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Suggest also adding credentials. =)

https://root:ssh@mail.com.sketchylinkasdf.com…

Hilarious, I love this take.

I’d guess that “covert ops” using ChatGPT are amateurs, by definition (because it’s clearly not covert). Surely, the serious operators would use offline local LLMs.

I think Apple minimizes the importance of Lockdown Mode because nontechnical users will be confused when some things break when it is enabled, resulting in poor user experience and increased support burden.

Lockdown Mode does effectively block active zero-click exploits.[1][2] Despite who you are, how does it feel knowing your device is hackable and that there is an option that makes it less hackable? Considering that Lockdown Mode has almost no downsides for technical users (other than disabling shared albums), I think most people should have it enabled. I'm not a public figure, but I am a sysadmin that manages resources for many clients. I'm not likely to be targeted, but I'm not going to disable it (and thus make my devices vulnerable) just so I can share photo albums.

[1] https://citizenlab.ca/2023/04/nso-groups-pegasus-spyware-ret... [2] https://www.wired.com/story/apple-iphone-spyware-101/

Is it possible to use Ente just for the album sharing feature? I would like to upload a couple dozen images to a gallery and shared the link on social media. It’s not clear if I have save to give it access to all my photos to be able to use that feature. Ideally, I’d be able to create and share an album directly from Apple Photos to Ente.

Apple Photos is pretty good. Sync works well, the apps are decent, and the automatic OCR/AI search is very helpful.

I’m disappointed that sharing an album isn’t possible with Lockdown Mode enabled.

What does paying for Pro provide that isn’t included in the free version? Free/Pro feature comparison isn’t included in the app description.

The podcast in question is “Acquired” https://www.acquired.fm/episodes

I’ve never heard of it. The article reads like an ad.

MetaFilter is a quaint online community with about 5000 users commenting monthly that has a minor elitist barrier to entry: you have to pay $5 to join. That's been in place since about 2006, and along with a vigilant moderation team, has kept it one of the coziest social media that is mostly forgotten about (sign ups in 2022 were about 10% as many as in 2014).

Another suggestion related to search: please implement a URL route to initiate a search. I would like to define a search template to easily start a search from LaunchBar. Something like https://whereto.stream/search?q=*

Very useful site!

CTIA is a trade association representing the wireless communications industry in the US. They offer a short code to which you can forward spam SMS messages: 7726 (which spells “SPAM”) and it will supposedly help train telecom network SMS filters: https://www.ctia.org/consumer-resources/protecting-yourself-...

They also have resources for blocking robocalls: https://www.ctia.org/consumer-resources/how-to-stop-robocall...

Until Starlink can lower prices to < $10/month, community-level ISPs will still be relevant to many locations (LatAm, etc). Starlink uplinks might even be used by the ISPs.

I lived in a village in Colombia, population about 2000, which had four competing wireless ISPs. The quality was extremely low, but so were the prices.

Are there any E2E-encrypted chat apps still available used in China?

The author evaluates existing podcatcher apps, pointing out how they fail for newbies who may want to listen to a podcast starting with episode 1.

There are some valid criticisms that apply to non-fiction podcasts too.

That's a good one, thanks. It gives me `18:09 UT`, which is `12:09 CST`.

The Precision Eclipse calculator does seem to provide correct results in the US (e.g., 1:40 PM for Dallas TX). So, it must be a Mexico timezone calculation error.

Wolfram’s Precision Eclipse website gives the wrong time for the eclipse at my location (23.7188, -105.6706).

It says, “Total Eclipse begins at 1:09:31 PM CST”: https://precisioneclipse.com/Results/46/b7/46b7ed589f764aec....

In fact, C2 will be at 18:09 UT, which is 12:09 CST (-0600): https://eclipsewise.com/solar/SEgmapx/2001-2100/SE2024Apr08T...

Can anyone confirm the correct time? I wonder if precisioneclipse.com isn't considering that Mexico abolished daylight savings since Oct 2022.

Thank you for this tip. `brew upgrade xz` worked.

