The folio case for smartphones remains an entirely boomer product offering. Having a case with a flap that covers your screen and needs to be folded open like a book to answer calls or use your phone is an innately ‘old-soul’ experience. The flap protects your screen but it also obscures it. Fold the flap to the back and it reveals your screen but blocks your camera. It isn’t for millennials or Gen-Z phone owners, but for anyone who wears reading glasses, this folio style case is as addictive as their generation’s Candy Crush habit. With Apple launching the iPhone Duo just yesterday, Nomad developed a similar folio style case for the Apple foldable.

Nomad’s Folio case for the Duo is a strange little thing. While most folio cases turn candybar phones into bifolds, Nomad’s case sort of turns it into a trifold, if you will… or a bifold with a partition. The case is a single-piece leather and plastic design, created to wrap your phone not just from the back but also the front. The front flap magnetically snaps to your phone’s outer display, and lets you open your phone in two ways – firstly, by just disengaging the flap to see the outer screen, but also by disengaging the flap and outer screen together to see the inner screen… and like any good folio case, the flap’s inside packs a card-holder for your payment, ID, and access cards so you don’t need a MagSafe wallet ruining your iPhone Duo’s design.

Designer: Nomad

Like all of Nomad’s leather cases, this one’s made from Horween leather, crafted from a single piece of hide that’s been tanned, bent, crimped, and buffed to absolute beauty. The leather gracefully wraps around the edges, keeping the buttons exposed and accessible, while also covering the hinge in a way that creates that bifold feeling. The leather then transitions upwards ever so slightly before cutting off to a plastic lip around the camera bump, cushioning your phone’s precious shooters from accidental drops and bumps.

On the inside, the leather’s reinforced by a microfiber layer that protects the iPhone’s glass panels from damage. Sure, Apple touts Ceramic Shield on both the front and back, but nothing breaks your heart faster than seeing a cut or a scratch running down the glass body from abrasive action caused by objects in your pocket or even your table. Meanwhile, a slot on the front stores two cards from the looks of it, so your iPhone Duo doubles as a card holder beyond what Apple Pay already lets you do.

Like all good leather cases, this one’s designed to age gracefully with time. Chances are, if you’re an iPhone Duo buyer, you will probably use this phone as your ride or die for another 2 years. In that time, Nomad says the case will patina gorgeously with time, aging uniquely based on how you use the phone. Luckily, the case isn’t too expensive. Priced at $129, you can grab the Nomad iPhone Duo Traditional Folio in one of three colors – Saddle, Rustic Brown, and Black, with global shipping starting November 14th.

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Would you be shocked to hear that the “Portrait Mode” on your iPhone all these years was ‘fake’? Well, it’s real as in the background is actually blurred, but it isn’t blurred because the camera captured it that way, it’s all been software trickery for the past decade… until now. Six laser cut blades, each thinner than a human hair, are about to change that. The iPhone 18 Pro’s new main camera can physically open and close its lens for the first time in iPhone history, and that single mechanical change rewrites how the blur behind your subject actually gets made.

Here’s the quick version of how Portrait Mode has worked since 2016. Your iPhone takes the shot, uses a second lens or depth data to figure out roughly where you end and the background begins, then runs software over the image to blur everything behind that outline. It’s a clever guess dressed up as photography, and it’s why hair strands sometimes disappear into a smudge or a stray earring gets blurred along with the wall behind it. The new aperture system skips the guessing entirely. The lens itself controls how much of the scene stays sharp, the same way it’s always worked on a real camera.

Designer: Apple

So how does a phone this thin pull off something that usually needs a chunky lens barrel? Apple built a system of six laser cut blades, each one thinner than a strand of hair, arranged around the main lens and moved by a tiny rotor mechanism. Together they shift the aperture through four stops, all the way down to f/1.48, with the camera defaulting to a f/1.8 for everyday portraits and opening or closing automatically depending on what it’s looking at. In low light it opens wider to pull in around 50 percent more light, which should mean cleaner night shots and sharper astrophotography without cranking up the ISO and adding grain.

