Lokale KI-Modelle sind jetzt brauchbar (und auf dieser Hardware laufen sie)

KI-Modelle, die auf eigener Hardware laufen, sind inzwischen deutlich besser als noch vor einigen Monaten. c't 3003 hat mehrere brauchbare Modelle gefunden.

https://www.heise.de/news/Lokale-KI-Modelle-sind-jetzt-brauchbar-und-auf-dieser-Hardware-laufen-sie-10864518.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#AMD #Apple #ct #Entertainment #IT #KünstlicheIntelligenz #Mobiles #Nvidia #news

Dear Reader,

Today I'm delighted to announce a Take Control book about a fantastic new Mac email app called #MailMaven. Developed by our friends at SmallCubed (best known for their popular MailSuite plugin for Apple Mail), MailMaven is a powerful and flexible alternative to apps like Apple Mail, Outlook, and Thunderbird.

The Manual is free from : https://www.takecontrolbooks.com/mailmaven/?pt=TCANNOUNCE&ml=MM1

The app has a free trial:
https://mailmaven.app

#JoeKissell #TakeControl #Apple #Mail

I've updated my blog post in light of Apple releasing the M5 iPad Pro with Memory Integrity Enforcement #MIE

# How to Use an iPad as a Secure Calling and Messaging Device

This is the first time in my 10 years of maintaining this article that I stop advising any iPad above the A12 chipset, and now focus on M5. MIE is such a huge platform security improvement, the M5 is currently the only one to consider getting if operational security is your top priority.

https://yawnbox.eu/blog/how-to-use-an-ipad-as-a-secure-calling-and-messaging-device/

#Apple #iPad #iPadPro #iPadProM5 #M5 #MemoryIntegrityEnforcement #PlatformSecurity #ExploitMitigation

🏛️ We have just arrived at @Curia!
💼 Today, our lawyer, Dr. Martin Husovec, will explain to the court why #DMA #interoperability should apply to #Apple in full extent!

👀 Stay tuned for updates! And if you need a quick recap of what's at stake for #FreeSoftware in this case, have a read here: https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20251015-01.en.html

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Empty room at the Court of Justice in Luxembourg

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Conmemorative plaque at the Court of Justice for Thomas More. You can see the plaque and the explanation besides it

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Table with the agenda of the day and a microphone

By pure coincidence, @pluralistic 's reminder that everyone (Americans included) needs to reduce their tech dependence on the American broligarchy happened during a major AWS outage.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/20/post-american-internet/

#bigtech #AWS #Microsoft #Google #Apple #Facebook #Meta #X #Twitter #Amazon

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Uncle Sam overlooking a boiling cauldron, contemplating activating an Internet killswitch.

More of this energy please! Despite tech influencers glowing on thin phones, sales of the iPhone Air are performing below Apple's expectations and Samsung looks like they'll cancel the Galaxy S26 Edge.
I love seeing people vote with their wallets. Maybe these companies can start innovating on features again...

#tech #technews #technology #business #samsung #android #apple #iphone #geek #gadgets

My wife's iphone wouldn't stop bugging her to enroll in "Face ID" (for authentication).

I told her she should enroll one of her old Barbies instead of herself for privacy reasons. So she did... And it works just fine 🙃

#privacy #iphone #ios #faceid #apple #barbie

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Barbie, posing for an iPhone for Face ID

Great.

$dayjob MacBook forced to update to Tahoe. This "liquid glass" interface is a pile of wank.

I checked settings and both Apple Intelligence (sic) and Siri are disabled and yet there's 8 "Siri" apps running in the background:

com.apple.siri.embeddedspeech
SiriSuggestionsBookkeepingService
SAExtensionOrchestrator
siriinferenced
SiriAUSP
sirittsd
siriactionsd
siriknowledged

And 5 "Intelligence" apps:

IntelligencePlatformComputeService
intelligenceplatformd
knowledgeconstructiond
intelligencecontextd
intelligentroutingd

Why are these still running if I've supposedly disabled them in settings?

