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by planb 3y ago
I never forget to turn off my phone, probably because I'm so used to pushing the off button when I lay it down because I disabled auto lock on my first iOS device (1st gen iPod Touch). Maybe it's better now (by registering attenti
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by planb 3y ago
I have auto lock disabled, because I'm the one to decide when I don't need to look at my screen anymore. But that's different from not requiring faceid/passcode upon unlock.
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by planb 3y ago
As far as I see the currently best performing solution [0] does not account for hash collisions and therefore probably generates wrong results if enough different cities are in the dataset. Or am I missing something? [0] https://
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by planb 3y ago
I feel quite confident skipping a few songs on CarPlay. If I needed to do this on my phone, it would be way more dangerous. Now of course not interacting with the media player at all would be safest, but we’re talking about humans here, so
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by planb 3y ago
Can we please first analyze the problem before we call for regulation? Are touch screens really causing accidents or are they just inconvenient? I hate touch screen controls in cars for things that are adjusted during driving like everyone
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by planb 3y ago
I never got ABL to work with marlin, despite trying all possible configurations and versions, so I just did it the same way you do. With Klipper, it just worked when I first installed it. Never looked back.
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by planb 3y ago
Encryption is a great argument against messenger-interop regulations like the EU is planning. https://www.eff.org/de/deeplinks/2022/04/eu-digital-markets-...
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by planb 3y ago
I don’t understand why people seem to „want“ this to be real. It obviously isn’t. The effect cannot be explained by rolling shutter and therefore would involve actively stitching together multiple shots. This would be huge feature that Appl
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by planb 3y ago
That's exactly what I'm using this for. I have a home assistant automation that starts the washing machine when the daily solar peak power (as estimated by a web service for my location) is reached. Of course, I have to prepare ev
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by planb 3y ago
> If the Firefox browser engine was provided as an iOS library by Mozilla then Mozilla would update the library and every app that uses it would get the update at once. That problem is only caused by this not being supported. We don&#x27
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by planb 3y ago
> Because you are not running all of them at the same time, you are only running one of them This is not true. The moment Apple allows different browser engines, my Gmail app would use blink. As a browser, I’d maybe use Firefox/geck
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by planb 3y ago
Fellow German Freak Show listener? :)
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by planb 3y ago
Code that identifies if anything is stuck under the car would be useful for a lot of cases but especially if an accident already has happended. Besides that, hard edge cases will always exist and can only be solved by a human (or an AGI?) i
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by planb 3y ago
Banks had hundrets of years to become "slow and stupid af". Seems like big tech needs less then a decade for that.
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by planb 3y ago
Look, Apple haters: there’s much to criticize about this company, and I understand everyone who wants to be in full control of their devices (and all related encryption keys), but this story is just documenting the feature working as expect
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by planb 3y ago
I raised a bug in the image capture framework which prevented scanning from sandboxed apps and it was fixed 3 betas later. But probably because Preview.app was also affected and I asked all users of my software to file a bug for the Preview
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by planb 3y ago
If there's one important thing that all political spectrums can agree on at the moment, it's solar. Some do it for the environemnt, some to be independent from the grid, others to save money, but PV on every roof with local batter
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by planb 3y ago
I think you are underestimating how a well known „secure“ label (or lack thereof) could influence customer behavior. It’s not that they don’t care - they (understandably) lack deeper knowledge and therefore don’t base their purchasing decis
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by planb 3y ago
I thought exactly the opposite. Why keep all the old clutter around just for some edge cases that can easily be resolved by virtualization?
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by planb 3y ago
Just one example: As a software vendor, you probably want OpenAI to index your documentation, so questions about your software can be answered by ChatGPT. Not everybody who creates content is a "content creator" (when did this wor
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by planb 3y ago
That number still sounds crazy. They have to be counting third party subscriptions (from which they earn 30%) too here.
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by planb 3y ago
This is not true, even if it’s repeated a zillion times everywhere. As long as you don’t change your phone, smart unlock works without internet connection. And there is already third party software (which needs to connect to the Vanmoof ser
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by planb 3y ago
This is a well-written, interesting article. I especially like the non-alarmist tone to it ("Considering the inherent weaknesses and numerous limitations, this attack isn't practical.")
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by planb 3y ago
While I think you're right, you could have said the same thing about Tesla cars - but it worked out in that case. The problem with VanMoof was that they prioritized growth over quality - which may be a side effect of taking VC money, b
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by planb 3y ago
Ok, good point...
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by planb 3y ago
You make it sound like they (meta) are dumb for making these decisions. Probably, their goals shifted from "get as many users as possible" to "earn as much money as possible". I guess they know very well what they are do
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by planb 3y ago
I guess the OP wasn't looking for a Linux workstation under their desk and then went for the iPad form factor instead.
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by planb 3y ago
Computers can be used for other things than coding. And I guess an iPad is a perfectly capable device for many of those tasks.
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by planb 3y ago
I don't see what people expect. The iPad is a portable touch-first device with a small screen and a locked-down operating system. The first two are by-design for the tablet form factor, so this will never change. And I don't expec
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by planb 3y ago
And I’m not even sure if haven perfect pitch helps this much in playing existing music on an instrument. You still need the routine and practice to move your hands fast and accurate (which for me learning to play the guitar is the much bigg

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