Because this is optical now instead of computational, the depth falls off the way it would on an actual camera lens. Hair, glasses, jewelry, the fine stuff that always tripped up the old software blur, should render properly instead of getting smeared into the background by accident. Close the aperture down and you get more of the scene in focus for group shots, which is the same tradeoff photographers have been making with real cameras for a century. It’s just that now your phone gets to make that tradeoff too.

Apple didn’t stop at making the hardware smarter, it also handed a lot of that control directly to you. The redesigned camera app now includes Pro Controls, letting you manually pick one of the four aperture settings yourself, check exposure with an actual histogram, dial in white balance, and adjust shutter speed for motion blur or freeze frame shots. Third party camera apps are getting access to the same aperture system through an updated API, so this isn’t going to stay locked inside Apple’s own app for long. Photography folks who like getting hands on with their settings finally have a real reason to poke around the camera app instead of leaving everything on auto.

The upgrade carries over into video too. Cinematic mode effects can now be applied after you’ve already shot the footage, and it supports 60fps for smoother half speed slow motion. Time-lapse jumps to 4K with Dolby Vision HDR. None of that depends directly on the aperture blades, but it’s part of the same larger push this year to hand serious creative control to people who just want to point their phone and shoot something that looks intentional.

All of this sits inside a redesigned Pro body that now uses color matched aluminum and back glass, available in Black, Silver, the new Glacier, and a genuinely gorgeous Burgundy that photographs beautifully next to the camera module. The iPhone 18 Pro starts at $1,199 and the Pro Max at $1,299, both up for preorder September 12 and shipping September 18. For a feature that lives entirely inside a few hair thin blades you’ll never actually see moving, it might end up being the most noticeable camera change Apple has made in years.

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“Could you come again?” “Pardon?” “Huh?” “Wait, say that one more time?” These are examples of phrases that make you seem dumber than you really are. Nothing destroys aura more than unironically asking someone to repeat something they said because A. you weren’t listening, or B. you were but just didn’t happen to comprehend what they were saying. Apple has a solution for that, and it’s wrapped up in their latest smartwatch. The new Live Rewind feature, powered by Apple’s new S11 chip, allows you to instantly transcribe the past 15 seconds of any conversation and read its chat logs. Press the digital crown on the new Watch twice, and you pretty much get ‘subtitles’ for the past 15 seconds, so you don’t have to “excuse me” your way into a repetition.

Your watch, just like your phone, earbuds, smart speaker, and smart home hub, is always listening. It’s waiting for the magic words “Hey Siri” or Alexa, or Google depending on which ecosystem you’re tied into. The point is, it’s always listening, so Apple simply created a way to package that into a feature that feels impressive rather than invasive. Think of how a dashcam can auto-log the past 3 minutes of video AFTER an accident occurs (using a feature called loop recording), Apple just brought that to your watch, packaged as a part of its new Audio Intelligence suite of features. Impressive, no?

Designer: Apple

Once you’ve got the transcript, you can ask Siri about it directly, or save it into the new Siri app to dig up later. Say your coworker rattles off a Wi-Fi password or a colleague mentions a book recommendation mid-hallway chat. Instead of fumbling for your phone, you catch it on your wrist and move on. Apple says none of this gets recorded in the traditional sense. Audio flows into a secure buffer inside the S11’s Secure Exclave, a hardware compartment isolated from the rest of the system, and once the transcript is generated, the raw audio is gone. No file, no clip, nothing to subpoena, because nothing exists.

Sitting next to Live Rewind is Siri Recap, which does the same basic trick but for an entire conversation instead of a 15 second clip. Turn it on before a meeting or a parent teacher conference, and Apple Intelligence quietly builds a title, a summary, and a list of key points you can review afterward in the Siri app. You control the boundaries here more than you’d expect. Leave it running all day, schedule it for work hours only, or flip it off entirely from Control Center whenever the conversation turns private. Summaries auto delete after seven days unless you save them, and saved ones sync end to end encrypted, so not even Apple can read them back.

Audio Intelligence isn’t just built for eavesdropping on your own life. Sound Recognition listens for sirens, alarms, doorbells, and crying babies, then buzzes your wrist even when your phone is nowhere nearby, which makes it a genuinely useful accessibility tool for anyone who is deaf or hard of hearing. Shazam gets folded in too, sitting in the Smart Stack and naming whatever song is playing around you without you having to pull out a phone. Four features, one microphone, and one chip doing the quiet work behind all of them.

