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prime17569··on Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see
This exists already! You can see it by going to Settings > Privacy & Security and turning on the App Privacy Report at the bottom.
prime17569··on ST-NICCC demo for the TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculator
This is my port of the Oxygene ST-NICCC demo to the TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculator.

You can see an updated video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS20MHHLv8A

prime17569··on Firefox 128 enables "privacy-preserving" ad measurements by default
FYI Safari has been doing this (also enabled by default) for years on all Apple platforms.

To disable it on macOS: Safari > Preferences/Settings > Advanced > Uncheck "Allow privacy-preserving measurement of ad effectiveness"

To disable it on iOS: Settings > Safari > Advanced (scroll all the way down) > Turn off "Privacy Preserving Ad Measurement"

prime17569··on "Privacy-Preserving" Attribution: Mozilla Disappoints Us yet Again
FYI Safari has been doing this (also enabled by default) for years on all Apple platforms.

To disable it on macOS: Safari > Preferences/Settings > Advanced > Uncheck "Allow privacy-preserving measurement of ad effectiveness"

To disable it on iOS: Settings > Safari > Advanced (scroll all the way down) > Turn off "Privacy Preserving Ad Measurement"

prime17569··on BenQ releases 3:2 aspect ratio 28 inch 4K+ monitor designed for programmers
Check out the LG 24UD58-B!
prime17569··on Ode to the M1
Have you tried updating UTM to the latest version? Many of these bugs have been fixed in newer versions. UTM doesn't auto update, so you have to check for updates yourself on their GitHub releases page: https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/releases
prime17569··on Could an industrial civilization have predated humans on Earth?
This reminds me of this video by engineerguy that discusses the use of heuristics in engineering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ivqWN4L3zU
prime17569··on Companies must stop using Google Analytics
This is almost like U.S. high schools, which almost exclusively require students to have Texas Instruments TI-84 series calculators in math class.
prime17569··on Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake
IMO it's not about running macOS on it but rather that there is a need for desktop-class features on iPad. Apple doesn't need to run macOS on iPad to add desktop-class features. I'd rather see those features added to iPadOS (as well as visionOS, which is clearly a derivative of iPadOS).
prime17569··on Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake
This is probably because those developers haven't added support for opening files in place, which has been available since iOS 9. There are a few other things (e.g. the way you call open/save dialogs) that need to be changed if you want to add support as well.
prime17569··on Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake
That's the fault of the developer, not Apple. For example, Instagram hasn't ticked the box in Xcode to support the iPad screen sizes.
prime17569··on The iPad was meant to revolutionize accessibility
This. Apps can declare support for Assistive Access by adding UISupportsFullScreenInAssistiveAccess = YES to their Info.plist:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/in...

There isn't any other way to further integrate into the feature though.

prime17569··on The dark side of the Mac App Store
Of course you can change them, but only when submitting an app update. You can't change them between updates.
prime17569··on Usability heuristics for user interface design
Apple's old OS X Human Interface Guidelines (pre-OS X Yosemite)[1] said almost exactly the same things.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140603021344if_/https://develo...

prime17569··on Little Snitch Mini
iOS also has the App Privacy Report, which can tell you about the network requests that apps make:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212958

prime17569··on Six Recent Studies Show an Unexpected Increase in Classical Music Listening
This is interesting especially considering Apple's upcoming launch of Apple Music Classical.
prime17569··on macOS Cursors
This might be different based on model. On a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) with macOS 12.6.3, the cursor initializes in the top-left at bootup.

I think this started with Monterey, because on Big Sur and earlier, it always initialized in the center.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe NeXTSTEP also initialized the cursor close to the top-left corner. So this might either be an homage to NeXTSTEP (similar to how the Clarus dogcow has reappeared in macOS Ventura), or a bug. My bet is on the latter.

prime17569··on Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]
I wonder what he would think of Asahi Linux for Apple silicon Macs.