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Month: March 2022

What has changed in Monterey 12.3.1?

The update to bring Monterey to version 12.3.1 is very small, and close to the minimum update size. […]

March 31, 2022 Macs, Technology

Apple has released Monterey 12.3.1 update

Apple has just released the update to macOS Monterey 12.3.1. It claims to address two issues: for Mac […]

March 31, 2022 Macs, Technology

Painting Everyday London: 12 Walter Sickert after

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Everyday domestic scenes, the music hall, Pierrots performing at Brighton, and townscapes are among his paintings made after the Camden Town Group.

March 31, 2022 General, Life, Painting

What is triald and why is it taking so much disk space?

Is a process named triald stealing lots of CPU? Or maybe ~/Library/Trial is huge, or filling your backups? Maybe it’s all just one of Apple’s Experiments.

March 31, 2022 Macs, Technology

Art and Science: 15 Permanence of colour

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Fading and colour change in paints has been well-described since 1400. Shown here in examples using indigo, it wasn’t properly investigated until the late 19th century.

March 30, 2022 General, Life, Painting, Technology

The hunt for the M1’s neural engine

How can you tell when software uses the Neural Engine in an M1 series Mac? How much power does it use, and what is Espresso? Mysteries unravelled.

March 30, 2022 Macs, Technology

In memoriam Piero di Cosimo, who died 500 years ago, 1

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Commemorating the 500th anniversary of the death of this innovative Florentine painter, a contemporary of Botticelli.

March 29, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Live Text, Visual Look Up, Face Recognition, ML and Privacy

How Apple’s Neural Engine ensures that your data remains private, rather than uploading it for processing on servers. And it spares your CPU cores from running neural computation.

March 29, 2022 Macs, Technology

Don Quixote 51: The enchanted bust

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Don Quixote is shown a bust, product of an enchanter, which answers questions truthfully, but not on Fridays. Everyone is amazed, apart from Sancho Panza.

March 28, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 144

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 144. Here are my solutions to them. 1: A […]

March 28, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

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