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The Gorge (2025) is a mix of three movie genres, it mixes the three well, but only one works well.

The first hour of the movie is really great and is the part I enjoyed the most -- this is the part of the movie where the relationship develops between the two main characters.

The second half of the movie is less successful.

The Gorge was a good way to spend two hours.

Rated 6 out of 10.

I wrote more about the movie here:

ultramookie.com/movies/gorge-t…

#movies #TheGorge #apple #appletv

The Gorge

The Gorge is a buy one-get-two-free kind of movie.

^ultramookie

Since The Associated Press, in contrast to Google and Apple, continues to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of Mexico, I just made a donation as a thank you gesture.

apnews.com/donate

#journalism #GulfOfMexico #Google #Apple #maps

Donate to the Associated Press

Donate in support of independent, fact-based journalism. For 177 years, The Associated Press has been the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news.

^{AP News}

Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead [In part due to Linus leadership failure about Rust in Kernel]

marcan.st/2025/02/resigning-as…

Discussions: discu.eu/q/marcan.st/2025/02/r…

#apple #culture #linux #programming #rustlang #technology #unix

Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead

Back in the late 2000s, I was a major contributor to the Wii homebrew scene. At the time, I worked on software (people call them “jailbreaks” these days) to allow users to run their own unofficial apps on the Nintendo Wii.

^marcan.st

inga nya fruktprodukter nu

#apple #twitter #x

macrumors.com/2025/02/12/apple…

Apple Resumes Advertising on X

Apple this month started advertising on X for the first time in more than a year. The company had stopped advertising on the social media platform in...

^{Joe Rossignol (MacRumors.com)}

This guy has some really good points about trends that need to stop. Here are the ones that resonated with me:

Stop rigging out a camera beyond what's necessary.

Stop with the gear and spec obsession.

Don't be fooled by Apple's "You only need an iPhone" hype.

Stop with the overuse of drones.

Stop holding the damned lav mics in your hand.

Stop with the manual focus snobbery.

youtube.com/watch?v=bAuOUV-kTv…

#video #videography #apple #iPhone #cameras

This Anker battery is rather thirsty. It’s plugged into an Apple 140W charger.

#anker #apple #battery

♻️ Here we go again!

As Jeff Bezos' newspaper¹ reports, the #UK government is trying to force #Apple to give them unrestricted access to cloud backups 🤢

Definitely important to 2nd guess what you store in the #cloud! ☁️

¹washingtonpost.com/technology/…

#Privacy #Surveillance #News #jeffbezos #newspaper #washingtonpost #masssurveillance #cloud #it #tech #digitalrights #rights #dataprotection #data #bezos #encryption

If Apple complies with this, the UK government will gain access to all iCloud data globally. The only way Apple comes out of this with any integrity is to leave the UK market. If they give in to this, every regime in the world will demand the same thing. And that’s before we even get to the fact that there’s no such thing as a “backdoor” for just so-and-so. Either there is a door or there isn’t and if there is, anyone who obtains the key can use it.

theguardian.com/technology/202…

#apple #backdoor #UK #encryption #privacy #security #personhood #data #democracy #humanRights #iCloud

UK demands ability to access Apple users’ encrypted data

Expert says government has ‘lit the blue touch paper on a truly enormous fight’ as it challenges firm’s privacy stance

^{Dan Milmo (The Guardian)}

The cloud will never be private. Self-hosting storage maybe the better way, but not the easiest way for most people.

washingtonpost.com/technology/…

#apple #icloud #privacy #cloud #selfhost

You remember #Apple scanning all images on your #mobile device?

If you have an #Android #phone, a new app that doesn't appear in your menu has been automatically and silently installed (or soon will be) by #Google. It is called #AndroidSystemSafetyCore and does exactly the same - scan all images on your device as well as all incoming ones (via messaging). The new spin is that it does so "to protect your #privacy".

