25 years ago, on 13 September 2000, #MacOSX Public Beta was released at Apple Expo Paris. The "operating system for the next 15 years" is now 25 years old. What an amazing engineering feat to evolve such large software (operating) system over such a long period of time!

Kudos to the engineers at #Apple

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Public_Beta

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Mac OS X Public Beta box in front of the boxes of Mac OS X 10.0, 10.1 and 10.2

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Mac OS X Public Beta CD and text inside the box

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Me at Apple Expo Paris 2000 wearing an "I Go, I Do, iCab" t-shirt

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Some booths at the Apple Expo Paris 2000

"But the remarkable thing about the taste-formers at #Apple Music Classical is that they are entirely anonymous. I tried my hardest to winkle some names out of the company, but they wouldn’t even put a number on them. Some may regard this as sinister; I actually find it quite touching, because the condition of anonymity grants them total freedom." 😉

In the sea of #AI-generated slop, isn't this refreshing?

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/mysterious-apple-music-nerds-saving-170000567.html

#appleMusic #appleMusicClassical #classicalMusic

❝ Live Translation with AirPods is not going to be available in the EU.❞
https://mastodon.social/@mysk/115185815044652443

GOOD!

and everybody else, especially Americans, should NOT use it either.

Apple will have to warehouse your conversations and make them available to the United States government thanks to the infamous #FISA aka Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

it is criminal for #Apple #iOs #tech “journalists” to not question how this wouldn’t be more stalkerware available to #USgov to give to #ICE …🧵

and lest we forget, Apple’s Chief Executive Officer, Tim Cook, has become the face of the #techbro fascist supplicant during this second Trump coup:
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/115175766706618302

the darling of the #infosec community, the past 9 months are filled with far too much evidence that #Apple is a safety and security risk for all, especially the low-to-zero tech skills consumers it attracts with their closed and “trust me bro” hardware & software ecosystem.

it’s time to look at Apple with critical eyes. /🧵

Apple didn't focus on Apple AI, this time. And this is good.

#Apple

Can we just shake it off?

Firefox provides AI page summaries if you shake your iPhone

https://www.engadget.com/ai/firefox-provides-ai-page-summaries-if-you-shake-your-iphone-145837557.html?src=rss

#Firefox #AI #Mozilla #iOS #iPhone #Apple #Tech

Since I'm at home, I'll watch the Apple event that's starting soon. We'll see!

#Apple

Dear #macOS #Apple #Lazyweb, what's the 2020s era option for making a(n ideally bootable) backup copy of a laptop you're about to wipe?

BITD people would use CarbonCopyCloner for this, though I never actually used it much, I think I would just `dd` from a rescue disk to external drive, or make a Disk Image via Disk Utility?

A recent post here criticized people who continue to use and buy #Apple hardware after Tim Cook's recent gross display of sucking up to Trump.
"It blows my mind," the post said. "Truly disgusting."
I'm not going to engage directly with that post. It's tone makes clear that the author's mind is not going to change, and there's nothing to gain from antagonizing him or wasting my time engaging in a fruitless discussion. However, I feel the need to offer an alternative viewpoint.
#tech
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Breaking up with Big Tech: A human rights-based argument for tackling Big Tech's market power - Amnesty International

https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/POL30/0226/2025/en/

#privacy #bigtech #alphabet #google #meta #microsoft #amazon #apple

📊 Poll of the Day — Multi-choice! Restarted 🔁
You asked for it — now you can pick all the OSes you use daily! 💻📱

We know Mastodon leans techy... let’s see how that shows up in your OS mix 👀

Which OS(es), grouped for coverage, do you use daily?💻
Reply with why you use it too 👇

Vote + Boost 🔁 = ❤️

#Linux #Arch #LinuxMint #Fedora #Debian #Ubuntu #Desktop #FOSS #Privacy #Security #OpenSource #Microsoft #Windows #TechNews #CyberSecurity #Tech #Technology #Apple #OS #iOS #MacOS #OperatingSystem

In light of recent (again and again) shenanigans with Apple iOS and Google Android, I'm looking into Linux native smart phones yet again.

Linux phone operating systems have come a loooong way. Examples like PostmarketOS ( @postmarketOS ), PureOS ( @purism ) and Ubuntu Touch / UBPorts ( @ubports ) offering a solid choice, the big issue is linux native apps, but those have come a long way as well.

First, many apps have fully functional mobile web sites and web apps that are, by nature, cross platform and available on linux through web browsers or as a Progressive Web App (PWA).

Second there are many native linux apps that work well on a mobile screen as well or apps specific to phones, etc.

Lastly, there are - for lack of a better word - emulators that let you load and run android apps, for example.

Linux Phones are not as polished as iOS or Android phones, but the control and privacy is there.