I was going to uninstall but it's used by so many things…

     brew uninstall xz
    Error: Refusing to uninstall /opt/homebrew/Cellar/xz/5.6.1
    because it is required by aom, composer, curl, ffmpeg, gcc, gd, ghostscript, glib, google-cloud-sdk, grc, harfbuzz, httpie, img2pdf, jbig2enc, jpeg-xl, leptonica, libarchive, libavif, libheif, libraw, libtiff, libzip, little-cms2, numpy, ocrmypdf, openblas, openjpeg, openvino, php, pillow, pipx, pngquant, poppler, python@3.11, python@3.12, rsync, tesseract, tesseract-lang, unpaper, webp, wp-cli, yt-dlp and zstd, which are currently installed.

RFC 3986, from 2005: “Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax”:

    Using <> angle brackets around each URI is especially recommended as
    a delimiting style for a reference that contains embedded whitespace.

<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986>

Here's a popular analysis from r/Churning exploring who pays for cc rewards. TL;DR: cash customers. https://old.reddit.com/r/churning/comments/5oucdq/the_econom...

If you’re wondering where this is, here’s a website with map (also PDF version): https://www.southernoregon.org/dark-skies/oregon-outback-dar...

Hi Vlad,

How will you prevent someone from connecting Sidekick to a website that appears at first to be a small website but eventually fills with LLM-generated SEO keywords and ads? You might be able to manually review sites when they first sign up for Sidekick, but once the channel is open for them to inject content into Kagi's index, what's to stop them from abusing their privileged position?

I found most interesting the part of your story where you developed an intuitive sense of its location:

> […] it’s a nice trick if you can do it, but it’s better when you can do it at any time, without an app. Which is what happened. > > First I got good at figuring out the ecliptic. That’s the flat disc of the Earth’s orbit (and the solar system). If you wave your arm along the path that the Sun makes across the sky, that’s the disc. > > Then I can’t remember how I would locate Sagittarius each day (it lies on the ecliptic) but I trained my intuition by checking the app each day. Over the weeks and months, I could follow how the position changed (at the same time each day as I caught the bus). First through the ground that way, then under the ground further that way, and so on. > > Eventually then I had this picture of myself, and the Earth, and the solar system, and the centre of the galaxy which had initially been whirling round me, and now it had flipped, I was turning around it.

https://interconnected.org/home/2021/06/30/galaxy

It’s probably the Kagi Summarizer. It’s super useful for YouTube videos you can’t be bothered to watch.

Kagi Summarizer key points of the second video:

- WatchOS 9 beta introduces sleep stage tracking to the Apple Watch using a machine learning algorithm trained on polysomnography and Apple Watch heart rate and movement data.

- The author tested the Apple Watch's sleep tracking against an EEG headband over 18 nights and found it agreed very well, especially for deep sleep tracking.

- The Apple Watch detected 89% of deep sleep, 84% of light sleep, and 67% of REM sleep correctly compared to the EEG device.

- Overall sleep stage tracking accuracy was better than the 37 other devices the author has tested.

- The Apple Watch also detected sleep cycles and awake periods reasonably well compared to the EEG.

- Falling asleep and waking up times mostly differed by less than 10 minutes from the EEG.

- Future improvements could include sleep coaching based on metrics.

- Results may vary for other populations not well represented in the algorithm's training data.

- The author used a beta version and polysomnography would provide better validation.

- The Apple Watch's performance makes it a current leader for sleep and heart rate tracking accuracy.

This is very cool, and something I’d like to integrate in my own apps. Does anybody know how this works exactly, not using foreign keys?

You can use the Scriptable app to run arbitrary JavaScript via an automation without user interaction. As an example, I use this to test if I have functional internet when I leave my house: if I forget to top up my mobile plan, I’ll hear a voice say, “you are not online.”

https://apps.apple.com/app/id1405459188

That’s probably because many people have not enabled search indexing on their Mastodon accounts. If instead you search for the #PAG31 hashtag you’ll find nine different posters (still too few, but more than two).

I haven’t used the app yet, so I’m not exactly sure how it works. But I imagine it might be useful (It seems it’s always useful) to be able for it to export to structured plain text files so that it can be integrated in a note taking app like Obsidian.

Does Raindrop work offline yet? Can you read a previously-downloaded article, add highlights and annotations, then file it away – without Internet?

I use the WorkOutDoors app on Apple Watch. It uploads workouts directly to Strava.

I’d love to see a version of this that uses text input/output instead of voice. I often have someone sleeping in the room with me and don’t want to speak.