#macos #siri #apple #AI #noAI

A week or so later, I’m pretty happy with this feature being disabled!

The only small drawback is that spell checker sometimes doesn’t work. I learned it the hard way when trying to write "wenedesday" properly 🤣

#iOS #Apple

Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class

｢ According to internal correspondence reviewed by Migrant Insider, Apple told developer Rafael Concepcion that the app violated Guideline 1.1.1, which prohibits “defamatory, discriminatory, or mean-spirited content” directed at “religion, race, sexual orientation, gender, national/ethnic origin, or other targeted groups.” ｣

https://migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-apple-quietly-made-ice-agents

#apple #ice #fascism

This irks me to no end. Usable hardware, but obsoleted software. #Apple

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IPad not supported measage

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IPad not supported message

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Unable to purchase message

@nixCraft too bad it’s not for regular bugs. I would be so filthy rich I could buy a lot of castles. #Apple has been introducing mostly just bugs and annoying and useless features rather than actually solving problems. And they don’t get a pass for rolling back some of the changes in Photos from 18 as not only is it not enough but they shouldn’t have changed it in the first place. And they introduced a lot of new problems on top of that.

***** An Open Letter to the CEOs of #Apple and #Google: Would you have supported the Nazis during WWII? *****

Dear Tim and Sundar,

Hi. I'd normally start a letter like this asking how you were doing, but since you're both billionaires who have been palling around with Donald Trump, I think we can dispense with that formality this time.

I've got a question for you guys. I don't really expect an answer, but I feel that it needs to be asked anyway. Here we go ...

"If Apple, Google, and apps had been around during WWII, would you have supported the Nazis, either explicitly or implicitly?"

As you probably know, IBM has been raked over the coals for decades for the technological assistance they provided the Third Reich, helping them tabulate "undesirables" for a "final solution."

Which brings us to you two! Yeah, you knew this was coming. I have to assume that your dramatic decisions to remove apps that helped the public legally determine the location of ICE operations was approved at your level. If not, you're still ultimately responsible, of course.

Word is that DOJ requested Apple to pull the apps, and that Google pulled them proactively without waiting around for a request. These of course were completely legal apps, breaking no laws that I'm aware of. Banning them from your apps stores effectively bans them virtually completely in a practical sense. Sideloading in iOS has always been difficult, and Google has announced upcoming restrictions that would make sideloading much more difficult for Android as well.

The parallels between your decisions regarding those apps and what went on during WWII in Nazi Germany are very troubling indeed. The Nazis legally (under then current laws) rounded up their target populations: Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, and a range of other "undesirables", then "disappeared" them with minimal or no due process, whisking them off to concentration camps. This included cripples, mothers, children -- an enormous range. Many were never heard from again. Millions were exterminated.

I don't need to spell out the parallels with what Trump's ICE is now doing -- they're obvious on the daily news. And before you protest that you're not killing anyone by banning those apps, I'd argue that you indeed are very likely contributing to deaths.

The large majority of people being deported via these ICE raids have no criminal record and their only "crime" is being in this country illegally -- sometimes for decades raising families of U.S. citizens. Many are being deported to countries where they face the high likelihood of horrific treatment including torture and death.

I don't really need to go on any further, do I boys? You're both intelligent and informed. You both know exactly what you're doing. So I come back to the original question. If your firms had been around during WWII, would you have supported the Nazis? If not, your apparently enthusiastic embrace of the current administration's fascist behaviors seems inexplicable.

But hey, perhaps you have logical explanations that aren't obvious to those of us in the non-billionaire class. If so, we'd love to hear them!

