Hello and welcome to Connected episode 383. It's made possible this week by our sponsors, Electric, Capital One, and Memberful. And yes, it is an odd episode. So I am humbled and pleased to be joined by

Mr. Mike Hurley. Hello. Hello. This is an important day today. It really is. And we will

get to that. But we're also joined by really the main of the hour the contender yes the the sole defender of

something freedom i don't know federico vittigi hello hi um it's me what do you call like in in law

terms like what is it the defendant and the plaintiff am i the am, the defendant and the plaintiff?

Am I the plaintiff in this instance?

Or the defendant?

Like, am I suing the emoji or are the emoji suing me?

Well, I guess it depends on if you have issues with them or not.

So maybe you become the plaintiff at the end of the Jeremy's.

Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Yeah, that works.

So we are doing the Jeremy's today. We'll talk about it in a little bit.

Yes. But first we have some follow-up. We spoke last time about an upcoming change in macOS 12.3, which is in beta.

We're going to talk more about the beta in a minute because, boy, there's some exciting stuff

in the betas right now. But there's a change coming that will affect Dropbox and OneDrive,

and their ability to reference files that are online only.

We spoke last time about this.

The news was kind of breaking, and we talked about how whatever's going on.

Like Apple needs to be really clear about what's going on and why it's happening now.

Sort of strange that it's happening mid-cycle.

Some more news kind of broke in the day since. It turns out that this is an API change in macOS in the 12.3 beta,

which I think came out the day after we recorded, maybe. It's in the notes.

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