I needed to create a bootable MacOS installer over the weekend for an older version of the operating system — something Apple’s own instructions don’t actually support. Fortunately, a Reddit comment pointed me to the app Mist, which automated the whole process. It’s always nice to find that someone out there had the same problem as you, then just went ahead and solved it for everyone.
The company put out a new statement today criticizing Spotify’s complaint to the EU about restrictions on its iOS app:
Fundamentally, their complaint is about trying to get limitless access to all of Apple’s tools without paying anything for the value Apple provides.
What kind of computing platform could possibly offer developers that kind of flexibility? Who would make such a thing?
The site, which tracks web service outages, is showing blips for Verizon and T-Mobile. Turns out... those are probably just from Verizon and T-Mobile customers trying to call AT&T users.
“We did not experience an outage,” T-Mobile writes.
[T-Mobile Newsroom]
Its wireless network “remains fully operational,” the company wrote this morning. But its customers could have issues connecting to users of “another carrier” — AKA AT&T, which is suffering a widespread, ongoing outage.
Yuga Labs, the group behind Bored Apes, is purchasing Kevin Rose’s NFT group, Proof. Yuga previously bought CyrptoPunks, too.
As Yuga scoops up more of the NFT world, the question remains: who’s still buying? And is there anything worth doing with them?
RIP to an all-time great piece of exposition: Vulture reports that the jam-packed sentence from the Madame Web trailer that went viral for its tongue-twisting amount of story detail didn’t make it into the movie. Was it meme’d out of existence? To quote Dakota Johnson, “What a silly thing.”
The company has started hiding details on how popular hashtags are... after researchers and journalists kept using them as a measure of how widely controversial and harmful topics had spread on the platform.
[The Washington Post]
Volvo’s first electric minivan puts them in the back seat, so your kids can bring their gaming laptops along for the ride to soccer practice.
The vehicle is headed to China only for now, and I’ve seen some criticism of in-car tray tables as potentially unsafe in the event of a crash — so don’t pull your laptops out just yet.