Ironically the biggest thing that've needed is Signal Messenger (@signalapp ) on Linux. Almost everything else I need is there, including GPS maps and web app / PWA versions of transit apps and banking apps. Even Signal, I might break with as most of my chat groups might hop over to another end to end encrypted messaging service that runs on Linux.

What would you need to use a Linux Phone as your daily driver?

#linux #FOSS #solarPunk #iOS #android #Google #Apple

It used to be so easy to report a bug on OS X. The issue tracker was not a terrible design and I filed a bunch of bugs. Developers usually followed up and most ended up being fixed. Quite a few, annoyingly, were closed as duplicates of other bugs I didn’t have access to, but at least that gave them a signal that multiple people saw the same bug.

The last time I tried to file a macOS bug was painful. It required uploading a load of irrelevant things (you don’t need dumps of my system state for a bug that can be reproduced on a clean install). It also now comes with a privacy policy that I am totally unwilling to agree to.

The rate at which I’ve found bugs in Apple products has increased in recent years (and a lot that I found years ago remain unfixed) but the number I have reported recently is zero.

I don’t expect Apple to change, but hopefully other people can learn this lesson. If you break the feedback channel from your users, your product quality will deteriorate.

#Apple #macOS

@gsuberland My teen had a M1 Macbook Air die-- the motherboard. All the data was lost along with it although the SSD was probably fine.

Apple made the choice to solder the SSD to the motherboard, preventing the data from being saved at a reasonable cost in a situation like this.

We did not replace that device with another #Apple

Rotten Apple: Dozens of Former Israeli Spies Hired by Silicon Valley Giant

｢ Under Cook’s leadership, Apple employees have been disciplined or even fired for wearing pins, bracelets, or keffiyehs in support of the Palestinian people. Nevertheless, groups such as Apples4Ceasefire continue to speak out about what they describe as Apple’s complicity in genocide ｣

https://www.mintpressnews.com/apple-israel-unit-8200-hiring/290226/

#apple #genocide #israel

New #blog post: What I Do and Don't Miss About MacOS

https://rldane.space/what-i-do-and-dont-miss-about-macos.html

1853 words

Part rosy-tinted retromemories, part acerbic political polemic, 99% UI kvetching.

Absolutely go eat a bushelful of eggplants, Tim Cook. And by eggplants, of course I don't mean the vegetable.

cc: my wonderful #chorus: @joel @dm @sotolf @thedoctor @pixx @orbitalmartian @adamsdesk @krafter @roguefoam @clayton @giantspacesquid @Twizzay @stfn

(I will happily add/remove you from the chorus upon request! :)

#100DaysToOffload #49

#rlDaneWriting #blost #Apple #Macintosh #RetroComputing #USPOL

Je trainais mes #apple depuis le rachat de la boite par la boite zombie. Bon avec Tim Cook c'est plus possible. Je reviens à #linux (linux de 95 à 2021 hein ok me brisez pas les croustillons). Quel laptop vous conseillez ? Lésinez pas ! merci !

My second Nomad wallet card with built-in Find My (warranty replacement) has the same buggy problem as the first.

It often warns me it’s been left behind when I leave home and it’s in my pocket, or I’ve been in a place for a while, like a restaurant, then start moving.

Could this be a Nomad bug/problem? A problem with third-party Find My gadgets? I doubt it’s the #iOS26 beta because this has happened across iOS 17 and 18.

#Apple #iOS

While I understand most of the harsh words spoken about Tim Cook's latest round of orange ass kissing, which I hope will be something that sours his legacy permanently, I also don't see any viable alternatives under the current regime, which seems to be hell-bent on running things into the ground while utterly impervious to things we used to agree on, like facts.

Like ... what would you do if the only chess you can play right now is Orange Pigeon Chess? Not only does a majority think the Orange Pigeon is right, they think chess is for coastal elites, and, if Orange Pigeon slaps a 100% tariff on their next iPhone, they will think you are ripping them off, and will cheer him on as ICE starts rounding up random people from your offices, stores, suppliers, and so forth, betrayed by some of their own colleagues?

There is no winning move, here, and you cannot refuse to play.

Also, y'all have already shown you'll keep buying anyway, just like you keep flying 🤷🏻‍♀️

#Apple #USpol

#Apple Is Selling iPad Repair Parts for Astronomical Prices https://www.404media.co/apple-is-selling-ipad-repair-parts-for-astronomical-prices/ #RightToRepair

Ok

Apparently the only way to be able to use apps with any kind of window mode in #iPadOS26 is to enable Stage Manager. I’ve never liked Stage Manager, the previous iteration was a giant waste of screen space. But fine.

So what is going on here? Why does Ivory hang off to the side when I minimize Inoreader? Why doesn’t it reappear when I switch to a different full-screen app? What on earth is the point of the Home Screen disappearing when I click it and Ivory slides back in?

#Apple #iPadOS