Both Live Rewind and Siri Recap need Siri AI to function, and Siri AI is still in beta, so expect this to roll out gradually starting in English before other languages follow. You’ll also need an iPhone 16 or newer paired to the Watch, so the 16e and anything older is out of luck. Apple Watch Series 12 itself starts at $399, is available for preorder today, and ships September 18. The health sensors got a real upgrade this generation too, but for once, that isn’t the headline. The mic is.

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Spare a thought for the iPad Mini, which had a perfectly good career until this morning. Apple’s $1,999 iPhone Duo arrives October 23 with a 7.6-inch inner display that takes Apple Pencil with USB-C later this year and runs two apps side by side, which covers roughly everything the Mini was for, except the Mini does not fit in your jeans. It also killed the dynamic island, swapping it for a punch hole outside and a FaceTime camera tucked under the inner screen. And it killed the SIM tray worldwide, because the thinnest iPhone ever made had no room left for sentiment.

Apple never announces any of this. It ships the replacement and lets the old thing stop making sense on its own schedule. The Duo is a whole product built out of things Apple decided to stop carrying, and the interesting part is how little you miss any of them once you see what moved into the empty space. John Ternus called it the most transformational change to iPhone since the original, which I not only agree with, I think I’d take it a step further by saying – this is such a dramatic leap for the iPhone that it stops being an iPhone. It isn’t an iPad either. It’s something completely different.

Designer: Apple

Apple refused to build a squarish slab that happens to close, and said so from the stage, calling out rivals whose square inner screens box movies into oversized black bars. The Duo lands at roughly passport size, with an asymmetric profile: two rounded corners on the right, squared geometry at the hinge. That asymmetry does something clever, because it tells your hand which edge to open before your brain gets involved. It reads like a small hardcover you want to crack open, which is a strange compliment to pay a phone. Somebody fought for that shape in a review meeting, and I am glad they won.

Both displays share a single aspect ratio, which is the decision the whole product rests on. Closed, the 5.4-inch outer panel delivers 90 percent of an iPhone 18 Pro’s screen area, so it works as a complete phone rather than a notification window. Open, the 7.6-inch inner canvas runs 50 percent larger than an 18 Pro Max. Because the proportions match, content scales between the two instead of reflowing awkwardly every time you fold, and the movie you started on the cover screen simply gets bigger. Every foldable before this one asked you to accept a jarring transition, and Apple designed the jarring part out.

Content flows between the two displays as the phone opens, expanding out of the cover screen and settling into the larger canvas without a stutter. I would put that transition ahead of anything Samsung, Google or Oppo has shipped on a folding device, and it is the single most beautiful piece of UI in the category right now. The matched aspect ratio is what makes it possible, because there is no reflow to disguise, only a scale. Controls stay locked in place along the side while the content grows around them. Watching it happen is the closest a phone has come to feeling like sleight of hand.

The crease is the thing people notice first on a foldable, and Apple has more or less made it disappear. A matte nano-texture finish across the inner display cuts glare and flattens how the fold reads, so the eye stops finding the seam. It also solves the other foldable complaint nobody talks about, which is the cheap plastic feel of a folding panel under your fingertip. Real glass sits above and below the display, and the whole stack is built to stop the panel distorting after a few thousand folds. Nine years of waiting bought Apple a fold you have to hunt for.

Grade 5 titanium forms the frame, polished to a mirror finish and broken by a hinge cover in contrasting micro-blasted texture. That pairing is the sharpest visual detail on the object, a bright reflective body interrupted by one matte band at the spine, and it gives the closed device a piece of jewelry quality that photographs beautifully in star white. Ceramic Shield protects the back, Ceramic Shield 2 the front, and the whole thing carries an IP68 rating. Pulling that dust and water rating across a moving joint is genuinely difficult engineering. The night sky colorway, a deep navy, is the one I would actually buy.

