I am honestly trying to understand how this is supposed to work. Because right now it seems like a bunch of pre-junior vibe coders walked into the iPad wing and poured a bunch of Everclear on the iPadOS source code and called it a day.

How is this in any way shape or form useful.

(Also ignore the apps on my Home Screen. I’m rearranging things)

#iPadOS26 #Apple #iPadOS

Look at how perfect Split View and Slide Over were here in the previous iPadOS. **Look at it**

You cannot tell me that anyone who actually understood the strengths of the iPad and a touchscreen OS said “yep, let’s throw this out for 30-year-old clunky, fiddly, tedious Mac windowing conventions and tools because they’re better. People will *love* trying to tap microscopic stoplight buttons.”

You just can’t. Because you would objectively be lying and so are they.

#Apple #iPadOS #iPadOS26

Intel kam, Intel ging. Unix bleibt.

#neuland #apple #arm #intel #unix #forever

#Apple: We need to lock down devices against #competition to protect user #privacy!

Researchers: The #AppleWatch collects vast amounts of intimate #health and #fitness data. Users have little choice regarding how this data is processed. We publicly #reverseengineer the watch's wireless protocols and discovered multiple #security issues. We break out of Apple's #WalledGarden demonstrating practical #interoperability with enhanced privacy controls and data autonomy."

https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07210

If Apple chose to go back to the classic UI from releases like MacOS 8 instead of that visual crime they call "Liquid Glass" that they feel like geniuses for creating, I would go back, too.

#MacOS #Apple

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A screenshot of a classic MacOS desktop from version 8. The background features an embossed MacOS smiley logo that is tiled across the entire desktop, several helpful icons aligned to the top right of the screen, and a menu bar along the top with a drop-down menu active, showing a list of basic programs like a calculator or a CD audio player. The texture of the bar and menu has a simple grey surface with minimal drop shadow that was common for '90s era interfaces.

I don't normally make video calls while I'm naked and I can't think of any use case where this would be useful. But there may well be situations in which two people want to show each other naked in a video call. Apple wants to prevent this in future and is introducing a new feature in iOS 26 that stops the video transmission in Facetime as soon as the operating system detects nudity.

I don't know about you, but even though the intention is certainly good - Apple claims to want to protect children - I feel patronized by such a function, regardless of whether I regularly strip naked in front of the camera or not.

Especially as I always ask myself with features like this: What's next? What will happen once we get used to the system determining what is transmitted and what is not? Is this possibly just the first step towards more control? Will this feature eventually become standard and we will accept that we can no longer switch it off?

https://gizmodo.com/ios-26-really-doesnt-want-you-to-be-horny-on-facetime-2000623796

#facetime #apple #censorship

Please help us to reach #ios developers. We need their feedback to our survey https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20250618-01.en.html in order to keep #Apple accountable under the #DMA in a developer friendly way. #DeviceNeutrality

#Apple has taken a lot of heat for the controversial changes to #macOS design. I think it's possible to strike a balance* between appealing to Gen Z users, and honoring the old style. Therefore it is my belief that Apple should adopt Sigma Finder as soon as possible.

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* For readers just joining us, the working definition of ideal balance here is one that equally displeases both sides.

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The Finder icon from Mac OS showing a smiling two-tone stylized blue face, but edited with a prominent jawline and sneering expression.

I really wish Apple would stop breaking things.

Latest Command Line Tools breaks yacc, m4, etc.

When you accept the installer it prints a completely bogus estimation time.

Then when it finishes, yacc, m4, etc, are still missing and you go around the cycle again.

This really isn't difficult Apple. With a market cap of over 2.5 trillion dollars, I'm pretty sure you can afford to employ a single #pkgsrc developer. They would find these bugs within minutes before release.

#Apple #macOS

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After the #Microsoft frenzy last week and the #Apple disaster yesterday, on today's menu is the @EUCommission #DMA compliance workshop with #Alphabet #Google.

What should I do?

So I guess US users hit the tracking jackpot then.

"A 'visited places' service that tracks and records where users have been won’t be rolled out in the EU."

9to5Mac: Apple confirms iOS 26 in the EU will be missing some features https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/30/apple-confirms-ios-26-in-the-eu-will-be-missing-some-features/ @9to5Mac #Apple #privacy #iOS26

Why not #Go?
Because it's from #Google.

Why not #Csharp or #Fsharp?
#Microsoft.

Why not #Rust or #Zig?
#LLVM (aka #Apple & friends).

Ultimately, most of languages I avoid like the plague are controlled by #BigTech one way or another.

C is simple enough to get several alternative compilers based on useful standards.² ³

¹ In theory I still prefer #Oberon07, but when I want to code something useful I still use C instead to lower the entry barrier for other devs, because there are too many incompatible implementations of the compiler and "standard" library.

² Ok, #Python, #Scheme and #Lua have similar qualities, but for the tools I write I usually prefer binary executables with no runtime.

³ No, #C++ is not an option. 😉