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nighthawk

@nighthawk@aus.social

Dad, cyclist, loves playing in the sand. Making mobility apps at SkedGo. Indie iOS/macOS/visionOS developer of https://indieapps.space/@longplay and https://indieapps.space/@maparoni.

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nighthawk, to random
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I’ve been playing a little poker in Red Dead Redemption 2 lately and this scratches the same itch in a novel way. (I miss Arthur’s voice over though.)
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@helvetica/112535844962805631

caseyliss, to random
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nighthawk,
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@caseyliss Every Siri interaction is a coin flip, amirite

maxd, to random
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Speaking of disaster shelters, the Silo TV show is good, has strong Fallout + Severance vibes. Some moments initially felt like filler padding, but IMO paid out in the end.

While the Fallout show is packed with action and character development, this one is a slow burn in a few episodes and has some unexpected celebration of engineering that I haven't seen in media before.

Also, I haven't read the book, but I suspect some of that could be dictated by a desire to stay close to source material?

nighthawk,
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@maxd I read the books after watching the show and from what I recall those engineering scenes were much less prominent in the book. They are a great visual expansion on the books though. Can definitely recommend the books by the way, especially after watching to show.

danielpunkass, to random
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I don't know why the Apple Card, which 99% of customers probably set up with Apple Pay and never actually use the card, is made of titanium. And shipping the card back (with gas, labor, etc.) to save $0.50 of Titanium feels weird, too.

nighthawk,
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@danielpunkass Probably someone high up the decision chain liked to show it off as a Titanium card.

nighthawk, to random
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41 🥳

nighthawk, to random
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This needs Steve Jobs & Woz minifigs.
https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/112521053130252090

nighthawk, to random
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Transcripts with built-in search in Apple Podcasts are such a timer saver, doubly so for shows without chapter markers. Makes me prefer public feeds with ads and transcripts, over private members-only feeds without ads. I hope apps like Overcast catch up with this.

nighthawk,
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@dandylyons Oh wow, that is pretty neat.

nighthawk, to random
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Working on something for Longplay… 👀

nighthawk, to random
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Very glad I still caught Dune 2 in the local IMAX. That screen and, even more so, that sound was utterly fantastic. Loved every minute of it. Hats off to Hans Zimmer in particular.

collin, to random
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Is Lord Of The Rings the last popular movie trilogy that really nailed it?

I would qualify a trilogy as being three movies which were conceived as being three movies and are telling one story split up across three movies.

By that definition, I can only think of the original Star Wars trilogy and LOTR where all three movies are good and they stick the landing.

nighthawk,
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@collin Dune might be getting there if Part 3 gets greenlit as that’d wrap up Paul’s arc. 🤞

nighthawk, to random
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LittleSnitch 6 looks excellent, in particular the new blocklists feature. The fair non-subscription upgrade pricing is worth a special callout these days, too. Instant purchase! https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/whatsnew.html

obrhoff, to Spotify

People say that the sound quality in Apple Music is way better than in Spotify. What is the technical explanation here?
It can't be a problem of the encoding pipeline. This problem has been solved decades ago.

nighthawk,
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@obrhoff Maybe licensed to different recordings? Apple Music has a lot of “Apple Digital Master” icons and many remasters.

nighthawk,
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@obrhoff Good question. There’s this document from Apple but I personally don’t have enough knowledge to assess it: https://www.apple.com/apple-music/apple-digital-masters/docs/apple-digital-masters.pdf

tchaten, to random
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How did I only just now discover the amazing ability in OmniFocus for visionOS to scan documents with a nearby iOS device!!! It even showed my my 2017 10.5” iPad Pro - you just select whatever device you want to use and it launches the camera app from a locked device state into a special scanning mode and sends those scans directly over to OmniFocus for visionOS - pure magic how well this works - so cool!!! @OmniFocus @kcase

nighthawk,
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@tchaten @OmniFocus @kcase Is that the same feature as Continuity Camera on macOS or something specific to OmniFocus?

nighthawk,
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@tchaten @OmniFocus @kcase That made me curious. According to Apple’s docs Continuity Camera isn’t available on visionOS, so it might be a custom implementation: https://support.apple.com/en-au/108046

nighthawk, to random
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Very much enjoyed my first time taking the sleeper train from Sydney to Melbourne. Comfy bed, good service, convenience of going city centre to city centre, and a hot shower in the morning. I think the train’s about my age though.

nighthawk,
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Good morning, Melbourne 💛

brandonhorst, to random
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With a native ChatGPT desktop app and free support for GPT-4o in ChatGPT, I suspect that there’s no longer much need for an app like WitKit to exist. We’ll see once this stuff actually rolls out.

WWDC may revive the concept, though, we’ll see!

nighthawk,
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@brandonhorst Been thinking about this. The key benefit something like WitKit would bring at this stage is supporting multiple providers. I'm tinkering with running open models on my laptop through Ollama, and this opens up a variety of use cases where I'm not comfortable uploading everything to ChatGPT, like code bases or my Obsidian vault. Would be nice to have a single app to access various LLMs. There are a bunch of Mac apps out there for this but nothing "Mac-assed".

nighthawk,
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@brandonhorst Oh yeah, I can very much relate to that feel with iOS and Mac!

I am curious what local LLMs will let you do in iOS 18. So far I’ve found them most useful on my Mac to work with my code bases or Obsidian vault. Looking forward to WWDC.

nighthawk, to AppleMusic
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Installed macOS Sonoma beta this weekend to try out the changes to #MusicKit. Can confirm that this lets me add #AppleMusic support to @longplay for the Mac. The previous way only worked through Catalyst and caused the Music app to spawn as soon as you start playing, which was hideous, but this now works independently and support AppKit. Woot woot.

nighthawk,
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Wait... is this possibly, maybe, actually, finally fixed in macOS 14.5? Or is my Mac playing tricks on me?

nighthawk,
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@rjvs Fair question. That doesn't seem to exist yet though: https://developer.apple.com/download/

nighthawk,
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Nope, not fixed in macOS 14.5. This bug in still prevails and it remains a blocker for the release of Longplay for Mac. Fingers crossed for macOS 15…

nighthawk,
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@craiggrannell I’ve had some responses, yes. Nothing in quite a while, but I’m hopeful it’ll get resolved eventually.

nighthawk,
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Digging a bit deeper into the specific errors message fromHALS_OverloadMessage.cpp that pop up in Console.app, and similar issues with audio glitches have been reported with various Apple Silicon Macs since 2020 when using various audio apps, including Apple Music, Spotify, Logic, etc.

Curiously, I never get this in Longplay for Mac with my low-level audio player of non-DRM'ed files though, only when using MusicKit. Hmm.

[1] https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Mac/Crackling-Clipping-Noise-on-Macbook/td-p/5016088/page/4
[2] https://forums.developer.apple.com/forums/thread/132423?page=14
[3] https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254469643?sortBy=best

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