The dock is vertical now. iOS 27 moved essential controls to the side of the screen, freeing vertical space for content and landing the buttons under your thumb, which rewrites a layout convention Apple has held since 2007. The status bar compresses into a corner and the Dynamic Island turns sideways along the edge of both displays. Every first-party app had to be relaid out to make this coherent, and the fact that it still reads unmistakably as iOS is the real achievement here. Nobody outside Apple would have been permitted to move that dock.

Fold it halfway and iOS slides content away from the crease, giving you a laptop-style prop for video calls, a hands-free camera rig, and a bedside alarm face that wakes you with a gentle glow. StandBy now runs even when the phone is off charge, turning it into a photo frame or widget hub the moment you set it down. The speakers retune themselves depending on how far apart the two halves are sitting. One device, half a dozen legible postures, all of them designed rather than discovered by users after launch. The alarm clock pose alone will sell a few thousand units.

The cameras take advantage of having a second screen. Duo Preview throws a live feed onto the outer display so your subject can see themselves and fix their own framing, which ends a decade of “can you take it again.” Kid Cue plays Peanuts animations to make toddlers look at the lens. Smart Take watches the scene and fires the shutter once everyone is finally posed, killing the timer scramble. A 48MP Fusion Main with a 2x telephoto handles the actual imaging, alongside the same 48MP Ultra Wide found on the iPhone 18 Pro.

Going eSIM only across every market freed the internal volume for one battery per side, managed so the pair behaves as a single cell, delivering 31 hours of video on the inner display and 44 on the outer. I will miss the tray as a traveler, and I also suspect Apple has wanted it gone for years, because a physical port punched through the frame is a liability on a device chasing IP68 across a hinge. A20 Pro drives both panels, and fast charging reaches 50 percent in around 20 minutes. Some deletions are grief. This one is mostly relief.

Touch ID in the side button is a real step back from Face ID on a two thousand dollar phone, and it exists because a TrueDepth array had nowhere to live. Apple Pencil support arrives later this year rather than at launch, which softens the iPad Mini argument for a few months. The bezels look chunky beside a Galaxy Z Fold 8, and the folded body still reads thick in the hands-on shots. At $1,999, a hundred dollars over the Fold 8 and five hundred under what everyone predicted, Apple showed up nine years late and priced like it was early. Pre-orders open October 16.

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I have a friend who still uses an iPhone 13 mini held together by a case and pure spite, and every single time a new iPhone launches, she asks me the same question. Is it small yet. It never is. Apple has spent years telling us, implicitly, that small phones do not sell, that the market has spoken, that everyone wants a bigger canvas for videos and games and doomscrolling. Fine, sure, the sales numbers backed that up in 2023. But sales numbers do not mean the desire disappeared, they mean the alternative was not good enough to fight for.

Which brings me to the iPhone Ultra, Apple’s rumored first foldable, expected to close into a short, squat, almost passport-shaped little brick before you unfold it into something the size of an iPad mini. That folded shape is the closest thing to mini energy Apple has shown in years, and it is buried inside a two thousand dollar folding phone nobody asked to be the delivery method. My friend does not want an iPad mini that folds. She wants her 13 mini, but new. Apple already built the shape. It just built it around the wrong phone.

Designer: Apple

The Air existed to answer a question almost nobody was asking at checkout, namely how thin can a phone get before the internals start filing complaints. It was a genuine engineering flex, the kind of thing that looks incredible in a teardown video and slightly pointless in daily use. I understood what it was trying to prove. I just never needed it proven to me personally, and I doubt I was alone in that.

The Ultra is rumored to repeat that exact flex, except this time the thinness gets folded in half, closing down to somewhere between 9 and 9.5mm shut and reportedly as thin as 4.5mm open, according to recent leaks. That is a genuinely wild number for a phone with a hinge in it. Apple is once again proving it can do the hard, borderline unnecessary engineering thing. The difference is that this time, buried inside that flex, is an actual shape people have been begging for since 2023. Apple just does not seem to have noticed it yet.

