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khad

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⚧️ Trans nonbinary parent with and spouse of the inimitable https://mastodon.social/@heikeyoung
🌱 Semipro vegan
❤️ Grace addict, forgiveness fan, love aficionado

Previously at 1Password. Took a promotion as full-time housespouse.

We can totally be friends.

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khad, to GPS
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🗺️ Is there an app that keeps track of where you’ve walked on a map, so you can seek out streets you haven’t been down yet? Sort of a gamification of exploring one’s neighborhood (or someone else’s while traveling).

EDIT: Looks like https://citystrides.com/ is exactly what I was asking for. Also, Personal Heatmap in Strava subscription may work too. Thanks, everyone!

EDIT 2: Also https://wandrer.earth/

siracusa, to random
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The Swift API guidelines are really good. They’re worth reading even if you’re not interested in Swift just to see an example of how to communicate this kind of information well. https://www.swift.org/documentation/api-design-guidelines/

khad,
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@siracusa So true. When dealing with customer-facing docs, I used to always say, “If it’s hard to document, it’s hard to use.”

hotdogsladies, to random
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Bad news, guys.

I've got the video in Descript.

We are SO not done here.

“Wheat.”

khad,
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@hotdogsladies @siracusa My spouse: “I feel like this is something they do in prison. ‘Flip this jelly and that person gets shanked.’”

khad, to random
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@atpfm Listeners need your thoughts on “wet-putty” looking “Nardo” car colors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KchX52bIZSg

khad,
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@siracusa So will @caseyliss be the one of you three to defend them? I feel like there's a good Neutral segment in there somewhere.

Daojoan, (edited ) to random
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For years, Affinity's users have been voting with their wallets, choosing perpetual licenses over Adobe's subscription-based suite. We were buying more than access to software; we were buying autonomy and the promise of ownership.

But now, with Canva's acquisition, it feels as though that promise is in jeopardy.

https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/are-we-losing-affinity

khad,
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@Daojoan https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/27/24113423/affinity-canva-acquisition-pledge-license-price-subscription

FrankPasquale, to random
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“Now that generative AI has dropped the cost of producing bullshit to near zero, we see clearly the future of the internet: a garbage dump. Google search? They often lead with fake AI-generated images amid the real things. Post on Twitter? Get replies from bots selling porn. But that’s just the obvious stuff. Look closely at the replies to any trending tweet and you’ll find dozens of AI-written summaries in response.”
https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/here-lies-the-internet-murdered-by

khad,
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@FrankPasquale As a parent, what is happening with children’s content is particularly horrifying. The dross spills out from YouTube onto music streaming services as well. There are specific “artists” that are forbidden in our household because they have ominous fucking generative AI lyrics like “I pick up the garbage through the day / Can you guess where it all goes / Without a trace / Haha! That’s a mystery I will leave you to solve!”

danilo, to VisionPro
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Absolutely wild to see the threads of social antipathy coalescing in the anti- column:

  • The seething hatred of Apple, which dates to computing antiquity.

  • The malaise and disdain reserved for all things emanating from Silicon Valley, generally.

  • An inability to imagine a future, or to imagine that change will be positive in any way.

  • An attachment to the status quo of computing at the point where it gave the opinion-holder their greatest sense of power

khad,
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@danilo As a parent, I’m concerned about the already high screen usage for kids. As someone who walks, runs, and motorcycles, I’m concerned about being endangered by people oblivious to reality more than I already am by people with their faces in their phones.

Will I ever get such a device in the future? Very likely.

Do I still have enormous reservations? For sure.

LoneLocust, to apple
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I have a scene named “I’m Still Up” which resets a few lights that get turned off if I’m up past normal bedtime hours.

Saying, “Siri, I’m still up,” has worked flawlessly for over a year.

Today, I said it and Siri responded, “It’s alright.” I tried again, Siri responded, “It’s all good.”

khad,
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@simonwood @LoneLocust Not sure it will make any difference because Siri gonna Siri, but we have several scenes where we omit “I’m” or “We’re” from the actually scene name, and they seem to work reliably.

For example, scene is “Taking the Car” to open the garage door for a set amount of time before closing it. Both “I’m taking the car” and “we’re taking the car” work with Siri.

marcoarment, to random
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A social network’s best days are not when we’re using it mostly to talk about another social network.

khad,
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@marcoarment I suspect I'm in the minority on this (apparently?), but you're the first person I follow that brought it up. 😂

khad, to random
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Does anyone know how I can find a list of the hashtags I follow in @ivory? My “following” list is only people, and I can’t seem to find it anywhere else.

marcoarment, to random
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The Humane Ai Pin introduction video is… bizarre. https://hu.ma.ne/

Super low-energy, low production value, and the first few minutes are a list of shortcomings and what it doesn't do before they tell us anything positive or demonstrate any features.

Are they trying to succeed? This vibe almost feels like they ran out of steam and are hoping to be acquired so they don't need to go through with it.

khad,
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@marcoarment Is an introduction video with no subtitles on brand for a device with no screen?

cassidy, to SmartHome
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My brother texted me “what smart dimmer should I get?”

