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heavymark··on Sorry Safari Team
In regards to, "We realised the mistake on the morning of the keynote (November 3rd) and at that point it was too late to change it." Confused. While can understand not being able to change a number in a presentation last minute, the person reading/presenting could certainly just mention on that slide, or that number is actually x. Mistakes happen, but since they realized it before presenting why wouldn't they mention that rather than providing the knowingly wrong info?
heavymark··on Rittenhouse lawyer claims iPad pinch-to-zoom uses AI to fake video footage
I happened to tune on during the part of the live trial. At first was funny seeing them using works like logarithms incorrectly, but then the other side didn't do a great job at explaining either. As he kept saying everyone pinches and zooms and knows what that does so no expert is needed. But just because people all use the feature, that doesn't mean the average person would know if ai is enhancing/inserting pixels to do that or not. Because of this poor argument, later on when he finally starts to touch more on the reality that it has to do with resolution and you are just zooming in our out of full resolution... it was too late, since the by then the judge was confused enough and lacked confidence in both sides to hear it. The magifying glass example didn't seem like a good way to explain that. And finally while pinch to zoom is just bring you close to the real full resolution, off the top of my head, I'm not sure if you keep zooming into the deepest detail if say Apple Photos, etc, does apply any techniques of inserting pixels to show even larger or if stops at the max resolution. Or if the user has accessibility modes on if that further amplifies beyond the available data. And whether that's via linear interpolation like watching an evidence photo on a big screen tv or a different technique. So depending on how much they are zooming in, etc, it's not a completely crazy question to ask. But they could have probably just googled and got answers to that pretty quickly.
heavymark··on Apple is ready to admit it was wrong about the future of laptops
Not sure they were wrong about the future of laptops, rather wrong about the future of pro laptops that have specific needs that favor function over style. Most of us I think thought once they removed ports and MagSafe, and added Touch Bar, etc there was no going back and we had to get use to it. Haven't been this excited and love using in a long time. Always has been a great machine that rely on every day, but now it's a true joy. Sure would have loved FaceID and CFExpress and if MagSafe was also thunderbolt data cable (since many of us use docks), but otherwise it's incredible.
heavymark··on macOS Monterey
Have been using since June and haven't ran into any bugs/issues that prevents me from doing work. Unlike previous macOS betas were often there was at least one or two that would break things.
heavymark··on MacBook Pro 14-inch and 16-inch review: Apple’s mighty Macs
If they don't have the notch, then you get the same real estate as of the current macs. Instead with the notch they are able to cut out more space out of the top bezels that can now be used for the menu bar. So you are just getting more available space than you would have otherwise. The didn't add a notch that goes down further than existing MBP bezels go, so they didn't add it to add more things such as Face ID. They just simply removed the bezel from the left and right.
heavymark··on Roku tells customers it is unable to strike a deal with YouTube
Don't think it means you need a new tv. Just got an Apple TV box, or a Google one, or whichever you prefer since it seems your not stuck on using roku tv's service.
heavymark··on Facebook can't hide its problems behind a new name
I don't think they are changing their name like Comcast did to Xfinity in hopes of people not associating with their poor brand reputation.

Rather it's like Google becoming Alphabet, where it's just more of a legal process having a top level different name brand that Facebook and everything else falls under.

heavymark··on Governor vows criminal prosecution of reporter who found flaw in state website
"In a press release Wednesday, the Office of Administration Information Technology Services Division said that through a multi-step process, a “hacker took the records of at least three educators, decoded the HTML source code, and viewed the social security number of those specific educators.” Ha, or summarized a user clicked "View Source" in their browser. Well I guess the first of the multi-set process is open said browser.
heavymark··on Jony Ive's design agency launches website
Zooming is disabled everywhere on iPhone. Though since the text is so massive hard to imagine zooming improving the experience rather than worsening it even for extremely poor eye sight.
heavymark··on Nestlé to Debut Plant-Based Eggs, Shrimp
The articles use of a comma vs & made for a bit a confusing read. But maybe that was intentional since got me to open it.
heavymark··on YouTube blocks all anti-vaccine content
While the title says All anti-vaccine content, that actual article notes, it's blocking content that says "vaccines cause chronic health effects or contains misinformation on the substances in vaccines". A person who is hesitant about vaccine safety wouldn't be blocked then. Only if you say that cause x side effect (when that is not backed in science), or if you provide false info on whats in the vaccine, since the ingredients are facts. Someone saying their is a microchip in it, would not be a fact.
heavymark··on House Committee Will Vote on Federal Marijuana Legalization Bill Next Week
The houses passes headline bills all the time, knowing that the senate won't pass. Is this presumably one of those with 0 chance of actually passing or is their actually potentially the votes in the Senate? If so I would assume this would be on non .net, news site.
heavymark··on Judge Orders Apple to Ease Restrictions on App Developers
Or for companies that don't pay via their payment system, couldn't they increase the annual dev fees to compensate, or tell those people they cant use their APIs if they are not going to pay from them or other tactics. If the rate is too high that's one thing, but assume companies don't expect to continue to get any marketing or resources from apple if they aren't paying for them in one way or another.
