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katbyte··on Apple unveils 'Passwords' manager app at WWDC 2024
It’s what I do but auto fill doesn’t work in chrome on osx :(
katbyte··on Apple blocks PC emulator in iOS App Store and third-party app stores
I’ll chime in as one of them (and in every thread about this many more people do as well) - it’s one of the many things I like about an iPhone, the tighter control and gate keeping Apple does on the App Store. I like not having to worry so much on the App Store or wade through scams etc (I know there’s not none but seems less and it’s easy to find the apps I want) and for my parents and less tech savvy friends it’s great

But personally it comes down to it’s a phone not a computer to me and I don’t want to or care if I can run “anything” on it.

katbyte··on Study shows banning false info traffickers online can improve public discourse
Leave it up to the courts to decide. It seems to be the only place that the truth matters now.

If you cannot reasonably prove you acted in good faith - or cannot prove you did not knowingly make false statements it’s (and now that they are proved false you retract and remove) then you are a problem.

What that looks like in actual practice I don’t know but burying our heads in the sand and saying “it’s to difficult to stop” is not a good position to have.

katbyte··on Study shows banning false info traffickers online can improve public discourse
We most certainly are not an enlightened society.
katbyte··on Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?
the apple chips are so much "better" for a bunch of different reasons including the coprocessors but the biggest being the move to the ARM instruction set vs intel's x86 - Intel can not make that change for their main set of processors.
katbyte··on Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide?
fwiw i am a fan of azure resource IDs as they make it easy to identify what and where a resource is vs a random magic string you have to go look up
katbyte··on Tom Waits vs. Frito-Lay, Inc (2003)
Did you read the link?

The commercial was using a tom waits song sung by an artist who impersonated Tom waits and the folks involved discussed the potential legal implications and did it anyways.

katbyte··on America's dramatic shift from gas power plants to batteries
Utility just passes the cost onto the ratepayers
katbyte··on AM radio law opposed by tech and auto industries is close to passing
If the car is putting out to much EMI to make it expensive to put that 10$ radio into the dash with the FM one the handheld will be just as useless.
katbyte··on AM radio law opposed by tech and auto industries is close to passing
People who don’t live in these areas often drive through them to get from point a to b.

Personally I think it’s pretty ridiculous for cars to be removing it and it’s taking a law to force them to keep am radio

But that’s besides my point

katbyte··on AM radio law opposed by tech and auto industries is close to passing
Retro fitting all previous car & upgrading all am based equipment is not however
katbyte··on AM radio law opposed by tech and auto industries is close to passing
That’s YOUR area. Plenty around here without any giant flashing signs. Also long 100km bits of highway without cell service

Thing about corner cases is they do exist and need to be accounted for

katbyte··on Apple's risky bet on CarPlay
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250076351?sortBy=best

> If your vehicle has wireless CarPlay, the iPhone's GPS chip is completely ignored.

> If your vehicle has wired CarPlay, the iPhone's GPS chip may be ignored, depending upon what the head unit tells the phone to do.

this happens when near roads or not. the truck is doing something weird and wrong with the GPS data and forcing the phone to use it

katbyte··on Apple's risky bet on CarPlay
the only time i am paying attention is when off-roading and recording a track, and then its very obvious when the GPS is doing a good or bad job and unplugged from carplay i get a far more accurate track.
katbyte··on Apple's risky bet on CarPlay
i only really care about accurate when off-roading in the middle of nowhere with no reception and recording my track - my iphone performs far better when unplugged from the truck then when plugged into it.
katbyte··on Apple's risky bet on CarPlay
no it IS more accurate. When i am off-roading i always record my track and have to unplug my phone from the trucks system to get an accurate un-smoothed track.

google maps does weird things but gaia just uses the raw GPS data from the phone and doesn't snap, however when you are plugged into carplay the phone seems to always consider the car/trucks data more accurate even when its clearly not.

this could very well my specific truck (dealer has refused to look and i don't have another to compare to) or a general tacoma thing but it both smooths the GPS data to make "nicer" looking lines and often introduces drift over time as likely some processing it does compounds an error

(i also realize i said the wrong phone, iphone 14 not 12 but even with the 12 it was notably better then the truck but the 14 pro has a much improved GPS and it shows)

katbyte··on Apple's risky bet on CarPlay
try every week or two?

camping hiking etc bring me places without reception.

driving between towns here (BC, canada) often mean long stretches of road without reception.

katbyte··on Apple's risky bet on CarPlay
Seems like there are third party options if you google it
katbyte··on Apple's risky bet on CarPlay
Tacoma and tundra both come in hybrid now
katbyte··on Apple's risky bet on CarPlay
My iPhone 12 has much better reception then my 22 Tacoma even when tossed on the passenger seat.

Like waaaaaay better and more accurate

katbyte··on Apple's risky bet on CarPlay
Also I find it CarPlay crashes or hangs you just unplug/replug and it works
katbyte··on Apple's risky bet on CarPlay
Offline maps such as Gaia don’t work on Tesla so that is it failing at its job compared to CarPlay
katbyte··on Apple's risky bet on CarPlay
It has a far more limited selection of apps and Some I use daily are not available so it really doesn’t matter if it works better because for me it doesn’t work at all.
katbyte··on CoreNet: A library for training deep neural networks
You can brew install mas (I think) and then install/manage Mac store stuff via the cli pretty easily
katbyte··on Rents are soaring. Is RealPage to blame?
the problem is they are making more money by having a few units empty while renting the rest at higher rents.

the landlord is making more money, people are being squeezed for all they got, and less people have homes.

this is a huge drag on the economy and adversely affects every single person in a region except the rent seeking landlords. Even if you own it is a negative as your CoL is going to go up as stores need to charge more to pay employees more so they can afford homes.

katbyte··on Rents are soaring. Is RealPage to blame?
homes should not be an investment. no one needs stocks everyone needs a home.
katbyte··on Xz: Can you spot the single character that disabled Linux landlock?
white space as a delimiter is why i never use python.
katbyte··on Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses
Like what? What does na export in containers?

Most our exports are bulk not container afaik

katbyte··on U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly
no?

removing/decreasing apples ability to police apps before regulation means you are opening users to hostile apps.

adding regulation and setting standards for apps and data tracking and then removing/limiting apples ability to police apps does not.

these are not the same thing?

katbyte··on U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly
How about we regulate tracking apps etc first then force Apple to change?
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