What is accessoryupdaterd?
If you see accessoryupdaterd running on your Mac, here is what this accessory firmware update process does.
Mac
Blog
Homeland
Homeland is an American spy thriller series. It aired on Showtime from 2 October 2011 to 26 April 2020. Howard Gordon and Alex Gansa created it. The show bases loosely on the Israeli series Prisoners of War. Claire Danes plays Carrie Mathison, a CIA officer with bipolar disorder.
TV Series
Privacy Roundup #0165 • April 2020
April 2020 was dominated by Zoom's security reckoning and a global rush to build coronavirus contact tracing, as breaches and state surveillance tested privacy under lockdown.
Privacy
12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson
Jordan B. Peterson's 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos gives clear advice on how to live better. He draws from psychology, old stories, religion, and his own life.
Books
Additional Linux Distributions
The Swift project now officially supports Ubuntu 20.04, CentOS 8, and Amazon Linux 2, alongside Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04, with downloadable toolchains and Docker images available on Swift.org.
Development
Monthly update #0360 • April 2020
Monthly update 360 • April 2020 • 2020-04-01 - 2020-04-30
Monthly Updates
SecKey moving to Universal Purchases
SecKey moving to Universal Purchases
Projects
Quiet moving to Universal Purchases
Quiet moving to Universal Purchases
Projects
Bordertown
Bordertown is a Finnish crime drama series. It aired on Yle from 16 October 2016 to 2020. Miikko Oikkonen created it. Ville Virtanen plays Kari Sorjonen, a brilliant detective with an unusual mind who moves his family from Helsinki to the quiet border town of Lappeenranta, near the Russian frontier.
TV Series
The MAGA Doctrine by Charlie Kirk
Charlie Kirk’s Right Wing Revolution: How to Beat the Woke and Save the West argues that “wokeism” threatens American freedom and traditional values.
Books
What is contextstored?
If you see contextstored running on your Mac, here is what this context awareness process does.
Mac
Happy Easter
Three decades after my first memories Easter still inspires. Jesus rose and that fact changes history.
Christianity
PlanesTrainsEverything
Planes, Trains, Everything is a YouTube channel run by Scott Manson, a Scottish travel vlogger from Paisley near Glasgow.
Gems
Good Friday
Three decades after my first memories Good Friday still inspires. Jesus died on the cross and that fact changes history.
Christianity
Monthly update #0359 • March 2020
Monthly update 359 • March 2020 • 2020-03-01 - 2020-03-31
Monthly Updates
Privacy Roundup #0164 • March 2020
The coronavirus turned March 2020 into a month of state phone tracking and rushed video apps, even as old fashioned breaches kept exposing millions of records.
Privacy
I Don’t Care What Google or Apple or Whoever Did
It is not uncommon that I raise an accessibility or usability issue with a client’s design or implementation and am met with either “But Google does this,” or “But Apple does this.”
Development
Swift 5.3 Release Process
Swift 5.3 focuses on significant quality and performance improvements while expanding platform support to include Windows and additional Linux distributions.
Development
Swift 5.2 Released!
Swift 5.2 enhances the developer experience with improved compiler diagnostics, faster code completion, better debugging, and refined Swift Package Manager dependency handling.
Development
Useful macOS defaults: QuickTime Player
Handy defaults write commands for com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX, controlling how QuickTime Player behaves.
Mac
What is IOAccelMemoryInfoCollector?
If you see IOAccelMemoryInfoCollector running on your Mac, here is what this GPU memory monitoring process does.
Mac
Ride Upon the Storm
Ride Upon the Storm is a Danish drama series. It aired on DR1 from 1 October 2017 to 2020. Adam Price created it. Lars Mikkelsen plays Johannes Krogh, the powerful patriarch of a family of Lutheran ministers in Denmark.
TV Series
What is musicd?
If you see musicd running on your Mac, here is what this Apple Music process does.
Mac
Privacy Roundup #0163 • February 2020
February 2020 was dominated by leaky databases, government purchases of location data and a reckoning over facial recognition, as Clearview AI lost its own client list.
Privacy
Monthly update #0358 • February 2020
Monthly update 358 • February 2020 • 2020-02-01 - 2020-02-29
Monthly Updates