Go back and look at what the 13 mini actually was for a second, because I think people forget how unremarkable the compromise really was. It measured 131.5mm tall, 64.2mm wide, weighed 141 grams, and ran the exact same A15 chip as the standard 13. You gave up battery life and screen real estate. You did not give up the flagship experience shrunk down to fit an actual hand. Compare that to where the standard iPhone lineup sits today, regularly north of 6.1 inches before you even get to Pro Max territory, and the gap the mini used to fill has only gotten wider and lonelier.

Now put the Ultra’s folded footprint next to that. Reports point to a 5.5 inch cover display when shut, in a short, wide, passport style shell that is about as close to mini adjacent proportions as Apple has shipped since the mini died. The catch is that this compact shell only exists as a doorway into a 7.8 inch, 4:3 inner screen and a starting price rumored to land somewhere between 1,999 and 2,499 dollars. Nobody buying that phone is buying it to have something small in their pocket. They are buying an iPad mini that happens to fold shut, which is a completely different pitch than the one my friend has been asking me about for three years running.

There has been some loose speculation, mostly a 9to5Mac piece from last year, that Apple’s new staggered launch schedule could theoretically clear a runway for a smaller phone somewhere down the line. Even that piece called the odds slim to none, and nothing currently on Apple’s roadmap for the 18, 18e, 18 Pro, or Ultra includes a mini in any form. Samsung, for what it is worth, has stuck with its Z Flip clamshell as its own answer to compact, so the appetite for small has not vanished industry wide, it has just gone unanswered on Apple’s side of the fence for a while now.

So here is the pitch, and it is not a complicated one. Apple has now proven twice, once with the Air and once with the Ultra’s folded shell, that it can engineer real compactness without breaking anything important. Skip the fold. Skip the tablet trapped inside a phone shaped envelope. Take that exact short, wide, passport sized footprint and wrap a single, non folding screen around it, call it a mini, and ship it. Apple does not need a new idea here. It already built one. It just keeps hiding it inside features nobody was asking it to attach to.

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À Milan, une affiche Apple montre un tout petit enfant qui tient un iPhone couvert d'une substance gluante, sous le slogan "Tutto ok, è iPhone", tout va bien, c'est un iPhone. L'autorité italienne de protection de l'enfance ne l'a pas du tout prise comme une blague.

Le visuel appartient à la campagne mondiale "Relax, it's iPhone", qui décline depuis des mois le même gag d'un téléphone qui ressort indemne des petites catastrophes du quotidien. Ici, la catastrophe a deux ans et les mains pleines de bouillie.

Une habitante de Milan, dérangée par l'image, l'a signalée à l'AGIA, l'autorité garante de l'enfance et de l'adolescence. Celle-ci a embrayé direct.

Pour l'autorité, cette affiche banalise le baby-sitting électronique, cette habitude de coller un smartphone dans les mains des très jeunes enfants pour avoir la paix, avec un risque de dépendance à la clé et des conséquences sur leur développement psychologique et cognitif.

Le dossier a du coup été transmis à trois organismes, le régulateur des communications, l'autorité de la concurrence et l'institut d'autodiscipline publicitaire, pour d'éventuelles suites. Aucune décision n'est tombée pour le moment. bien sûr, c'est un peu tôt encore.

Apple voulait probablement dire autre chose : votre téléphone survivra si le petit dernier s'en empare, l'écran encaisse la bave et la purée de carottes. Sauf que voilà, sur ce panneau, le double sens existe, et il ne reste qu'un bébé absorbé par un iPhone.

Le moment est mal choisi. Plusieurs pays débattent d'un âge minimum pour les réseaux sociaux, et les autorités de santé répètent depuis des années qu'avant trois ans, l'écran est à proscrire tout court.

On comprend le problème, et il faut dire que l'image est gênante pour une marque qui vante par ailleurs son mode Temps d'écran et ses outils de contrôle parental à chaque conférence.

Apple n'a pas commenté. La campagne, elle, poursuit tranquillement sa tournée mondiale.

Source : Mac4ever

Krystian Pierz, un développeur polonais qui se planque derrière le pseudo Kruszoneq, en a eu marre de se galérer à chaque fois pour faire des clés USB bootable pour Mac, alors il a sorti macUSB , une app Mac native (du vrai Swift, pas un machin Electron quoi) qui fait tout le sale boulot à votre place. C'est gratuit, le code est ouvert, et surtout c'est notarisé par Apple, donc pas besoin de bidouiller la sécurité de votre Mac avec Sentinel pour la lancer.

