hapticmonkey

The AppleTV YouTube app is so bad that I’m convinced nobody responsible for it owns a TV.

It even forces its own built in screensavers to run instead of the OS one if the app is left paused. Who approves that?!

What Steve Jobs said about Microsoft in the 90s applies to Google today: They have no taste.

At this point I'm sort of wondering what the point of the move to streaming even was. These streaming companies came in and decimated the "traditional" TV industry, but they're almost all losing money, and all definitely losing customer satisfaction. And now ads are creeping in. We just had a revolution and replaced one flag with another. It's no wonder people are going back to waving the pirate flag.

If I could harness the power of AI to outsource my tasks, reading bedtime stories to my kids would be the last thing on that list. That's cherished time. Those are lifelong memories. Those are the moments we are supposed to be striving to have more of.

It saddens me to think of the amount of engineering work that went into creating that example while entirely missing the point. These are the moments we are supposed to be working towards to have more of. If we outsource them to an AI company because we are as as overworked and underpaid as ever...what's the point of it all?

Bad financials? Maybe they should stop making multi-billion dollar acquisitions, then.

AppleTV cant act as a media server. But as a client it's fantastic.

An AppleTV with an app like Infuse will flawlessly play back 4K HDR or Dolby Vision videos client side (no transcoding) as well as 7.1 lossless TrueHD audio. Unfortunately it wont do TrueHD Atmos.

I mean, it's not like the FDA are the ones who control legislation around what kind of support new parents can get. Take it up with the people to vote, repeatedly, to strike down paid parental leave, medical care, and other support systems.

Marlon Brando touched on this attitude when he asked if he’s the greatest actor of all time.

https://youtu.be/fgvMPUcw_2Q

"Sink It for Reddit"

There's a free safari extension for iOS that blocks the "use our app" popup on reddit mobile site. It's sad that such a thing even needs to exist.

I’d like to continue using the site, but third party apps are the only way to do so in a bearable way.

The mobile site and official app have terrible UX and bugs that make the whole experience rather infuriating.

I honestly thought my monitor or GPU was having issues with weird colour banding around YouTube videos. Turns out it was an intentional choice they made to do that. I don’t know why it’s on by default.

Apple HomeKit’s secure video is end to end encrypted and very easy to set up. You need compatible devices though.

Shoot in RAW mode. Either with the various third party camera apps, or Apple’s built in “Pro RAW” mode in the iOS camera app.

Experiment results that disagree with theory is EXCITING. I hope this contributes to progress and I'm giddy just imagining the model of the universe we have 50 or 100 or 500 years from now.

Does the army and law enforcement not use energy?

Do banks not have server farms?

They're not shutting down competitors, they're just requiring they ask for permission for tracking IDs.

If people are opting out of that tracking, then maybe those businesses were built on customer ignorance to begin with.

Taking Bitcoin as an example...it's an open and free alternative to those private systems.

Sure it has limitations, but the base network layer is there and functioning (with 100% uptime) for anyone to use without needing to ask for permission. That's the value.

If you’re both using Apple devices it works like this:

Guest: “What’s your wifi network?”

Me: “It’s XXXX”

Guest: selects network

Me: Prompt on my device “Would you like to share your wifi password with Guest” . Selects Yes

Guest: “oh wow I’m connected. Thanks!”

Now that only works if I am present. But it works wonderfully. It should be standardised across platforms.

You need more than just access to electricity to mine. You need the hardware, somewhere to run and maintain it, as well as the whole supply chain leading back to chip fabrication. These are all limited. You'd need a multi hundred-billion dollar covert operation to do all of that and it would take years to build.

> ”there is no underlying assets to act as an anchor of safety.”

As opposed to the Euro. Right?

I have friends who were impressed to see their house has gone up in value by 20-30% or more since they purchased it. But selling is pointless, since they would have to buy another overpriced house to move into.

It doesn't really seem like there are many winners in this current scenario. Unless you're selling to "downsize" or move somewhere cheaper. Or an investor...

That's like saying The Apollo moon missions were meaningless because they failed to set up commercial hub on the moon.

One comment a friend said that always stuck with me was "I have never regretted any time I spent with my children".

Compare that to work. I'm sure we all have regrets with work. Late nights or weekend working on something that didn't turn out to be worth it. Or working for somebody that didn't turn out to be worth it. But kids? Always worth it. Spend your time wisely.

The key difference is this infrastructure is 100% trustless. Bitcoin transactions are backed by proof-of-work, and Lightning transactions are backed by HTLC (hashed timelock contracts) which are in turn backed by the proof-of-work. Think of the blockchain more like a settlement layer and the Lighting network an everyday transaction layer.

That's the current goal of the developers of these systems, anyway.

Bitcoin in the Lightning Network are backed by the bitcoin blockchain. Bitcoin get committed to the Lightning Network (using an on-chain transaction) and can then move between users of the network. There is no central database of all Lighting users or transactions. Transactions are done directly between users, or by routing payments through other users.

It's kept trustless, because people trying to cheat can get their bitcoin stolen. This is done using fancy bitcoin multi-signature scripts. Closing a Lighting Channel using an old state (ie: being dishonest) reveals keys that can be used by the other (honest) party to take your funds.

The community would fork the blockchain at some agree-upon moment, add a new encryption scheme, and carry on.

There would probably be some competing chains as different communities tried to be "the one". Things might settle down at some point as it's really a "winner takes all" market.

Apple's health data is all stored offline, unless you have iCloud enabled for health data, in which case it's end-to-end encrypted and only used so devices can sync. You can choose to share certain data for their research programs.

The answer as to why other companies store data online should be obvious: There's a business can for having access to that data.

You can still download the Flash Player app from Adobe's web site and it loads .swf files just fine.

I use RAW for iPhone pictures because I find Apple's noise reduction too aggressive. For printed photos, the difference is quite noticeable.

Of course, using an iPhone camera for photography is always going to have limits. But I find the camera good enough for most day-to-day use cases.

The investment strategy for Bitcoin has always seemed pretty simple to me: It could be worthless one day, but there's also a chance it could be worth 10x or 100x or 1000x as much.

That asymmetry means investing even just a small amount (that you're comfortable losing) is an obvious choice.

It's also a fascinating technology (politics and monetary theories aside) and having some "skin in the game" makes you much more motivated to learn about how it works.