Tuesday 4th June, 2019 #
- Apple breaks up iTunes, creates separate Podcasts, TV, and Music apps for macOS
- The new Mac Pro is the shiny, expensive powerhouse that pros wanted
- Apple announces 'Sign in with Apple' - The hide my email feature when setting up accounts is quite neat, a lot of people have been doing this for years using a secondary email for spam, but this streamlines the process
- 41-gun salutes and a Twitter tirade - Donald Trump arrives in UK
- The new Mac Pro looks rather sleek - 360 degree access, thermal cooling system, practical additions like the wheels, handles and ports on the top, up to 28 cores, up to 1.5TB of memory
- Google Chrome, the perfect antitrust villain? - "there’s a non-zero chance Google may come to rue this seemly small decision as a crack that let in water in precisely the wrong place" - the article does a pretty good analysis of the antitrust issue that faces Google
- Taiwan's digital minister on combatting disinformation without censorship
- The latest version of MacOS called Catalina will ship with zsh as the default shell rather than bash, apparently they are making the switch because of licensing issues with GPLv3 resulting in not being able to upgrade bash versions, zsh is released under MIT license - I used zsh for a while a few years back and didn't like it much, was much happier when I switched back to bash