Et ça se fait en trois clics. Vous balancez votre image (un .dmg, un .app d'installation macOS, ou même un .iso), vous désignez votre clé USB, et macUSB se débrouille pour calculer le checksum, détecter la version et l'architecture, formater le support dans le bon système de fichiers et écrire le tout en vous affichant la vitesse en temps réel. Pas de Terminal, pas de commande à rallonge à recopier sans se tromper d'un espace, et surtout l'Utilitaire de disque qu'on déteste tous reste fermé.

Le vrai exploit de Kruszoneq c'est surtout qu'il a réussi à régler les cas de figure où createinstallmedia, l'outil officiel d'Apple, se crashait comme une merde. Je pense que si vous avez déjà essayé de vous faire une clé Monterey ou Big Sur depuis un Mac Silicon par exemple, pour réparer un autre Mac Intel, vous avez dû vous galérer avec des erreurs de validation et autres messages d'erreur pour cause d'architecture incompatible.

Bah macUSB contourne tout ça tout seul comme un grand, et répare même les certificats expirés des installeurs High Sierra et Mojave sans rien vous demander.

Pour situer le progrès, la méthode "propre" côté Apple ressemble à ça :

sudo /Applications/Install macOS Sequoia.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/MaCle

...et encore, à condition d'avoir déjà récupéré le bon installeur dans l'App Store. Je ne vous parle même pas de l'époque où il fallait extraire à la main le fichier InstallESD.dmg planqué dans le paquet de l'installeur (j'expliquais déjà ce bricolage en 2011 pour OSX Lion ). Alors que macUSB, lui, embarque un téléchargeur qui va chercher les installeurs directement sur les serveurs d'Apple. Vous n'avez plus rien à préparer en amont.

L'outil sait donc préparer des clés USB de macOS Tahoe (la version 26, celle de cette année) jusqu'à Tiger 10.4 sorti en 2005, PowerPC compris. Oui, vous pouvez ressusciter un iMac G5 depuis votre MacBook M4. Pour les collectionneurs de vieilles machines, les labos qui gardent des Macs d'époque, ou juste pour remettre d'aplomb un ordi que vous comptez revendre, c'est du bonbon ^^.

Et la v2.3, sortie hier, en remet une couche côté Windows puisqu'elle sait également préparer des clés Windows 10 et 11 en contournant le check TPM 2.0 (le compte Microsoft obligatoire avec la connexion Wi-Fi forcée pendant l'installation, argh !). Et elle écrit aussi les images Linux en .iso et en .img. Après si c'est juste faire une clé Windows depuis votre Mac que vous cherchez, WinDiskWriter fait déjà très bien le job, mais macUSB a l'avantage de tout regrouper au même endroit.

Côté prérequis, votre Mac doit donc tourner au minimum sous Sonoma 14.6 (Apple Silicon ou Intel), et il faudra lui accorder l'accès complet au disque dans les réglages système, rien d'anormal puisqu'il écrit directement sur vos volumes. Une fois ça réglé, vous récupérez le .dmg sur la page des releases GitHub , ou vous l'installez en une ligne avec Homebrew :

brew install --cask macusb

C'est super impressionnant pour un projet développé par une seule personne et qui plus est n'a que 6 mois d'existence. Bref, si vous avez un Mac à réinstaller, un vieux coucou à dépanner ou une machine à remettre d'aplomb avant de la revendre, foncez !

Un dev prénommé Yllan vient de sortir OS9Map , une application qui affiche OpenStreetMap directement sur Mac OS 9. Oui, je parle bien du système d'exploitation de 1999 qui ronronnait sur nos vieux PowerPC.