You can uninstall this app safely via System -> Apps.

developers.google.com/android/…

Google System APK Transparency

^{Google for Developers}

And now for something completely different: apple buddy from my fav videogame

#DigitalArt #sketch #FanArt #Gris #GrisVideoGame #MastoArt #robot #CuteCartoon #cartoon #apple #gift #NPC #SolarPunk

FEEDING TIME! 🐟🎣

#memes #humour #funny #jokes #mac #windows #tech #humor #apple

How to switch off #AppleIntelligence on your #iPhone, #iPad, and #Mac

techcrunch.com/2025/01/27/how-…

#Apple #privacy #AI

How to switch off Apple Intelligence on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac | TechCrunch

Here's a step-by-step guide on how to turn off and disable Apple Intelligence from your devices.

^{Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (TechCrunch)}

I usually don't watch horror films (I'm a scaredy cat), but I am a fan of Maika Monroe. I picked up Longlegs last night for $8 on Apple TV, a nice sale price that I couldn't refuse. I will watch this for the first time this weekend.

Sneakers is also on sale for $4. Such a great movie if you haven't seen it before.

Seatec Astronomy.

#movies #longlegs #horror #sneakers #apple

🐛 NEW SECURITY CONTENT 🐛

💻 macOS Sequoia 15.3 - 61 bugs fixed
support.apple.com/en-us/122068
💻 macOS Sonoma 14.7.3 - 41 bugs fixed
support.apple.com/en-us/122069
💻 macOS Ventura 13.7.3 - 31 bugs fixed
support.apple.com/en-us/122070
📱 iOS and iPadOS 18.3 - 29 bugs fixed
support.apple.com/en-us/122066
⌚ watchOS 11.3 - 18 bugs fixed
support.apple.com/en-us/122071
📺 tvOS 18.3 - 18 bugs fixed
support.apple.com/en-us/122072
📱 iPadOS 17.7.4 - 17 bugs fixed
support.apple.com/en-us/122067
🌐 Safari 18.3 - 7 bugs fixed
support.apple.com/en-us/122074

#apple #cybersecurity #infosec #security #ios

The Passwords app now categorizes the network requests to download the icons as "websites visited in app" and this way the number of requests sent isn't included in the main count in the #privacy report.

This new categorization makes the requests less visible to privacy-conscious as the app won't show spikes of 130+ requests as we demonstrated before in iOS 18 and iOS 18.2. However the app is clearly making those requests directly as shown in the network traffic.

#privacy #Apple #iOS

Really not digging Apple adding another #DarkPattern without user consent.

How is this even legal in EU under GDPR?

Settings option to Learn from this App is active by default. I was never asked to consent.

The only way of opting out is manually disabling the setting for every 👏🏻 single 👏🏻 app 👏🏻 you run on your iOS device.

Apple will say this is all on device. But if I see no benefit, why even opt-in. And coupled with #AppleIntelligence this becomes a lot more complicated. I don't want my app usage analyzed whatsoever.

@EUCommission@bfdi

#learnfromthisapp#apple#siri#privacy
www.heise.de/en/news/Siri-learns-from-apps-Unclear-Apple-settings-leave-users-in-the-dark-10256428.html

This is what spending 1 million dollars of your own money to get a seat at Trump's inauguration feels like.

#TimCook #Apple

Ryan Chenkie:

Developers, please be careful when installing Homebrew. Google is serving sponsored links to a Homebrew site clone that has a cURL command to malware. The URL for this site is one letter different than the official site.

Note: Google allows the ad sponsors to specify an URL that will be displayed on the ad (original brew.sh here), but the click takes you to the malware domain brewe.sh.

#Apple #HomeBrew #Google #MacOS

Consider this: The #EU has just won 2 court cases against big tech. Yet these do not get continuous MSM attention. The USA banning #TikTok is wall-to-wall even here in Europe. We need to celebrate our wins more, not obsess about USA (frankly) incompetence.

"**the European Court of Justice gave the Union's regulators two major victories in their ongoing battles with tech giants, judging that #Apple and #Google must pay over €15 billion in total"**

lemonde.fr/en/european-union/a…

EU top court delivers 'big win' against Apple and Google

In two back-to-back rulings, the European Court of Justice gave the Union's regulators two major victories in their ongoing battles with tech giants, judging that Apple and Google must pay over €15 billion in total.

^{Le Monde with AFP (Le Monde)}