the new operating system releases from the company unveiled during WWDC, Switch is now also being used in the kernel.

Naturally I dropped what I was doing and went grepping through the iOS 27 kernelcache. Alas, nothing came of it. All is not lost tho

https://www.osnews.com/story/145352/apple-internals-swift-in-the-kernel/

#Apple

Just read that #MacOS #Tahoe is the last one that will support Intel-based #macs, and it only supports some 2019-2020 models.

So that means that #Apple is targeting six or maybe seven years of hardware support.

That's an e-waste empire, guys.

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A ginger tabby cat looking down at us, saying "Pathetic."

@bkuhn @conservancy @dalias

> While it was surely unintentional, your reply is quite similar to the cruelty of traditional #FreeSoftware rhetoric — wherein we shunned people for using #Apple & #Microsoft. Such users deserve sympathy and help toward more software freedom.
>
> Same goes for #LLM-backed generative #AI users.

Sorry, I usually really value your opinions on stuff, as you tend to run contrary to the so-pragmatic-they'd-pimp-their-own-mothers attitude that is far too prevalent in (F)OSS, but hard disagree.

There's a big difference between knocking someone for using a MacBook and knocking someone for using an LLM.

Using a MacBook harms the user in ways that are somewhat debatable. Its harm outside of the user is very negligible and even more debatable.

Using LLMs harms us all. I don't doubt that there are valid and ethical applications for LLMs in many sectors, but you don't build a giant baby shredder on top of an indigenous burial ground and then suddenly pivot to saying, "But wait, it can process potatoes, too!"

If we're not talking about the theft of human creativity, the theft of potable water, the theft of human labor and wages, the promotion of über-fascist plutocrats, and all of the other horrendous harms associated with LLMs, then we're not talking about LLMs. We're engaging in some kind of fantasy roleplay.

Respectfully,

—Some dingbat named Dane, or something, who loves humanity and freedom.

Ugh. Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless. Now both Sign in with Apple and Hide My Email aliases are going to be issued on the "@private.icloud.com" subdomain. This makes it much easier to ban all aliases without affecting non-relay mailboxes on iCloud mail

https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=sus6t6ab

#privacy #apple

#Apple previewed new child protection features at #wwdc26, but still no multi-user support for iPad 😔.
Our kids don’t have their own iPads and instead borrow mine and my wife's iPad. That means those child protection features won’t work for us.
I get how iPhones are personal devices, but iPads really should be shareable devices.

Apple adds keylogger to iOS App Store for targeted advertising: tied to your account and unencrypted

A week or so ago, Apple announced a bunch of features for the App Store on iOS, including personalised recommendations based on your activity and usage of iOS. It turns out this includes a keylogger (taplogger?) in the App Store, which reco

https://www.osnews.com/story/145322/apple-adds-keylogger-to-ios-app-store-for-targeted-advertising-tied-to-your-account-and-unencrypted/

#Apple

Swift at Apple: migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter

TrueType is a widely used vector font standard for rendering text in web pages, PDFs, operating systems, and applications. Familiar fonts like Helvetica, Garamond, and Monaco are all built on TrueType outlines. The format specifies a hinting interpreter intended to help outlines rasterize faithfully on low-resolution displ

https://www.osnews.com/story/145294/swift-at-apple-migrating-the-truetype-hinting-interpreter/

#Apple

Got my hands on an old Mac Mini 6,1 from 2012. First time ever attempted to install #Linux on #Apple hardware… Vanilla #Debian, everything, including wifi when selecting proprietary firmware… #Xfce just being so much faster than the latest MacOS update that machine received. Blown away.

Once again, Apple blatantly lies about the EU’s DMA

Apple recently announced its next crack at integrating "AI" into its operating systems, this time opting to simply whitelabel Google's Gemini "AI" tools instead of developing its own LLM technology. Called "Siri AI", Apple also stated it's not coming to the EU, and the company stated that's because the EU's basic consumer protection le

https://www.osnews.com/story/145275/once-again-apple-blatantly-lies-about-the-eus-dma/

#Apple