Mastodon: A New Hope for Social Networking

MacTalk February 2023 GLENN FLEISHMAN 27 January 202318 comments Mastodon: A New Hope for Social Networking Cast your mind back to the first time you experienced joy and wonder on the Internet. Do you worry you’ll never be able to capture that sense again? It’s worth...

Is Your Future Distributed? Welcome to the Fediverse!

MacTalk February 2023 GLENN FLEISHMAN 27 January 20237 comments Is Your Future Distributed? Welcome to the Fediverse! A new concept with old roots has started to come to the fore on the Internet: federation. Instead of a centralized system, typically run as the...

iPhones and iPads Now Require a Passcode on Every Backup/Sync

MacTalk February 2023 ADAM ENGST 11 January 202350 comments iPhones and iPads Now Require a Passcode on Every Backup/Sync Back in late October 2022, annoyed reports started to appear on TidBITS Talk complaining that connecting an iPhone or iPad to a Mac to back up or...

An Annotated Field Guide to Identifying Phish

MacTalk February 2023 ADAM ENGST 16 January 202343 comments An Annotated Field Guide to Identifying Phish Do you like phish? Not the band, not tasty seafood dishes, and not the pretty tropical variety. I refer instead to the intellectual challenge of identifying...