Reading List 322
This reading list, number 322, is Sponsored by Vivaldi browser, which Chris Ferdinandi recently reviewed and judged “quite good”.
- Updating from macOS Ventura to Sonoma silently enables iCloud Keychain – “If you’ve never enabled iCloud Keychain and recently upgraded to iOS 17, chances are good that your passwords are now stored on #Apple servers.” – and how to stop it.
- Microsoft 1998 = Apple 2024 – “What did decline after the settlement of the DOJ and EU trials was Microsoft’s browser market share — a fact which some commentators would have you believe is a complete coincidence and nothing whatever to do with governments forcing Microsoft to stop being an abusive monopolist.”
- How to write text descriptions (alt text) in BBC News articles – “This guidance is for staff who use digital images when creating content for BBC News.”
- Is regulation an effective tool to fight Big Tech? – audio of me banging on about regulatory fun.
- India antitrust probe finds Apple abused position in apps market – “Apple App Store is an unavoidable trading partner for app developers, and resultantly, app developers have no choice but to adhere to Apple’s unfair terms, including the mandatory use of Apple’s proprietary billing and payment system”
- Pivoting From React to Native DOM APIs: A Real World Example – This makes me sad: ‘He added that finding developers who know vanilla JavaScript and not just the frameworks was an “unexpected difficulty.”’
- Apple removes VPN apps at request of Russian authorities, say app makers but I thought Not-Steve said “privacy is a fundamental human right”?!
- Block ChatGPT from scraping your website – block these IP ranges
- Chrono Piano is a live music player generates piano music based on the current date and time. Each digit from the date and time corresponds to a musical note. The date digits create the bass and the time digits form the melody.
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