Category: technology
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Grand Central Apple Store Unionizing
Reed Albergotti writing for the Washington Post: Workers at Apple’s flagship Grand Central Terminal retail location in Manhattan have begun to formally collect signatures to form a union, according to a newly-updated website launched by the organizers, setting the stage for a showdown between the iPhone maker and the employees who sell them. The organizers,…
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Apple’s World-Wide Developers Conference Announced for June 6th-10th
Returning as a mostly online-only event, Apple’s WWDC is coming back on June 6th to 10th. At the pre-recorded developer-focused infomercial on the 6th we should find out about new operating system features that will come out in the Fall and potentially new hardware as well. Notably, the logo for this year’s event almost looks…
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Emugotchi
There’s a lot to love about the custom mechanical keyboard community, especially when there are major innovations in the underlying technology. One of the most innovative mechanical keyboards is the Emugotchi macropad. It is shaped a little bit like an egg or Tamagotchi, and uses a M5Stack Core2 ESP32 microcontroller that appears to be more like…
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Homebrew Package Manager Founder Turns Crypto Grifter
There have been a variety of third-party command-line package management utilities for Mac computers that all really make the Mac’s terminal a good place to get things done with modern packages since Apple doesn’t provide a package management system for the command line like other Unixes do. MacPorts, Fink, and the newest and I think…
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Avoiding Lost Mail After Migrating From Google Workspace
Early in January Google started telling users of the free tier of Google Workspace (previously G Suite and Google Apps for Work) that they had until July 1st of 2022 to pay up or the service would shut off. I’ve been a user of that service for years, and the various projects I work on used…