#Vietnamese officials have called on #Apple supplier #Foxconn to reduce power use by 30% at its assembly plants in the north of the country where there were #electricity#outages last year, two people familiar with the matter said.
The request for #EnergySaving measures, which two other industry sources said was sent to multiple manufacturers, is precautionary & aimed at averting a repeat of last summer when #PowerShortage led to over a billion dollars in lost output.
Did you know you can opt out of Apple’s Crowd-Sourced SSID Location Services now?
You have to rename your SSID to end with “_nomap”. To know more about this read Apple's “about privacy and Location Services in iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS" document. https://support.apple.com/en-us/102515
Among many other things, the Display Filter in #NeoFinder for #macOS 8.6 can filter out all items from offline volumes for you, so you see only those files currently available on your Mac!
I wish I didn’t feel like Apple was one of the very few, sometimes only, major tech companies trying to build with privacy in mind. Yes, I get there are arguably places it may or can erode that design. They’re besides the point for now.
And granted, I generally like Apple’s products. But in some ways I also feel like I’m stuck here; I truly wish more of its peers valued our privacy.
When I was in high school and I was just starting to get super into #Apple, I was very very broke. These stickers were like a badge of honor when I eventually got my first Mac when I started college.
15 years later, I’m not sure I could tell you what happened to a single sticker we’ve gotten since.
To troubleshoot a 3rd-party software issue, its lead developer/company owner (who has a beyond-stellar reputation and, despite having a number of employees, is handling my ticket personally) has asked me to move their app’s Application Support folder out of iCloud Drive.
It’s only about 3 MB (though 9000+ files).
“How long could that take?” you may ask.
Allow me to present iCloud Drive.
Last attempt fizzled out after an hour, throwing some sort of system alert. #Apple#iCloudDrive
Privacy matters! But what if the tools meant to protect us are being misused? Our latest study (to appear ARES '24) reveals surprising facts about HTTP Client Hints (HTTP CHs) on the Web. [THREAD]
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