Little did he know he kicked off a multi-hour chat about Matter, Thread, LAN control, Nest, Google Home, Zigbee, hubs, border routers, controllers, HomeKit, IKEA TRÅDFRI, and XKCD 927.

https://m.xkcd.com/927/

The whole industry has screwed this every chance they’ve had, and Matter—the most promising “solution”—is still a huge disappointment.

khad,
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@cassidy Speaking from personal experience and that of a lot of folks in the community, Lutron Caseta and be done.

khad,
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@cassidy I understand price sensitivity, but they are bulletproof. Even the next most reliable devices I have have needed a tiny bit of troubleshooting at least once. Caseta is as reliable wirelessly as people (very reasonably) expect a wired light switch to be. I couldn’t bring myself to recommend anything else to a friend. 😄 Looking forward to Matter/Thread, but for now I agree the market is just too immature.

khad, to Halloween
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💖 Happy Halloween! 💖

Ryan Gosling as Ken from the Barbie movie: bleached hair, black bandana, sunglasses, horse necklace, faux fur coat.

khad, to DuckDuckGo
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It's only a single example, but I find it indicative of the results I get using https://kagi.com as my primary .

Out of 4 engines (, , , and ), only Kagi gave me a result that was a review of someone actually using a microphone with a jogging stroller – and it was the top result. The others are basically just a jumble of unrelated microphone and reviews.

Got my family subscription, Kagi. Let's go!

Screenshot of DuckDuckGo search results for “microphone for jogging stroller”. The top results are “Best Running Strollers of 2023” from Runner’s World, images, and “7 Best Jogging Strollers of 2023” from Good Housekeeping.
Screenshot of Google search results for “microphone for jogging stroller”. The top results are “The 3 Best USB Microphones of 2023” from The New York Times (Wirecutter), a bunch of questions”People also ask” about microphones being worth it, and Kidrunner (a hands-free jogging stroller that honestly does look pretty cool but only if you run on flat, perfectly maintained sidewalks, which is not my reality).
Screenshot of Bing search results for “microphone for jogging stroller”. The top results are “Best Running Strollers of 2023” from Runner’s World and a bunch of random info pulled from … maybe that page? It’s unclear. Way at the bottom and continuing “below the fold”, there is the beginning of an “Explore Further” list of more links to “best jogging stroller” listicles.

khad,
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Oh, and I also tested because I find it a very interesting entrant in the space. Sadly, the results for this particular query were really, really bad – almost exclusively SEO junk as far as I can tell.

khad,
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@Mojeek Cheers! Will do!

khad, to running
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I was not planning to make a habit, but at about the 9-mile mark on the today I asked the kid if he wanted to keep going or head home. He said, “Keep going.” 🏃

I ended up a half while pushing him in the for the first time.

It was tough but doable!

LoneLocust, to HomeKit
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    khad,
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    @LoneLocust Love it! And if you’re using Homebridge, you can use a plugin that exposes the weather as a temperature sensor. We use it here in Southern California as a condition for opening certain shades depending on the high temp for the day.

    LoneLocust, to apple
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    khad,
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    @LoneLocust I'll leave you guessing as to which of those hashtags I follow, but a Broadlink IR controller + Homebridge will do the trick.

    campuscodi, to random
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    "Using Side Eye, a machine learning assisted tool that Fu and his research team created, Fu can determine the gender of someone speaking in the room where a photo was taken –– and even the exact words they spoke."

    https://news.northeastern.edu/2023/09/25/audio-recovery-still-images-silent-videos/

    khad,
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    @siracusa I was surprised to see you repost the Side Eye link – in particular, the remark about gender – without comment. This is an important clarification: https://infosec.exchange/@dymaxion/111147485741674480

    jimmylittle, to HomeKit
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    Nine years into and you still need a third party app to “turn this light off after 20 minutes”

    khad,
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    @matthewcassinelli @jimmylittle It’s super convenient, too. “Siri, turn off the living room lights in 20 minutes.”

    marcoarment, to random
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    My flag always gets twisted up in the wind. I have it on those spinning-ring things on this cheap flagpole, but they rust quickly (it’s a coastal environment) and don’t spin very well.

    Am I doing it wrong? Any tips to make it better? Or is it just too windy here and I should just keep going out there twice a day and untwist it?

    khad,
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    @marcoarment Those NASA engineers thought of everything.

    jamesthomson, to random
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    PCalc for iOS is 15 years old today, which does not seem possible. As the Mac version is just over 30 years old, that also means at some point very very soon, the iOS version will have been around for more than half of PCalc's entire existence.

    If you bought it on day one, I hope you have appreciated the one and a half decades of free updates, and I shall direct you to the tip jar 😉

    The About screen for PCalc 1.0.2, which is a lot less exciting that today’s.
    The settings section, which isn’t actually very different, aside from the retro iOS theme.
    The vertical layout for PCalc 1.0 for iOS, with a very different button layout.

    khad,
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    @jamesthomson All this time, and I never thought to ask sooner: what does the “P” stand for?

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