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Thursday 19th December, 2019 #

  • I just spent the whole day trying to get Safari bookmarks onto my iOS device, previously you could sync them using iTunes, I've been doing that for years, but now that doesn't work, and it seems you have to use iCloud - Since iCloud bookmark sync is basically impossible, eventually I just emailed an HTML export file to myself, opened each link one by one and added each one as a bookmark one by one in Safari on iOS - On the one hand pretty tedious, but soon I will be able to do it while ziping around in a self driving car
  • Spotify’s Tastebuds feature will let you explore your friends’ music tastes
  • Jack Dorsey Just UNFOLLOWED Mark Zuckerberg - I’m mildly ashamed that my initial reaction to this news was OMG
  • UK to create regulator to police big tech companies
  • It’s Interesting to see that although a lot of folks have been forking Chromium lately, some people are also forking Firefox to create their own browser, this article outlines the reasons behind going that direction
  • Billionaire Musk releases all Tesla patents to help save the Earth - The hope is that the 'open source philosophy' will accelerate the introduction of electric vehicles made by other manufacturers and thus have a much bigger positive environmental impact for the planet