heavymark··on Apple delays rollout of CSAM detection system and child safety features
Doesn't matter which version of iPhone one has, as applicable to the next version of "iOS". So assume you mean after people update to the next version of iOS. In which case they can disable iCloud Photos if they are concerned. Though they will need to also make sure not to use Google Photos or use Facebook since I assume you are aware both of them already do this scanning server side so in a much less privacy minded way.
heavymark··on FCC proposes fining conspiracists $5.1M for voter suppression robocalls
I didn't see much of an improvement when using do not call many years ago. Enabling an iPhone app dedicated to it helped greatly. And by default on iOS I have all unknown calls sent to voicemail, and I just make sure to have anyone I know who expect to call my in my phone book already. So most all calls in voicemail are spam. And if I know I will be getting a call from an unknown number like to schedule a delivery I disable the feature temporarily. Process works well.
heavymark··on Danny DeVito was unverified on Twitter after supporting union strike
Check mark is already back. Obviously it was a mistake or his account changed in a way to make it temporarily go away.
heavymark··on When did Neil Armstrong set foot on Mars?
Interesting. When searching for, "when did neil armstrong set foot on venus?" It, shows, "In which year and when Armstrong set his foot on the moon?" and provides the correct year. That's presumably what should show when searching for Mars (or any non earth moon planets).
heavymark··on Apple is suing smartphone emulation software startup Corellium
I’ve been using 1Blocker on Mac and iOS for years and every once in a great while I have it disabled temporarily and can’t believe people what people have to deal with where everything is covered in ads. Every once in a while some feature on a site doesn’t work so I click disable content blockers for that one page temporarily then all is good or can always just open up chrome for a particular site on those rare occasions.
heavymark··on Apple says photos in iCloud will be checked by child abuse detection system
Who did you switch to? As I assume you are aware Google has already been doing this as well as Facebook. Apple was simply the last of those to start doing it. Facebook reported 20 million instances of csam to ncmec last year alone.
heavymark··on Implement window.{alert, prompt, confirm} removal from cross-origin iframes
Coping test seems to work fine in Chrome and Safari, so don't think Google broke anything in regards to text selection/copy/paste on the page.
heavymark··on Apple Makes Magic Keyboard with Touch ID Available for Purchase
The original title mentions with Apple silicon. Wish that was here, since many only read the titles and easy to miss that this only works with new M1 Macs.
heavymark··on The identical inmates that showed the need for fingerprinting, 1903
They look similar but certainly not identical from the photographs at least, and even the article later mentions, "he looked startlingly like the first one." (not identical).
heavymark··on Safari 15 on Mac OS, a user interface mess
I love Apple and Safari and frequently provide bug reports to WebKit but I also absolutely hate the new safari and hope they reconsider it. I don’t mind change that is for the better and simply requires time to change muscle memory but this requires that and the end result is more clicks to do things, fewer static targets and the supposive benefits aren’t benefits for me at least. I find it most awful on iOS. The WebKit team is great and have to assume this direction to make the chrome of the app even smaller came from higher up. Hopefully more public backlash when the public betas come out so apple can rethink it. At the end of the day it’s still better than the alternatives for my use cases but hate that for me it’s a worse experience for something I use more than any other app.
heavymark··on Chrome abandons 'simplified domain experiment' in omnibar
In preferences it’s simply a check box to have it show full URLs in safari all the time.
heavymark··on Benzene detected in many sunscreen products
Seems like if this is true, it's something that shouldn't be behind a paywall. Does anyone have a list of the affected products? The actually research data and details I certainly support being behind a paywall however. Actually upon a quick google found the direct links to the files that list the products that are and are not contaminated. Glad that most all EltaMD (the most popular on Amazon are not effected but a couple models are).
heavymark··on Delaying a Covid vaccine’s second dose boosts immune response
…in those over 80… the study says for those only reading the title.
heavymark··on Apple AirDrop shares more than files
Interesting. I just read the title and assumed it was talking about security issues. Since we all know AirDrop can share files (what it was intended for), presumed this meant it's also sharing some data/privacy issues unbeknownst to us.
heavymark··on Netflix lost 9% of the market share as competition increases
As an Apple TV user while I use to live and breathe Netflix with all the other services it’s a bit overwhelming but I use the Apple TV app as a hub to access them all in one interface except Netflix blocks apple from integrating with that so over time I’ve watched less and less because it’s just not convenient. I understand Netflix doesny want to hand over that control to apple and others but think not integrating is going to back fire since their content is good but not good enough to be a one stop shop anymore.
heavymark··on Ubiquiti all but confirms breach response iniquity
I’m not aware of any alternatives that are designed as well, and if you switch the new option could just as easily be hacked or if so it on it could also be hacked but you may never realize. Though it’s good for all these people to pretend to threaten to leave since maybe that will get the company to be a little more forth right which is all we can really ask for these days.
heavymark··on Sony Announces New Flagship Alpha 1 Camera
$6,500 (US), March 2021 https://alphauniverse.com/stories/sony-announces-the-alpha-1...
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