Major new iCloud security features, more App Store price tiers, updates on Mastodon and Blackbird, and the wonderful world of printers.

• Pre-show: Past-Marco made poor life choices, and today-Marco paid the price
• Follow-up:
  • Mastodon instances and federation
  • Hive Social is going… well, it’s not really going actually
  • Sharrow
    • 👍 Merlin is vindicated; it’s a real thing
    • 👎 …but it’s not exactly a “share arrow”. But it is. Kinda. Sorta. 🤪
  • ButtDB Blackbird has been open-sourced
    • Publisher!
    • Custom string interpolation
    • Function Back Deployment
• Apple announces 3 new “advanced safety features”
  • How to generate a recovery key
  • Encryption comparison chart
  • Joanna Stern’s article (Apple News) & video
  • Platform Security Guide
  • Wired article
  • Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours
• Apple adds 700 new price points to the App Store
  • John and Jason discussed on Upgrade #436: I Bend So Many Spoons
• Apple introduces Apple Music Sing
  • Federico’s tweet
• #askatp:
  • How does the Mac Studio compare to John’s ideal computer? (via Daryl Thornton)
  • How are we backing up our shared photo libraries? (via Mark Roemermann)
  • Why can’t we quit Finder? (via Guilherme Alles)

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