Sincerely,

L

It seems like I have succeeded in disabling the #iOS predictive text bug. Yes bug, ´cause this bloody shit stopped being a feature some time ago. And these past days, it kept replacing my inputs with nonsense so that it took me twice the time to type any message.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/104995

#Apple, you’re really becoming as shitty as Microsoft this years…

A small post about the upcoming support for native Apple SecTrust in curl 8.17.0.
#curl #apple

https://eissing.org/icing/posts/curl-apple-sectrust/

Under pressure from US government, Apple removes ICEBlock application from the App Store

Your lovely host, late last night:

Google claims they won’t be sharing developer information with governments, but we all know that’s a load of bullshit, made all the more relevant after whatever the fuck this was. If you want to oppose the genocide in Gaza or

https://www.osnews.com/story/143474/under-pressure-from-us-government-apple-removes-iceblock-application-from-the-app-store/

#Apple

#TIL there's a procedure to recover your Definitely Fucked Up myMac type of situation. It involves connecting the DFU port with a usb-c cable to another machine and doing weird 12 fingers keyboard dances.

If you want to read more: https://support.apple.com/en-us/108900 #DFU #Apple

Liebe Folglinge,

ich suche nach einem neuen Job als #iOS und/oder #macOS Entwickler. Ich spreche #ObjectiveC, #Swift (auch Server-Side) und #SwiftUI und nutze die ganzen Tools drumherum (#Xcode, #Git, #GitHub, #GitHubActions, #ShellScripting etc.). Ich bringe 30 Jahre Berufserfahrung als Software-Entwickler mit, davon knapp 20 im #Apple Ökosystem.

Am Idealsten waere eine #Festanstellung zu 100% remote. Sollte es im Raum #Bregenz oder #Dornbirn etwas geben, dann auch gerne vor Ort.

Ich danke euch fuers Teilen. 🙏🏻

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/phranck/
Xing: https://www.xing.com/profile/Frank_Gregor063742/

#FediHire #FediJobs #JobSuche #RemoteJob #Arbeit

Apple used to use drop shadows to signify that one layer was floating above another.

This #LiquidGlass iteration doesn’t look great. The same kind of design details are used to set things apart on the same layer as to represent that something is a higher layer.

Looks almost more like a collage or scrapbook.

#apple #ios

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Screenshot of Liquid Glass style of weather app.

I’ve taken this as common knowledge but maybe it’s not, so, PSA: yes your #Apple devices are /expected/ to run like crap for a bit in the wake of a software update!

Don’t make any inferences about a new release’s performance until it’s been a day or so.
https://infosec.exchange/@ubernostrum/115220985700307223

The whole iOS 26 discourse is interesting as very few people seem to realize that the problem is that they "bought" devices that they don't own.

#apple owns it.

Computing doesn't have to be this way.

#opensource

Okay, I don't completely hate Liquid Glass in iPadOS 26. It makes some UI components harder to see and it has the same problem that the translucent menu bar had when they introduced it on OS X (the colour changes depending on what's behind it, which means UI elements randomly change colour. This is particularly visible in Safari, where the controls change colour as you switch tabs).

The split-screen mode in old iPad OS (i.e. from yesterday or earlier) was horrible. I only figured out how to work it at all in the last few months and it's clunky. The new windowing mode seems marginally better.

There are some rough edges, far more than should be, but I remember the 'never install a X.0 release of any Apple product' advice from the early OS X days and it's not nearly as bad as some of the early 10.X.0 releases.

If they bumped up the opacity slightly and made the drop shadows a bit larger / darker, it might even be a good UI.

#Apple #iOS #LiquidGlass

Huh. Looks like somebody upgraded my phone to iOS Vista.

#apple

Apple releases version 26 of all of its operating systems

It's release day for all of Apple's operating systems, so if you're fully or only partway into the ecosystem, you've got some upgrades ahead of you. Version 26 for macOS, iOS and iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS, visionOS, and HomePod Software have all been released today, so if you own any device running any of these operating system

https://www.osnews.com/story/143345/apple-releases-version-26-of-all-of-its-operating-systems/

#Apple

$ softwareupdate --fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version 26.0
Scanning for 26.0 installer
Installing: 69.0%

See you on the other side

#OpenBSD #Apple