Pour l'installer, c'est un bon vieux fichier .sit à décompresser (StuffIt Expander sur la machine d'époque, The Unarchiver si vous passez par un Mac moderne), et il vous faudra un PowerPC sous OS 9 avec 16 Mo de RAM (32 recommandés) et une connexion qui passe par Open Transport. Une fois lancé, vous avez alors une recherche d'adresses qui tape dans Nominatim, le moteur de géocodage d'OpenStreetMap, et vous pouvez mettre vos endroits favoris en signets pour y revenir d'un clic depuis le menu. Bref, un vrai petit client carto !

Et c'est là que je trouve ça beau puisque 16 Mo de RAM pour afficher une carte mondiale interactive, c'est très peu. Pour vous situer, un seul onglet Chrome aujourd'hui c'est plusieurs centaines de Mo, donc faut saluer l'exploit d'Yllan.

Maintenant si l'idée d'une carte minimaliste vous parle, dans le genre bien dépouillé j'avais aussi joué avec MapSCII qui balance le monde entier en ASCII dans un terminal. OS9Map joue dans une autre cour, mais on retrouve un peu la même philosophie.

Le truc qui rend tout ça possible, c'est évidemment OpenStreetMap qui propose toutes ses données en accès libre ! Alors rien que pour ça, merci à OpenStreetMap et ses contributeurs.

Et puis si vous n'avez plus de PowerPC qui traîne au grenier, vous pouvez quand même goûter à OS 9 dans votre navigateur via Infinite Mac .

OS9Map est en version 1.0.0 et se télécharge gratuitement sur le site de yllan .

C'est la fin d'une époque. Le noyau Linux, le cœur du système qui pilote le matériel et les communications, s'apprête à supprimer le support d'AppleTalk, ce vieux protocole réseau qu'Apple utilisait dans les années 80 et 90 pour faire dialoguer ses Mac entre eux avant que TCP/IP, le langage commun d'internet, ne s'impose partout.

À l'époque, c'était plutôt malin: vous branchiez deux machines et une imprimante, et elles se trouvaient toutes seules, sans la moindre configuration, du plug-and-play avant l'heure à un moment où monter un réseau relevait encore du casse-tête réservé aux initiés.

Aujourd'hui, plus grand monde ne parle ce dialecte. Il en subsiste quelques traces dans Bonjour, la techno maison qui détecte automatiquement imprimantes et appareils sur un réseau local, mais le protocole d'origine, lui, est mort depuis longtemps.

Près de 4000 lignes de code vont donc disparaître avec la version 7.2 du noyau, et Apple avait lui-même enterré AppleTalk dès 2009, du temps de Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Autant dire que le préavis a été large.

Le plus étonnant, c'est ce qui a déclenché le grand ménage. Ce n'est pas vraiment l'abandon par les utilisateurs, mais une vague de correctifs générés par intelligence artificielle qui a fini par saturer la liste de diffusion des développeurs réseau.

Depuis quelques mois, des outils basés sur des grands modèles de langage, balancent automatiquement des "corrections" de bugs sur du code que personne n'avait réclamé, pour un protocole que plus aucun matériel ne fait tourner.

Et chaque proposition, même inutile, mobilise un humain qui doit la lire, la tester et vérifier qu'elle ne casse rien ailleurs, du temps précieux soustrait au vrai travail de mainteneurs déjà débordés par les contributions légitimes.

C'est Jakub Kicinski, qui supervise toute la pile réseau du noyau, qui a fini par trancher: plutôt que de faire éplucher par ses équipes des patchs pondus en série par des machines pour réparer une techno morte, il a préféré retirer AppleTalk d'un seul geste.

Et il n'en est pas à son coup d'essai. Au cycle précédent, pour Linux 7.1, il avait déjà passé à la trappe ARCnet, l'ISDN, la radio amateur et toute une collection de vieux pilotes réseau oubliés, soit près de 138 000 lignes effacées d'un coup, dans ce qu'il a lui-même baptisé la "LLM-pocalypse".

Le code d'AppleTalk ne finit quand même pas tout à fait à la poubelle, puisqu'il rejoint AX.25 et la radio amateur dans un dépôt GitHub mis de côté, pour les rares curieux qui voudraient encore bidouiller avec.

Bref, c'est une première: des contributions automatisées qui font retirer du code encore fonctionnel. L'IA ne crée pas toujours. Parfois, elle déblaie.

Source : Phoronix

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