Allison Smith (via Hacker News):
Amazon revealed at its annual Accelerate seller conference in Seattle that it is shutting down its long-running “commingling” program — a move that drew louder applause from sellers than any other update of the morning.
The decision marks the end of a controversial practice in which Amazon pooled identical items from different sellers under one barcode. The system, intended to speed deliveries and save warehouse space, had also allowed counterfeit or expired goods to be mixed in with authentic ones, according to The Wall Street Journal. For years, brands complained that commingling made it difficult to trace problems back to specific sellers and left their reputations vulnerable when customers received knockoffs.
[…]
With the company’s logistics network now capable of storing products closer to customers, the speed advantage of pooled inventory has diminished. At the same time, Amazon estimated brand owners spent $600 million in the past year alone through re-stickering products, the process of placing new labels or barcodes over existing ones on products.
Finally.
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Update (2025-10-04): Nick Heer:
I had no idea Amazon did this until I complained on Mastodon about how terrible its shopping experience is, and Ben replied referencing this practice, nor did I know it has been doing so for at least twelve years. I am certain I have received counterfeit products more than once from Amazon, and I think this is how it happened.
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Glenn Fleishman:
When setting up FileVault, you used to be presented with two choices:
- View the Recovery Key, write it down, and keep it safe. It’s never presented again. (But as long as you can log in, you can toggle FileVault and get a new key.)
Use your iCloud account to store the key in escrow. However, the key is not end-to-end encrypted, so there was always the slight potential that the key could be recovered by anyone who gains access to your Apple Account and unlocks that escrow.
Neither choice was great; I always opted for the first.
Read the whole post for details about how booting with FileVault works.
Now the key can be shown after it’s first created, which makes it easier to retrieve it without cycling FileVault off and on to regenerate the Recovery Key. And, instead of using basic Apple Account encryption, protected just by a password, the Recovery Key is now stored in your end-to-end encrypted iCloud Keychain and accessible via the Passwords app.
So you now need a trusted device rather than just your Apple Account password to get at the recovery key.
apple_ssh_and_filevault(7) (via Hacker News):
When FileVault is enabled, the data volume is locked and unavailable during and after booting, until an account has been authenticated using a password. The macOS version of OpenSSH stores all of its configuration files, both system-wide and per-account, in the data volume. Therefore, the usually configured authentication methods and shell access are not available during this time. However, when Remote Login is enabled, it is possible to perform password authentication using SSH even in this situation. This can be used to unlock the data volume remotely over the network. However, it does not immediately permit an SSH session. Instead, once the data volume has been unlocked using this method, macOS will disconnect SSH briefly while it completes mounting the data volume and starting the remaining services dependent on it. Thereafter, SSH (and other enabled services) are fully available.
Jeff Geerling (Mastodon):
macOS 26, despite all its visual warts, lets you manage Macs with FileVault drive encryption enabled, even after a hard reboot or cold boot (like after a power outage).
I’ll show you how it works in this video.
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Update (2025-09-24): Miguel Arroz:
macOS Tahoe UI has a HUGE new feature for folks like me who have 24/7 Mac Minis running and access them remotely: you can now type the boot password remotely via SSH!
Power on the Mac, then SSH to it. A simple SSH server will handle your request. Typing the password there is equivalent to typing it on the keyboard. The connection then closes and the machine boots normally.
Combine this with “Start up automatically after a power failure” and you can ditch that KVM!
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Jamie Lang (Hacker News):
Vimeo, once the internet’s most prestigious stage for independent filmmakers and animators, is being acquired by Milan-based app developer Bending Spoons in a $1.38 billion all-cash deal. The sale, expected to close later this year, will end Vimeo’s turbulent run as a public company.
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Bending Spoons CEO Luca Ferrari promised “ambitious investments” in Vimeo’s future, citing enterprise video services and AI-enabled features. But given the company’s track record — including significant staff cuts and restrictions at Evernote and WeTransfer — many in the creative community are skeptical.
Via Manton Reece:
Says something about Vimeo’s decline that I heard about them being acquired not from the tech news websites that I read all the time, but from Cartoon Brew in my RSS reader[…]
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Update (2025-11-05): jakob:
PSA: vimeo will be acquired by a company known for firing all but essential personnel and milking websites dry. If you have videos (you like) there, back them up and look for alternatives.
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MarsEdit 5.3.5:
Fix a crash when opening the main window or document sidebars on macOS 26
My sympathies.
“Duplicate Post” can now be invoked to duplicate more than one selected post
This feature also works much better in general, being smarter about how it handles the post’s metadata.
I appreciate the quick 5.3.6 and 5.3.7 updates to fix regressions with bookmarklets and HTML editing. I wouldn’t be able to write this blog without MarsEdit.
Previously:
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