The Strong (via Hacker News):
Doug Carlston, computer games pioneer and founder of Brøderbund Software, Inc., has donated to The Strong in Rochester, New York, a collection of games, consumer software, and corporate records that document the history of the company and the development of the computer games industry in the 1980s and 1990s. The materials will be cared for by The Strong’s International Center for the History of Electronic Games (ICHEG) and made accessible to researchers.
The Print Shop and Bank Street Writer were among my most used Apple II apps.
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Dan Goodin:
The bug in the GnuTLS library makes it trivial for attackers to bypass secure sockets layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) protections available on websites that depend on the open source package. Initial estimates included in Internet discussions such as this one indicate that more than 200 different operating systems or applications rely on GnuTLS to implement crucial SSL and TLS operations, but it wouldn't be surprising if the actual number is much higher. Web applications, e-mail programs, and other code that use the library are vulnerable to exploits that allow attackers monitoring connections to silently decode encrypted traffic passing between end users and servers.
The bug is the result of commands in a section of the GnuTLS code that verify the authenticity of TLS certificates, which are often known simply as X509 certificates.
It sounds a lot like the recent Apple bug.
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Russell Brandom:
Getty Images is dropping the watermark for the bulk of its collection, in exchange for an open-embed program that will let users drop in any image they want, as long as the service gets to append a footer at the bottom of the picture with a credit and link to the licensing page. For a small-scale WordPress blog with no photo budget, this looks an awful lot like free stock imagery.
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Brent Simmons:
Model objects live on the main thread. This makes it easy to use VSNote, VSTag, and so on in view controllers and in syncing.
There is one exception: you can create a “detached” copy of a model object to use with API calls. A detached model object exists on one thread of execution only, is short-lived, and is disconnected from the database. Detached objects aren’t a factor when it comes to concurrency.
When a model object is added, changed, or deleted, updates to the database are placed in a background serial queue.
Update (2014-03-07): Jesper:
Of Apple’s fixes’ own admission, Core Data sync didn’t work because it was a black box with no ability to debug it. It would be unfair to zing Core Data at large with that epithet. But if it’s something that seems true about Apple’s frameworks, love them mostly as I do, it’s that they’re constructed as if to impress on their user how privileged they should feel because of the difficulty of the bar that they set to solve the problem at, and the complexity of implementation they have used to convincingly solve the problem.
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Basic features are still painful for people that have been successful Cocoa coders for ten years. They’re not sufficiently saved by the ripening of frameworks as much as by their own accumulated ingenuity. Cocoa is still being developed, features are added, but rarely does something hard get easier.
Brent Simmons:
The second reason has to do with my enduring love of plain-ol’ Cocoa. I like regular Cocoa objects. I like being able to implement NSCoding, override isEqual: and hash, and design objects that can be created with a simple init (when possible and sensible). I especially like being able to do those things with model objects. (Which totally makes sense.)
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