Dropped Bits — Issue #4
Welcome to issue #4 of Dropped Bits, the humble tech newsletter, now weekly delivered to your inbox. I hope you find here some interesting readings. Let’s dive in!
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🇺🇦 Supporting the Ukrainian people
Five days ago, Russian troupes invaded Ukraine, and the war broke out. While this may not be the right place to talk about such a delicate and complicated situation, my prayers and thoughts go to the Ukrainian people who are the most suffering because of that, and to Russian people who risk their life protesting against a war they did not ask. I sincerely hope diplomacy will ultimately win over bombs and missiles.
Every bit of help can be precious: from writing to your representatives, to organizing and peacefully protesting, to donating money. If you feel so, I put a few links down below to donate to trustworthy organizations trying to defend and take care of the Ukrainian people.
Thank you.
International Committee of Red Cross
Top News
Ukraine war: What part is hackers’ collective Anonymous playing in the war effort against Russia? | Euronews — www.euronews.com
Since it declared cyber war on Russia last week, the hackers’ collective has claimed credit for several attacks targeting government websites and state-backed media.
Russia Intensifies Censorship Campaign, Pressuring Tech Giants — The New York Times — www.nytimes.com
Google, Apple and others were warned that they must comply with a new law, which would make them more vulnerable to the Kremlin’s censorship demands.
Version 100 in Chrome and Firefox — Mozilla Hacks — the Web developer blog — hacks.mozilla.org
Chrome and Firefox will reach version 100 in a couple of months. Let’s work together on fixing User Agent detection issues.
Apple now supports app transfers in the App Store Small Business Program
In the past, if you transferred an app to a new Apple Developer account you were not eligible for their Small Business Program. Such move was somewhat common among developers who initially used their personal Apple ID and wanted to move their apps to a new dedicated account.
Apple @ Work: Looking back at why people think Snow Leopard was peak ‘OS X reliability’ — 9to5Mac — 9to5mac.com
For many years, I’ve been reading articles and listening to podcasts about how Apple’s OS quality has gone downhill…
Tool of the week
Mimestream | A native macOS email client for Gmail — mimestream.com
A native macOS email client for Gmail
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