Apparently if you get bored enough you start just playing with the keyboards installed on your iPad. Those that have the suggestion bar at the top can make some interesting ‘poetry’. You just keep tapping in the same place, or in some simple pattern across the N suggestions. Some are just bemusing drunk gibberish, but… Read more
It’s quickly apparent that John The Ripper Jumbo doesn’t build out of the box on macOS, and probably hasn’t for a long time, due to its complaint about missing OpenSSL headers. This guide was almost helpful, except it’s out of date – e.g. the Makefile.in patch it provides no longer applies cleanly – and simply doesn’t… Read more
In June 2005, I paid $584.10 for a shiny new iPod Photo 60GB, straight from Apple Computer Australia Pty Ltd. That was my first iPod. And I still have that song, too. I don’t really recall my impression of the original iPod when it launched. I want to say I was interested in it, and… Read more
Finally. Nikon have released the SnapBridge app so that the much-touted Bluetooth+Wifi capability of the D500 can actually be used. A mere eight months after it was announced. Fuck you too Nikon. However, as I’d clearly forgotten, it’s not very useful anyway. It doesn’t work with raws, you see. Doesn’t even acknowledge that they’re in the… Read more
I recently needed to find a photo gallery service, as though I put my personal & favourite work on Flickr, I don’t necessarily want to mix in other photography I do, plus Flickr makes it irrationally difficult to control access to photos (specifically, to arbitrary people or groups thereof). I also wanted, ideally, something that… Read more
Alternate title: Apple’s file system engineers are sadly naive. I was quite disappointed to see that APFS isn’t even trying to provide data integrity. Data integrity is kind of step 0 of any file system, and checksums or use of ECC is pretty much standard in modern & leading-edge file systems. APFS doesn’t want to… Read more
Apple crippled Disk Utility in El Capitan, in their usual name of making good functional things pretty & pretty useless. Luckily I’m far from the first person to need to create RAID and/or encrypted CoreStorage volumes, in El Capitan. Florian Knapp has a concise summary of how to set up an encrypted RAID volume. Tom… Read more